It’s kind of like good motivation when you’re working out to feel like you could be attacked
by a basement dwelling serial killer at any moment. It really helps you bang out the reps.
Hi, it’s Emily from Bite Size Vegan and welcome to my creepy basement gym. So, I said
to you guys, when I first moved into this house (oooh!), I don’t know if you remember
that but I said I would eventually give you a tour of my gym as it is. And so, that’s
what I’m going to do. I’m gonna show you my basement gym then I’m going to show you
my outdoor gym, and that’s it. I’m not very used to doing super informal videos,
as many of you know, but it’s happening so. I was going to do a more complex video
today but after Wednesday’s video I just don’t have a brain much anymore trying to caught up on sleep.
So, you’ve got to forgive the creepiness of this gym. Here’s my stand. Right now
it’s got little wimpy weights on it because I was...I don’t know what I was doing.
I was doing something high rep the other day. But as you can see I’ve got some bumper
plates. And there’s this rock that lives in the basement, and I don’t know why the
rock lives in the basement, but it’s been there since I moved in. So, I just got a couple,
a couple of free-weights, a couple of bumper plates. Got me an olympic lifting bar. So,
in this creepier back room back here is pretty, it’s pretty scary. (Uhh!) So, that is the
creepy weight bench with some super disturbing surroundings. So, here’s my pullup bar.
I’ve got a little bit of band assist if I want to do higher reps or do really slow
motion, or work on my negatives, and things, I then will use the band, and then take down
that. It comes with 4 of these, and then I can take some off to make it more of a challenge
or just not use it at all if I want to do that. But, this is the only door that this
would fit into that happens to be in the laundry nook, so there’s that. I’ve also gotten
pretty creative with things to a certain extent. So, I have this bar here by the water heater
that I will use to do rows off of or some band work that I have tied around there.
I'll show you that in a second. That’s about it. I have my yoga mat as well and then I’ll
do walking lunges up and down around here. Anything after this will look high end. Oh
yeah, and of course I bring my computer down so that when I’m between sets I can answer
a couple of comments or a couple of emails. I’m still very behind so if you have emailed
me recently I am doing my very best, and I am very very sorry that it’s taking me so
long. Please be patient and know that I do respond to every email personally. It just
can take a while sometimes especially when I’m doing videos that take 60-70 hours to
create so. I hope you enjoyed this. I feel like this is really boring but apparently
people like the informal videos from time to time. So...and to be able to put out more
videos, kind of have to because you can’t do, you know, ‘The History of Veganism’
3 times a week. No, there’ll be no sleep at all. I did that for awhile, nope, not good.
So, let’s go see the outdoor gym.
Okay, we are outside now and get ready to see my incredible outdoor gym. Bam, there
it is! Look at the masterpiece, it’s incredible. You can get super fit on this outdoor gym
and you get to look kinda cool with this little dog here. Came off of a Mack truck this guy...that’s
what he is, so I’m going to take you with me.
So, I thought I do a little bit of narrating. This is a restaurant in town that will make
anything vegan..any of their dishes vegan which is pretty cool. Ooby is also in the
room with me so she’s going to co-narrated by snoring. So, this is just a back bike path
that goes out, actually guess it’s East, and goes out East to a neighboring town. And,
there’s just some really gorgeous moments along this bike path. I typically, up until
I moved here, would not bike on bike paths. I just bike to get places, but everything
here is about 5 minutes away, so then I don’t ever get to actually bike anywhere. And along
this path that I just whizzed past, there’s a nature, a wildlife sanctuary. There’s
a little sign saying that and I always think it’s kind of sad that we have to create
specific sanctuaries for wildlife when they’re supposed to be wild, and be out in nature.
And yet, now they have to be regulated to these tiny places, but this goes out to Mount
Tom, which is what that is. It’s a big...well, it’s a big mountain as far as Massachusetts
is concerned. And it’s really just gorgeous out here. Some really nice farm land. It kind
of makes me nostalgic for Iowa but it’s a real beautiful ride, and it’s something
that I’ve started doing again recently as...whoop, little bunny, working out, and being outside.
Whoa, it’s a really little baby bunny. It’s something that I stopped really being able
to do and that’s another beautiful shot here. I’m all over the place with my narration,
you just have to forgive me. But, with Bite Size Vegan getting as busy I stopped taking
these moments to drink in nature, and have some time. So, I’m trying to get back to
that so I can stay healthy and grounded. It’s really hard to find that balance because I
feel guilty every time I’m not doing something directly for the animals. And here’s a kitty...hi
kitty! I made a little bit of a clicking noise so that he would know I was there because
I didn’t want him to run in front of the bike. So, just kind of be careful when there’s
other little...little guys around. So, this was just a beautiful ride today and so, I
just thought I take you guys along with me. I’m still kind of recuperating from not
sleeping but I hope that you enjoyed coming along with me. It was kind of nice to do something
a little different. Please subscribe if you enjoyed it. Let me know if you liked having
an informal video every now and again. I’ll talk to you soon...go live vegan.
And now Ooby shall narrate.
[heavy breathing]
[more heavy breathing]
and once again [heavy breathing]
yeah you guessed it [heavy breathing]