lockdown movements

[tei]

I'm curious what everyone's physical practices are looking like if you're mostly on lockdown due to COVID? here, it's finally gotten warm enough to be outside comfortably for activities other than running, so I've been trying to do some gymnastics-type training in the park and am considering ordering a slackline and some rings that I could hang from a tree branch.

The downside is that I really don't like people watching me. :P

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[pensnest]

My husband and I usually go to the gym four times a week, but we've been doing our best to exercise six days a week since lockdown.

I wrote down our fitness yoga routine (it looks like yoga, but makes you sweat) from our last session at the gym, and have added a few moves as I've thought of them. We do that three times a week.

After that, we have (a) some fitness bands. I've used them in class and quite like them, so they substitute for most of the resistance machines we'd use. There are good exercises for legs, arms and butt. And I've found that trackes 03, 05 and 01 of Adam Lambert's 'Trespassing' album make a great warm up! Himself did buy a couple of 6kg hand weights, which are just a bit more than I really want to use, so my only bicep work is with the bands, but my press-ups are getting impressive!

(b) My last tough cardio/toning class had two pyramids, one cardio/legs and one abs, so I wrote those down and we do those on another day. Actually, husband has found that nothing in all this gets his heart rate up like his usual Spin class, so I found a rather brutal HIIT workout for him, and last week he did that while I did the first pyramid. I am not doing burpees for 60"!

(c) we found a couple of decent fitness routines online, and go through one of those once a week.

In practice, we also like to go for walks, so we don't always do all the above in a given week. Last week, we spent an hour and three quarters walking round a nature reserve, and today I walked into town to go to the bank - about an hour and a half all told. And it is nice to get outside, both out of the house and out into the world of trees in blossom! Spring here is being incredibly kind (except to those plants that need watering), because the sunshine is making everything look so beautiful.