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New fitness habits being created during Covid?

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Re: New fitness habits being created during Covid?

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Post by asdff »

creaghpatr wrote: post #105
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.

I actually managed to get my road bike for a great price, because the owner just bought a new gravel bike for the pandemic. This is actually a decent time for buying road bikes since a ton of people are getting into gravel biking and unloading their perfectly good road bike for cheap.

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Post by jarjoura »

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…

Woah there cowboy. I've been on waiting lists for any serious at home gym equipment since April. Not a peep, but I refuse to pay Marketplace/Craigslist scalpers.

I was lucky to get resistance bands and those have been working well at least.

Having a long ass commute and a dog to attend to meant my life was pretty much office and home. I was always too exhausted to consider a serious workout routine. However, since shelter-in-place started I've lost a ton of weight, gotten amazing sleep and never felt physically better. I've been working out daily and walking/hiking on the weekends, if anything, just to get out of my house.

I've also cooked all my meals because I've made it a personal goal to get abs by the end of the year. So I want to know what I'm putting in my body.

This has become a life changing moment for me, so I don't see any reason why this wouldn't be true for others. If the pandemic threw you off your old daily routines, and that's your only reason for giving up healthy habits, were you really committed in the first place? What would have happened if you simply moved or started a family or some other life changing event in the future? Would you just give up your routine then?

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Post by flictonic »

octygen wrote: post #67

What's a gym? COVID made me forget. COVID also gave me more time to do things especially without the commute. What did I learn to do with 0 équipment? 1) Want to lose fat? You can run outside. You can also swim outside if you're lucky. It's free. Or you can walk briskly. Even better for losing fat. Want to improve your technique? There's plenty of instruction on YouTube and online. 2) Want to get strong? You can foll…

Strength training is extremely hard to do without equipment. It's a common misconception that body weight or minimal equipment is an adequate substitute. Iron Wolf is not strength training, it's endurance. I'm not knocking him, it looks like a great workout, but any intermediate barbell lifter will lose strength and size on this workout. There's simply no substitute for heavy compound barbell movements.

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Post by bitexploder »

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…

Definitely me. My main fitness hobby, a grappling martial art (Brazilian Jiu Jitsu), had to stop. My diet fell apart, and my fitness level dropped precipitously. I am rebuilding now, lifting again, drilling BJJ things, walking with my wife, etc. it was not an easy adjustment. I’d definitely say I hit some mild depression.

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Post by mtalantikite »

flictonic wrote: post #113
octygen wrote: post #67

What's a gym? COVID made me forget. COVID also gave me more time to do things especially without the commute. What did I learn to do with 0 équipment? 1) Want to lose fat? You can run outside. You can also swim outside if you're lucky. It's free. Or you can walk briskly. Even better for losing fat. Want to improve your technique? There's plenty of instruction on YouTube and online. 2) Want to get strong? You can foll…

Strength training is extremely hard to do without equipment. It's a common misconception that body weight or minimal equipment is an adequate substitute. Iron Wolf is not strength training, it's endurance. I'm not knocking him, it looks like a great workout, but any intermediate barbell lifter will lose strength and size on this workout. There's simply no substitute for heavy compound barbell movements.

I guess it depends on what you mean by strength. For body building/size, yeah for sure you need weights. You can do a ton with some rings and p-bars along with your own body weight though (and maybe a kettlebell or two). I personally don’t care about size or external looks, that’s not what I practice for, but you certainly can get strong without weights. I’m sure a lot of people that can lift heavy can’t do a planche, they’re just totally different body goals and both require strength.

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Post by awithrow »

asdff wrote: post #107
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 pr…

It might depend on where you're located. My wife was recently looking for a She eventually got lucky and found a 2yr old used bike for $400 which is exactly what she wanted. She just got lucky and got to the store just as they were putting it out on the floor.

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Post by darkwizard42 »

irrational wrote: post #96

As in no fitness habits? Before the pandemic I was swimming 2km 3 times a week and lifting weights 3 times a week. Since the pandemic I haven’t done anything. I neither have access to a pool or weights. I could switch to body weight exercises or walking (I hate jogging/running), but I haven’t and probably won’t.

Honestly, the loss of the gym pool is the killer for me! I was on a 4-5 times a week doing 2500-3000 yards :/

I have the resistance bands but I loved the full body workout of swimming (and the rewards of mastering good swimming technique)

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Post by socalnate1 »

asdff wrote: post #109
socalnate1 wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Once you filter out pieces of junk, bikes that don't fit my specific height and aren't within an hour drive, that list unfortunately gets a lot smaller. I expect that filtering to become more relaxed as time goes on though. :)
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