“What?!” I hear you say, “Books don’t belong in the gym!” I say they do! Before you blow thousands of dollars buying gear from Rogue, I say read a few good books on exercise and nutrition. Whether it’s inspiration or education, you will gain much from reading these books. Some are going to teach youContinue reading “Home Gym Essentials: Books”
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Machines You Move
The list of home gym essentials marches on… Along with the blender, floor space, brain, body, something to hang from, and something to lift, now we have: MACHINES And not just any machines, we’re talking about machines that you move by your own power in order to elicit a cardiovascular response. The first and mostContinue reading “Machines You Move”
Praxis
When the internet first came into our schools and homes in the mid-90s, I used to get on that dial-up and type terms into AltaVista looking for something cool. One of the first websites I remember becoming interested in was a punk rock site called “Praxis as Pedagogy”. (Look those words up in the dictionary,Continue reading “Praxis”
More Food
I love looking at food (and cooking food and eating food and thinking about food). I hope you do too! Maybe you’ll get some ideas for something you can make at home.
Something to Lift
Next up on the list of essential home gym equipment: something heavy to lift. I’ve already covered a few of my home gym basics, in no particular order: A good blender (because controlling what you ingest is critical) Some open floor space (because you could spend a lifetime developing your physical fitness with nothing moreContinue reading “Something to Lift”
Crush Your PT Test
Here’s something I’ve come to be known for and I love to do: preparing people for their military, fire, or law-enforcement PT test. Step Into the Time Machine If we go waaayy back, my brother and I were what I would call “paramilitary kids”. We collected military surplus uniforms and equipment. We read books andContinue reading “Crush Your PT Test”
A Place to Hang
Talking essential gym equipment, this is the place I think everyone needs to start. We’ve already covered the blender, floor space, a brain, and your body. Now we’re getting into some actual, traditional exercise equipment. Why does something to hang from go at the top of my list? Simply put, pulling is a basic humanContinue reading “A Place to Hang”
The Most Important Piece of Equipment in the Gym
Earlier this week, I started a series of articles about essential home gym equipment. My take is a bit different than those blogs that are trying to sell you a product or bias you towards a certain type of training. I want to challenge you to think about the question a little bit differently. IContinue reading “The Most Important Piece of Equipment in the Gym”
Take Action
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Noticing, Explaining, and Prescribing. Now, to round out this series on the NEPA framework, here is Actioning. Actioning sometimes gets forgotten or glossed-over in discussions of this framework, as if noticing, explaining, and prescribing are the things we really have to be taught and be highly consciousContinue reading “Take Action”
More Home Gym Essentials: a Brain
I think you can gather by now that my series of articles on “home gym essentials” is not like most you’ve seen. This is a bit of a jab at those shopping list articles you usually find. I think that success with a home exercise plan actually starts with much more basic things than theContinue reading “More Home Gym Essentials: a Brain”
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