Diet, physical activity, and nutrition together form your health and fitness. The pandemic may have thrown everyone's normal life out of gear. Taking care of your mind and body is crucial and even more urgent for your immunity to reduce the risk of getting an infection. Also, it's a healthy habit to nurture yourself so that anxiety, stress, weight, heart, blood pressure-related illnesses, and others stay at bay. If you are not sure about the right way to go about your daily routine, don’t worry. Here is a quick guide to assist you.
Tips for ensuring physical activeness by Robert Trosten
Any workout or fitness program you adopt has to have an ultimate goal or intention behind it. You have to know your strengths and weaknesses. As a general rule of thumb, everyone in the family should factor in a few things as discussed below:
- A focus on building the core strength of the muscles as they facilitate body movements
- Improvement of the aerobic and tolerance levels to help the heart and lungs to pump oxygen to muscles
- Better flexibility, stability, and mobility for smooth movement, enhanced balance, coordination, and flexible joints
Exercises to try at home during Covid-19
As Robert Trosten puts it, you know what you should do when you have a purpose to achieve. The three factors mentioned above can give you some direction about your ultimate motive behind starting a fitness regime. So, keep them in mind and incorporate a few exercises for daily practice in your lifestyle. You will be able to feel a difference over time, and your anxiety level will also be easy to manage due to a unique situation caused by the pandemic. So, let's take a quick look.
- For increasing your strength, you can do hollow body hold, one-arm plank, push-ups.
- For gaining aerobic capacity, you can attempt doing squat jacks, dynamic-high knees.
- For enhancing flexibility and mobility, you need to do one-arm quadruped stretch, hip RACs.
When you exercise, you can avoid wearing shoes. The fitness experts say that your movements depend on your ability to balance your body with your feet. If you put on the shoes, you work with added soles and elevations, which can be challenging. So, try to do without them as much as possible. This habit can put your hips, knees, and ankles at ease. Although you don't need to add external loads to these exercises, you may want to include them to improve your resistance and intensity. Right now, gyms are closed. So you may not have your pieces of equipment. However, you can get creative and replace them with grocery bags, detergent bottles, water jugs, a bag full of books, and so on.
No matter how you do exercises with or without these external loads, you have to take care of your movement and breathing. And if this is the first time you are going to align your fitness regime with a daily routine, it would be better to start with a specific milestone. It will help you imbibe it in your system.
