Quarantine fitness

100 pushups started yesterday. Would have started on Monday but the DOMS from the fitness test was too much for my creaky old body!

Greatest distance cycled (no hands) - world record is 122km

Froome had just started his attempt on this when that unfortunate gust came along.

He already holds the world record for greatest distance cycled staring at the stem rather than the road ahead.

Can't work out if I'm horribly unfit, still suffering with post-corona fatigue or both. Probably both.

Strava says I did 110km on the turbo last week (my first week of turbo). Reckon I've just overdone it?

If you did 5 hours of intervals, probably yes.

Pretty much anything time consuming and stupid piques my interest.

A 5,000 piece Jigsaw of Margaret Thatcher

100 burpees done, only did 10 yesterday so had to get back on the waggon today. Employed the old beer in the freezer trick again.

I like Ryan Reynolds handstand t-shirt challenge the most.

2.5hrs on the turbo, working towards 1000k this month for this:
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/345682/

Sweaty! You must be drinking gallons of water.

I decided I wanted to run a half marathon today, despite having only managed a handful of runs this year.
I was slow, but I managed it.
My body is not happy.

Been doing more exercise in the past three weeks than has been usual for me in the past three years.

Diet has remained similar to before coronacrisis. Aftet ten days it appeared I had shed 4 pounds. Now my weight has returned to where it was at the beginning.

I’d expect this if I had been doing high intensity work, but I have only been doing build phase TrainerRoad workouts and a bit of gardening in addition to my normal log splitting and yoga.

You must be the only person to have lost weight in lockdown!

I ran a 20 mile race about 5 weeks ago in prep for a marathon, I doubt I’d manage to run 10 miles tomorrow if I tried. Will start building up the miles again soon, difficult without any sort of race on the horizon to motivate myself with though.

difficult without any sort of race on the horizon to motivate myself with though.

I know that feeling. I’m in a funny situation in that regard. The only race I feel particularly motivated for is the Old County Tops which is held in May. I’d probably need a solid year of training to manage it, but I’ve never had a consistent injury free year! Either that or I end up burning out. In a funny way, having something that’s currently so far beyond me, but also 13 months away definitely has its appeal.

Sweaty! You must be drinking gallons of beer.

ftfy

You must be the only person to have lost weight in lockdown!

I'm finding it relatively easy to lose weight:-

• Have stopped all cycling and swimming (obviously) but...
  
• Running three times a week, hour long walk on the other days
  
• Fitness challenges (100 pushup challenge, core strength, leg blasters, etc)
  
• Being careful with portion control (easier to do when eating with family rather than eating alone)
  
• No pub nights (used to be two 6+ pint evenings a week) and so beer calories have decreased
  
• No junk food (11.30pm fast food at Waterloo Station after pub, or tasty but fatty curries or pasties and chips from the office restaurant) - cooking mostly healthy meals at home and a weekly treat of fish and chips once a week
  
• Eating meals at regular times (since I've in the house with wife and daughter and they, apparently, need feeding)
  
• Better (and more consistent) hydration
  
  

2.5kg down since my lockdown began (Friday 19th March). Only another 19kg to go.

^ agree with that. Currently 1.5kg down. Partially as using outside time for exercise, so actually doing quality miles everyday, and partially far better eating habits. No more 'just nipping to the shop' has decimated my treat and snack intake.

I find it harder to portion control when eating with family, especially with my Korean mum staying with us at the moment.

Who equally tells me that I’m getting fat, but also cooks as if she’s fattening me up for market day...

Fortunately been keeping up with burpees, 8:58 for 100, pushup part was feeling easy today, but legs tired from bike ride yesterday.

Day 2 of 100 pushups - was quite tough now the muscles are tired!

Up to 300 swings now to begin my KB workout. Firearms definitely getting stronger - they still fatigue towards the end of the 50 set but it's manageable. Couple more workouts and I might be able to manage 500 without adverse effects the next day.

Firearms definitely getting stronger

So it’s truly about the gun show

2,5kg down as well for me. Daily one hour blast on the turbo, different diet compared to the office (canteen is simply too good to resist) makes the difference for me.

So Lfgss is gonna look like a Abercrombie catalogue after the lockdown. Well done everyone!

I am up two kgs but some of it is muscle (at least that’s what I would like to think). I think I was mostly eating out of boredom in the first two weeks but hopefully getting grip on that now.

Unrelated to the thread, but love it!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l0vrsO3_HpU