There will be plenty far worse off than me and I haven’t had time to read everyone’s situation on here but here’s how it’s affected me.
Work have cancelled our bonus scheme and cut our wages by 20%. I understand why and they’ve been open about it. As frustrating as it is, as we’re in lockdown, my outgoings are reduced too so I should be alright.
The gym - shut. I have found a local park that has parallel bars etc. So again, I should be alright there.
Hope everyone is staying safe out there x
I hate the bowflex just because of how it feels to use. The resistance isn’t constant so it feels like your always chasing that max weight before really getting each rep out and I find it harder to do propper times in and out and holding each movement. Just my problem though. The guys in the commercial are clearly getting 100% of their gains from that thing and not PEDs or all other aspects of usable gym equipment lol. 
I’d love to see the mod!
I’d move and explain myself later.
That’s the current plan.
You’ll be fine. My state issued a shelter in place and it didn’t go into effect until the next day, today. Meanwhile, PDs throughout the state said they aren’t going to arrest anyone for violating unless they are outright causing problems.
Currently, I’m loading up my truck to drive 250 miles for a few meetings and won’t be back for 3 days. If I get pulled over, I’ll just say I have an essential job.
The strength curves in a Bowflex or bands is different than free weights for sure. Does take adjusting. I read Nautilus books in the 90s talking about resistance training with the weight pulling back. Controlling the negative with the resistance pulling back made a lot of sense to me then. The biggest issue is simply you cannot add enough weight. For heavy compound lifts it’s pretty useless.
All I did to mod it was fastened an eyelet high up on the tower frame of the Bowflex. I pass tube bands through the eyelet and hook it to the cable end with the rods. The bands flex with the rod flex pattern. The extra resistance is effective, but again not optimal.
My friends sister just died, while in the hospital, from a seizure induced from alcohol detox. Imagine this en masse.
Sorry to hear that, just an absolutely terrible thing to happen. The worst part is you can see the problem unfolding before your eyes but there really isn’t a whole lot you can do other than try to convince them to stop, which never works.
Alcoholism runs in my family and I’ve lost an aunt at 44 years old due to liver failure and have another aunt and uncle in/out of rehab right now. My living aunt just checked out and moved back home, she recently lost her job due to not showing up for 3 weeks and getting wasted all day. I wonder what she has been up to being stuck at home all day…
What is your job curiously?
Is there no way you can telecommute? Driving to another region and meeting with other people before returning home is EXACTLY the kind of behavior the shelter in place order is attempting to stop/reduce.
95% of my job has moved to telecommuting. However, you can’t do the specific task I need to accomplish this week, without being in person. If I give specifics, it would be very easy to lose anonymity. We have social distancing measures in place and no one will be within 50’ of each other.
Not that I’m saying anything you don’t already know, but be careful. Liberal use of hand sanitizer, gloves, etc. Anything you can do to prevent picking up the virus at a meeting place, or tracking the virus into the meeting place. That shit lives for multiple days if you get it on clothes/shoes and track it into your car. Prevention is impossible, but mitigation is simply a matter of effort.
The order is in place b/c people couldn’t be bothered to practice hygeine and voluntary social distancing to a level deemed acceptable.
Samuel, my condolences! unfortunately many mentally ill and their family’s are suffering. Society is seeing anxiety and depression rise, but those with clinical diagnoses already established are having a difficult time even getting their meds! the Number of those not being able to access meds is causing a rise is past addiction resurfacing. The lack of A.A. and NA meetings allow not only addicts but the mentally ill have a sense of community. Tragic times are hard on all of us. What frightens me is that my sister shared a story of a paranoid schizophrenic that was unable to get meds…
I’ll edit this, maybe if you suggested to your mother to write an appreciation/grievance letter to say goodbye. Ask her to share, hide it, or destroy it. Some sense of closure. I’m just trying cuz that has to be very hard
Anyone have kids around 12-14 that are getting really depressed? My son had a very active social life and spent all his free time with his friends. I hate to see him suffering like this. Me and my parents are trying to get him to go for bike rides or my mom offers to let him bake, but he’s just miserable and it’s so unlike him.
No help. Just sympathy.
I’m not a health professional and you are better poised to understand your child than I am. Nor do I have kids of my own.
What I do have is experience with depression, first- and second-hand.
For better or worse — hopefully the former — here is what I can offer:
Seeing a loved one suffer mentally is inherently tough, but as long as you are there for your kid you are helping. It’s important that through this you remain kind towards yourself. When I had my own spells of darkness, it was tough to see my family beat themselves up as they thought they could fix things. Sometimes that might be possible, sometimes it isn’t. If that becomes a goal though, that puts undue pressure on the party with the depression.
Maybe I’m misinterpreting you, and I’m sorry if that is the case, but with regards to
I’d say it’s more important to include, rather than it is to encourage someone to “do”. By that I mean for you to go on the bike-ride with him if possible*, and bake together as a family. If he expresses dislike of the bike-ride afterwards, take heart in that it probably did him some physical good, and allow him to come and go as he pleases during the baking process and ensure he knows he’s welcome back at any time. Setting the expectation any higher than being physically present/adjacent is possibly too high an expectation. Active participation is a later step.
I want to encourage you to be open to that what your son is going through isn’t necessarily an unhealthy response given the scenario. This is true for a depression of circumstance as much as clinical depression, although with the latter there are some added elements that require managing.
It might be anticipatory grief. Anticipatory grief is something we can experience when we are uncertain as to what the future holds and we’ve lost a sense of security. @EmilyQ or @planetcybertron, please let me know if I’m wrong.
If him and his friends are technically able, help them with arranging a remote movie-night. It might not be normal, but it’s more social than watching something alone.
* If you are otherwise sequestered in-doors, and there is no government order in-place for you to stay indoors then presumably going out together with him is as safe as sending him out on his own.
I’m guessing it would only be us Brits that would get this reference. Good old Chris Kamara!
Has your wage actually been cut by 20% or have you been laid off and are getting 80% based on the government guarantee?
I’m lucky, I’m self-employed but my business carries on generating an income for me for months. It will eventually start to reduce but not for about 12-months at least so I’ve got a good degree of security. Not only that, I’m also saving about £900/month on childcare costs, although now my missus starts working from home at 6:00am til 1:15pm, I look after our baby until 12:00 when she goes for her nap then I work from 12:00 til 8-9:00pm. That’s training out of the window then.
We are doing similar and it’s surprisingly tough to juggle.
Just a general question to anyone with young kids:
What are your plans if both you and your partner contract serious cases of Coronavirus?
The hospital stay seems like it is weeks. My kids are too young to be left alone for more than a very short period and bringing a close relative into the situation seems a bad option and a hell of an ask.
Presumably, the government will provide an option but any version of that feels like it will be an awful experience for a child unless they can treat you at home.
Corona will catch a serious case of me.
I told my wife that we had nothing to worry about because Corona would be too scared to infect me.
She didn’t agree that my plan was a good one…