Quarantine (trying to make it fun, keep fit and loose weight)

i do couch to 5k and dont do anything to strict. shooting you a friend request

Set your calories to your activity level, log in everything you eat and stay within the calorie count. Walking is a good exercise if you are just beginning. If you have limited space run in place while watching tv. Any movement helps and when you enter it, you are allowed more calories. Make it fun

I’ve been walking my dog 5 miles a day. It’s a good calorie burner and tones your lower body.

Some good beginner workout videos are Leslie Sansone's walking videos on You Tube. I've been doing various ones, Body Project has a lot of great cardio workouts from beginners to advanced. Fitness Blender and PopSugar are good resources as well. There's a ton of fun dance videos, I've done ones lately from Bollywood to Afro-beat and belly dancing. This guy is a lot of fun, I love his Alejandro dance video (took about 6 times to get it down!) and this is a warm up dance one: https://youtu.be/4L5cdskEiA4

@kamaniwase , @jaedamvinson

The best kind of exercise is the kind you will keep DOING. Experiment to find out what fits your default "I find this fun / engaging" o-meter. So long as you are moving SOMEhow.

WHATEVER is your personal most-fun best fit, consider trying / working towards a 30X30 challenge. Thirty minutes (can be broken across your out-of-bed hours if required as you build your stamina) every day for 30 days. Maybe include a minimal number of "Intentional Pass" days - Hey, Life Happens!

So long as you don't exceed more than 3 or 4 Pass Days, then you have been active 80 to 90 % of the days through the month. Perfection not required.

Body-weight youtube routines and cumulative "beat your best" challenges like 30-day plank or push-up or tricep dip charts you can print out appeal to some. There are also this kind of "check-in challenge-threads" on MFP.

Darebee is one of many sites you can explore for a variety of that sort of "calisthenics body weight" style.

Many of their options don't even need what @jaedamvinson lists as "gonna get" equipment (but DO go get it, @jaedamvinson IF you already know that fits your style, and you will use it. What you already have in the way of resistance bands and 3 weights of kettle bells are plenty if you are just starting out)

As @Katmary71 said above, there are also many, many Youtube cardio workouts and dancercise videos for all levels if that appeals to you more than "calisthenics body weight" routines.

BodyGroove is also a good place to start if "dancercise set-routines" feel a bit intimidating just now - BG also has Youtube examples as well as a home web-site (Youtube dedicated channel?) where you can get more sent to you regularly. A friend of mine with very little sense of rhythm / balance thrives here where the other two options above are just NEVER going to be "her".

Personally, I go for the Wii "you are the controller" exergame route. Yup the Wii-original system that started it all.

I hear there are also smart-phone app strapped-to-your-arm-while-game-play-shown-on-Smart-TV updated new-school equivalent exergames around these days that I wouldn't have a CLUE about . Noe do I own the required tech for.

Maybe another poster could mention some of THAT kind of option?

I do yoga every morning and make sure I drink shake to help any morning craving. But I also like to take walks to clear my mind. Lots of YouTube videos on cardio

If you set your calories to lose weight and stay within your calorie limit, you will lose weight. I don't exercise at this point; a couple hip opener yoga poses done on the bed because my sacrum is too tender to lie on the floor really don't count. I have exercise intolerance, in fact, as part of my fibromyalgia. And yet in three months I've lost 25 pounds, and two sizes in pants.

Do what works for you. If the resistance bands and kettlebells in your living room just....don't get done, if you're staying within your calories, you'll keep making weight loss progress. If you're like me, once you lose weight, you'll find yourself just up and doing stuff instead of sitting down, and that counts as exercise too. I'm waiting until the gym reopens to really work on strength training and cardio. If you wind up doing that too, it's not the end of the world.

I've been doing Yoga With Adriene videos off Youtube and walking outside.

Prior to this lockdown, I was on a 2/wk program at the gym, including both a trainer session and afterwards stationary bike on my own. Plus outdoor cycling when streets aren't icy. This is my "winter program." I was just about to transition to less gym, more outdoor cycling for my "spring program" when the lockdown commenced. Being in a higher-risk group, I haven't been off the my property in more than 3 wks.

So, in the house, I cut back on my MFP calorie allotment and started a bodyweight, stretching, resistance band, and step climbing cardio program. It isn't a great program, but I'm not completely idle. I have lost 10lbs so far and some percentage of my training base for riding so far. Cooking-wise, I am working to ensure the family (I'm the chef) gets enough protein and doesn't carb overload on long-term pantry stores (rice, beans, grains, canned goods). My "online quartermaster" duties take up a fair portion of the day.

Hoping for light at the end of the tunnel sooner than later. Being a couple miles from the beach here in coastal NJ, my "summer program" is usually cycling over to the beach, swimming, cycling back (with longer rides in "destination areas" supplementing). The mental challenge in lockdown, impacting my current regimen, is frustration at not even getting out to see the beach.

@kamaniwase , @jaedamvinson how is it going? have you found yourselves a pattern that fits your personal style?