you're in the comfort of your own home. you know, i can see every person that is talking. some of the positives are that you don't have to show your face. you can just talk. people will learn a lot more about me through zoom because i am less nervous to talk to people on video, you see, than i am to do it in real life. but i definitely think that i would like to see it post pandemic, definitely. the lockdown has put severe stress on us all. and for people in recovery, the loss of connection is huge, and this could be a triggering time. however, virtual counselling could make it easierfor those in need of help, now and in the future. that was omar, and if you've been affected by any of the issues in that report, then please do know that help is available and you can talk to people by contacting any

of the websites on screen now. yes, and another difficulty that people have been having in lockdown is maintaining physicalfitness. we're now allowed out a little bit more to do exercise, but, let's be honest — it can be hard to do even at the best of times. so true, and that's why chris fox and kate russell are doing their best to get you back into peak physical condition. spencer, i hope you've got your gym kit at the ready. already wearing it! joe wicks has become a national hero during lockdown, with his daily exercise classes for kids. when i was at school, i mostly tried to avoid pe, so if you're the kind of person who needs exercising to be dressed up as something a little more fun, here's my top picks for the lockdown. strictly come dancing star oti mabuse he has be making step—by—step dance classes for all ages and abilities. they're loads of fun to do, even if you don't have a partner. while olympic medal winners jadejones and bianca walkden,

who also happen to be flatmates, take us through an easy taekwondo workout, which can be watched on the bbc sport website. loads more celebrity athletes have been getting in on the lockdown motivation action under the guise of the living room cup, a weekly challenge to go head—to—head with the pros. you will find them all on the nike training club app. just watching those challenges is exhausting! if you prefer to compete with people at the same level as you, both strava and fitbit let you set up challenges with your friends or the local community of app users. you can even take on one of the fitbit solo adventures, like spotting local landmarks. augmented reality is put to great use in the challenges set by ar runner, which asks you to place the dots in an open area and then run about touching them as they light up. if you are completely new to exercising but fancy giving running a go,

i can highly recommend an app that got me started a few years back. the nhs—backed couch to 5k is available through the app or as a podcast series you can listen to while exercising. it talks you through a plan to get running 5k comfortably in nine weeks, and it really works. you could also try taking on one of the many social challenges doing the rounds, like staircase snowden, which sets the stair climbing goal of 4,610 steps to reach the summit of mount snowdon via the llanberis path, a favourite of hikers. see the plas why brenin instagram for details. another fun augmented reality option to spice up your daily walk is wallame.

with this app you can create geotagged works of art that other app users can see using the ar viewer. now, if you are locked down with your family at home, then i think everyone getting involved is key to maintaining harmony. a brilliant example of this is the family lockdown boogie, created by jack buchanan. and, if you decide to give it a go yourself, make sure you tweet us a link to @bbcclick. # family lockdown boogie # we can't go out, so we are all about # family lockdown boogie. ..# i have to be honest, i have really struggled with my motivation during the lockdown, and i'm just not the kind of person that goes for a run — i'm not a jogger — so for the last week i've been travelling to exotic locations and working out in virtual reality. this is supernatural, a vr fitness experience, and the company promises it's the most fun you can have working out, although that's what everyone who tries to trick me

into exercise says. i'm in machu picchu today and i have to strike these orbs as they come towards me, and when i see triangle, i have to squat into it and you have to forgive me if i don't put my back into it today because turns out after doing this for a week, your legs really hurt, so i guess it's kind of working. you might notice a striking similarity with a popular vr game, beat saber, which is one of those breakout vr hits, and it is very similar, although the developers of supernatural have tried to distinguish it make it appeal to more thanjust a gaming crowd, and they've done it by having fitness trainers in the game. today i'm doing full body work with raneir. enough talk, let's get into some warm—up. and they're using big—name artists and songs. ‘take on me' by a-ha plays but they're hoping to charge a monthly subscription, and that has annoyed some oculus qwest owners, who are used to paying just once to own a game. 0k. well, online from the company is chris milk. chris, i've been doing this

for a few days and my thighs are killing me! is that normal? we hear that a lot. a lot of people aren't used to lower body bodyweight exercises. what i'm excited about is people say that they are... their lower body is sore but they don't actually remember the workout being hard. nobody likes doing multiple squats in a row. if you can hide it inside of a fun activity, you don't remember the pain of the workout because it wasn't painful. how are you going to make it appeal to more than just gamers? because i suspect most people who have one of these headsets are gamers. we're trying to bring virtual reality to a different demographic. the oculus quest is what we've launched on. we're getting a lot of people that are saying they bought a headset either off of ebay or a off a third—party for the purpose of exercise using supernatural, and we are engaging with all of them — we've learned so much in the last month from having thousands of people inside of it. at the moment this is only available

in the us and canada, where the earliest adopters are about to end their free trial month, so the company is about to find out if people are prepared to pay. one downside to working out with vr is you get really sweaty in the headset, although supernatural‘s offering a free silicon face shield to anyone who signs up for the free trial. i've been comparing the experience to ring fit, it's nintendo's latest fitness game for the switch, and you use your body and this ring to control this character on the screen, and it has you doing jogging, sports and yoga poses, even stretching and squeezing this ring to defeat an evil dragon in the game who wears a wrestling singlet. as you would expect from nintendo, it's very cute and a little bit weird. what's really clever is the controller can measure your heart

rate to if you're working up a sweat, and i certainly did, and like a lot of nintendo games, this one is full of text prompts that you have to skip, skip, skip your way through and a lot of the time ijust feel like, "get on with it!" now, both of these might be a passing craze, like wii fit was, but i'm determined to lose my lockdown weight and at least they got me moving every day and sweating it out. victory! how absolutely fantastic was that? we've got to talk to chris, he's online now. mate, how do you feel after all that? i'm exhausted! doing that for a few days in a row has left my thighs so sore i could barely sit down. oh, goodness! but was it better than doing a youtube workout? it can't be very comfortable to wear a vr headset for it? ok, yeah, it's definitely gross having the headset on. you get sweaty in vr at the best of times, and doing a full workout with it on, you do get very warm and steamy in there.

it's not nice. but at least with this, you're forced to do what it's telling you, rather than if it was just a youtube video, i could just ignore it. i'd worry the goggles would bounce off with the jumping squats. did you have that? no, they haven't fallen off yet, luckily. i've dropped the controllers a few times, and i'm always really worried that when i'm swinging my arms around i'm gonna punch the fridge. so i've got to be careful with that one! oh, dear — unusual hazards! but don't you think this is alljust a bit of a novelty, really? would you keep doing it? ok, yeah. it might be a fad, i'm not sure yet, but ultimately it's got me working out. before i was doing nothing, i wasn't going for a jog, now i'm doing these exercises every day. so i'm going to stick at it and work on my ‘fad' bod rather than getting a dad bod. nice! brilliant! chris, you're such a great sport. it's always brilliant to talk to you, thanks for doing that for to us! that is it from us for this week. you can keep up with the team throughout the week on instagram, youtube, facebook and twitter — @bbcclick. i'm out of breath just thinking about all this. thanks for watching, and we will see you soon.

bye — bye. hello there. we've seen some unusually windy weather for the time of year affecting the north—west of uk in particular. now, on friday, the strongest gust of wind reached a good 60mph across the north coast of northern ireland, into parts of scotland and in north—west wales, we had a gust into the low—70s of miles an hour. these strong winds have been bringing large and battering waves to the coastline. many of our beaches are unpatrolled, for understandable reasons, and with similar rough seas expected this weekend, it's probably best to stay well away. on the weekend, we have more rain and strong winds thanks to this slow—moving area of low pressure. the strongest winds always closest to the centre of the low passing just toward scotland, and through the day

on saturday, although we start off very windy across the north—west, the isobars begin to slowly space out, the low pressure starts to get a bit less intense through the afternoon and the winds will start to lose some of their strength. here are the temperatures as you start the day on saturday, but blustery winds first thing in western scotland, gusts here still reaching a good 60mph and only slowly ease down after that. northern ireland and scotland — scotland looking wet for most of the day and quite cool too. england and wales, some sunshine, we could see the odd shower just about anywhere, but won't last long given the windy conditions into the afternoon. 30 or 40mph for england and wales, but still up ataround 50mph in northern scotland. cool in scotland, just i! degrees in glasgow saturday afternoon. 19 in the sunshine in london. even in the winds, not feeling too bad at all. now, during saturday night, we do have a bit more rain to come through.

that rain tends to ease down as we go through sunday, with brighter conditions spreading in from the west. a bit more sunshine to come across these western areas, 17 degrees in belfast, but 22 towards the london area, and this warming trend to our weather is set to continue into next week as well, as this area of high pressure builds towards our south. the sunniest weather will always be across england and wales — mind you, we could probably do with some rain here. the weak weather front will move in off the atlantic, bringing some rain into western scotland and northern ireland, probably not too heavy. it gets quite a bit warmer across eastern areas of england, temperatures reaching the mid—20s, and we could see mid—to—high 20s as we head into the first part of the new week as the weather certainly gets quite a bit warmer. that's your latest weather.

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