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The 6 Things Lockdown Taught Me About Exercise
The way you approach exercise can have a dramatic impact on your results.
Pre-COVID-19, I was a huge gym person. I wanted to be in the gym every day, or at least a minimum of 6 times a week. It was my priority over most things. No matter what, I had to get to the gym.
Then the coronavirus happened, and the gyms closed. Initially, I did daily workouts with the few pieces of equipment I had and I tried to keep to my same gym schedule.
As the weeks went by, I was doing more and more of my exercise outside and with my roommates. Sometimes we’d set up a circuit and it would involve running barefoot through the grass. Or we’d walk down the road to a long flight of stairs that go down to the ocean, and we’d race back up. Exercise became more about being outside and socializing while moving my body, than hitting the gym with it’s artificial lights and the smell of rubber and sweat.
Finally, the gyms opened up again and I was back as soon as I could be. I was one of those people that got in there the day it reopened. I went through my usual routine and finished with a HIIT session.
As I was driving home, I had the sense of my soul being suffocated. What had I just achieved in that stuffy room where everything is artificial…
