How I work out during the COVID-19 restrictions
I work as a fulltime DevOps consultant and I have been working from home since september last year. That in itself poses no problems — I’m used to WFH and it suit me well. But when the restrictions in my country closed down the fitness center, it hit me hard.
Somehow it’s hard for me to get a good workout done at home, when I’ve had a full workday in the same room. In the beginning I could force myself to do it, but I lost my focus and procrastinated.
And then Christmas came, and I got nothing done.
So I thought long and hard how I could change that, and I came up with this method, which actually works for me. Incorporate the workout into my workday, indstead of trying to do it before or after. In other words, work for a while, take a short break and do a set of pullups, work for a while and then do another set. Do pull exercises monday, push exercises tuesday and so on. Or do sets of one exercises in the morning hours and another in the evening. You can do 5 to 6 sets of an exercise before lunch, and the small breaks with physical activity is actually good for you.
Now I know that it’s not the most efficient way to workout, but it works for me; I don’t have to struggle with my inner self to get it done. It’s nothing more than a maintenance workout, not a substitute for a real good one. And of course I will return to my regular schedule when I get back in the fitness center.
But for now, this is way.
