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Opposite. I got lonely, so I went to Houston to visit family. I typically eat super healthy, exercise daily and do strenuous 16+ hour outdoors adventures on weekend days. Now, I just eat a lot, drink beer and watch TV. I lost all my fun outdoor activities, inspiration and what I do for stress relief.

More to do with being on lockdown than WFH.




This so much. If you were active outdoorsy person with pretty cool active life, WFH and all related can be a bit of a disaster. We can still go out, but doing anything with real risks is supremely selfish now. As in Europe, we can't travel in other countries. Being in place surrounded with beautiful France and having Italy within 1 hour drive, this severely restricts where we can go.

Also, I've been previously hitting gym 4-5 times a week on top of that, WFH can only go down in such scenario - I still try to motivate myself with some basic weights I have found at home, but it ain't the same as using ie squat rack with proper weights for example. At least running is +-same.

Human interaction is a topic on its own, I feel sorry for many single folks or those in relationships that aren't living together. In many cases it must be stressful.


You could switch to bodyweight exercises and work towards onearm pushups/pullups and pistols if you want a challenge


I got into climbing because it was the only way I could get myself excited to go to the gym and keep a routine. It is just prep so I can climb cool stuff outside. Working out at home just isn't the same. It is also less social. I'm not a big social person, but I need something besides my roommates and getting outside. I know some people can just go to the gym every day and lift weights, but I've tried so many times.


Yeah, I just can't do it without it being fun and having a goal / purpose. Ie, I'm training for this trip or this whatever.


The hard part about training is not the training itself, but finding something you enjoy enough that you don't need any grit to do it.

There is a reason 73.9% of the North American-population is overweight [1], and it's not because they are not knowledgable.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_body_weight




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