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Woah there cowboy. I've been on waiting lists for any serious at home gym equipment since April. Not a peep, but I refuse to pay Marketplace/Craigslist scalpers.

I was lucky to get resistance bands and those have been working well at least.

Having a long ass commute and a dog to attend to meant my life was pretty much office and home. I was always too exhausted to consider a serious workout routine. However, since shelter-in-place started I've lost a ton of weight, gotten amazing sleep and never felt physically better. I've been working out daily and walking/hiking on the weekends, if anything, just to get out of my house.

I've also cooked all my meals because I've made it a personal goal to get abs by the end of the year. So I want to know what I'm putting in my body.

This has become a life changing moment for me, so I don't see any reason why this wouldn't be true for others. If the pandemic threw you off your old daily routines, and that's your only reason for giving up healthy habits, were you really committed in the first place? What would have happened if you simply moved or started a family or some other life changing event in the future? Would you just give up your routine then?

I feel like I've been transported to an alternate reality where people argue home gyms are better than real gyms and working from home is without consequence.

This reality seems heavily biased by people with long commutes.

It isn't just the commutes - I've had a number of good commutes that I enjoy, particularly bicycle commutes.

Unfortunately most companies that I have worked with (or might work with) seem to have adopted productivity-killing open plan offices, which are absolutely terrible.

Even when I spend 8 hours in a horrible open plan office, I end up doing most of my actual work at home. The office hours are simply to keep supervisors happy, to attend mandatory (often unnecessary) meetings, and to remain visible.

> Woah there cowboy. I've been on waiting lists for any serious at home gym equipment since April. Not a peep, but I refuse to pay Marketplace/Craigslist scalpers.

I was in the same boat and I recommend taking a look at the Stock and Shipping Thread in Reddit's /r/homegym subreddit. [1] I joined their discord/stream for a few weeks and was able to be on top of gym equipment re-stocks and got what I needed pretty quickly, cost being MSRP.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/homegym/comments/i5ect0/stock_and_s...

I've been on waiting lists for any serious at home gym equipment since April. Not a peep, but I refuse to pay Marketplace/Craigslist scalpers.

If you're just interested in general fitness, no equipment needed, there are any number of online workouts to follow that will give you a great whole body + cardio workout using nothing more than your body weight.

(though I bought both a spinning bike and a set of dumbbells at the beginning of quarantine... I've finally reached the point where the dumbbells aren't quite heavy enough for everything, so I've been watching eBay for a good deal on additional weight plates since as you noted, it's hard to find workout equipment)

My quarantine routine was yoga mat + YouTube yoga session every morning before work. It’s been pretty great tbh.

(Btw, yoga with adriene is a very good YouTube yoga channel)

I have also been loving yoga on youtube! Its like going to a class except there is nobody to tell me how much my form sucks.

I've been thinking about writing an app to let me turn some of these follow alongs into an interval timer where I could just say the name of the pose (so I could do other things while doing the yoga). Then I could always click on the pose to go back to the video. Does that sound of interest?

Another good way to extend the life of weights that are too light: Increase Reps, Increase Sets, Decrease Rest, focus on pace while lifting (4 seconds down, 2 seconds up), and unilateral exercises (1-leg-squats). Not a substitute for everything, but hopefully can help bridge the gap for a little longer.

1 kettlebell. 1 jump rope. Thank me later. ;-)

Pull up bar too, or Olympic rings. Between those and body weight exercises you can have a complete workout regimen.

As a bonus, a pull up bar installed properly with screwed in supports can also support a hammock when it is not being used :)

Check out Nowinstock.net. It worked for me!

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