The other not so obvious fitness trend is VR. Its most popular game, Beat Saber, is a fitness game in disguise.
New fitness habits being created during Covid?
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#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
The other side of the fitness coin is diet , and the two hours a day returned to me have been instrumental in improving that. People may come out of quarantine simultaneously less fit and less fat. Fitness-wise, there's only so much you can do with a 4-8-month-old in a third-floor apartment, but jogging a couple miles with a stroller is kind of nice at any rate.
This might be a case where perfect is the enemy of good. People overestimate how much and how hard they have to work to make a positive impact on their fitness. You don't need to join Crossfit, run ten miles a day, or lift for forty-five minutes, five days a week. For someone who is sedentary, jogging a couple of miles with a stroller is a huge improvement. So is twenty minutes of yoga. Consistency is more important…
Caveat: jogging strollers aren't recommended for babies before at least six months, because they don't really have any neck muscles to handle changes in direction or stopping. Wait until they can hold their own head up and look around. BUT you can use that time to try running with an empty stroller at least once, it feels pretty different and also you might notice some unexpected obstacles along your normal route!
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#143The 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 sh…
> 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 in the same boat and I recommend taking a look at the Stock and Shipping Thread in Reddit's /r/homegym subreddit. [1] I joined their discord/stream for a few weeks and was able to be on top of gym equipment re-stocks and got what I needed pretty quickly, cost being MSRP.
[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/homegym/comments/i5ect0/stock_and_s...
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#144As a lap swimmer I now swim in a private cove on Lake Travis courtesy of wealthy property owners . . .
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#145I biked to work before the covid, and have had to replace that form of exercise. I'm doing a "fake commute" each morning, which gets the blood flowing. Sometimes it's a long brisk walk instead of bike -- walking may be as good of exercise if not better.
On the flip side, being in a house full of food all day has had a measurable effect.
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#146The 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 sh…
I feel like I've been transported to an alternate reality where people argue home gyms are better than real gyms and working from home is without consequence.
This reality seems heavily biased by people with long commutes.
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#147One 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.
I think it's actually both bad and good. The bad is that prices are up. The good is that higher prices and news of a bike shortage might be drawing more old bikes out of garages and back yards.
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 sh…
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. If you're just interested in general fitness, no equipment needed, there are any number of online workouts to follow that will give you a great whole body + cardio workout using nothing more than your body weight. (though I bought both a spinning bike and a set of dumbbells at…
My quarantine routine was yoga mat + YouTube yoga session every morning before work. It’s been pretty great tbh.
(Btw, yoga with adriene is a very good YouTube yoga channel)
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#149The 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).
I've gone from walking 80minutes/day and doing 16-8 'fasting' to eating comfort foods and barely leaving the house. Principally for me I was able to use getting to work as a motivator to exercise (and everything else fell in to place to some extent); now work is in the bedroom. It's a problem principally of depression/lack of motivation; but one that I was managing prior to lockdown.
Experiences are so varied across the board. It wouldn't surprise me if overall people, like me, were worse off in general health terms.
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Definitely not my experience. I was going to the gym regularly before: lifting weights and cycling. Post pandemic I've lost 5 pounds thanks to cycling outdoors, swimming outdoors, lugging heavy bags camping in the wilderness, Ring Fit, Just Dance, Box VR, Audica, Beat Saber, yoga and pilates TV shows, and first one set of resistance bands and now a second more advanced set. Started doing acroyoga with my girlfriend,…
> How could someone not find a schedule that works for them now My answer to that question is having children while no longer being able to outsource childcare.
I'm in the same boat there but I'm training more consistently than I ever have. I have a double stroller so I take the boys running, or I load them up and do sprints uphill if I don't feel like going for a long run. It's not unlike pushing a sled. I also set the littlest one up in his bouncer while the 2 year old plays with the tools in my garage and watches me lift weights or do pull-ups. Exercise can and should be a family activity. On the weekends my wife and I each throw a kid on our back and go for a ruck in the forest.
You can also use children like a kettlebell. They love it and it's a great workout. The two year old also loves to help me with push-ups and planks by climbing on or under me.