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What are you doing while on Shelter-In-Place/Lockdown?

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Still going to work, but coming home to a lady stuck at home by herself for 12-14 hours a day is like coming home to an untrained puppy. I need to get a rolled-up newspaper or something.
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I am bummed that they are not issuing garage sale permits just when I discovered that I don't need 95% of what is hanging in my closet. One pair of jeans and two shirts work just fine.

I have also been sorting through old pictures. Found a large 8th grade graduation photo. 95 kids. All the boys wearing nice white shirts and I was the only one wise enough to wear a pocket protector.

No wonder I never got laid until 2 weeks after my honeymoon.
 
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Now that the gout is gone and I'm off painkillers, I actually had to work and waded through a regression analysis done by a couple of our so called "quant-kids" on every company we're invested in: who's in danger of not making it, who's strong, who should get propped up with additional funding, who should be allowed to die.....all with multiple data points and variables based on what's happening to one company relative to the effects on the other companies in the portfolio.

Fucking geeks. Don't these people understand that I'm a "big picture guy" not a numbers guy!
 
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BigWoof31 said:
Question for the board. Does anyone own a Peloton or one of the competing bikes/brands?

Afternoon walks around the neighborhood are fine, but the wife is thinking we should just cancel our gym membership and get the bike. You can finance it now for $58/month, we'd save money overall on the gym membership cancellation.
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We have Schwinn recumbent exercise bike as well as Bkool indoor trainer that I use with my road bike (https://www.bkool.com/en). Both are good if you want indoor cycling. The saddle on my road bike is really frick’n hard so I tend to use the recumbent more... and I keep it in my office so it’s easy to jump on while in meetings at work. Check out BKool if you’re looking for videos, races, etc. for part of your experience. Kinda sweet system where the trainer varies resistance relative to the terrain of your ride. Like I said, if my saddle wasn’t so painful, I’d use it more than I do. I could probably throw one of the kid’s mountain bikes on it and it would be more comfortable. That’s one of the good things about a trainer like that... bring your own bike, right? And good news, that bike will work better on the road than a Peloton.

We also have a Precor AMT Elliptical and a Matrix Erg (rower), among other things, in our home gym. If you look around online you’ll likely find some good deals on lightly used equipment. We found a company here in Chicagoland that buys out equipment from gyms that have either folded or are changing over to new. The Precor and Matrix each had less than 20 hours of use on them when we got them... so, basically brand new equipment. We literally paid dime on dollar relative to new.

Truth told, the Precor gets most of my time these days. I do need to get more friendly with the Erg though. I find both of those to be a better workout than the bike as the bike is not working core. I think that you only start to get core on a bike when you have to balance and even then I’m not sure how much of a benefit that really is.

I do know people who have Pelotons and love them. I’m not sure if they really love them as much as they love telling people they have them.

Good luck!
 
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sparcboxbuck said:
We have Schwinn recumbent exercise bike as well as Bkool indoor trainer that I use with my road bike (https://www.bkool.com/en). Both are good if you want indoor cycling. The saddle on my road bike is really frick’n hard so I tend to use the recumbent more... and I keep it in my office so it’s easy to jump on while in meetings at work. Check out BKool if you’re looking for videos, races, etc. for part of your experience. Kinda sweet system where the trainer varies resistance relative to the terrain of your ride. Like I said, if my saddle wasn’t so painful, I’d use it more than I do. I could probably throw one of the kid’s mountain bikes on it and it would be more comfortable. That’s one of the good things about a trainer like that... bring your own bike, right? And good news, that bike will work better on the road than a Peloton.

We also have a Precor AMT Elliptical and a Matrix Erg (rower), among other things, in our home gym. If you look around online you’ll likely find some good deals on lightly used equipment. We found a company here in Chicagoland that buys out equipment from gyms that have either folded or are changing over to new. The Precor and Matrix each had less than 20 hours of use on them when we got them... so, basically brand new equipment. We literally paid dime on dollar relative to new.

Truth told, the Precor gets most of my time these days. I do need to get more friendly with the Erg though. I find both of those to be a better workout than the bike as the bike is not working core. I think that you only start to get core on a bike when you have to balance and even then I’m not sure how much of a benefit that really is.

I do know people who have Pelotons and love them. I’m not sure if they really love them as much as they love telling people they have them.

Good luck!
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Why don't you get a different saddle? :lol:

I suppose its not the best time for this, but, don't you have a bike shop with loaners?
 
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