The Olympic Games are coming: here's a quick guide to setting up yours this summer

Welcome to the Olympic Games. 🏐🏅🏋️ They're playing again this year, even though you probably didn't even notice they were there. After all, they're being... strange. Five years later, without an audience and with an organizing committee that's just starting out. from a puddle to enter in another.

But one thing is undeniable: whether you're a sports fan or not, no other event can bring together so many millions of people doing the same thing. That is, watching them on TV from the comfort of their sofas with a beer (or other refreshing drink) in hand.

Archery? Let's go.
Weightlifting? Give me three hours.
Gentlemen playing a sport similar to baseball but which is not actually baseball baseballI just found out it exists, but I'm also interested in it while I take a nap. Elegant riders jumping over obstacles with their horses? I have no idea why something like that is considered a sport, but I say more! I love you and I want more... and I'll add another beer.

MY GAMES, MY RULES

The Olympic spirit, overcoming the highest peaks of the human body, the epic nature of competition… All that is very well… as long as others do it.
Nobody wants to go outside and melt in the heat.

But if you want to avoid feeling guilty while watching a decathlete do more exercise in one afternoon than you do in your entire life, and compensate for that innocent ice cream you eat every day at dessert time, here's a quick guide to summer activities.

Creating your own games is possible.

1. THREE THOUSAND METERS FREESTYLE (GET THERE AS YOU CAN)

Running is easy. Horror? Fright? Torture?... Maybe. But it's easy.

All you need is a pair of running shoes and a firm surface. It gets a bit more complicated in the summer, but it's still doable: create your own 3K circuit. first thing in the morning (when the sun isn't so strong but you're still sweating in the sheets) and grab some breathable clothes (better than naked, but we won't blame you if you want to show off that bullfighter's body). If your threshold for self-consciousness and the shame of others is nonexistent, a cap with a built-in fan is for you. ally perfect.

2. TRACK CYCLING (NIGHT)

If getting up early isn't your thing (we don't blame you), you have another option: take your sport to the evening. And the most satisfying activity there is cycling.

Catch some good light and find a couple of bike paths or choose a park. Half an hour there and half an hour back in the evening by bike, a complete sport, is more than enough to shake you out of the starchy lethargy of summer.

Besides, There are advantages Take a walk after sunset. You'll sleep better, rest more, strengthen your body, and it might even curb your appetite.

Embrace the night.

3. THE 20 METERS SOAK

Another simple, refreshing, and fun way to create your own Olympic experience while enjoying life is in the water. Especially seawater.

It is well known that swimming laps after coming from the beach:

a) is more liberating
b) is simpler, because more fleets than in a swimming pool (thank you, science)
c) It is doubly effective, because the waves force you to exercise more.
d) all of the above

Come on, the best way to get as strong as a bull almost without trying is to take a couple of strokes (without drowning) every time you go into the water to cool off. You won't be Phelps, but if you want, you can afford it. their breakfasts.

4. (A)RHYTHMIC GYMNASTICS AT HOME

If there's one thing we've learned from the pandemic, it's that doing sports at home is cheap, effective, and takes very little time.

We're not going to bore you with manuals and guides for exercising at home (you have as one million YouTubers (right now, you're killing yourself with CrossFit just for yourself), but we are going to recommend that you save yourself the cardio and use the coolness of home (air, fan, that homemade smoothie you have in the fridge) to do flexibility and muscle building exercises.

Come on, let's have some sport, yes, but let's not overdo it.
It's summer. 🌴

I'M NOT GOOD, NO, I'M GREAT (AND YES, SUPER GOOD)

The idea is to take advantage of the motivation of the Games and extend it into a summer where, in terms of travel, we might not travel much; and socializing, in terms of socializing, we might socialize less than we had planned.

But above all, in the immortal words by El Cordobés, it is to get your mind right, to truly love yourself, to be healthy, to have a strong body, to have power, to be happy, to love yourself a lot, because you also love the person next to you and everything comes from the heart,... from sport.

Being cool with yourself (but without suffering like the people on TV).

P.dAnd one final piece of advice to avoid even more unwanted consequences of summer sports... 🌞