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Corona Quarantine Cycle Interruption - UGH!

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I'm 6 weeks into a 15 week cycle and my gym has shut down for the next 2 weeks, at least, due to the coronavirus scare!!! I literally have no other gym options.

Any advice? Bag the cycle? Begin Post-Cycle therapy and wait until it's all over? Do body-weight/home exercises for 2 weeks? So damn frustrated.

Thanks in advance

Failuretobreathe33's picture

Well damn!!! Thanks for starting this one. I'm on a test/EQ bulk cycle. Gyms are down for two and a half weeks now and probably closed until June. I was either just going to stop and cruise or go balls to the wall and shred as much as possible,,(switch cycle all together) tren/test and var. I don't have access to weights,,just body weight, cardio and resistance bands but I work still(in health care). I dunno!? Big decision. Ugghh

LongTimeLifter's picture

This could be a huge advantage, especially on gear with shelter in place you're home all day and can train 3x a day. Go on Amazon and get yourself a bunch of workout bands for starters. If you have a kids playground near you can go over there with a bunch of disinfectant wipes and do a bunch of pullups. Grab your GF/Kid to lay on your back and do a bunch of pushups.

Those guys on gear in prison with all day to train are some of the biggest guys, even on shitty prison food.

ashop's picture

If you cant train 100% then you already know the answer. I would shift to PCT and save you cycle for when you can get back in the gym full time. If you have the space you could build a home gym.

Bulkdaddy's picture

I thought it said, “If you train 100% Tren you’re ready!”

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felony's picture

Here we go. Shit's bout to get good.

Spark's picture

I would be prepared for the gyms being closed longer then 2 weeks.

ECinfidel's picture

Not on now, but was prepping for an upcoming cycle. My gym just closed last night for at least a couple weeks. Just gonna jog and do what i can at home. Push-ups, core stuff, jogging. May grab a home pull-up bar as well. Also readjusting my macros. Caloric output probably going down.

SGracE19's picture

SAME man, what a nightmare right?! Thank god i was only a couple weeks in but I'm going to just cruise for a few weeks and do like 1ml of test a week until this blows over

Zalewski's picture

Get a bar and 5 gallon buckets, fill the buckets with water and make all you exercises from that set up. Also if you have a GF then use sex as cardio.

street_rider's picture

Just shut down my 24 Hour Fittness down the road... Was in the middle of a hefty and successful cycle myself... Decided that having a compromised immune system wasn't worth it. Gonna cruise until safety then restart. That's life man. Was only like 2 weeks in however.

SGracE19's picture

great idea, im starting that in the am.

Eagles 2013's picture

Mine is still open but I feel like it will be closing any day now. At the end of the day the decision to stay on or quit early boils down to you, your goals and how much of a tolerance for risk you have. Look at what's going on in the states/cities/localities around you and how long things are shutting down for.

Also, are you goals driven more towards bulking or cutting? You could still have a relatively successful cutter as long as your diet is right (obviously) and you put the time in for body weight only exercises and cardio.

Also, are you running long or short esters?

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Bill1976's picture

I am only two weeks into my cycle and the gyms won’t open here for at least 6 weeks. I’m just gonna stop my cycle and start again in June.

Bill1976's picture

Mine just shut down with all of the schools and resturaunts. I’m on a eq deca and test cycle too. My buddy has a gym at his place so I’m ok. That national guard in on the north side of the city I live in. IDK why.

Immortaltech's picture

mine shut down for 3 weeks, and might be extended depending on situation, this is pure cancer

OlympicLats's picture

Im just gone keep eating, I love being able to eat plus not having to workout since it's not my fault that I can't gym, "any way to keep my motivation up yall with this way of thinking" Its like a short vacay...

I'll do some high rep curls , shoulders with my 10 kilo dumbells, also ill do some walking or bike riding.

I'm really looking at this brief interruption as a chance to rest my muscles personally. Once this period is over in 3 weeks then I'm going to be fresh as I've been consistently getting my workouts in since the last week of Dec 2019 until the present day...

Hopefully I even experience some DOMS when I get back to making some positive progress aka "DemGainz"

dutch.blain.mac's picture

No one here has even hinted at quitting the cycle so I got my answer. Get creative and make the best of it!
Thanks for the response and ideas.

wanted's picture

Somebody or everybody dabm STOLE all the chicken at the store. NOTHING LEFT Sh-t just got real

Bearded_muscle's picture

Bill gave you a good idea. Go to a park with calisthenics equipment. Look up some prison cell workouts. Go do pull-ups on a tree. Take up swimming and bulk up your shoulders. Also bands can give you a surprisingly good home workout. At least a solid pump. At this point I’d say find a way to work around it. Your drugs are probably just starting to really kick in so that’s what I’d do.

dutch.blain.mac's picture

The park is a GREAT idea! Thanks, all of you.
And yes, the sauce has already kicked in. Great gains already. I didn't want to waste it, now I won't.

dutch.blain.mac's picture

The park is a GREAT idea! Thanks, all of you.
And yes, the sauce has already kicked in. Great gains already. I didn't want to waste it, now I won't.

Bill1976's picture

Fill a garbage bag with water. Triple it up so it doesn’t leak and you can do a lot with that. You can fill a 5 gallon bucket up with rocks and lift that in so many ways. Pull-ups woth a makeshift pull-up bar. These are all jail exercises when you have no weights.

wanted's picture

Man we can invite him over to out houses and do some yard work. Dig holes to plant some trees , split wood for next year. My problem is without a gym the wife is gona have me to BUSY and i will be stronger than ever

tattoofreak's picture

Do body-weight/home exercises for 2 weeks

This!

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