This is virtual training, with me in my basement and the trainer, Michael Riley, in his basement — or at the recently reopened health club. I thought I would miss the health club — the various complex machines, each serving a specific muscle group — but I don’t. It turns out you don’t need an expensive contraption to exercise, just some dumbbells and a few big, brightly colored rubber bands. And, perversely, the fatter you get, the more isometric exercise your body provides. We do the old “favorites” and then he’ll slip in a new one, some way of holding my body that my body has never thought of before.

Source: Washington Post August 17, 2020 10:52 UTC