Category: News and Notices – Sports

Hello all,

I hope everyone is still staying active and keeping moving during these times. Last night on the news, although it is no where near over, the curve seems to be flattening so there is light at the end of the tunnel and by keeping positive, we will reach the other side. Everyone has been impacted in one way or another so it’s important to each play our part and stay home as much as possible and do those garden or living room workouts or your one run or walk a day, so we can reach the other side more quickly.

I have come up with some ideas below to keep the workouts switched up and different over the days that seem to merge into each other.

1. write down a list of different fitness influencers on Instagram, YouTube etc and each day pick a workout from a different one each day
2. focus on 1 aspect of training each day, for example today may be leg day, tomorrow arm day, then cardio, then core. This will allow you to have variation and breadth to your training
3. come up with your own workouts and split them into the above categories and pick different exercises for each day
4. find a good playlist. Music makes all the difference to feeling motivated throughout the whole workout

I hope these tips help to keep those workouts varied and different in the days that seem to all be the same 🙂

Keep happy, healthy and active!

Your Sports Captain.

Hello all,

I hope everyone is still managing to keep finding the positives in each day, no matter how small they may seem!

As much as quarantine is needed in order to control this global pandemic, this uncertain time means that many of us suddenly have a lot more spare time on our hands and are left wondering what to do with it so here are some things that you could try:

1. write out a daily routine and try and follow it to the best of your abilities for that day. This allows your body to have a structure, similar to how your normal week would look and you are able to feel like you’ve been productive that day
2. set out goals that you want to achieve. For example, I’ve been set a workout and I’m now on day 2 of it and am quite far from being able to complete the whole thing and I’m having to modify the exercises, so I’ve set myself the goal of being able to do it by the end of next week.
3. give new workouts a go each day. This keeps the variation and you are able to see workouts as fun and afterwards you will feel really good and set you up for the second half of your day.
4. practice specific skills. So I am a netball shooter and therefore I really enjoy shooting and am lucky enough to have a netball post in my back garden, so why not have a relaxing shooting session and get outside and give your mind a break from everything that is going on
5. cook something. I have been quite bad at this recently as I am still trying to adjust to the new normal that has been put in place, but yesterday I decided to get on top of my meal planning so I now have several healthy nutritious meals ready for the week. This is important to do as much of how you feel is determined on the foods you eat as your gut health is closely linked to your mental health, so if you can get your hands on healthy produce – make the most of it!

So there are some ideas to get yourself in a bit of a better mood to try and feel slightly more in control this week. Try some out and give them a go!

Stay healthy and active during this uncertain time,

Your Sports Captain.