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For months, residents of Summit County have been cooped up inside and havent been able to head to their favorite gyms to get summer ready or enjoy group activities in the outdoors.

But that will change after Summit County lifted its stay-at-home order Friday and replaced it with a new directive.

With a slowing rate of new coronavirus cases in Summit County, gyms and recreational facilities have been given the OK to reopen under strict guidelines that are meant to safeguard against a second wave of cases.

This is absolutely a step in the right direction, at least a huge part of us hoping to return to normal one day sooner rather than later, said Stanton Jones, owner of Silver Mountain Sports Club and Spa. I was talking to members this past weekend and they just felt alive again. You could feel it in their voice because they were so giddy about being able to strain their bodies differently than they were at home.

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Jones was among the business representatives who worked with Summit County to identify how gyms could reopen in a safe manner. Tina Adkinson, Yoga Park Citys studio manager, was another member of the group and said she was eager to be part of the effort.

To us it was more about providing for the community to contribute to mental, physical and emotional health, she said. The level of conservativeness that weve taken couldnt be higher. We have 80-plus years of fitness experience through this group so we understand what it would take and our details are so clearly laid out for a successful opening.

Other representatives involved were Stephen Sutherland of South Summit Aquatics Center, Chris Spealler of CrossFit Park City, Ashley Battersby of State of Mind Yoga and Fitness Center and Maryguenn Vellinga of RISE Boxing.

Together, they helped put forth the restrictions that were submitted to and approved by the Summit County Health Department, allowing the businesses and facilities to reopen, albeit on their own timelines and at their own discretion.

For example, Jones and Silver Mountain opened up Saturday at 7 a.m. as people were waiting at the entrance for the doors to open. Sutherland and South Summit Aquatics Center had a soft opening on Monday for their gym and fitness center, but the lap pool isnt scheduled to open until May 18.

Other businesses like Tadasana Yoga, RISE Boxing and CrossFit Park City are taking a more conservative approach and not opening until this weekend or early next week. They said theyre making sure they can properly disinfect everything, in accordance with the restrictions, while keeping employees safe.

Once we were allowed to reopen, we put out a survey to see what the response would be to small group classes. And weve been doing Zoom and online classes for our members so weve gotten a lot of dialogue through the community, Vellinga said. A lot of people are hesitant to come back while some are super eager. There are some challenges and limitations with the public health order so we are trying to navigate those issues now instead of learning and trying to fix them with people inside.

Among the restrictions are employee temperature checks, virtual sign-ins, patron limits and more. The full list is available at summitcounty.org/DocumentCenter/View/10897/Joint-Public-Health-Order-2020-05Stabilization-Phase.

Spealler said the effort to craft the restrictions was positive, involving people from different business and fitness backgrounds.

It was great to work with some people Ive known just by crossing paths or with ones I was meeting for the first time. We felt a big responsibility to serve Park City and it always came down the safety and health of the community, Spealler said. A lot of what we did came down to the ease of controlling the environment we were in instead of having an open and free-for-all format. It was really helpful to talk with trainers and hear their thoughts and processes because it allowed us to not leave anything out.

As for public fitness centers, the PC MARC and the Basin Recreation Fieldhouse are scheduled to reopen on May 11, with restrictions.

Adkinson said that while the reopening plan is encouraging, she doesnt believe Summit County will lift all of its restrictions anytime soon.

This is Park City, which is like a small family, and along with the physical movement we are offering, we know the value that also has emotionally and mentally, Adkinson said. All three of those things are a factor in why we reopened, but it doesnt mean we in the clear yet. The stakes are too high to not take this seriously, but at least we are moving in the right direction.

Editors note: This article has been updated with new information regarding the reopening of the Basin Recreation Fieldhouse.

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SPOKANE, Wash. - MUV Fitness is partnering with 2nd Harvest to host "Spokane's Largest Food Drive," on Friday, May 8.

According to MUV, the food drive will be running from 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. on Friday. People who wish to donate can do so at the North Spokane, South Spokane or Spokane Valley MUV Fitness locations.

Staff will be wiping down all donations to comply with COVID-19 sanitation regulations and ensure people receiving donations remain safe.

"MUV Fitness and 2nd Harvest encourage you and the entire Spokane community to donate in order to better help those that are less fortunate as these resources have been recently depleted as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak," a release from MUV said.

They are specifically looking for donations of canned fish and lean meats, healthy soups and stews, dry or canned beans, whole grain pasta, rice and cereal, canned fruits and vegetables, peanut butter or other nut butters.

The North Spokane MUV Fitness is located at 603 E. Holland Ave. The South Spokane MUV Fitness is located at 5501 S. Regal St. The Spokane Valley MUV Fitness is located at 14927 E. Sprague Ave.

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Happiness is the greatest wealth one can accumulate. Good health is a vital currency of this fortune. Keeping body and mind in good condition, especially in trying times, is imperative if you wish to lead a happy life.Exercising outdoors in the fresh air is one of the most energizing experiences that you can have. But right now, the current stay-at-home requirements related to the COVID-19 pandemic make that difficult or impossible. But you dont have to abandon working out altogether. Thats because there are many great fitness workouts that you can do at home.

First, lets examine some of the benefits of fitness workouts in general:

And now let us explore why fitness workouts at home make a lot of sense even after the lockdown is over and we return to normal life:

Try out the following simple exercises in the comfort of your home, without the stress of going to the gym or purchasing expensive equipment.

All this can be done while soaking in your favorite music.

This exercise combines plank with a push-up. It will help tone your arm muscles, as well as the muscles of your upper body, including shoulders and back

Squats are great workouts that help tone your leg muscles (quadriceps, hamstrings, and calves). They also help tone your glutes.

Lunges are a terrific workout for your legs

Jumping for overall good health

Exercises which involve jumping are also very good workouts.

It goes without saying that if you are a beginner doing these exercises for the very first time, you may experience body aches for the first few days. Its important that you dont let this lead you to skip a routine. Once your body gets used to these rigors you will start feeling sprightly. And, you will love the new well-toned look of your body.

Remember, there are many health and wellness benefits related to exercise and fitness no matter where you workout. But there are particular benefits to simple fitness workouts that you can do at home, such as cost and convenience. This may help home workouts become your exercise of choice.

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The fitness industry has become a vast field which offers a different range of services and facilities. Invest in your body today to see better results tomorrow, quotes Guradesh Mann, a fitness enthusiast and a prominent name who has been promoting a healthy and fit lifestyle for many years.

Hailing from Chandigarh, he is an online fitness trainer and contest prep coach whose aim is to stay fit and keep everyone fit. Since high school and college, Mann was very inclined towards bodybuilding & fitness.

He did his Bachelor in Physiotherapy in 2010 after which he did an ETGOM Diploma course in Modern Orthopaedic Medicine (Cyriax). Since the last 13 years, Mann is transforming lives by urging people to stay fit and workout. While looking at the lack of correct knowledge available to most trainers, he established his own certification course by the name of Fitness Evolution.

He is also coming up with one of its kind, in-depth online fitness certification soon by the name of Elite Coaches & Fitness Academy. Besides this, to cater to his clients supplement needs, he runs AGM Nutrition which is an online supplement store. He believes that diet and nutrition play an integral role more than the workout.

He says, Having a fit toned body is not an overnight process. It takes years to build the physique. Along with optimal training, your eating habits will dictate how you look which is usually the most neglected part.

Due to the coronavirus outbreak, Guradesh has set up a home gym and he never misses his workout session. In the quarantine, keep your calorie intake in check, consuming adequate protein, fiber and good fats, avoid overeating. Try to work out at home with dumbbells or bodyweight exercises. Also, keeping an account of your daily steps is also a good way to stay active, he says.

The fitness coach, on his Instagram, is keeping many interactive live sessions with his followers and he even shares informative content about health and fitness. Guradesh Mann, in the last few years, has earned a lot of accolades and recognition.

In 2006, he was awarded Sub Junior Mr Chandigarh Award after which he won the title of Junior Mr Chandigarh in 2007. In 2008 he was Mr Panchukula, in 2009 he was Mr Chandigarh; both for the 90 kg category. The next year he won Mr Mohali Overall Champion.

In the 100 kg category, Guradesh became Mr North India in 2011. Apart from this, he has even represented India in World Bodybuilding & Physique Sports Championship in Budapest and Mumbai in 2013 and 2014 respectively.

With having represented the nation in Asian Championships in Seoul and Pune in 2017 and 2018, his latest achievement was in 2019 when he stood 6th at Amateur Olympia in Las Vegas. Currently, Guradesh Mann is spending all his time at home and inspiring people to stay fit by staying indoors.

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Running hot tip: don't ignore your hips before hitting the pavement. According to Alison Freeman, an IRONMAN certified coach and USAT Level II endurance certified coach, this part of the body directly plays into your running form.

"Your hips are a key component of your contralateral (side-to-side) kinetic chain, which goes from one shoulder to the opposite ankle," Freeman explains. "They connect your core to your legs, and also incorporate your gluteus muscles. The hip must be both stable enough to properly load your leg and flexible enough to allow for full range of motion during your run stride."

Consider this piece of info another reason why properly stretching before running is so important but simply touching your toes, or any sort of static stretching, isn't going to cut it.

"We've actually moved away from traditional static stretching before runs, as lengthening a 'cold' muscle can be counterproductive," Freeman explains.

Experts actually claim that static stretching prior to runs could set you up for injuries.

Instead, Freeman suggests muscle activation and dynamic stretching.

"Activation is a fancy way of saying that we want to prime your muscles for the movements they are about to do," Freeman explains. "Dynamic stretching prepares your body for the mobility that is needed for effective stride length, without compromising the elasticity that your muscles require for movement."

To work on hip mobility before a run, Freeman suggests adding these two moves to your dynamic stretching routine.

Lunge and Reach Back:

Low Lunge With Twist:

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Couldlockdown actually prove beneficial?

Eager to put a positive spin on the situation, many elite sportspeople have suggested they are using the lockdown period to improve elements of their physiology they would not normally have the time to focus on. What they might lose in one area of training, they might gain elsewhere.

Bradshaw says: When it first started I thought there was no way I could gain anything from it, but actually I feel like Ive done a really good job of staying fit, getting strong and doing things that I wouldnt necessarily do.

Im useless at cardio or endurance but the only thing you can do thats inclusive for everyone is cardio, so every week my group has been doing some sort of cardio competition. The first one involved push-ups, burpees and squats. I suck at it so bad, but because Ive been doing it Im actually a lot fitter and definitely stronger than I ever have been.

Rebecca Robinson, sports and exercise medicine consultant at the Centre for Health and Human Performance, has worked closely with British Canoeing and GB Boxing during the lockdown period and says the extra time can be used wisely.

The Olympic cycle is a four-year cycle so now its about extending that out for a greater period of time, she says. In some ways there are some positives to be gained from that - there are some background areas that we can focus on more as we extend out that cycle.

For some, we get a little bit of an extra chance to step back and look a bit more globally around that athlete to improve things for them.

For athletes of Olympic standard, the uncertainty is one of the toughest things to deal with as they attempt to maintain a level of fitness and remain flexible to a vastly changing environment, all while having little concept of when their next competition might come.

In the long term, the problems should be minimal, with the rearranged Olympics in the summer of 2021 still some time off. But there are certainly short-term issues to returning to competition.

Having only been able to train on tarmac during lockdown, Olympic and world 800m finalist Lynsey Sharp says she would need around a month in spikes on the track before racing again. Tackling a more technical discipline like pole vaulting, Bradshaw estimates around two months.

Robinson also says the return to normal training will need to be carefully monitored after lockdown eases.

One of the areas we are planning for is where people have been training in an unusual environment and working differently to normal, she says. We have to look very carefully at their physical conditioning to make sure we dont get people picking up injuries when transferring back into the normal environment.

Its hard to put a number on the length of time it takes for that transition back, but it would certainly be a number of weeks to return to a normal training regime, keeping a close on things physiologically, and then returning to a competition phase.

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The premise of the digital fitness platform the be.come project is straightforward: one new routine per week. The setting, the plan, the movements are all plain. Its the repetition of the routine throughout the week thats the best type of simple the kind that clears stuff out of the way so that you can get deeper into something. Yes, the physical recall breeds familiarity and the ease of muscle memory. Its the arrangement the same thing, the same thing, just for a while, just for a week, then it will change thats been a helpful corrective for my restless mind. Theres something about repeating a movement, but not forever, thats primal and soothing.

Id call the movement in the be.come project something like well-paced active stretching to a playlist. Its graceful and flexed, maybe something between Pilates and yoga. Maybe this is what calisthenics is. As the music dips from Pony to Jolene, the movements dip from curtsy lunges to butterfly crunches. It loves an oblique twist. Loves to challenge your balance. Its hold all of your body extremely still, then very slowly move one muscle until it heats up everything around it. In a rhythmic fashion that feels a little dancerly. Wow! Dancerly! I mean, can you imagine how elegant and insufferable you seem after you feel dancerly? Sooo insufferable, but theres no one there to witness it.

The routines are low commitment, about 25 minutes per video. Its the nice middle. Its enough that I feel like Ive done something, even if its the only exercise I do all day. Its also not so much! It has an interesting effect of shaking me out of doldrums and out of the house on a bike ride or a stair run. Theres something about this whole thing that makes me feel organized. It makes me feel like a streamlined little praying mantis.

I also really appreciate that the routine videos are filmed from the back. Compared to a video that faces the instructor, this feels way more like being in a class, which provides a subtle comfort. The videos show be.come project creator Bethany C. Meyers and two participants, who each demonstrate a modification to the routine. Along with the videos each week, on the be.come projects app or its website, there are tutorials, though Im too much of a dilettante to learn about what Im doing wrong. The be.come project has a ten-day free trial, then $35 per month after that to get access to This Weeks Routine. Recently, the company has started offering varying tiers of support for people in need.

The be.come project organizes time into steady slices, when time generally feels like its slipping by. Since the new routine was posted on Monday, Ive done the be.come video every day, though this new routine hasnt been my favorite. Theres a series that I privately refer to as drumstick leg, which is both difficult and boring. Some of the songs Im hard eh about. And last weeks routine was my favorite so far smooth, slinky, peaceful, kind of groovy. That video is still up, right next to this weeks, but I havent gone back to it. Sticking to whatever comes up this week feels like part of the project. I know its just for a few more days. Then Monday will come, and the routine will change. The future will be different.

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No matter the degree of social distancing or how many best practices proprietors may implement, businesses that open without the blessing of the state of Ohio will be forced to close.

Ragnar Fitness and Yoga didnt make it through its second in-person class of the day Monday before an officer of the Bellefontaine Police Department was dispatched to the exercise studio at 130 S. Main St., SuiteB105, and directed the class participants to disperse.

No misdemeanor citations or fines were issued, but law enforcement did force the closure of the business, in accordance with ongoing directives from Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, and health department director Amy Acton.

The sports and fitness instruction center located in the Main Street Market Place announced Saturday, May 2, that it planned to conduct two classes per day at 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. beginning Monday through Friday.

I am saddened to report to you all that due to circumstances outside of our control we will be returning to a virtual studio only until further notice, the fitness and yoga studio posted to its Facebook page Monday evening.

In a Facebook Live video posted Sunday afternoon owner Lynnsey Ramsey detailed a number of social distancing and precautionary measures filed with the Logan County Health District that were being implemented to both comply with state governments orders and to curb any spread of germs.

Class sizes were being limited to eight participants in order to comply with Gov. DeWines restriction on gatherings of 10 people or more, Ramsey said in the video.

Additionally, instructors were setting up individual workout spaces to prevent any sharing of equipment during class, and participants were required to wash their hands prior to entering the studio. Water service was also eliminated, and any class participants were required to bring their own water bottles.

By limiting class size, preventing class participants from handling multiple different weights in a single session and setting up individual work stations, Ramsey said she was confident there was enough space in her 2,000-square-foot studio for everyone to work out safely.

Regardless, none of that mattered against the ongoing stay safe statewide directive.While some manufacturing and healthcare businesses have been permitted to reopen as part of Gov. DeWines phased reopening, gyms, health clubs and fitness and yoga studios are not currently permitted to be open; and so when the Logan County Health District was notified the business was operating outside the bounds of the governors order, local officials were forced to act, Bellefontaine Mayor Ben Stahler said.

Often times, the role of our police officers is thankless, the mayor said. While we are under the governors directive, Stay Safe Ohio, local law enforcement throughout Ohio has been tasked to apply those same standards in all of the communities throughout our state.

Monday marked the first call for service for city police to respond to a business operating against the state of Ohio directives, the mayor said.

At an April 28 regular meeting of the Bellefontaine City Council, Stahler said it was not the intention of city administrators or the police department to harass or needlessly fine or cite local businesses, but any complaints would be followed up on and businesses owners would be expected to comply.

The business owner was cooperative and no one was cited. It is certainly the hopes of this city administrator that we are moving past these restrictions to our small businesses, and getting back to supporting all of them in the coming days, the mayor concluded.

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Critically ill children and their families rely on safety net organizations like Friends of Karen for support now more than ever. When your child has cancer or another life threatening illness, the COVID-19 pandemic adds unimaginable challenges. Waiting for life to return to a new normal is not an option for them. The Friends of Karen Family Support Team, with 41 years of experience sustaining families in health crisis situations, is helping panicked children and families right now, keeping their lifeline of vital services as robust as possible under these difficult circumstances. http://www.friendsofkaren.org

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Heres an opportunity to have fun and help kids and families in need during this health emergency

Join the do it TOGETHER Fitness Challenge! Get your friends, families and colleagues to join you. You can do good for yourself and for others anywhere, at any time. Best of all, you get to choose your favorite fitness activity.

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I am doing a fitness challenge to raise awareness and support for Friends of Karen, a non-profit that provides emotional, financial and advocacy support to critically-ill children and their families. COVID-19 has reached the homes of these children who are already immunocompromised. Now things are even more complicated and URGENT. Families need your help NOW more than ever to help pay for rent, food and medical treatment. I want to invite 5 of my colleagues (post names and tag them and tag FoK) to take this challenge with me, help these families and do it TOGETHER. You can help today by sharing this with 5 or more of your friends. Register here

I hope you and your family and friends will participate in our Fitness Challenge, and help Friends of Karens children and their families during this time. Any help you can provide is extremely appreciated. With help from friends like you, we have faith that we will all get through this crisis if we heed the warnings, get fit together, and stay close to home!

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