So it looks like you’re commencing your new year’s training on lockdown 😞
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Gyms closed, though the reasoning is heavily flawed 🧐 If condo gym facilities are booked with limited capacity and residents being responsible with cleaning their equipment 🧴 the risk created by people getting overweight is far greater than that of catching covid from a sparsely populated, sterilised room.
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Nonetheless, many of you mistakenly think the gym is necessary 🏋️♀️ Yes, if you have an existing level of muscle mass built through resistance training then the gym is very useful for providing optimised stimulus... 💯
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But if you’re currently deconditioned and overweight you’ve got far bigger problems than not having a lat pulldown at your disposal and there’s a far easier solution 🚶 Walking.
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Fuck me dead, I don’t know how many times I need to say this 🥱 Walking + pushups = a very solid 4 weeks initial training program for someone whose Bodyfat percentage is twice what it should be.
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Chuck in some squats and pushups 🏃♂️ Even chuck in some jogs/sprints to build some cardio tolerance once you feel like your joints are able to do handle these without getting awkwardly hammered in the process. All cardio gains will help you perform and recover better in the gym once you’re back in there 😉
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I’ve attached a chat I had with a friend who had realised they couldn’t use the gym anymore, just to show that I really do say the same shit whenever anyone asks me for advice 💬 This isn’t some dumbed down bullshit just for the ‘gram, nor am I telling you’ll be Mr Olympia next year if you walk and do pushups every day... 😂
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But if you want to lose weight you need to find something sustainable. As sustainable as your ability to eat too much was for the past few years. The reason it happened is it was EASY, easier than it as been for our entire evolution 🍪🍩🍨 It’s not your fault it was in the fridge whenever you were bored or sad... but I urge you to try to make “I’m going for a walk to clear my head” your new go-to reaction 🔥
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Forward this to a friend who just needs to get going and keep going... but always goes too hard too early 🤾♀️
