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@PastorVincent I love my Plantronics Backbeat Fit headphones too! I didn't know they had changed anything. Fortunately, I bought a second pair more than a year ago, when I had a coupon for a shop that had them on sale, "just in case". Surprisingly enough, the first pair is still alive - after long heavy rain runs of up to…

@katharmonic Unfortunately, that doesn't work if you do running and cycling (or hiking, ...). The Training calendar shows me 269km for May, which is running and cycling combined. In case someone else has this problem, there's a workaround I read somewhere else: Strava allows you to keep track of bike part mileage separate…

Cycling for me on Thursday and Friday. Which were also the first days since 11 weeks that I went to the office! For half a day only, after coordination with colleagues to ensure we meet as few people as possible.... But it was nice to get a chance to work at a real desk instead of the dining table, and print a few things…

Thanks for all the replies! I have a TomTom GPS watch that lets me measure the distance, but it doesn't allow for any route planning. If I go without a plan, I end up on horrible mud or gravel trails where I have to carry my bike instead of riding it :D I thought about looking for a local group to join, but the only one I…

@AlanKmfp Sorry about all those punctures! Apologies if I state something that is obvious to you, but you've checked that there's no sharp object still hiding inside the tyre? Sometimes I'm in a rush to get my bike working again and skip that, only to regret it when I get a new puncture right away after reinserting the…

Huh, I only noticed yesterday that Strava removed the route planner for non-paying users. I haven't done much cycling after moving to a new town this winter, so I don't have any good cycling routes figured out yet. I wanted to build and ride a nice after-work-loop last night. Instead I wasted a lot of time reading about…

Just a short ride for me this week. Stupid reason - I had mapped out a 25km route, but shortly after the start I had to do some emergency braking to avoid a car that came out of a side street without looking. I stopped in time, but hit my heel / achilles tendon with the pedal (put my foot down before I was at a complete…

Four runs for me this week: Tuesday 5/12/2020 5.4 km (40:54) - about half of it carrying a 5kg sack of cherry pits :p Thursday 5/14/2020 13.1 km (1:39:07) long run - unexpectedly sunny and I was dressed too warm. I was really struggling, so I looped back by my apartment building and dropped my vest under my car after 10km,…

@skippygirlsmom I haven't found an exact way to get the calorie burn for strength training yet For running it's easy (bodyweight in kg * distance run in km = calories), but strength training is so hard to quantify! With rest between sets, different weights, plus the afterburn effect you supposedly get... I thought about…

@sijomial Yes, the empty roads are definitely a bonus. And it's great that your son is joining you for some rides now! I was thinking less kind thoughts about the situation today - and about my own lazyness :sweat_smile: : This evening I went for a ride. Got ready inside my apartment, including putting on my gloves, since…

Another week over, time for a quick check-in, then I will sit down and read the 8! pages that I missed over the weekend. My runs this week: 5/5/2020 11.1 km - should have been 2km more, but I developed a really painful blister on my big toe after 5km and decided to quit early 5/6/2020 5.9 km , and 5/7/2020 7.9 km,…

@mari_moulin Bridge210k apps are a great suggestion. If you don't want to use an app, you can also start gradually increasing the distance on a weekly long run day - e.g. 1km more each week, with a "recovery week" every 4 weeks. Or look for a training plan - there are a few that you can find by googling "beginner 10km…

Finally managed my first ride since the beginning of March! It's been so long, I first had to re-inflate my tires (the rear one actually had a tiny puncture). And then I left without my sunglasses and forgot to start my GPS watch until 3-4km into the ride. So the actual distance is probably close to 15km, but I'll just…

@Faebert Checking in here every day sounds like a good plan, otherwise it gets tough to keep up with all the posts :wink: What kind of strength training do you do? @katharmonic Wow, you did it, awesome!! I'm not sure if I would have managed to get up during the second night, after interrupted sleep the night before and…

That is really tough, I wish you all the best. Hopefully May will be better for you! I was going to try the first ride since seven weeks this morning before home office as a "fake commute", but found one of the tires completely deflated. Turns out I put my poor bike away with a puncture... Hopefully this evening I can head…

@katharmonic The 4 x 4 x 48 sounds really intense! Will you also get up in the middle of the night to run? I think already 24h of that would be crazy tough, but 48...! @Avidkeo and @ContraryMaryMary nice shoe pictures :p I just realised I want need new shoes too 5km/100km done. With 5x20s strides in the middle of the run.…

Thanks for creating this! Usually my bike commute would put me at 25-50km/week (depending on how often I chicken out and take the car :sweat_smile: ) . But I've been in home office for 7 weeks now. I've kept up with running, but done zero cycling. That has to change! I would like to try to cycle at least 100km this month.…

Yes, it also on weight and speed. not just on the time. For running, a formula that works surprisingly well is calories burned = body weight (in kg) * distance (in km) [ It doesn't work out so nicely in lbs and miles... calories burned = 0.45 * body weight (in lbs) * 1.6 distance (in mi) ] If you weight 80kg, and run 5km,…

Hi! I just returned to the forums after a while, and went looking for this thread. My poor bike hasn't been used for 6 weeks (no commute to the home office...) But I was just thinking about starting to do some cycling again, at least twice per week before work. If you made a thread for May, I would join in. If you don't…

Hi everyone! I haven't joined in the running challenge for at least half a year, I think. I was away from MFP for a bit, but now I'm back :-) Yesterday I finally finished the first longer-than-10km run of 2020, and I want to celebrate that by joining the May challenge! My goal will be 100km (with the secret hope of making…

Popsugar fitness on youtube has a ton of dance workouts of different length and also somewhat different styles. I'm not really into dance workout myself, but this is one I liked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfdy5AahM4M And since you mentioned hip hop, here are two others you could try:…

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I'm in the same boat. I'm working from home, so I'm actually supposed to be in front of my computer, rather than clean my house or paint walls or other things that would allow me to move. I miss the long bike rides to work, and the 15 minute walks from the office to the usual lunch place and back.. Like others wrote, I…

A few more workout plans using mostly bodyweight , for different skill levels and goals: https://www.reddit.com/r/bodyweightfitness/wiki/index A couple of them have single exercises that require bands or (frequently) a pullup bar. For those, you might have to think about an alternative exercise using a door or table.

Have you looked at hydration vests? There are lightweight ones suitable for warm weather, with the added bonus that you can also carry water when it gets really hot. The one I use (Nathan Firecatcher) even has a zipper pocket in the same place as your photo. I bought it five years ago, so I don't know if that model is…

I like fitnessblender for my workout videos. Usually they can be done on the size of my carpet (which is maybe 2m x 1m). Sometimes, especially in the warmup, there are some exercises that you have to modify a tiny bit if you don't have much space, but most of the time I don't have any problems. Here are a few of around 45…

Since I want it to show up as "Fitnessblender" in my logs, I just created my own exercise with this name ( https://www.myfitnesspal.com/exercise/mine ). I think as default calories burned I put 400kcal/hour, but I usually edit that number when I'm logging it to either what my fitness tracker sais or the lower range of what…

I think the double thickness is essential when you are close to other people, while grocery shopping and such. Stretchy knit fabrics have so many holes, if you wear them as a single layer they don't do much. Fun test: stand in front of a mirror and breath on it without a mask / with just a single layer of Buff or similar,…

I'ne never tried the beach body app, so I cannot judge that. I am using mostly Fitnessblender these days. I'm not sure if you already discovered that, but they let you search for videos by specifying workout type and equipment, so it's at least easy to narrow the choice down. Some of them have more or less strength…

I'm still doing most of the exercise from before - running and fitnessblender videos. Only climbing is put on hold for now. The main change for me is non-exercise activity: I usually get 6000-8000 steps at work. In the home office, it's about 25% of that. And only that much because I have set up hourly reminders to get up…