I can hear you sighing from here. Believe me, I am sick to death of talking about this pandemic just as much as you are of reading about it in dealing with it. After almost 3 years of this, we all just can’t wait for it to go away regardless of its health implications. Unfortunately, it’s going to be a while before it’s completely safe, and I highly advise that people avoid any absolutely unnecessary in-person get-togethers.
In many aspects of life, the transition to a digitally-based version of it was an inevitability anyhow, with brick-and-mortar experiences for work, learning and commerce being outmoded and honestly unnecessary. Online shopping, online socializing and online telecommuting are just better ways to live life, and the pandemic force people to try it and subsequently discovered this. This wasn’t going to happen this early on, and our lack of preparedness for such a drastic paradigm shift are why it hasn’t been that graceful of the transition. It would’ve eventually reached this point in the middle of the century, and our technology and mindsets would’ve gradually and organically shifted towards that in a much more seamless evolution.
But, triathlon training plans tend to require exercise equipment, as well as getting together to train together, compete and for coaches to get a good idea of where different athletes need to focus their training as well as a good view of their health. There is also an important psychological aspect of this, as there is teambuilding involved in these gatherings. This psychological aspect is still possible through the solution I propose, but only somebody who is extremely used to this compared to traditional meet ups won’t feel like it is a little more hollow. You’ll just have to get used to that, and eventually, you won’t miss the physical get-togethers nearly as much, as I expect those to be special occasions among future generations rather than the default in any walk in life.
All you really need is a modern smart phone, be it android or iOS, a virtual triathlon training plan app that runs on both equally well and preferably something like a basic biometric smart watch. The smart watch can provide vital information as well as fitness information to coaches, and the training app can make suggestions based on this, help track and organize this information and even create virtual races from recorded run or whatever data provided from the smart watch and the app while being used by athletes.
This
is a perfectly effective way to train together, and with modern voice over IP
systems, if you want to exercise at the same time and life-compete via this
biometric data, that is entirely possible too. However, independent exercise
like this with after-the-fact comparison and competition does allow for people
to train on their schedules and train where they prefer, to challenges that
traditional meet ups could never overcome. Just remember, make sure that it
works with the cheapest smart watches and runs on both iOS and android, a lot
of people don’t want to spend a fortune on a watch, and users of either
operating system will never willingly change to the other.
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