@Voxel @dagill2 @flappinit
Cases are spiking in Florida so my chances of accessing a gym are pretty much nil. I’m also worried that my uni gym won’t open either in the fall. Even so, we’re being sent home after thanksgiving anyways. It’s driving me crazy knowing I have an option I can’t access and all the uncertainty surrounding the situation
At this point, I feel like giving up and training for a marathon, but that’ll only set me further back 
I can sympathise.
We’re not very alike in what we need to be motivated by training but you and Pinky strikes me as similar in regards to what you’d want to do under ordinarily circumstances, where you have access to a gym (Sheiko?). Hence, my strategy in your situation would just be to do the same workouts that he does if you don’t want to figure out something for yourself.
Or I’d go for the workouts @kleinhound posted in his log, where he did like 30 days of DBs. I think you can find it if you search his log using the word “engine”.
If you want to design something for yourself, well, as far as my creativity and understanding goes the one thing that’s difficult to emulate at home is very heavy loads. Therefore, muscle damage isn’t a very promising pathway for growth during times when one doesn’t have access to a gym.
That leaves three other pathways for growth. I’m not sure what your goals are exactly, but if you want to add muscle mass then you still have three avenues to accomplish that. Ironically, muscle damage isn’t the best pathway to grow muscle for most trainees anyway and presumably even less so for women as using that pathway to increase mass seems dependent on high levels of testosterone.
That might not be as motivating as strength work, but as I read somewhere, you can’t fire a cannon out of a canoe and you have to weigh anchor. Subsequently, the effort you invest in adding mass now will translate to a greater strength potential for when you do return to the gym. Hopefully, that’s enough to keep your chin up and not give up.
I have a basic program.
It’s more of a mental fuck feeling “ left behind “ and the uncertain, but very possible situation of this lasting a lot longer or the gym being taken away again soon
I can sympathise 100% I think a lot of people are finding it hard to readjust their gym habits, and lives, to the new reality. I try to go with the old cliche of looking at how bad other people have things while still being successful. I guess that explains my recent “discovery” or Brian Alsruhe. There’s a guy that always finds a way to yes.
This. 100% this. I don’t know what your goals are, and if I’m honest, I’m not sure you do either.
That’s part of the problem. There’s literally an open gym with very reasonable membership rates less than 3km from my house yet I don’t go
I want to get really strong in the bag 3 (squat and deadlift mostly) while staying respectably lean
Where in Florida? Gyms in my area of Florida are all open now.
The gym is open but my mom thinks it’s too risky
Ahh, makes sense. I see where she is coming from as a parent (albeit my kids are little 2 & 4) I have been taking them as few places as possible - in her mind the risk is unnecessary. Still sucks.
It honestly makes me feel like I’m “making excuses
Well, I did read about this one person having to replace both their lungs and that the surgery took an unexpected amount of time because the ones that were already there had essentially become plastered to the surrounding ribcage and heart. So, the virus hits different people in different ways. Given your medical background I’d presume you are a high-risk individual.
Probably tbh. I have the equivalent of 1 kidney
Sheiko was great! The worst part was honestly feeling tired and beat up despite spending at least 1/2 of the training sessions resting between sets
Minimizing your exposure to a potentially deadly illness is not making excuses.
Is this the only change you guys are making?
All state universities in my state are starting on Wed, 8/19 instead of Mon, 8/24, having class on Labor Day, Native American Day, & Veterans Day (they’re hoping no 3 day weekends = less students traveling), and then concluding instruction at Thanksgiving, with our finals online the week after that break.
Not sure how I feel about it. I don’t mind starting 3 (I guess technically 5) days early, since we also get out of class a week or so early. Those 3 day weekends are kinda nice to look forward to but people can survive without them.
Oh! The one part I am actually upset about is that professors can request to still teach online, even though campus is open. I was really looking forward to this fall’s classes and the fact that they’d be in person. I hate online work. Never feel like I learn as much. So I’m kinda hoping that my prof.'s stick to in person classes, but maybe that’ll end up not being smart.
I’m just curious what’ll happen for second semester. After all, people will have gone home for the holidays and winter tends to be a worse time for sicknesses…will spring be online again? Guess we’ll see.
As far as I know, we’re doing the same thing
Yeah, Office hours were my favourite. With that said, I do like lectures online since I can do other shit, or walk around, if the material isn’t important.
This is where we differ, haha.
I hate sitting for long periods of time. For online lectures, I take my phone and go on a walk
In all seriousness, I would take this into consideration when choosing a career path.
I want to go into academia.
Much of the research I plan on pursuing can be done on a treadmill desk and I don’t know many professors or TAs that sit during lecture 
Also, free gym and subsidized housing, not a bad deal
You can get the same thing on welfare too!
Just joking around