Everyone is either tired of being indoors or bored. We can imagine athletes training for the Olympics are also tired of being indoors, since many of them workout outdoors. With the coronavirus keeping everyone in the U.S. quarantined and postponing the 2020 Games in Tokyo by a year, some athletes have gotten creative.
Take Lolo Jones for example.
Jones, 37, Olympic hurdler and bobsledder for Team USA, has taken a new approach to one aspect of her indoor exercises.
Instead of lifting weights, or really anything else easier to grip, she decided to try to bench her couch.
She did not succeed.
The proof is all on a video she posted on Twitch and Twitter.
Jones starts by picking up the couch and after she successfully gets it on her shoulders she screams, “Y’all doubted me! Y’all doubted me!” and then starts laughing. Her couch knocked into the chandelier in her room, but she maneuvers away from it.
Cardi B’s “Money” plays in the background as she jokingly yells, “Alright, time to finish this bench.”
She grunts and pushes the couch up, losing her grip and balance of it and the cushions fall down.
“Almost got it,’ she says as she sets the couch back down. “Eh, I give up.” And she laughs the whole thing off.
The whole thing, of course, was intended as a joke. evidenced by her Twitter caption which reads: “I’m not bored I’m not bored I’m not bored.”
Jones, one of Team USA’s biggest advocates for postponing the 2020 games to next year, will attempt to make a push for the now-2021 Tokyo Olympics.
She’s joked on Twitter about how she would be one of the oldest runners on U.S.A. Track and Field’s roster if she qualifies.
Leading up to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, she was highly favored to win Team USA a gold medal in the 100 meter hurdles. In the final race, however, she led until the second to last hurdle when she tripped and then finished in seventh place.
Jones tried again in the 2012 Olympics in London after undergoing spinal surgery the year before. She finished in fourth in the final race of the event.
Since then, she’s switched back and forth as a competitive hurdler and bobsledder. She competed in the 2014 Winter games in Sochi.
The 2021 Olympics would be her last. So might as well have fun with it, right?
