But while the virus has taken much from me, it has opened up new doors. For example, even though I can't lift weights anymore because the gym is gone, I found something new to do in its stead, courtesy of our viral overlord.
Grocery bags filled with emergency food are my new weight lifting solution. It isn't as good as proper weights of course, because exercises like deadlifts don't work with objects as large as this. However, there are enough exercises that do work that I can use these as a clumsy and annoying replacement for proper weights.
As I said in my post a few weeks ago, I bought a lot of groceries well ahead of time to get prepared for the inevitable supply chain disruptions and the possibility of quarantine. I collected the last few things this week, but my household was well prepared for this mess. I may get bored of pasta and vegetable soup, but we won't go hungry. Boost and ramen, as pictured above, aren't exactly my ideal meals, but my small person has particular tastes that must be accomodated.
You might wonder why I am weighing bags down with packages of ramen - surely those weigh nothing? You would be right that they a bag full of ramen would be nearly worthless. However, the bottoms of these bags are full of canned soup and bags of beans, which add considerably more heft. They still weigh quite a bit less than the weights I am used to using, but I just increased my reps to make up for that and overall it still works.
Grocery bags full of cans don't have nearly the flexibility of a proper weight room though, so I expect that there are certain muscles that won't be getting the workout I desire. I am going to be doing two hundred pushups a day in additional to grocery based exercises, so at least my ability to launch myself up off the floor will remain intact.
Covid19 can take away my gaming. It can take away my dates. But it cannot take my muscles!
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