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Okayish. I am a 'nerd' who loves 'staying indoors' and doesn't like to go in crowded areas. Until I was forced to stay indoors for months. I used to exercise

Okayish. I am a 'nerd' who loves 'staying indoors' and doesn't like to go in crowded areas. Until I was forced to stay indoors for months. I used to exercise regulary, gym/yoga/skipping/running before the lockdown. But during the lockdown, it has all gone to hell. I eat, work and sleep. I used to watch a lot of tv shows but I cancelled all subscriptions. But, on the other hand, I have begun writing stories. I had abandoned writing them for over a year now. In fact, I published my short story on Kindle last week. I am editing the 4 unpublished novels which I wrote and am trying to finish the 5th one right now. But it is difficult. Getting motivation is difficult. At times, I feel anxious. And I totally understand the irony. It had never happened that I had 'gone out' in the last five years during a weekend. But now, I want to go out every other day. Our government has started to ignore corona and they've begun opening up the country. The puppet TV news of the regime doesn't freak out people on Corona, which they did when the govt took corona seriously. I miss cycling and going to the gym though. Yoga is a good alternative to the gym as it builds all possible muscles.

shoes_for_thee 6y ago
tell me more about your skipping-for-exercise routine
- thewhitetulip 6y ago
  Buy a good skipping rope, should be heavy. Do maximum sets of skipping that you can. I started with 100. Because I used to do Yoga for 40min daoly, used to cycle 72km once a week, so I had built that stamina. You can start with sets. Sets of 10/30 whatever suits you. Weekly, either increase the set count or the speed of jumping For eg, I used to do 100 in 1min. Yesterday I did 100 in 29seconds! I am also doing skipping based on minutes now. Yesterday, I skipped for 3min 45seconds. My goal is to skip for 5 to 10 min nonstop. They say x min skipping burns twice calories as x min running!
  - shoes_for_thee 6y ago
    Thanks for the deets :) I was under the impression you were using skipping-locomotion as exercise, rather than running or skipping rope. I was wondering if that was a thing... skipping for exercise.
    - thewhitetulip 6y ago
      Oh no. I didn't even know we could do that :D

shoes_for_thee 6y ago

tell me more about your skipping-for-exercise routine

thewhitetulip 6y ago
Buy a good skipping rope, should be heavy. Do maximum sets of skipping that you can. I started with 100. Because I used to do Yoga for 40min daoly, used to cycle 72km once a week, so I had built that stamina. You can start with sets. Sets of 10/30 whatever suits you. Weekly, either increase the set count or the speed of jumping For eg, I used to do 100 in 1min. Yesterday I did 100 in 29seconds! I am also doing skipping based on minutes now. Yesterday, I skipped for 3min 45seconds. My goal is to skip for 5 to 10 min nonstop. They say x min skipping burns twice calories as x min running!
- shoes_for_thee 6y ago
  Thanks for the deets :) I was under the impression you were using skipping-locomotion as exercise, rather than running or skipping rope. I was wondering if that was a thing... skipping for exercise.
  - thewhitetulip 6y ago
    Oh no. I didn't even know we could do that :D