It’s okay if you don’t want to do at home workouts right now

@dawn16 Same! We’re the same person. I’m doing what I can, with what I got, where I am and that’s all I have control over and it is MORE THAN OK! maybe the more I yell it at myself the more I’ll 100% believe it.

But yeah I’ve had a couple days of shelter in place I haven’t done an at home workout because it’s .. not the same? Hope that’s ok. Feels like a failure but I know logically it’s not.

Bottom line we’re all in this together! Glad to have this sub, you girls, and these posts!
 
@dawn16 This is so true. I had twins and then less than 2 years later another baby (plus a miscarriage in the middle). I gained 55, lost 60, gained 35, lost 45. I'm 15 lbs lighter and much fitter than I was before my kids (it's a huge pain in the ass to go out to eat with 3 kids, and we can't go to our favorite bars anymore)

That being said, working out is keeping me sane. Having some weightlifting routine every morning, and taking above-mentioned kids on walks during the day makes the days go by more quickly and easily. It also helps burn some of the nervous energy.
 
@dawn16 Well that is the last thing I wanted to hear after moving my wedding once to September. I wonder if I’ll have to cancel it altogether... I don’t think I could move forward knowing it’s putting people in danger :/
 
@shorew I agree, it totally sucks! I'm in a similar position. My husband and I had our wedding celebration planned for August (already had a courthouse marriage but planned the celebration for later when his family could visit from Europe). But now I'm thinking we'll likely have to postpone, and hopefully his family will be able to get a refund on their tickets. It's such a bummer, but I have older family members who I want to be able to come and I really don't want to put any of them at risk. Besides, even if it was all young people, the risk of somebody unknowingly spreading the disease around seems too great.
 
This is my issue. Everyone is saying “it’s only a month or two, we’ll be fine” but if it persists for more than 2 months I know for sure I’ll be losing a lot of muscle if not most I’ve accumulated in the past year. This really sucks as I was just starting to achieve a body I was proud of.
 
I agree, I think people kind of have their heads in the sand about how long-lasting this could be. Even so, there are ways to maintain fitness! There's a lot you can do with home workouts, and those of us who can still social distance outdoors can take advantage of opportunities to run, hike, bike, walk, etc. It's not ideal, but it is possible to exercise while maintaining social distance.
 
@dawn16 I don’t think society can take social distancing (in its current form) for that long. People will get evicted from their apartments and lose their houses en masse, all but the biggest corporations would likely fold, there would be massive civil unrest, I wouldn’t be surprised by riots and looting. Suicides would spike. A month, maybe 2 people can handle. A year or more? Not a chance. At some point it will have to just be those in the most at risk populations who stay in isolation.
 
@manihanery You're not wrong about the sustainability - that's exactly why timing measures is so important - but models e.g. the MRC one from Imperial College London are suggesting the potential for multiple interventions, tightening and loosening measures progressively, to limit the spread while also minimising the impact on society and the chance of second epidemic peaks. This is more nuanced than just 'self isolation for x amount of time'. We should expect measures to be long term but they may not necessarily be as consistently strict for that period of time.
 
@manihanery We won’t be able to keep “risk populations in isolation”. It’s actually more impractical than keeping everyone isolated.

1.) As stated below, seniors do not exist in a vacuum. They have caretakers. They live with family.

2.) Many many many people in the US are at risk. Not just the elderly and immunocompromised. Diabetes and uncontrolled high blood pressure are two of the highest risk factors for developing complications. And guess what country’s population is 1/3 obese?

Even if our leadership wants to choose money over lives, I cant imagine that lasting very long. Citizens will revolt once they start seeing the videos of dead bodies piled up in their local hospitals.
 
@trispy
Citizens will revolt once they start seeing the videos of dead bodies piled up in their local hospitals.
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They'll also revolt when it's July and they have no money to buy food and are about to be evicted. The governments of the world are going to need to find a middle ground between "overflowing hospitals" and "every non-essential business closed and no one making any money". Whether that's those 15 minute test kits that people keep talking about, or at risk populations being cared for by people who are have already had it and are immune. I'm not a politician, I don't know what they're going to have to do. I do know that 5000 people in my town of 9000 have been laid off in the past two weeks and our local food rescue is running out of food every night even with massive amounts coming in from all the closed restaurants. And that's just at the beginning when people likely already had money still in their bank accounts. I cannot even imagine what it will be like if half the town has no income for up to a year. I'm not American and my government is handling it much better than yours but even with up to $2000 a month for the next 4 months people are going to have a rough time. And when the cause of the rough time is an invisible enemy that probably won't seriously effect them if they caught it... you're going to be hard pressed to keep them isolated.Where I live the death rate is currently 0.5% and the hospitalization rate is only 4.7% (people in the ICU are 1.9% of all cases). If those numbers hold, come summer people are going to stop listening to people telling them to stay home. Hell, even now they've had to close parks and introduce fines because people aren't taking social distancing seriously.
 
@trispy Yes and yes. This idea of "the old and sick will just have to die off so we can save Wall Street" is so appalling. (I realize that it's more than just Wall Street, and there are serious economic impacts felt across the board by these kind of measures, but that's still the general tone adopted by so many - mostly Republican - politicians). It is absolutely not JUST the elderly that will be impacted by this. In Italy, 20 and 30 year olds account for something like 40% of the hospitalizations, although they make up very few of the deaths. And plenty of people of all ages are immunocompromised or at risk in some other way (my husband, for example, is young and in great health but has Type I diabetes, which is a risk factor). Furthermore, if we don't take drastic steps to flatten the curve - which is going to take much, much longer than 1 or 2 months - our healthcare system is going to be completely overwhelmed. We'll run out of ventilators and respirators. There won't be any space in hospitals or any remaining hospital beds. That's what's happening in Italy right now, and it's catastrophic. I really don't think it's possible to just "get back to normal" while, as you say, dead bodies are piling up in local hospitals.
 
@manihanery Unfortunately, covid-19 seems to have about a 1% mortality rate but without ventilators it spikes hard. Italy is currently running almost a 10% mortality rate since they've run out of ventilators.

I don't think there's any returning to normal until we can either stop the spread or greatly increase our ICU capacity.
 
@clarity123 I say this with sadness in my heart: it won't matter, at least in the US. Hopefully 2 months is enough, but there is no way our government is hampering the economy that long. The Lt Governor of Texas had a press conference where he explicitly said the old and sick will just have to sacrifice and die to save the economy. They won't enforce a quarantine for much longer. We have to hope the old and sick can self isolate and we have done enough to flatten the curve.
 
@sscablao I hate that I agree with you. My FIL is a small business owner and he keeps saying “the cure is worse than the disease.” Cool, glad to know you put more value on the economy than actual people’s lives. So sad but I think more prevalent than people might realize.
 
@dawn16 I never even thought about what pregnant women go through! And our bodies aren’t going to change nearly that much with social distancing...even with all my recent bread baking hahah. I’d much rather be kinder to myself and continue to love working out than force myself to do workouts I hate in my living room for the sake of being “fit”
 
@gumcareblog Trust me, I had not thought about it either until she said it. It put things into perspective for me in a major way.

Thank you for posting this :) we all needed this

Edit: and I condone the bread making! I am about to make some beer bread with some stuff left over from when my friends visited in January !!
 
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