Hey, Fitness Fanatics! Optimize Your Covid Test Line Time

Depending on where you are, lining up for Covid tests can take two minutes or two hours. Since we’ll all be stuck standing in lines for the foreseeable future, we might as well make use of the downtime for something other than scrolling Douyin or Taobao on our phones.

So what can you do? Well, depends on what workout you fancy.

1: Running

You got your Airpods in, Vivobarefoot shoes on, and Strava app set so you can later brag about that horse doodle you made on your GPS map. Sure, you can’t really leg out those long strides since you’re basically stuck at the equivalent of a stoplight crossing surrounded by pedestrians who couldn’t give two sh*ts about your running time. But you can jog in place (there’s a metaphor for life somewhere in there) so you don’t get stiff or cold, or lower your all-important heart rate while you imagine yourself smashing that glorious 10K without all your joints spontaneously exploding.

2: HIIT

If you’re addicted to sweating and soreness, then a Covid line is the perfect space for you to get your fitness fix. Any good Tabata-style workout should fit into 10-20 minutes – which is perfect for the average Covid lineup times. You and your family are used to kicking it out in public spaces for your 7am workout, so a Covid lineup is a perfect place for a cheap/free sweat session right before your RMB 388 weekend brunch (or RMB 488 with free flow).

3: Yoga

Flow into downward dog and breathe out all the anxiety caused by this situation. Your anger that your company is suddenly cutting your salary because “you weren’t really able to work in May and June”? Feel it leave your body as you open up into Warrior 1. Your mounting burnout as that trip you planned to Sanya is now cancelled thanks to that stupid asterisk on your Beijing health code? Let it go as you ease down into Chaturanga. The nagging voice in your head as you debate staying trapped for a third year because you’re too broke and/or don’t work for an embassy or German Auto company that’ll spring for a charter flight home during the summer holiday? Shut it up as you relax into Child’s Pose. Namaste, b*tches.

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