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Seeing that NYC gyms are now closed, what are you guys planning to do to stay in shape for the foreseeable future? Obviously going on runs is an option, but what alternatives will you all be taking?
Would prefer to not work out at my apartment due to already sky-high cabin fever, but there may not be another option.
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Buy resistance bands and get a bunch of pull-ups in. Use the bands to do drop sets... IE start at body weight, then use a light band then use a heavier band all to failure. Repeat for 10 ish sets. Hit pushups here and there in sets to failure going slow through the range of motion to get full pump to depletion 5 ish sets. And then as far as legs go.. hill running for the next two weeks. My gyms shut through the end of the month, let the fun begin.
I guess it’s time to start learning some Calisthenics instead of traditional weightlifting.
Big facts, hit my first muscle up in years today courtesy of the closures.
Nice job. Honestly the amount of strength a muscle up requires is immense. Ones equivalent to like 10-12 pull-ups
Find some remote ruins to continue your strength & martial arts training, channeling the strength of your ancestors in meditation. If no ruins are present, break quarantine anyway, go to the nearest Simp's house and do it with their girl for maximum physique and test boosts.
Or find a closed restaurant, sneak in with some barbells, and get your pump in.
Going for runs will only be an option if they don't shut down all non-essential movement.
I did some push ups and planks today. Not exactly crushing it, but it got the blood pumping. I think I have one of those doorframe pullup bars in storage that I might dig out too.
My country is on lockdown - so cannot run anymore, so it's all bodyweight, doing 100 pushups+ 10 mins of legs stuff (squats on one leg etc)+10 mins of abs (panks mostly), I don't have a pull-up bar so quite limited on that end.
Geesh. Sounds like prison.
Well you may face that in few days/weeks so get ready :)
Nope. We live in a free society. They can't imprison the citizenry in the U.S. Besides, this is isn't the Bubonic plague. The elderly and sick are vulnerable to death; pretty much everyone else has a very low risk of death. I'm with the UK on this one--the elderly and otherwise vulnerable should quarantine themselves and the rest of society should go about its business. If this keeps up for 4+ weeks millions will lose their jobs and face financial ruin. Destroying your economy and your nation over what is way less disastrous than many epidemics that have hit the world before is insane. It's patently insane.
Look I would agree with you, but unfortunately whilst the mortality rate is only picking up for the elderly, people in their 40-60’s are in hospitals - 2 members of my family are doctors in hospitals and they see people that do not fit your elderly criteria and that is unfortunate. These people do not die, one has recently recovered after being in intensive care for 1 week, and lost 10kg over that period. I don’t think that this is something I can whish to anyone. I do agree that completely shutting down an economy is good either but I do think that lives matter more than economic stability. The Fed/Central Banks/Governments can and will inject billions into the economy for economic stability after having saved lives.
I think that a milder response could have been appropriate if done timely just like Taiwan/Japan/South Korea did, but visibly our economies do not have nor want the healthcare spending to keep these emergency plans an option (there is a very good paper on Taiwan’s reaction to contain the virus).
I didn't say it was just the elderly who die from Covid-19, but it is overwhelmingly the elderly. Like I said, it is absurd to shut down the global economy over this. Absurd. We didn't shut down the world over Polio, Spanish Flu, or tuburculosis, and TB had killed 1 in 7 people to ever live on planet Earth by the beginning of the 19th century. You don't just shut down the world and potentially destroy tens of millions of careers and jobs and businesses over what is by historical epidemic standards a rather mild disease (it's not a mild disease, but it's no Spanish flu, it's no TB). And I totally reject the mass imprisonment of citizens over this. It's crazy.
Good for the UK.
This is going to age like milk.
The UK already reversed that misguided nonsense of a plan after studied showed it would kill approximately 250,000 people. Not really something I'd be proud of being "with" them on. Their top scientists also said the public health threat it represents is the most serious seen in a respiratory virus since the 1918 H1N1 influenza pandemic. That's the Spanish Flu, for reference.
Patently insane is downplaying the risks involved and brushing off the deaths of hundreds of thousands of citizens cause you're not in the most at-risk demographic. I get the impulse to appeal to a misguided sense of reason - I was there originally too a month or so ago. This is different.
Wow
Maybe you can order a pull-up bar off Amazon.
Cardio and body weight exercises at home. I regularly do about 400 (sets of 50) push ups each day and some sit ups.
@Isaiah_53_5"
Yeah I had one gym close its doors temporarily, but I also belong to three other gyms that I think are still open.
I cycled 80mi today;I’ll probably do Muay Thai training tomorrow as I have been neglecting it.
But if all the gyms close, core exercises and pushups or 8 count bodybuilders are great. I have some light weights for shadowboxing too. I also think training on the beach can be great fun. Everyone should be able to go on a jog. Running will get you lean.
2/4 gyms still open for me. One is a niche Muay Thai place and other is a regional chain with abbreviated hours.
Do some death by bodyweight, just don't break your neck doing hand stand push-ups (don't want to end up in a hospital right now)
https://www.t-nation.com/training/death-by-bodyweight
Also, vaying levels of bodyweight can be applied in the push-up position by chair elevating feet or feet on top of the couch etc
I’m so pissed. while it’s a great place to get infected, this is the only place I didn’t want to close.
Run outside and P90X inside the apartment....you don't have many options. I might pull out my old marathon training plan and modify it to three runs a week with the P90X yoga once a week.
Another thing to consider is that if you are already training on a regular basis and pushing yourself somewhat hard, a little break isn't a bad thing for your CNS either.
There are plenty of body weight exercises you can do at home to get the blood moving without going nuts.
I'm so upset by this. I live in an area with one of the highest concentration of hot girls in yoga pants on planet earth and all the fitness centers are closed! Ugh!!!!!!!
damn that sucks
already had a TRX around the house
Pushups and my girlfriend is all I need right now to burn calories
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