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Wednesday, January 27, 2021 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon Maintaining fitness in a pandemic With gym closures, colder weather, and the rise in COVID-19 cases, it may be more challenging to motivate yourself to exercise. There are many people who wel- come the gym closures, thinking they will pick up where they left off once local businesses are allowed to resume normal operations. These individuals are forgetting that muscle shrinks after four days of not using it. So if you9ve taken a four-week 4 or for some of us 4 a four-month break, we shouldn9t expect to have the same strength we worked for before the pandemic shutdowns. <One of my greatest fears is people will return to the gym and think they can lift the same amount of weight or run at the same pace. This train of thought will lead to injury, either acute or chronic,= said Sweat PNW owner, Ashlee Francis The best way to prevent risk of injury is to maintain or even improve your current level of activity. Several individuals and families have already done this, creating home gyms and finding online workouts to follow. This is a great first step, but without a professional monitoring, there is still a huge potential for injury due to poor form, or trying to lift too much, too soon. It9s also more difficult for many people to self-motivate. Local gyms offer more than just fitness equipment; there is a sense of accountability and community built at the gym. <Practicing together from home during these uncertain times not only helps to keep our minds and bodies healthy, grounded, and calm 4 but also allows us to stay connected as a community. Our students are still able to say hello to their friends, check in on each other, and stay in relationship with their teachers and their practices regardless of where they are. This last year has been filled with so much heartbreak and isolation, so being able to continue to move and breathe together as a community has been the greatest gift,= said Kari Anton, owner of Life.Love.Yoga. For many people, the gym is their home away from home. They rely on their workouts for a sense of self- worth and for the connection they build with other gym goers, helping them feel like part of a team. Ryan Hudson, owner of Level 5 CrossFit, said, <Taking people9s gyms away has literally taken away their lifeline to staying sane in this crazy world we now live in, so people must workout now more than ever, even if they can9t access an indoor gym. It will help fight depression and mental Stay committed to your health during gym closures 1. Create a plan. Writing out a plan for what illness as well as the activities to do on which day, with a duration or current pandemic and amount of sets and reps, can help keep people on the far-more deadly track. Ask a local fitness professional to design obesity epidemic. a workout specific to your goals and one which accommodates your schedule. You can9t get fit and 2. Plan on taking two or three fifteen-minute healthy by doing just walks each day. It won9t take much effort, but the one workout but you benefits of fresh air, movement, and a change of can fix your mental scenery will help improve your mood and energy state with just one.= levels. Exercise is an 3. Support your local gym owners by attending important tool for classes! Here are some of our local gyms and the options they have available during the mandated fighting depression, closure: loneliness and weight " Sisters Athletic Club: streaming yoga, body gain. It produces sculpt and meditation classes with hopefully more energy, improves to come sleep and increases " Life.Love.Yoga.: daily online yoga and barre immunity. classes, outdoor classes, private classes and yoga <An exercised therapy body lends to a resil- " Level 5 CrossFit: 24-hour outside gym access (2,000 sq. ft. covered and secured space with access ient mind and spirit to cardio machines, free weights and more), semi- in times of turmoil. private small group CrossFit or weightlifting train- It9s hard to work out, ing and daily home-workout, app-based training it9s not easy but doing " Sweat PNW: daily online HIIT, stretching, so one can appreciate strength training and Pilates classes with guidance their own accomplish- on form and correct movement patterns, private ment, and carry their training and nutrition counseling. attitude into other avenues,= said Andrew Loscutoff, The options are limitless when it trainer at Sisters Athletic Club. comes to home workouts, but main- Each day is a new opportunity taining a community of like-minded to engage in physical activity like a individuals, being held accountable by brisk walk, strength training, yoga a trainer and creating the motivation and bodyweight calisthenics. 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