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April 4, 2020
End of week 3 of Covid-19 quarantine. Obviously I haven't been to the gym in over a month now. The gym officially closed a few weeks ago and halted payments so at least I'm saving money. I'm working from home but my 3.5 year old and 11 month old twins are at home (and my wife of course) so the house is pretty hectic. I get maybe 2-3 hours of work done each day.
The twins have decided they hate napping in bed so my wife and I each take them for a walk. I started doing this last week and broke 100,000 steps in the week for the first time ever with ~110,000. This week I did it again with ~116,000 steps. Toronto has said you can go outside for exercise for the time being so I'm taking full advantage of that. The streets and paths are pretty quiet so it's easy to maintain distance.
I've been eating pretty shitty because we did a bunch of baking with our son to keep him busy. If we can actually clean up our diet I think I can probably drop some weight with all of the walking. My weight is around 214 lb which is up a few lb since February but basically where I started the year.
I thought about using my free weights after the kids go to bed but really I need that time to get work done. Doing 20 hours/week when I'm supposed to do 35-40 means I have to make the time count. I'll just have to be content with the walking and wait until I get back in the gym and hopefully enjoy noob gains. I'm still hoping we are back to work by the summer so I can train for the Tough Mudder in September but then I read stuff that says we might be re-locked down in the fall soo who knows.
End of week 3 of Covid-19 quarantine. Obviously I haven't been to the gym in over a month now. The gym officially closed a few weeks ago and halted payments so at least I'm saving money. I'm working from home but my 3.5 year old and 11 month old twins are at home (and my wife of course) so the house is pretty hectic. I get maybe 2-3 hours of work done each day.
The twins have decided they hate napping in bed so my wife and I each take them for a walk. I started doing this last week and broke 100,000 steps in the week for the first time ever with ~110,000. This week I did it again with ~116,000 steps. Toronto has said you can go outside for exercise for the time being so I'm taking full advantage of that. The streets and paths are pretty quiet so it's easy to maintain distance.
I've been eating pretty shitty because we did a bunch of baking with our son to keep him busy. If we can actually clean up our diet I think I can probably drop some weight with all of the walking. My weight is around 214 lb which is up a few lb since February but basically where I started the year.
I thought about using my free weights after the kids go to bed but really I need that time to get work done. Doing 20 hours/week when I'm supposed to do 35-40 means I have to make the time count. I'll just have to be content with the walking and wait until I get back in the gym and hopefully enjoy noob gains. I'm still hoping we are back to work by the summer so I can train for the Tough Mudder in September but then I read stuff that says we might be re-locked down in the fall soo who knows.