Watch TV While Exercising
Exercise during a pandemic is a good and healthy use of your time. Playing sports while watching your favorite shows is an even more efficient use of time. Maybe making your heart beat faster and also watching a bunch of real housewives drink a lot of alcohol and fight each other over silly shit is what everyone else figured out before the coronavirus. But for me it was an epiphany, and I was very happy.
Before ordinary life caught fire, I mostly worked out in the gym. Well, I will not enter any of them until I am properly and thoroughly vaccinated. And before, when I was at home, I would jump onto the treadmill with my hand down and look out the bedroom window while listening to a podcast. It was fine, but after a couple of years the same look of the same tree branches is a little outdated.
When the machine finally took off, I replaced it with this very small yet surprisingly effective elliptical trainer that will fit in just about any room. I put it in my office, pointed it straight at my computer monitor, turned on YouTube TV, Netflix, and Amazon Prime Video, set the volume to full blast, and left. Over the next few months, I continued to watch Jamestown , The English Game , Dead to Me seasons 1 and 2, Hollywood , Sweet Magnolias, and the first five seasons of Schitt’s Creek (I’m saving the last season in case pandemic depression does set in this winter).
Perhaps the best thing about me that I chose to watch a lot of historical dramas and comedies while I train is that these shows have moved me from 30 minutes, 3 or 4 days per week to 45 minutes, 4 – or a simulator 5 times a week; mainly because I am usually very into the series and they are either 40-45 minutes long or 20 (well) minutes, in which case I watch two episodes.
So stretch the machines, the weights in your hands and the determination in front of the screen so that you too can do multiple tasks at the same time in this most amazing way.