Cavesa wrote:Btw how do people motivate themselves to keep going with video exercises? There are now tons of online programs, even more thanks to the covid, they are in some ways absolutely great. Accessible even in a small town far away from the civilised world with its huge amount of options, accessible no matter your work hours, and so on. I've found various, that are a good match for me. But I am getting fed up with the online exercises.
Anyone found something that improves the tolerance of the lonely video lessons?
Ah, Cavesa, although I am not participating in the challenge, I just have to answer your question because at least for me I have found an answer. Since mid November last year I have been doing video exercises every day (around 20 minutes each). Way over a 100 workouts, really no cheating!
At first, I took part in a simple fitness challenge offerd by an Australian YT channel. For two weeks I got each day a playlist with three to four video exercises - all in all about 45 minutes of workouts to do during the day. I also got a workout plan where I could tick the boxes under each video that I did. On day 8 my motivation declined. But I wanted to finish this challenge - I hate loose ends and so I did all the remaining workouts in the following six days. The feeling of accomplishment was great and I realized what I need to keep me going:
1. Find a YT channel with professional video exercises for all fitness levels, especially for my own low level.
My choice: German channel
https://www.youtube.com/c/GabiFastner/videos Her videos are really excellent! Calm, friendly, engaging, not boring at all - also good for German language learners because she explains a lot in clear voice. There is no loud music.
2. This channel should regularly upload new videos, at least once per week.
Gabi uploads two videos a day, one in the morning at 6:30 and one in the afternoon at 15.30 (before covid she uploaded 3 to 5 videos per week), she also offers lots of challenges.
3. The video exercises should be varied - gentle gym, cardio, strength, pilates … - what ever is out there.
This German channel contains everything I could ever have imagined, more than a thousand videos.
4. Find channels in other languages that fulfil the requirements 1 to 3.
My Spanish channel
https://www.youtube.com/c/SienteteBien/videos or for the younger
https://www.youtube.com/c/SienteteJoven/videosMy Canadian-French channel
https://www.youtube.com/c/MOVE50PLUS/playlists not that much new videos but a good playlist "Posture et stabilité"
I am still on the lookout for "ideal" channels in French and Italian.
My English channel
https://www.youtube.com/c/fabulous50s/videos is the one that brought me into the game of video exercises, Schellea is a motivating person and has lots of fans.
5. Make a spreadsheet and note all the video exercises you have done with hyperlinks. Here an example of my workouts for two days:
workouts2days.png
6. Keep the workouts balanced - mobility, strength, endurance
7. Modify the exercises whenever it is necessary, listen to your body.
So, every morning I am really curious, what the new workout video is about - first thing I see on my smart phone via push message. If I like it, I do it right away, even before breakfast. If not, I just do a previous one - after breakfast
. Later I decide which will be the next one(s). In sum, I want to do one hour (+/-) of physical exercise every day. Sometimes I only do one video exercise and fill the remaining time on the treadmill or exercise bike.
But there are also days with extreme low motivation. At that point I start with a 10 minute easy workout and so far, this always motivated me to somehow complete my daily hour.
But two sucessful months are not much. In the long run, I want to establish some sort of routine that keeps me mobile and fit.
If I were you, Cavesa, I would combine various types of dance workouts. There is Latin dance, African dance, hip hop, Bollywood dance and others - you know that better than me. If there are regular uploads, people write lots of comments and there are sometimes communities either on YT or in facebook groupes. That might solve the loneliness issue.
Hope that helps you a bit to find your own way of dealing with video exercises - move ya, my dear.
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