Reading Time: 7 minutesWe are back in DIY corner this week. The pandemic has caused a lot of people to become very resourceful when it comes to training equipment. With gyms closed and PTs unable to train people in person, the home gym has come into it’s own. But, with the increase in demand there has been aContinue reading “DIY Barbell and Bumper Plates”
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DIY Gym Equipment – The Kettle-bag/Ruck-vest
Reading Time: 4 minutesFollowing on from last week’s post on rucking, carrying a weighted backpack over distance, we are going to look at a number of different ways to use our new bit of training kit. Whilst rucking is a superb way to workout, sometimes we just want to do a bit of targeted strength work. Well, asContinue reading “DIY Gym Equipment – The Kettle-bag/Ruck-vest”
Carrying Excess Weight – The Ancestral Art of Rucking
Reading Time: 7 minutesWhat is the most obvious distinction between humans and the other Great Apes? Some might say it’s our ability to reason and our intelligence. To this I ask: “Have you not seen the news recently?” A more obvious distinction would be our Bipedalism, or our ability to walk upright on 2 legs. There are manyContinue reading “Carrying Excess Weight – The Ancestral Art of Rucking”
Hand Taping for Kettlebells – The Dark Art of Callus Management
Reading Time: 6 minutesI remember sitting at the dinner table and looking with disbelief and awe at my father’s hands. Rough, callused, scarred, and with fingers that looked to me like a pound of butcher’s choice sausages. I remember glancing down at my own hands; soft, delicate, girlish even, like they’d been made from porcelain and petals, andContinue reading “Hand Taping for Kettlebells – The Dark Art of Callus Management”
DIY Gym Equipment – The Sled
Reading Time: 8 minutesThe thought of someone hauling a sled behind them conjures up images of rugged arctic explorers battling through horizontal blizzards, with ice encrusted beards, missing frost bitten extremities. But the humble hauling sled is possibly the best bit of training kit that you are probably not using, and you don’t even have to eat yourContinue reading “DIY Gym Equipment – The Sled”
DIY GYM EQUIPMENT GUIDE – The Suspension Trainer
Reading Time: 8 minutesI first came across the concept of the suspension trainer in the late 2000’s. At the time, I was spending much of my time living in the woods, teaching bushcraft and wilderness skills. We would get plenty of walking and carrying in throughout our day’s work, and on occasion would bring a punchbag with us,Continue reading “DIY GYM EQUIPMENT GUIDE – The Suspension Trainer”
DIY GYM EQUIPMENT – The Mighty Sandbag
Reading Time: 7 minutesWelcome to the DIY corner everyone. This is the first of many blog posts covering some cheap but hugely effective training gear that you can make and use at home. Ever since lockdown started last year, gym equipment has become as scarce as rocking horse manure and the prices have rocketed. If you didn’t getContinue reading “DIY GYM EQUIPMENT – The Mighty Sandbag”