Keeping Fit during Lockdown

So as everyone who eventually reads this, we are all on an indefinite lockdown, no end date discussed, no end date in sight, no end to this nightmare.  However as we all know this is for our own good.  No one wants to be ill, no one wants to suffer no one wants to spread it.

However even though I am on the portly side, some say fat git! however each and every day I try to do something about it.  It is so easy to sit at home and just empty the cupboards down your gullet.  This is normally ok (well do a point!) if you are still working in an office as you commute, you walk to the office, walk around the office, go out at lunch etc etc so you are moving all the time.

However working from home is a different beast.  The "office" is 10ft from my bed, I could get out of bed at 8.28am and be working by 8.30am.  If it was the dead of winter and miserable outside this wouldnt be too bad but its glorious at the moment, I have sunburn on bits which haven't seen sunshine in a good while and I am getting plenty of Vit D!

Normally I part-commute to work, the other half works on the outskirts of Manchester and I work in the City Centre so I used to cycle from her office to mine, which is great in any weather as it gets the heart going, albeit having a shower in work is a false economy as I come out hotter than when i went in and i sweat again!.

Anyway..
Now there is none of that, no commuting, no travel, I haven't left home in nearly a month, the furthers I have been is the village I live in where I do my daily excersize.  It is weird knowing that all I have seen is where I live for nigh on a month.

So, whilst we are still able to excersize, I go out once a day either at lunch if I am feeling it, or after work if not.  In both cases I either walk or cycle 4 miles.  It is enough for me to put some effort in, as where I live is not flat, plus I get to play Pokemon Go and spin many pokestops :)

This hour on the bike or 2 when I am walking I am not hooning it I am just going at a pace that is pushing me, Walking, I power walk as much as I can, depending on the terrain as it can be either unstable, rough or doing the 2m dodge of other humans.

But more than getting my heart going, its my mental health which benefits too. I listen to a podcast or two when I am out (not when cyclcing).  These days in this current climate it is even more important than ever to ensure your mental health is in check.  Self Care.. do what you want to do not need to do, within reason :) go for a walk, have a bath, play a game, it doesn't matter just do something that makes you happy.

And by this mantra this is what I am about to do. Log off put the work laptop away until Tuesday and do what I want to do not have to do for the next 4 days.

Ciao.