At first, the greatest gymnast in human history expanded her training with the finest, most advanced tool that’s readily available to world-class athletes these days. Simone Biles opened up YouTube, and she chose a twerkout video.

She was underwhelmed. “It was mostly leg squats. There wasn’t a lot of twerking or what-not,” she said. Would she try it again? “It depends on how bored I get.”

“I never work out outside of the gym,” Biles said, “because there’s never been a need to.”

Now, there’s an urgent need to. The best athletes on the planet are the best athletes on the planet because they were born with a preternatural set of abilities that they honed with untold hours of training. And since these athletes were teenagers, sometimes even younger, they have been privileged to spend those training hours at the most lavish and elaborate facilities. CERN scientists would be impressed by the millions of dollars of technology and equipment at state-of-the-art gyms.

But one of the strange consequences of the shutdown caused by the novel coronavirus is that, in one distinct way, it has made the world’s best athletes just like the world’s most mediocre athletes. Everyone is trying to figure out how to work out from home—and discovering that it’s just not that great.