Isolation workout tips from a NASA scientist
Jessica Meir just showed us her daily exercise routine down to earth. The NASA scientist—who was one of the first women to participate in an all-female spacewalk—has shared her “isolation workout” tips and we are here for it.
As the current residents of @Space_Station, @AstroDrewMorgan and I thought we’d share some of our strategies for living happily in isolation. Tip #1: Exercise is vital not only for physical health, but also to your mental well-being. Here’s how we do it on @Space_Station . . . pic.twitter.com/Dzyh5WYBBj
— Jessica Meir (@Astro_Jessica) April 1, 2020
In a new video both posted to Twitter, NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Andrew Morgan shared some of their tips. "As current residents of @Space_Station, @AstroDrewMorgan and I thought we'd share some of our strategies for living happily in isolation," Meir wrote on Twitter.
The video opens with Meir on a pull-up bar in the microgravity environment on the space station.
"Studies have shown that exercise is vital not only to your physical health but also to your mental well-being," Meir said in the video. "You may need to get a little bit creative to get that heart rate elevated while at home without getting to the gym, but we're confident you can come up with something. Here's how we get the job done on the International Space Station." She added that it's especially important for astronauts to work out to counteract the bone-density and muscle loss that happens to humans in space.