Feeling Nostalgic

I was in the gym today thinking about how in a few weeks time I’ll have everything I ever need or have ever wanted for coaching and training, and I began to feel sad. Y’know there’s something romantic about making do with what little you have. When we were renting a scout hall for a few hours a week we had so little that we were basically bodyweight experts. The things I could do with a medicine ball, a few boxing gloves as marker points and a stopwatch. It was great and it fired the imagination.

So now we’re moving to the new facility and all of the things I make do with now will be gone. This makes me sad in some ways. But in the same way as I would never go back to holding a stopwatch and getting people to do dips on chairs again, I’m pretty sure I’ll get over not fashioning a glute ham raise like in the following video.

Someone asked a while back about GHRs on boards.ie and I told them I had a picture of what I do for them in the absence of a GHR bench. I actually couldn’t find that picture, and someone mailed me asking for it. So we did one today as I don’t like to let down my public. I think the video is easy enough to follow but here’s some explanations. There’s a kickpad under his knees that we use for…. eh… kicking and I’m standing on the foot pads to stop the tower from tipping over.