Isolation Hacks 101 - #153

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Oh, hello, people of Podcastland. Welcome back. My guests today are Jonny and yusef from propainfitness.com, and it is Isolation Hacks 101 With the world going into shutdown and life changing dramatically for pretty much everyone, we figured that we'd get together and talk about what was happening. But given the government's directives on social isolation, we had to record it over the internet. So, this is my first ever podcast online with my buddies. Also, this is a bit of a departure from the usual life hacks round table format, because this situation is still emerging. We don't know what is the best way to operate at the moment, because we haven't lived it, but we give it a pretty good crack. So, expect to learn our best advice for how to structure your day, if you are now working from home, how you can not let your fitness, your sleep routine, your habits go to waste, how you can not only survive, but potentially even flourish during this situation, and an awful lot more. But for now, please welcome the isolated and wonderful Jonny and yusef.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. I am joined by Jonny and yusef from propanefitness.com remotely over the interwebs in our isolation station.

**Yusef** (1:40)
From a distance.

**Jonny** (1:42)
Isolation stations.

**Chris Williamson** (1:44)
Isolation stations.

**Jonny** (1:45)
Otherwise, we'd have to be socially distancing within the same isolation station.

**Chris Williamson** (1:49)
Yeah, I know, we'd just be walls apart, wouldn't we? Look at us, look at us still doing a podcast. COVID can't stop this fucking train.

**Jonny** (1:59)
I can't. You're right, I can't. We've got no video mandean either.

**Chris Williamson** (2:04)
No, he's actually in quarantine, isn't he?

**Jonny** (2:08)
He's in a separate bit.

**Chris Williamson** (2:09)
Yeah.

**Jonny** (2:10)
Waiting for this file.

**Chris Williamson** (2:11)
Yeah. Well, we thought that given the fact that the entire world has just changed, everyone's lifestyles are dramatically altered in one form or another. People are starting to work from home, the opportunity to go out and train, do social stuff, there are opportunities for business. Everything has been upended dramatically. We figured, let's do isolation hacks. So this is it. Isolation hacks 101
So Jonny, Hot Potato, how are we starting to catch it? How are we going to frame isolation hacks?

**Jonny** (2:48)
So, I like to split mine between physical and digital.

**Yusef** (2:53)
I knew that was coming.

**Jonny** (2:57)
If anyone gets that, I'm quite, well, I suppose, any life hacks listeners will.

**Chris Williamson** (3:01)
They will do, yeah.

**Jonny** (3:03)
The way I see it is there's damage control and then there's taking advantage of it. So there's how do I kind of continue everything that I would have been doing normally as normal? And then how do I spot the opportunities and make the most of it? So I was speaking to our clients about this the other day. When all this is over, more than any other time probably in your entire lives, there'll be two outcomes that you've experienced from people you know. There'll be some people who you meet and you're like, fucking hell, you're way leaner. You look way better. Like, wow, look at all the things you've achieved. And then there'll be other people who've gained a bit of weight, looking really pasty and pale and like, oh, I was isolating. So it's like you can decide now, more than any other time, because everyone's in the same position, you can be the person that gets to impress all your friends off the back of what you did in isolation.

**Chris Williamson** (3:59)
I said this on a podcast the other week, that it's very rare that everybody on the planet experiences the same thing.

**Jonny** (4:07)
yusef looks really confused.

**Chris Williamson** (4:09)
What do you look confused about? That's just his resting face.

**Yusef** (4:13)
It was just when Chris paused, I thought I'd been hot potatoes and I was like, oh.

**Chris Williamson** (4:20)
Is this because none of us actually look at each other's faces? We're all just engrossed usually in what Dean's doing behind the camera and trying to think of our next life hack. But now I actually have to look you in the eye. It's really weird. It's a weird experience. Yeah. It's very rare that everybody on the planet has, especially everyone even within a country, but everyone on the planet is experiencing the same thing at the same time. But it doesn't even rain everywhere at the same time. It can be sunny in Newcastle and raining in London. We don't even experience the weather together, but everyone, people in America, people in China, they're all experiencing some flavor of this same thing, which is social distancing, social isolation, potentially working from home, reduced facilities, worries about the economy, worries about work. So yeah, hopefully we can provide people with some tips, some tricks, some hacks today.