Anyone keeping up same level as exercise?

[Sethy38]

Running yoga weights - been doing for years. Very fit.

Lockdown 1. Ramped up even more. Loved it.

Still exercising daily now but at a much less full on pace. For example one of my runs replaced by a walk. One of my weights sessions replaced by half hour gentle yoga.

Not saying one better than the other. Just different.

Any one else?

Exercise is keeping me sane. Daily run or spin, together with almost-daily yoga. Without it, my mood really plummets due to the pandemic. Even a day or two without exercise and I start feeling really low.

I do a Les Mills body balance class every morning now. Get up at 7 to get it in before leaving for work. Did it about 3 times a week before at David Lloyd gym so saving a fortune.

Used to do a lot of walking but it's so congested around where I live and you're not supposed to drive to somewhere in the countryside so I've not done that much. Mainly confined to home or work.

Agreed

I’m curious as to whether it’s changed at all from lockdown 1.

I really ranked up in LD1
Now - just gentler.

I’m still working. I do 12.5 shifts 3/4 days a week so exercise is out (do clock up steps on the wards though!)

But on days off I do home exercise anyway so it’s no different. I do mix it up. Currently spinning twice a week, weight resistance couple times a week and yoga whenever I can. We also do long walks when the weathers ok and shorter ones if short on time.

Like previous posters it keeps me sane and helps my anxiety.

This is the same as lockdown 1 as I was working then too! Probably better answers for those furloughed or working from home. Tho it seems less are furloughed now.

In the last lockdown I had Les Mills on Demand and did the same classes as I did at the gym at home, at the same times. Daily stuff.
This lockdown I really can’t be bothered, and find it all too depressing.
I do a couple of Zoom cardio classes, and have a daily walk, but that’s it.

I'm WFH. I run three or four times a week, usually in the afternoons. I didn't at the start of LD1 because I wasn't very sure of how best to avoid people. After 9 months I know loads of other routes where I can keep a good distance.

I do Pilates and yoga once a week each over zoom and then strength etc as and when.

Lockdown one I was walking miles every day. I’ve carried on walking every day but shorter now because of the weather.

Now I’m doing something on Les mills every day (barre, body balance or body combat depending on what else I’ve got on) plus three zoom hiit and two zoom Zumba classes.

It’s what’s keeping me going.

Similar to you OP - really ramped it up in lockdown 1 with spinning/weights every day. Once lockdown eased I added a tennis lesson in too.

Now I’ve ditched the weights for a while (home weights workouts just make me miss the gym) and am doing yoga instead. Slower and less impact on my body, and probably much better for me as I am so, so inflexible. And of course tennis is forbidden so I can’t do that.

I’m enjoying the change of pace. And finally sleeping through the night so I think I’m getting it right. I miss the tennis though.

Yes, pressing ahead here. Walks, cycling when i can etc,also introduced some physio/yoga for back issues. Key worker, BAU for me since the get go...must press on,,nothing else to do..

Sadly not - pre-lockdown I was cycling to work (10k/day), then Sept-Dec I walked the school run (5k/day) and had 3 x weekly workouts in the park with a friend.

Now I’ll have days where I just don’t have the mental energy to leave the house even for a walk, and I struggle to find the motivation for YouTube workouts. It’s really rubbish but I don’t know how to get over the mental hurdle.

Lockdown is very unhealthy for me. I did a trail half marathon at the end of Feb last year... I did C25k in August...

I lose the incidental fitness of briskly walking the school run. Prior to March, I'd walk up and down our stretch of road about 16 times a week for school/ extra curriculars and it does add up.

I lose my fitness classes and I just don't manage doing them on zoom. The environment is uncomfortable, it's not genuine company. Space, planning the time.

The DCs are around (plus added mess) they need constant support to do any home learning. In the spring I could head off for a quiet trail run after that, but now there is more rigid home learning so I don't have the daylight and I'm stuck with short, tedious, jarring, undulating pavement runs through my neighbourhood.

I kept the running up Mar-May but without access to my osteopath the niggles built up and I was struggling by June and went out about 3 times.
My running normally ebbs and flows around races, but there's enough other activity and classes in there for that to be no great issue.

Lockdown #2 was OK because the DCs were in school and the only difference it made compared to the previous month was losing organised sport.

Last time I went for a trail run, the ground was really struggling from increased food fall pulverising it into mud. So it a choice of pavement pounding, mud swamps or dodging formation pedestrians clogging up the parks.