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Wellness Wednesday for October 4, 2023

The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:

  • Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.

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  • Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.

  • Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).

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Anybody know a good channel for 10 minute HIIT workouts, that are no fluff/talking just straight into the video with music?

This is an example of what I'm looking for: https://youtube.com/watch?v=s-a8FmMTswI

Peloton offers a superior product here in my experience/opinion. While the bike is ruinously expensive, you can get a digital subscription for not that much for a month. Maybe get it for a month and screen record a few classes.

Question: for the price of a Peloton, why not just grab a pretty solid used road bike for $700-$1k and a smart trainer to put it on? This way, you have a stationary bike AND a road bike...

Did you not read the comment at all? I didn't say to buy the bike, I said to get the digital subscription.

Interesting. The idea of paying for exercise videos with so much free content out there is almost anathema to me... but I do respect your opinion on fitness. I'll browse what samples they have.

If you're handy with torrents and whatnot, I'm sure someone else already made a downloadable zip file of hundreds of classes. It's not like you need that many original ones, I keep intending to re-up my subscription and screen rip tons of them, but I'm always working on something else instead of rowing.

For people that already have a bike that they ride outdoors, I would suggest Zwift with a good indoor smart trainer setup instead (we have a Tacx, it's a very good product, but it seems like the competitors are about the same and I have no opinion on them). Then you're at $15/month for what I would consider a very good soft product and the fact that it's your own bike marginally improves translatability to outdoor cycling.

Hell, even if you don't have a bike you ride outdoors, this seems like a better deal...just a beater to stick on the trainer is a few hundred bucks and something nice is a grand used.