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Yes, I was thinking of starting a similar thread for people who've had their exercise routine disrupted due to the lockdown. Thing is, you don't need a gym membership to do pushups, sit-ups, and bodyweight squats. Sure, you can't isolate specific muscles like it's possible to do with machines and weights, but the least you can do is not gain weight, plus depending on your diet, you might develop some tone. I find it helps with mental well-being to "sweat out" the things weighing on your mind. Helps with getting to sleep, too.

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1 hour ago, MisterrSingh said:

Yes, I was thinking of starting a similar thread for people who've had their exercise routine disrupted due to the lockdown. Thing is, you don't need a gym membership to do pushups, sit-ups, and bodyweight squats. Sure, you can't isolate specific muscles like it's possible to do with machines and weights, but the least you can do is not gain weight, plus depending on your diet, you might develop some tone. I find it helps with mental well-being to "sweat out" the things weighing on your mind. Helps with getting to sleep, too.

You need to grasp prison style workouts where equipment is either lacking or completely absent. That's the way to go. Calisthenics is a good one. High reps. People can get bored of old school workouts (without equipment), but increasing reps with basics like push ups, squats, Hindoo press ups, lunges, diamond pushups (for tris), handstand pushups (for shoulders) is the way to go if you haven't got equipment. A pull up bar for a door frame is priceless too.  You can grab some kettlebells whilst doing these too to up the game. 

Where is that baba in the OP based, looks like my backyard. Lol. You can tell someone is active there from the scrap stuff in the background.  

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21 minutes ago, dallysingh101 said:

You need to grasp prison style workouts where equipment is either lacking or completely absent. That's the way to go. Calisthenics is a good one. High reps. People can get bored of old school workouts (without equipment), but increasing reps with basics like push ups, squats, Hindoo press ups, lunges, diamond pushups (for tris), handstand pushups (for shoulders) is the way to go if you haven't got equipment. A pull up bar for a door frame is priceless too.  You can grab some kettlebells whilst doing these too to up the game. 

Where is that baba in the OP based, looks like my backyard. Lol. You can tell someone is active there from the scrap stuff in the background.  

I can't sleep unless I've put my body through the grind in the sense of an exercise routine. No matter how much I've grafted through the day, I need to get an hour of training in to nod off at night. Since this lockdown has started, too many people are sitting in-front of the tv, exposing their mind to the endless fear porn the media is subjecting us to, while eating frozen crap they've bought from Iceland by the trolley load, lmao. It's not good.

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43 minutes ago, MisterrSingh said:

I can't sleep unless I've put my body through the grind in the sense of an exercise routine. No matter how much I've grafted through the day, I need to get an hour of training in to nod off at night. Since this lockdown has started, too many people are sitting in-front of the tv, exposing their mind to the endless fear porn the media is subjecting us to, while eating frozen crap they've bought from Iceland by the trolley load, lmao. It's not good.

That might change as you get older (mid 40s onwards), just hard graft (if you are a grafting type will usually suffice). But training to hit those muscles you don't hit with work graft (which has a tendency to overuse a small amount of specific muscle groups - and not others - can be a big issue when you get older). Get those rear delts and small back muscles in!!! Especially the rotator cuff and serratus anterior ! Or you can get muscle imbalances which can get debilitating. I'm screwing because I love graft, but I'm not a buddhra but I'm no spring chicken either, so I have to try and get a mixture of physical and sitting on your bhund type work in before it effs me up).  

Plus goray will rinse you out with physical work (especially on sites). Now I know why so many old schoolers were binghay tedhay - they got nachored by ruthless, heartless goray panchoday foremen at work, while those <banned word filter activated> took all the saukha kumh.  

I find it impossible to sleep without hard graft. Used to use alcohol for this when I was younger. 

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2 minutes ago, dallysingh101 said:

That might change as you get older (mid 40s onwards), just hard graft (if you are a grafting type will usually suffice). But training to hit those muscles you don't hit with work graft (which has a tendency to overuse a small amount of specific muscle groups - and not others - can be a big issue when you get older). Get those rear delts and small back muscles in!!! Especially the rotator cuff and serratus anterior ! Or you can get muscle imbalances with can get debilitating. I'm screwing because I love graft, but I'm not a buddhra but I'm no spring chicken either, so I have to try and get a mixture of physical and sitting on your bhund type work in before it effs me up).  

Plus goray will rinse you out with physical work (especially sites). Now I know why so many old schoolers were binghay tedhay - they got nachored by ruthless, heartless goray panchoday foreman at work, while those <banned word filter activated> took all the saukha kumh.  

I never really felt it in my youth, but in my 30s I realise how important the food we consume is to how the body responds to it. All those desi daane and masale and whatnot really do make a difference during recovery. It's wonderful to have those little specific cultural items and bits to fall back on that perhaps aren't used in the English culture.

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Just now, MisterrSingh said:

I never really felt it in my youth, but in my 30s I realise how important the food we consume is to how the body responds to it. All those desi daane and masale and whatnot really do make a difference during recovery. It's wonderful to have those little specific cultural items and bits to fall back on that perhaps aren't used in the English culture.

Absolutely! I like that Ayurvedic stuff myself.

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4 minutes ago, dallysingh101 said:

Absolutely! I like that Ayurvedic stuff myself.

My mum's still not that old, but I'm making sure to note all those little recipes down before the inevitable. If I'm fortunate enough to get married, I somehow doubt the modern Sikh woman knows anything about those old-school alaaj that our elders used. Paracetamol doesn't cut it anymore, lol. I'm not leaving myself at the mercy of ignorance.

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6 minutes ago, MisterrSingh said:

My mum's still not that old, but I'm making sure to note all those little recipes down before the inevitable. If I'm fortunate enough to get married, I somehow doubt the modern Sikh woman knows anything about those old-school alaaj that our elders used. Paracetamol doesn't cut it anymore, lol. I'm not leaving myself at the mercy of ignorance.

Absolutely! Luckily I'm not special needs so I can remember a lot of the old school ilaajhis. Frankly speaking, when it comes to food and stuff like that, I don't think apnay are lacking at all - I don't think any apna worth his salt doesn't know about getting his degh on, and get a toorkha going on. It's not like we had a culture where men are going to starve because they don't know how to cook because it has been thrust on women. I think our military ithihaas meant that Khalsa soldiers knew how to look after themselves in roving camps - including cooking the right food. It's just the slide into a less physical lifestyle means that the amount we might devour now isn't right. Hence all the motapa and bimaarhees.  

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9 minutes ago, MisterrSingh said:

My mum's still not that old, but I'm making sure to note all those little recipes down before the inevitable. If I'm fortunate enough to get married, I somehow doubt the modern Sikh woman knows anything about those old-school alaaj that our elders used. Paracetamol doesn't cut it anymore, lol. I'm not leaving myself at the mercy of ignorance.

Some of them do know about these old school recipes lol    they know basic stuff like roti thorka as well      just need to make sure to end up with 1 who does know all this stuff lol

my friend whose 35 from here is married to a girl from here and she makes roti most days and makes desi alaaj stuff   if she gets stuck she rings her mum and she tells her. 

when i get married one of the priorities has to be she knows how to make dal roti sabji  haha    

if they like eating desi food then they know how to make it.

 

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