Hilarious Image Of Yoga Mat Used For Charging Phone Exposes Reality Of Lockdown Workout Goals
This viral picture of someone using a yoga mat as a stand for charging a phone and another one showing a cycling machine converted into a cloth drying stand paints a true picture of workout aspiration failing miserably during the lockdown phase. But that's ok, it's human.
For most of us, the lockdown has been a bag of mixed emotions. There are days when we set goals to try and achieve what we never did pre-lockdown, and there are days when we are trying to make sense of the things happening around us.
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With most people practising social distancing and working from home it's easy to lounge on the sofa and forget the gym.
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Yes, it is absolutely necessary to keep a workout regime going. But, we know that it's easier said than done.
I use my yoga mat daily.
¡ª Brain Nibbler (@MindExcavator) August 7, 2020
Khareedi hai to paise waste nahi hone chahiye. pic.twitter.com/47m89y5G32
It's overwhelming and it's okay to be tired or not to have achieved a set goal.
This viral picture of someone using a yoga mat as a stand for charging a phone and another one showing a cycling machine converted into a cloth drying stand paints a true picture of workout aspiration failing miserably during the lockdown phase. But that's okay, it's human.
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The pandemic has not given us time to sit and analyse the situation we are all caught in. With the work from home time bleeding into personal chores, the lockdown has honestly robbed us of all of 'me time' and exhausted us.
Sensible indeed..After all fitness should be the top priority.. pic.twitter.com/ZiOvS0bHiV
¡ª ???????.. ?? (@Akshinii) August 8, 2020
Above everything else, the online discourse on how to spend quarantine sometimes throws you out of balance and you fall into the trap of unrealistic body standards. The 'lockdown glow-up' propagated by a few personal trainers and Instagram fitness freaks can seem extremely problematic at times.
This pandemic is not about emerging on the other side with chiselled bodies and losing that extra 10 kilos, so it's really okay if someone chooses to use the yoga mat as a phone charging stand or the treadmills as cloth dryers. Stop trying to achieve unrealistic goals and be grateful about being alive, safe and fed.
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