Being Fit New Rules for COVID Times!
Being Fit, New Rules for COVID Times 2020.
2020 has come and gone, interspersed with an episode of the dreaded Covid-19 viral plague. The Gym Membership lies unused in the keys drawer. While health and fitness are further away from your mind, never has it been the most critical component of your survival, than now.
With the pandemic forcing everyone to stay at home, some even in claustrophobic conditions, the conditions earlier available for healthy and fit sustainability are no longer there. The Gyms, Health Clubs, and Swimming Pools are strictly off-limits. Living in close quarters with each other, with only electronic entertainment available, is posing a serious mental and psychological threat to you. The rules of the game have changed. Possibly for a long-long time.
How you could set yourself up for success in the coming times?
Embrace the Outdoors:
While the mantra for healthy living is staying indoors, grab any chance you get out in the open minus the human contact, of course. With the industries sleeping and automobiles parked, the air is purer and the sky is clearer. It never has been a better time to pull up your pair of outdoor trainers and go trail running or to get on your firefox and go cycling. Even a less fancy seeming walk around the neighborhood will do you loads of good, physically, and psychologically both. Just maintain a safe distance.
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Diet Out, Nutrition In:
The days of trans fat-laden Butter Chicken and Malai Kofta being served in your favorite restaurant and the likes of Zomato and Swiggy delivering your sinful appetizers and main courses are some time away in the distant future.
Gloomy as it may sound, fortunately, you now have access to balanced, nutritious, wholesome home homemade food 24/7. So as long as you avoid eating anything too processed and keep your portions reasonable, you can do away with dieting and obsessing about calorie counting. With the sale of poultry products on a downward spiral, the easy to digest vegetarian food will be a blessing for your digestive system and will perhaps inculcate in you a new perspective towards vegetarianism. Don’t forget to include the seasonal fruits and vegetables, that is where the nutrition lies.
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Stay Fit as a Family:
Tragic as the Covid19 episode is, it has provided you with an opportunity to get closer to your family. Take this as a chance to get fit together as a family. The bonus includes introducing your kids to fitness at an early age and setting up a fun-filled fitness schedule with your family which hopefully you will be able to continue to Post-COVID times. Your children will have some cool stories to tell about you, a few decades later.
Focus on Functional Training:
With the unavailability of complex gym machinery and electricity-driven treadmills, many feel at a loss to reach and to maintain a healthy fitness level. The truth is that to be fit and healthy, no equipment is required. Rather than working the mirror muscles, you can focus on Functional Training. Functional Training means training for a purpose. The purpose could be to get better at everyday activities—like walking, squatting to pick up something heavy, pushing a revolving door, or getting in and out of a chair—or preparing to compete in a sport, like soccer, football, or tennis. So if you can lay your hands at resistance bands or a pair of dumbbells or not even that, you are good to go. Functional training improves your body’s ability to work efficiently as one unit.
Being Fit, New Rules for Covid Times 2020.
Being Fit, New Rules for COVID Times 2020.
Functional exercises are usually multi-jointed, compound exercises like push-ups, squats, pull-ups, lunges, planks, etc. By training multiple muscle groups at the same time, you are helping your body function better as a whole. You’re training it to be a system and not just individual parts that work independently. “Training [different parts of your body] to work together is going to keep you safe and achieving it is possible with a minimum set of equipment.
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Mind your Mental Health:
Covid19 situation is a fertile breeding ground for an increase in chronic stress, anxiety, depression, alcohol dependence, and self-harm. Cabin fever is a popular term for a relatively common term used to describe the symptoms occurring after being isolated or confined for an extended period such as in COVID 19 situation.
To maximize your Mental Health it’s paramount to maintain a routine that includes normal eating patterns, regular exercise, stimulating your brain by working on crosswords, puzzles, and board games, and meditation. Do not follow sensational news or social media posts that may impact your mental state.
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Unfortunate as it may seem, COVID 19 situation is an unprecedented opportunity for you to reboot your life including your health and fitness. It’s time for you to get out of your comfort zone and make do with the limited resources at hand to achieve a healthy and fit body and mind. At this junction in your life, your actions to work around this adversity, alone will determine whether you come out of these dark times, a winner.
Usually I never comment on blogs but your article is so convincing that I never stop myself to say something about it. You’re doing a great job! Keep it up.
That’s a real shot in the arm, Thanks a ton. Keep tuned for more such articles.
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Thanks Dilip, stay tuned for more information on Fitness, Health and Nutrition.