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Re: New fitness habits being created during Covid?

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Post by pferde »

112012123 wrote: post #61
sickcodebruh wrote: post #16

The only people I know who seem to feel really good about their COVID fitness levels are those who prioritized it before the pandemic and are so committed that they were willing and able to figure out alternatives. People who didn't prioritize it or struggled to get into sustainable schedules are doing poorly. Even some of my friends who had really good routines fell into pretty serious depressions at the start of it…

I think it heavily depends on the individual. Personally I've gone from nearly sedentary to running ~35 miles per week (and lost ~15 lbs in the process).

While it's an amazing progress, make sure not to overdo it. Muscles get used to increased stress quickly, but joints (especially knees) and tendons not so much - and those also heal much slower after a stress-induced injury.

Re: New fitness habits being created during Covid?

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Post by d1zzy »

sickcodebruh wrote: post #16

The only people I know who seem to feel really good about their COVID fitness levels are those who prioritized it before the pandemic and are so committed that they were willing and able to figure out alternatives. People who didn't prioritize it or struggled to get into sustainable schedules are doing poorly. Even some of my friends who had really good routines fell into pretty serious depressions at the start of it…

One thing that helped a lot was that by having a commute I had a pretty good excuse to bike, it only took slightly longer than driving and it provided a break between work and home, to give me more time to adjust between the 2 modes. Not having a commute removed most of the motivation to bike. I force myself now (and I hate it most of the time) to go once a week over the local mountain but that still means only about 20% of weekly biking time I was doing before with commuting. Still, it's better than nothing.

Re: New fitness habits being created during Covid?

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Post by taylortrusty »

chimen wrote: post #45
thomascgalvin wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's been impossible to buy any kind of home fitness equipment for a couple of months now. I've seen kettlebells going for $500 on Amazon. People definitely thought they were going to jump into home fitness with both feet, but just like New Year's resolutions, I doubt that many of them stuck with it. If I had to guess, there are two groups of people who are taking advantage of the quarantine to better their fitness r…

Get a TRX equipment and work with your body weight. I train all my muscle groups with it. It weighs about 500 grams and can fit in any backpack.

Dumb question - how do you use these in a home? I looked up their TRX kit but they all seem suited for gyms?

https://store.trxtraining.com/trx-full-body-workout-bundle/

Re: New fitness habits being created during Covid?

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Post by d1zzy »

Aaronstotle wrote: post #89

Personally I've gotten a lot more into cycling than I had previously. I used to cycle to work, thankfully I bought my bike last year before the markups. Amazing how much I have improved in the last few months. I'm lacking in the weight lifting department, would be nice to get a bench/olympic bar, but I'm having a lot of fun cycling.

I used to bike a lot to work (around ~100 miles a week) but since WFH I haven't been able to motivate myself to do as much. I can barely go out once a week for a more strenuous ride than a commute was but still only amounts to maybe 20% of bike time.

How did you manage to integrate _more_ biking in the WFH schedule?

Re: New fitness habits being created during Covid?

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Post by creaghpatr »

asdff wrote: post #99

I used to go to my apartment gym for their freeweights and treadmills. I ended up buying some elastic straps and can do all the movements you need to work the same groups as olympic lifts, they go up to 150lbs of resitance and only cost $40. Never going to a gym to share some sweaty gross equipment with smelly grunting people again! I also bought a road bike and have been biking all over town and keeping the car park…

A bike guide told me if you want to buy a bike, wait 6 months and there will be a ton of barely used bikes from people who bought it during the pandemic and decided it wasn't for them.

Re: New fitness habits being created during Covid?

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Post by meheleventyone »

johnfn wrote: post #84
sickcodebruh wrote: post #16

The only people I know who seem to feel really good about their COVID fitness levels are those who prioritized it before the pandemic and are so committed that they were willing and able to figure out alternatives. People who didn't prioritize it or struggled to get into sustainable schedules are doing poorly. Even some of my friends who had really good routines fell into pretty serious depressions at the start of it…

My anecdata is definitely in opposition to your anecdata :-) I’ve personally struggled in the past to keep a consistent fitness habit because it felt like it took a lot of time. However, Covid gave me a couple of extra hours a day, and, coupled with the discovery of amazing body weight exercises on YouTube, I’ve been working out virtually every day for the past 3 months. That’s longer and more frequently than I have…

Yeah I agree with this although not Covid enforced working from home means I now swim 5x a week. Before although I didn’t have a big commute I definitely felt social pressure that made me feel like I didn’t have time to fit it in.

I found it really energises me in the morning and obviously it’s done wonders for my overall health and fitness.

Re: New fitness habits being created during Covid?

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Post by asdff »

ijustwanttovote wrote: post #82

One of the craziest thing I have noticed is bikes have been sold out everywhere. You can't find a $1500 entry level road bike. My friends are telling me the cheapest they are seeing are starting to be $2-3k. If you have an old bike that you want to sell, the premiums are almost 20-50% more. Some people are selling 3 year old bikes for MSRP. It's crazy right now.

It depends on what kind of biker you are. If you are one to don spandex and drop a grip on a bike, then yeah it's tough to get a 2020 Trek right now. However, if you lower your standards a little, humble yourself and realize that you aren't Lance Armstrong, that you won't notice the difference between a 2020 ultegra groupset and a 2010 ultegra groupset, then there are plenty of bikes. Even my local bike shops look pretty stocked which is odd considering how large LA is, and there is still plenty more used on second hand sites.

In the midst of the pandemic, I managed to grab a full ultegra bike for $400. Real beauty of a hand made Italian stallion. The only reason why I got this bike was because the owner had just bought a brand new gravel bike, because that is all the rage right now in the bike world and people are trying to get rid of their road bikes. Gear acquisition syndrome has plagued this sport since its inception, but it works in the used cyclist's favor when you can reliably get gently used gear for dirt cheap.

Word of advice from one cyclist to another: resist the trends. Buy used. Buy old. Spend used car levels of cash on anything else in your life besides a bike, because in 10 years that $1500 bike will remain the same great bike it was but will become $200.

Re: New fitness habits being created during Covid?

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Post by asdff »

spanhandler wrote: post #83
ijustwanttovote wrote: post #82

One of the craziest thing I have noticed is bikes have been sold out everywhere. You can't find a $1500 entry level road bike. My friends are telling me the cheapest they are seeing are starting to be $2-3k. If you have an old bike that you want to sell, the premiums are almost 20-50% more. Some people are selling 3 year old bikes for MSRP. It's crazy right now.

The other day I looked into rowing machines (ergs). The one that seemed like the no-brainer best choice according to basically everyone is sold out everywhere. Heavily used ones are going for like 20% over retail on Craigslist. So much for that. I've been meaning to DIY a squat rack in the garage but I need a bar, and I haven't even bothered to check that. I assume they're hard to find and selling for over-normal-pri…

I've been squatting with elastic resistance bands. Works great and I don't need to shove a rack somewhere.

Re: New fitness habits being created during Covid?

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Post by asdff »

socalnate1 wrote: post #85
ijustwanttovote wrote: post #82

One of the craziest thing I have noticed is bikes have been sold out everywhere. You can't find a $1500 entry level road bike. My friends are telling me the cheapest they are seeing are starting to be $2-3k. If you have an old bike that you want to sell, the premiums are almost 20-50% more. Some people are selling 3 year old bikes for MSRP. It's crazy right now.

Can confirm; I've been trying to find a sub $1k mountain bike in Southern California for a week without luck.

Why not just go used? I picked up a road bike for a great deal in LA recently. I just checked LA craigslist, and there are over 400 results for "mountain bike" and > $1000.

Re: New fitness habits being created during Covid?

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Post by dillondoyle »

taylortrusty wrote: post #103
chimen wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Get a TRX equipment and work with your body weight. I train all my muscle groups with it. It weighs about 500 grams and can fit in any backpack.

Dumb question - how do you use these in a home? I looked up their TRX kit but they all seem suited for gyms? https://store.trxtraining.com/trx-full-body-workout-bundle/

There are a lot you can buy with door anchors. Basically little discs or like a fabric 'bump' which goes the top of the door, which you close, and then you pull the opposite direction of where the door swings open.

I got these ones before lockdown panic - though I use them with my pull up bar which allows one to do a lot more exercise than if you're stuck with a door block you. The pull up bar doesnt leave any marks though I also have an old house with solid wood frames i've wondered hw secure it would be resting on the lip of a cheap mdf narrow frame

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0787N367J/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

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