Here’s the place to share for free your ideas and activities whilst on lockdown
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Here’s the place to share for free your ideas and activities whilst on lockdown
First up:
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RIAC
I’d fail on the first letter.
(Can’t skip).
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Ignorance breeds Fear. Fear breeds Hatred. Hatred breeds Ignorance. Break the chain.
I’ll struggle with two Ns in a single storey cottage.
I am going to do 2 hrs on my road bike every other day, on my own as I always do. I need to do it as I have reversed my Diabetes for 4 years through weight loss and exercise.
Cycle shops asked to stay open
Last edited by hilly10; 24th March 2020 at 08:54.
This is my planned routine, 30 sec on, 10 sec off x 3 reps, one circuit of Fitness, Strength, Boxing. Different focus areas (arms, upper, push, pull, all over, legs, abs). Aiming to do one a day but I know I’ll need a rest day or two in the week.
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Put on YouTube and find old music videos from the 80s and 90s and get the kids up dancing to them. Keeps them active and hopefully will give them an appreciation of some real music 😂😂
Although being under house arrest feels a bit different, I've worked at home for about 8 years now, and my days aren't actually any different except that 'er indoors is WFH as well, now.
However I am wondering what an ethical distance to go out on a bike is.
People don't fall off their bikes every other ride
Received wisdom has it that most accidents occur in the home .. statistically, having cycled 21,000 miles without a mishap since Jan 2015 I'd say the chances of inconveniencing anyone are slight. There is a question of setting an example though, when the government advice is to minimise time spent outdoors.
Still thinking about it.
I must have been unlucky then, (or just a crap cyclist!), as I've had one accident, (which convinced me to buy a cycle helmet - yes, I know), and was almost hit by a lorry which fortunately 'just' managed to stop in time - the driver hadn't seen me, (with right of way), on a roundabout, he was looking for other vehicles not bikes!
Best Regards - Peter
I'd hate to be with you when you're on your own.
Very true.
I'm a paraglider pilot. Flying is a pretty solitary sport, we turn up at a hill, usually a large grassy slope. You unpack and inflate the wing. The wings are ~10m span and ~6m above us, so we probably want about 20m*20m as a minimum ground area to operate. The sport is the very epitome of isolation. I'd be an order of magnitude less likely to catch Covid19 paragliding than I would attempting to buy toilet roll.
But, the ground is hard, sub optimal landings result in a trip to A&E. You never know when that could happen. Accidents are rare, I have 140 hours over 20 years and have had one accident that left me with a broken leg & ACL / MCL damage. Per hour flown paragliding is only three time more dangerous than motorcycling (1) and we paraglide for far fewer hours than the average motorcyclist rides.
But now is not the time to burden the NHS with an unnecessary patch up job.
Which is a bugger, as it's an unusually good day out there right now.
(1) https://chessintheair.com/the-risk-o...-what-we-love/
Just trying to work out who on here will be doing 10 Squat Jumps, 15 Squats, 5 sets of stairs and a 30 second plank!!!!!!!
RIAC
A lot of that is true of scuba diving, too, although on boats we tend to get herded together in our kit before and after diving, but shore diving is pretty isolated.
As you said, though, now is not the time to burden hospitals with unneccessary injuries, so we're not diving, which is a real shame as the weather at the moment is perfect for it!
M
I read the list twice and had to get the inhaler out, done for the day.
Premium membership is now free on Pornhub.
Apparently.
Joe Wicks kids' morning workout this morning. The daughters didn't do much, too cool for school, but the little man loved it. Daddy busted now tho, need to do it every morning.
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I'll be doing this, probably with a long run once a week.
https://www.strongfirst.com/simple-s...fficult-times/
I started yesterday.
I'm doing that, which exercises are you doing? I'm using a 32kg kettlebell for goblet squats and one arm rows and a 16kg kettlbell for one arm press. Might rotate with pull ups and dips as I got an attachment for a tree in the garden. Should be good with Simple and Sinister on the off days.
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I’ve set myself the mammoth task of trying to learn the Larry Carlton guitar solo from Kid Charlemagne by Steely Dan
Day 1
It’s hard.....
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I've been out in the garden (delightful weather) redoing a path to the shed that I put in too quickly when we first moved in. It was a bit lumpy and uneven (grass growing in gravel retaining grid -- trying to make the path nearly invisible). This way I get something done I wanted done, and work up a bit of a sweat.
As an aside. I've been chatting (remotely, using Microsoft Teams) with some of my students, and some find it amazing that I would be doing something as mundane as garden work during the crisis.
Best wishes,
Bob
Anyone else wearing the most outrageous things in their wardrobe to entertain themselves?
Please do, if it doesn’t match or is way out then please put it on to go to the shops and exercise we need more entertainers at times like these.
Shouldnt be too hard for most of us
RIAC
I idly wondered where 'Kid Charlemagne' was on the list of great guitar songs. According to Rolling Stone (other lists are probably available), it's no.80, disappointingly low in my opinion.
Here's a link to the list if you wish to lose several hours chasing your favourites on Youtube:
https://www.mylistpad.com/music-list...s-of-all-time/
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Jim.
Got out my Secateurs for the first time this year and trimmed things a bit.
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Golf's out.
Thumbing through the old games with the sprogs I rediscovered my teenage years in its remastered form. I think I'll be trying to earn the other 366 achievements.
That and paint my Space Marines, the army has already doubled in size.
She's tearing her hair out and the kids are probably going to kill each other but I was made for staying indoors and not talking to anybody! :D![]()
More for the kids but glasgow science centre do live science stuff online for the kids every morning at 10am for the lockdown duration I believe.
The current emergency has given me the impetus for this #1 .
F.T.F.A.
Once you guys master Larry Carlton's solo on Kid Charlemagne, may I recommend you move on to Jay Graydon's fretwork on Peg?
(Some good Jay Graydon stuff on Youtube...)
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Jim.