- So, it recently came to my attention
that a lotta people are asking about,
where do I do my workout, where do we film,
how does all this work, the magic that is Dark Horse?
I'm here to tell you, it's phenomenal,
we basically have this luxurious dirt alleyway,
which leads into our garage.
So, figured I'd give you a little garage workout tour,
also, to hopefully inspire you to build out your own,
'cause frankly, does your car really need this much space?
Let it park on the street, unless you're driving
like a Ferrari, or Lamborghini, in that case,
one, good for you, two, yeah, keep it protected.
Or park it on the street and just put a car cover on it,
I'm sure it's the same thing.
What I have in my garage gym, number one,
I have foam mats, for my child, so that she can play
on the garage floor out here, and it's comfortable for her,
also I can pen her in, like a small animal,
when I need her to stay in place
so that I can do a workout.
That serves twofold, one, it keeps her occupied,
maybe screaming at times, but two,
it also shows her
that fitness is a part of our everyday life,
and that message I like.
Especially if you have children,
build out your own home gym, doesn't have to be anything
beautiful, or amazing, I mean, look at ours.
I still have French drains that I need to install
in our backyard, overlapping my Airdyne.
I don't care.
I have foam mats, those also serve
when I have to do floor routines, so,
Turkish get-ups, or sit ups, or planks,
or whatever it may be, I'm using my kid's foam mats.
Also, in a beautiful checkered pattern,
designed by yours truly.
The SkiErg, and the rower.
Hopefully a bike will get added to that soon,
but in the time being, an Airdyne.
Assault Bike, if you wanna swap that out,
let me know, hit me up.
Then I have an allotment of dumbbells,
now this one's actually pretty important,
I would highly encourage you guys to do something like this,
I have, oops, clips screwed in,
and anchored to the wall at three different heights.
I have about eye level, hip,
and knee.
So I have those clips
so that I can basically do any kind of pulling,
or I can anchor to something if I wanna do ring rows,
or in this instance, I sometimes use
the crossover symmetry system, for scap work,
I can clip that to the wall,
and I can get good pull work, you see I have
my Assault Bike, my Airdyne,
again, Assault Bike, call me.
I have my old Schwin Airdyne
which I bought for $25 on craigslist.
Yes, $25, and it's beautiful as the day
it came outta the box.
I have an EmPack, it's the Evolved Motion pack,
I highly encourage this,
as you guys know if you've seen a lot of our videos,
I love sandbags for strength work, they're so versatile,
they're the best mid-line stability work,
I prefer them to a barbell and plates,
because you can modify the weight,
and they're weird, so your body
has to learn a little bit better.
So I use the EmPack, which is right there, this guy.
It comes with these bladders,
and you fill 'em with sand or water,
and you can make it as heavy or as light as you want.
Now, the upside is, it has handles all over it,
so I was doing Turkish get-ups with these yesterday,
my wife was doing back squats, I've done carries
in the front rack, I've done lunges,
I've done overhead presses, it has
handles on pretty much everywhere,
and you just add these weighted bladders,
to make it as heavy as you want, I'm a huge fan.
The EmPack in particular, I've used it for quite some time,
oh, the beautiful part about it is,
it's actually a backpack, so it has straps that can remove,
so you can travel with it, you empty the bladders,
they take up very little space,
and wherever you go, you have a weight bag that you can use,
a sand bag, if you will, or a water bag.
So you can get in a strength workout pretty much anywhere.
An nice standard just band, for mobility work,
nothing fancy, you pick these up on Amazon.
You can see I've got my crossover symmetry,
teaches you what to do with it.
Of course, I keep an assortment of jump ropes,
I use both RPM ropes as well as Rx ropes.
I have amazing ropes from both,
I highly encourage both companies, Rx ropes.
Next, I have jump rope,
there are two companies that I absolutely love,
number one is RPM, and number two, Rx Gear.
Both companies make fantastic jump ropes,
and I'm a big advocate of basically taking a jump rope
with me everywhere I go, that's like the one tool
that I always carry with me, is a jump rope,
'cause no matter what, you can always get a killer workout
with a jump rope.
That's pretty much my gym.
This will get added to, oh, I do have a BikeErg.
I forgot about that.
That's my BikeErg, until Concept 2 sends me a BikeErg.
(laughs) It works just as well,
unfortunately my Erg data doesn't connect to it very well,
it doesn't have Bluetooth functionality yet.
But I would say guys, consider building out
your own home gym, there's really no reason
to consume it with car space,
when fitness should be a part of your lifestyle.
This is a great way to do it, cheap, easy,
my neighbor across the street has done the same thing,
except he's done it with the backyard.
He has rings hanging from a a tree,
and sometimes I see him pushing a sled
through the dirt alleyway, that's amazing,
and that's exactly the type of fitness I like.
So, this is my little corner,
a lot of our videos are filmed in here,
so we've kinda set it up to be perfect for us,
and to be able to demonstrate and do the stuff that we want.
Once or twice a week at least, we're working out in here,
my wife and I, and my child is on the mats,
penned up like a little animal.
So, build out your home gym, let me know
what you've done with yours in the notes below,
and then also, I'll link to the products that I use here,
because I'm just a huge fan, so I highly encourage you,
a, get a jump rope, have that everywhere with you,
and then SkiErg, Erg, BikeErg, Assault Bike,
pick one, Airdyne, Assault Bike, call me,
Airdyne, you can pick it up on craigslist, find a cheap one.
Yeah, that's my gym guys,
I just thought you might enjoy the walkthrough,
and until next time, we'll see you on the other side.