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. Exercise to start and, more importantly, com-
leads to short- and long-term benefits plete a workout may prove to be more
for mood, sleep, and overall health. challenging.
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Your Care
These times have shown us that nothing is more
important than maintaining our health. Your Care
stands ready to help the Sisters community do just
that, with urgent care available every day.
Dr. Eric Wattenburg urges patients not to delay
being seen out of fear of COVID-19.
Located in the copper-top building just off
Highway 126 in Redmond — they offer easy and safe
access in and out of their facility. Make sure that you
stay well by seeking help for ailments before they get
more serious. Your Care continues to offer a full com-
plement of health services.
Your Care has the vision to be proactive. This sea-
son, it is especially important to protect yourself by
getting a flu shot.
Your Care is committed to helping local businesses
keep their employees healthy through ongoing occu-
pational medicine programs. It’s all part of a long-
term commitment to service and the health of the
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