When Bill Steen was here Friday I was showing him some of my office workout stuff and told him I might do a YouTube video on the subject. Homemade and/or cheap/effective ways to get some physical benefit while in the office (or at home). Bill got out his iPhone and we shot this quick video. I need to show these things and a few others and have a link to where you can get the straps, or the Lifeline Gym. Coming attraction…
About Lloyd Kahn
Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the
Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include
Shelter,
Shelter II (1978),
Home Work (2004),
Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008),
Tiny Homes (2012), and
Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:
I have a bamboo cane hanging over my chair from two hooks in the ceiling. The height is such that I just reach it if I lift my hands. I use it for quick stretches without leaving the chair, or for "semi-chin-up" exercises.