Keeping Quaranfit

With the strict quarantine applied in my country, I realized that maintaining my fitness would be a difficult challenge to undertake. For the first week I wasn’t sure how long I could expect this quarantine to last and just went lax on my exercise, but after researching and realizing that quarantine may last indefinitely, I knew I had to take other steps. Quarantine was limiting as firstly general movements such as in school was now out of my schedule, and to add salt, going to the gym or swimming was also discouraged to stop the spread of the disease. So while regular exercise was taken from my schedule, exercise equipment was also taken.

To work around this I have begun focusing on indoors exercises that required no equipment such pushups, planks and crunches. With each of this I aim to exercise twice a day, 4-5 sets of 12 reps each for the push ups and crunches with a plank of at least a minute thirty seconds, which I aim to increase. This is much more exercise than I am accustomed to generally but I knew I would need to do it to counter my more sedentary daily life during quarantine. Besides this I recognized that my cardio was likely my weakest area and the one most effected by my new lifestyle, to counter this I began running/ walking up and down my buildings stairwell (twenty floors), to maintain cardio, as well as jogging in the outside garden. This was a challenge as before now cardio was never a part of my regular exercise, so working it in was a hard commitment. I have been working like this for two weeks now and believe I have roughly maintained my level of fitness from before the quarantine, which is acceptable, but I would like to improve on it.