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Building Your Own Gym - The Essentials: Car/RV Living Edition

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Welcome to Part 4 of the "Building Your Own Gym" Series. This series will focus on the top 5 items I believe are best for creating your own "gym" based on your individual situation. As the title indicates, part 4 in this series is focused on best equipping the fitness needs of those living their best lives on the road, in their own cars or RVs (or any other vehicular device).  1.  Kettlebells: Incredibly versatile, a kettlebell is an absolute game-changer for your fitness if you love to travel and are living out of your RV or car. Living in your car/RV necessitates that you take maximal advantage of your space.  Kettlebells take up very little space and are extremely fun for training.  Buying one kettlebell will absolutely suffice for your nomad training. A single kettlebell will allow you to do any unilateral pressing and rowing movements for building your upper body, while also allowing for kettlebell swings, goblet squats, cleans, and snatches for training your l...
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Building Your Own Gym - The Essentials: Frequent Traveler Edition

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Welcome to Part 3 of the "Building Your Own Gym" Series. This series will focus on the top 5 items I believe are best for creating your own "gym" based on your individual situation. As the title indicates, this article is for the frequent traveler (travel frequently for work, out of the home/apartment on a frequent basis) who is constantly out of the house and needs an essentials kit for working out to stay as fit as possible on the road. They need a kit that fits in a gym bag, so a kit I shall recommend. All 5 of the items recommended below will all easily fit together into a small gym bag/travel bag. They are light-weight, portable, and will leave you with no excuse to not get a solid workout in, no matter where you find yourself in your travels.  1. Suspension Training Apparatus:      Taking up little space in your luggage but packing quite the punch in terms of versatility, suspension Training Apparatus' like the TRX Suspension Trainer and traditional gymnas...
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Building Your Own Gym - The Essentials: Apartment Edition

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Welcome to Part 2 of the "Building Your Own Gym" Series. This series will focus on the top 5 items I believe are best for creating your own "gym" based on your individual situation. As the title indicates, this article is speaking to the apartment leaser who may not have a dedicated space they can build a gym in. Neighbors below the floor and across the walls mean banging of weights may not be acceptable (unless you live in the coolest apartment on the block). Landlords don't usually look kindly on cracked floors or nail marks from mounting pullup bars. If you're trying to figure out how to make the most effective gym possible in your apartment, please read on. Furthermore, recognizing that you may not have the money to afford top-of-the-line fitness equipment like that from Rogue Fitness, I have also added my most recommended picks for those on a budget.  1.  Kettlebells: Incredibly versatile, kettlebells can be used like dumbbells while also mimicking the ...
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