I know what you\u2019re thinking\u2026another self-quarantine post about at home workouts!! NOOOO\u2026.Spare me! <\/p>\n
I know I know, I feel the same way. If I see another friend share her at-home yoga practice, a 10 pushup challenge, or a hyper-lapse of a pilates class I\u2019m going to have to delete Instagram. (Just kidding Instagram\u2026I can\u2019t quit you! Especially during all of this isolation!) But I need these at home workouts the same way I need\u2026well, Instagram. <\/p>\n
I\u2019ve been socially distancing, self-quarantining, self-isolating\u2014whatever we want to call it\u2014for over three weeks now. Let me share with you my at home workout journey:<\/p>\n
First, I started by telling myself (and my husband) that I wasn\u2019t going to lift a finger. I spent a few days in full sloth\/panic mode. Sitting on the couch in the same sweatpants without showering, eating pretty much constantly, panic binging every show I could find on Netflix (hello, Tiger King) and falling in love with Andrew Cuomo via his live-streamed briefings. It was a sort of manic bliss. Until I started to smell, and was that my triple-chin coming back on family zoom calls? Hmm, Huston, we have a problem.<\/p>\n
Then, I decided to channel my panic and anxiety into exercising. Not only for the fitness, but also, for the showers. I changed my sloth-like schedule into something that went like this:
\nWake up
\nComfort-eat a huge breakfast
\nWork for two hours
\nExercise for an hour to the point where I am fully sweating through my spandex even though it\u2019s only 67 degrees in my living room
\n*Shower*
\nDry brush my face and moisturize (game-changing, I promise)
\nLunch
\nBack to work<\/p>\n
And I felt like a new human. A new, very sore human. Every day I would stream a free Core Power Yoga Yoga Sculpt<\/a> class, using cans of crushed tomatoes as hand weights. These classes are pretty amazing in that they pack a lot of punch in a quick period of time. But let\u2019s be honest, I never worked out 7 days a week during normal life, there was no way I could keep this up in quarantine life. And I haven\u2019t. I\u2019ve entered the final and hopefully lasting phase of my at home workouts which is something more like this:<\/p>\n I workout when I feel anxious and I have a lot of energy, especially on rainy days when I can\u2019t go for a walk. And I gave up on working out for a full hour every time and I\u2019m pretty happy if I exercise 4 times a week. Lately I\u2019ve been mixing up those Core Power<\/a> classes with twenty minutes of dance cardio on Peloton<\/a> in which I look like a complete tool but find myself smiling while getting my dance on (no equipment required). Or sometimes I tune into the Sky Ting<\/a> live stream. If it\u2019s nice out, I\u2019ll go for a run using the Peloton outdoor classes to keep me motivated and so I don\u2019t have to curate my own playlist. I\u2019ve got a two-week trial of The Class<\/a> bookmarked, and also Tracy Anderson Method<\/a>.<\/p>\n And sometimes I just call my mom and my brother and my niece and we all turn on the same song and dance around our kitchens, together but apart. <\/p>\n My at home workouts are a luxury, I know. I\u2019m fortunate to not have to deal with homeschooling kids, or having to go into work at an essential business. But my at home workouts are a little piece of sanity that are helping me sleep, that are keeping me a more stable colleague and wife, and just maybe that third chin will be gone by the time we\u2019re allowed back out into the world.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" D\u00e9sol\u00e9, cet article est seulement disponible en Anglais Am\u00e9ricain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,1382],"tags":[7560,756,399],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.wearedore.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287706"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.wearedore.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.wearedore.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.wearedore.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.wearedore.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287706"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wp.wearedore.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":287724,"href":"https:\/\/wp.wearedore.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287706\/revisions\/287724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.wearedore.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.wearedore.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.wearedore.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}