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Corona Athletes Teens stay in shape while at home
TJ Hailstock & Marcus Romec R unning track. Lifting weights. Running for the goalie. Sports is over for 2020. Athletes still want to stay in shape, but it’s not easy finding ways to work out.
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The head football coach Michael Allen and boys’ basketball head coach Jared Adamson are sending workout routines through Google Classroom to their student athletes. For the students who have the weight lifting class, these Google Classroom workouts are basically how they complete e-learning for that class. These workouts are body weight exercises so all stuff you can do without any equipment. Other coaches are sending out their workouts through email and text messages as well.
“I am not able to leave the neighborhood, but luckily I have a friend that lives down the street, and I am allowed to workout with him,” said Jackson Sims (’22), a student in Coach Allen’s Physical Conditioning class and also a part of the baseball and football teams.
Some students have gone to some impressive lengths to stay healthy. “I have a personal trainer to workout with everyday,” said Micheal Agnew (’22), a student athlete who is also in Coach Allen’s class. “I don’t really think this outbreak will affect my school schedule. I workout early, so I can do school work later.” People aren’t used to being stuck in the house all the time, so staying mentally healthy has become a big challenge.
While many students are playing games inside the house, others are also exercising inside and out to stay physically and mentally healthy during this quarantine. Athletes across the world are using makeshift equipment such as lifting suitcases or by making a bench press at home to stay in shape for whenever sports are able to come back and life goes back to normal.
“While I’m stuck in the house, I go on jogs through the neighborhood and lift weights around my house,” said Khalid Washington (‘22), a varsity basketball player. “When all the sports were cancelled, it felt like all my hard work was wasted.”
Some kids are still hanging out and seeing their friends. Some kids are working out together still and are not socially distancing while they’re with each other.
“During the lockdown, I usually go to the field with a couple of friends and run a couple of miles, then we will do online workouts and yoga,” said Eva Moulds (2022) varsity volleyball player.
Life in quarantine has been affecting athletes everywhere. “While I’m stuck at home I usually go on a mile run in the morning, and then do some form of online workout,” said varsity volleyball player Gianna Cespedes (‘22).
No one was ready for the outbreak of COVID-19, so it took athletes by surprise. The toll on athletes' work out regimes is affecting people around the world. Athletes are working at home and trying to stay in great shape for whenever their season comes back around but it seems as if no matter what there will be a small loss. No matter how hard people try to keep endurance up and get stronger, there will be some kind of a loss in atheletic ability or endurance.
In a scrimmage game on Feb. 27, Jama Noonan pitches a strike to a Luisville softball player. Photo by Alyson Downard.
