Pretty confident that relaunching a business in a new location, during a pandemic, would not be high on the recommendations of most entrepreneurial gurus.
Having done it, I can see why.
Zoom is wonderful for conference calls and quiz nights – not so great for spotting a bench press, or talking pelvic floors with a client you’ve never met face-to-face before.
But life goes on, fitness matters more than ever – and crappy Covid isn’t going to disappear anytime soon.
Can’t change coronavirus, can change my mindset.
Living through a pandemic can feel like a particularly hideous diet – never ending, restrictive and with progress entirely dependent on sticking rigidly to a set of repetitive rules. The problem with these sorts of diets is that they’re unsustainable: you can’t live on cabbage soup for the rest of your life, any more than you can live in complete isolation.
Mindset really does matter: lockdown took away my Saturday nights out, but it gave me Sunday morning family fitness (don’t think ‘Brady Bunch’, it’s more a weekly reminder of how inflexible I am, compared to every other human in this household); it stopped me playing tennis with the kids, but we played netball out the front instead - and I’ve wrote less client programmes than planned, but I’ve read more books than I have in years.
There’s definitely been some rubbish days too – home school is a daily reminder that I am as impatient, as I am woeful at maths. But, today, as I am programming, ready to kick off again on Saturday, I can see the upsides this weird time has offered. I’m grateful to have spent so much time with the people I love, but I’m looking forward to returning to the work that I love too.
Covid-19 does not have to be your cabbage soup (… it probably shouldn’t be a Maccies either, but make it a macro plate and you’ve hit a good balance)!
Anyway, enough of these meta musings… here’s some knee stabiliser exercises to get you back in the game!
