Many Americans have already seen the light.
— Chris O’Connell, visionary of Austin, Texasfor safety and other reasons. But some Americans have clearly heard the call, and they have started putting a sedative spin on their workouts. The people I spoke to each expressed a blend of shame and pride about this—by and large, nobodyto start drinking and working out. But as they moved their training indoors and away from public arenas, especially during the pandemic, their domestic permissiveness merged with the chores of self-improvement.
For others who drink before exercise, it’s become a natural appendage to the awkwardness of a home workout. Cian Maher, a game developer who currently lives in Poland, told me that it never feels right to be in the middle of a triceps extension in a tiny bedroom while your girlfriend pretends she doesn’t see you from behind her laptop. It’s perhaps easier to stoke his inner beasts—to achieve beatific, caveman ego-death—while he’s a little tipsy.
“When you have a couple of drinks, it’s easier to laugh at the inherent madness of exercising in environments that are usually not only detached but entirely mutually exclusive from anything with a remote semblance of a gym,” Maher explained.
workout program, knows where Maher is coming from. People usually don’t work out nearly as intensely at home as they do at the gym, he said, and this is compounded by the proximity of a home’s many comforts: TV, fridge food, and for some of us, booze. In that sense, Balduzzi said, drinking before a workout is understandable—it might help us tune out our living rooms and focus on the task at hand.“Exercise, for most people in life, is therapy; it’s medicine,” Balduzzi told me.
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