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With apps from barre3, Calm, Echelon, Fitplan, Jillian Michaels Fitness and ob Fitness, Samsung offers exclusive fitness content today on your Samsung Smart TV

Samsung Electronics announced that starting today, Samsung Smart TVs in a variety of regions around the world will have access to six new health and wellness apps in partnership with leading fitness brands barre3, Calm, Echelon, Fitplan, Jillian Michaels Fitness and ob Fitness. Later this year, these apps will be part of Samsung Health, a comprehensive fitness platform for Samsung Smart TVs announced at this years Consumer Electronics Show. But with homebound consumers needing fitness solutions, Samsung and its partners are bringing consumers early access to over 5,000 hours of free at-home wellness content right now.

As our community grapples with unprecedented disruptions to their daily routines, it is important for homebound consumers to have access to free high-quality health and wellness offerings, said Salek Brodsky, Vice President of Strategic Partnerships and Business Development for Samsung Electronics. Our partnership with these premium brands redefines the boundaries of what free streaming services can provide, and we look forward to enhancing these offerings by bringing a full Samsung Health experience to our TVs later this year.

Over 250 instructive videos are available now from barre classes and guided meditations, to celebrity-led personal training sessions for Samsung Smart TV consumers to access from home.

These premium health and wellness apps will be fully integrated into Samsung Health, which will launch soon on 2020 Samsung Smart TVs, and will expand upon the suite of apps available today. Samsung Health will provide consumers with more alternatives to traditional exercise options, like gyms and group classes, and adapt to each consumers unique schedule allowing it to become a crucial pillar of our consumers daily routines for years to come.

Our mission at barre3 is to teach people to be balanced in body and empowered from within, and were so grateful for the opportunity to share it with the entire Samsung community. With workouts ranging from 10 to 60 minutes, plus bonus content to complement your practice, barre3 has everything you need to support your health goals, both body and mind. With this partnership, we invite the Samsung community to share in the barre3 movement, founded on body positivity, authentic connection, and celebrating inherent strength.

Sadie Lincoln, CEO and Co-Founder of barre3

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Build strength and discover remarkable results with free full-body barre3 workouts, taught by world-class instructors. Stream barre3 workouts combining strength conditioning, cardio, and mindfulness, and enjoy restorative B3 Foam Rolling videos to help you feel balanced in body and empowered from within. Samsung Smart TV consumers can take care of both their bodies and minds with 50 free pieces of content.

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Being able to train millions of people from the comfort of their own home on the Samsung TV, gets me one step closer to my mission of helping millions of people live a better life through health and fitness. Thank you Samsung.

Cam Speck, co-founder and president of Fitplan Technologies

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Fitplan brings the worlds best fitness trainers together on one platform and provides members with the exact training methods of those who inspire them. Fitplan offers high quality video and audio tips, progress tracking and in app community features bringing members an elite personal training experience at an affordable price. Samsung Smart TV consumers can work out to 6 plans and 50 classes, with access to 5 trainers all for free.

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Truly an at-home fitness brand, Echelon has always focused on inclusivity and accessibility. Our commitment to connection through workouts is about to go one step further. Through a partnership with Samsung, the number one brand in television, and available on Samsung Smart TVs, we are now able to make our offerings even more widely available through just the push of a button. Theres never been a more vital time for connectivity and Echelon is honored to have been hand-selected by Samsung to help keep people across the country connected, active, and well in trying times.

Echelon CEO Lou Lentine

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The Echelon FitPass app delivers the most immersive and diverse experience in connected fitness. Powered by world-class coaches, a full schedule of live daily studio classes & a library of thousands of on-demand workouts, the Echelon FitPass features boutique cycling & rowing classes, strength training, boxing, yoga, pilates, stretching, Zumba and much more. With new classes and workouts filmed every day, the Echelon FitPass can help people of any fitness level get in the best shape of their lives. All with one membership. And all from the convenience of your homes Samsung Smart TV. Samsung Smart TV consumers can enjoy 20 free trial classes.

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While families are home, I hope access to my app with Samsung will be another useful tool to stay fit, healthy, and strong.

Jillian Michaels, founder of Jillian Michaels Fitness

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Jillian Michaels Fitness App provides an infinite variety of free interactive daily workouts and paid premium customized exercise programs in multiple modalities for individuals of all fitness levels. An exclusive 28-day workout plan curated for Samsung Smart TV consumers is available now.

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Our workouts offer a fun, effective way to get a premium fitness experience without leaving your home, and our digital community allows members to build connectivity while physically apart. Its our priority to continue to keep our community fit, connected, and occupied now and always. Were excited to grow our audience further through our partnership with Samsung, and look forward to bringing ob into new homes across the country.

Mark Mullett and Ashley Mills, Co-Founders of ob.

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obe is a premium fitness platform, offering immersive, live workouts, with more than 14 live classes per day and a library of 4,000+ workouts taught by the most sought-after instructors. obes signature 28-minute complete-body workouts include Strength, Sculpt, Circuit, Dance, HIIT, Dance-HIIT, Pilates, Yoga, Barre, Bounce, Boxing, prenatal and holiday/event themed classes. Samsung Smart TV consumers can enjoy 20 classes, refreshed every 2 weeks, for free.

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Calmis a leading global health and wellness brand with the #1 app for mental fitness, with a robust library of mindfulness, meditation and sleep content, on a mission to make the world happier and healthier. Samsung Smart TV consumers can access all content, 100% free.

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Samsung is proud to work with leading brands to help consumers stay active and healthy at home. Stay tuned as we launch the Samsung Health platform early this summer.

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Samsung Partners With Leading Personal Fitness Brands to Launch Wellness Apps on Its Smart TV Platform - Samsung Global Newsroom

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For the majority of the past few weeks as Ive stayed the hell at home, my workout routine has been pretty simple: stream a virtual YoYoga! class a few times a week with piles of pillows, towels in lieu of yoga straps and childs poses galore. When Im feeling really ambitious, Ive been doing strength training for beginners from the bowels of YouTube.

Then, at the end of March, I downloaded the free FBI FitTest app (available for iOs devices here and for Android devices here). The premise is simple: Test your agent fitness level, and the app is easy to use so much so, perhaps, that the user interface is reminiscent of something built in 1997, even though the app was first released in 2018.

When you use the app, it takes you through the very exercises that special agent candidates must complete to pass their fitness test. The app also offers helpful video tutorials for some exercises along with tips for maintaining proper form.

In an increasingly mobile technological environment, FBI apps help the public connect with us on the devices they use so frequently their cell phones and tablets, said Jonathan Cox, chief of the FBI Office of Public Affairs unit that oversaw the creation of the app in partnership with the FBIs Training and Human Resources Divisions, per a press release. Although physical fitness test instructions are available online, the app adds an interactive, mobile element to learning more about this important test, Cox explained.

As the press release notes, the app operates in two different modes:

After I downloaded the app no top-secret disclosures or even so much as a username required I was ready to take my first shot at the Physical Fitness Test, practice mode edition. The simple exercises are quite reminiscent of middle-school gym class challenges, except that you might not have a partner to hold your feet while you do sit-ups. In total, there are five tasks youll need to complete for the FBI Physical Fitness Test: sit-ups, a 300-meter sprint, push-ups, a 1.5-mile run and optional pull-ups if you want to simulate being part of the Tactical Recruitment Program. (Given that my Manhattan apartment lacks a pull-up bar, I opted out of the pull-ups.)

For the first few days after doing the daily rundown, I was exhausted. For the sit-up challenge, I couldnt hit the minimum requirement of 35 repetitions in a minute, and lets just say my push-ups harkened back to my middle-school days, at best. But then something happened: in the midst of feeling like a cooped up animal day after day, I actually started to look forward to the daily opportunity to beat yesterdays results. As you finish each task, the app allots you points based on your performance so you know if you passed, met the minimum standards or need to go back to good ol FBI boot camp and try harder (not in those words). Using the history tab, you can scan your daily results and track your progress, though for me, I found it easier to keep a spreadsheet with my daily results to give myself that extra serotonin-infused jolt of accomplishment after each workout.

So what did I learn after all this sprinting around like a madwoman and cranking out push-ups like my life depended on it? For one thing, minus the 1.5-mile run, the workout takes about five minutes total. Right now, we all have five minutes to spare. Because of the situation in New York, I replaced the 1.5-mile run with hopping on my exercise bike for 20 minutes and 90 percent of the time, I found the motivation I got from knocking out the sprint, sit-ups and push-ups inspired me to do a lengthy workout I otherwise wouldnt have the energy to do. Sometimes, it was the exercise bike. Sometimes, it was weightlifting videos on YouTube. But now, Im swapping the weightlifting sessions for beginners with 30-minute HIIT circuits.

I also realized the value in working out at the same time every day. Especially while were all stuck at home, giving yourself a semblance of a routine can be the difference between having an OK day and going cuckoo. Carving out time around 1:00 p.m. for a midday workout break can do wonders for your mood, as can testing yourself first thing in the morning or after you wrap up the workday. Experiment for the first few days, and then whatever works for you, stick with it.

As for when Ill switch off practice mode and take a twirl at test mode? Im waiting for the glorious day when my hometown returns to normal. To celebrate, Ill delay drinking at my favorite bar (hello, Beach Cafe crew!), until Ive blazed through Central Park for a lap around the reservoir. I have a feeling its going to be the fastest 1.5-miler Ive ever run.

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The most astonishing development in American history has occurred over the past few weeks: COVID-19 emerged from the People's Republic of China, and because people were told to be afraid of getting sick, they welcomed governments at the state, county, and local levels to divide all businesses into two categories: essential and non-essential, and close all the non-essential businesses. Because of this unprecedented response to this year's contagious disease, the economy of the entire United States almost overnight suffered a blow unlike anything in its history, and, as of now, we have absolutely no idea what will happen to it.

I have been in the fitness industry since 1978, so I'm pretty familiar with the way it operates and the circumstances under which it cannot operate. The most obvious problem with a fitness facility is that if you lock the doors, people cannot come in. Quite simply, the industry is predicated on membership fees: you buy a membership to the club that allows you to use equipment that you would not normally own yourself, because of the expense and the space requirements. The fewer the hours the gym is in operation, the more restricted your access to the stuff you're paying to use, so many gyms offer extended access to the gym to make the membership more valuable and therefore both easier to sell and worth more money. Access is the product we sell.

If the government takes control of your hours of operation, or your absolute availability, the government is taking control of the very essence of the thing you are selling. A hamburger stand may be severely impacted by closing the front doors in favor of the drive-thru, but there's no such thing as a drive-thru gym. The idea seems to be that a gym places people in sufficient proximity to each other that disease transmission is unavoidable. This has never been studied or proven; it was just assumed to be the case. And, of course, people are incapable of calculating the risk of going to the gym for themselves, and mitigating that risk by distancing, hand-washing, etc., although they were allowed to do so in all previous epidemics.

And despite the fact that the subway system in New York City, an obviously analogous disease vector in the hotbed of COVID-19 in the U.S., has not yet been shut down, every gym in NYC and New York State (where you can wash your hands) is closed until further notice. In other words, until the government decides to allow their owners to use their property as they see fit, they are closed, along with bars, restaurants, and all other retail that must be conducted in a building except for some businesses that must be conducted in a building, like Walmart, Home Depot, and Lowe's. (As of now, I am aware of no plans to alter the taxes on these properties that are obviously affected by a government taking.)

Two things must immediately be considered, not just by the fitness industry but by all businesses having the misfortune to be labeled non-essential:

But the government has just shown us exactly what will happen next time such a disease comes along. They have removed all doubt about who decides whether gyms and other non-essential businesses are allowed to operate. Their owners and the market for their services have been declared irrelevant in favor of the wisdom of mayors, county judges, and governors. In the absence of the passage of very strong laws preventing this very action perhaps as unlikely an event as the explosion of the sun these businesses will face periodic arbitrary closure from now on. Power once taken is not returned voluntarily.

As far as the fitness industry is concerned, we're all in trouble. Places like mine, which are paid for and debt-free, can hunker down for a while. Bigger commercial gyms, with a lot of floor and a lot of rent, and an equipment note and a big payroll, have a lot harder time. Gold's has already permanently closed some locations, 24 Hour Fitness is looking at a reorganization, and all the other big chains are being forced to reevaluate their very existence under the threat of periodic closure by the mayor. They can compete with each other, but they can't compete against the police.

As I see it, the future of the industry lies along two paths. First, small gyms that concentrate on low overhead (aided by lots of empty retail space and perhaps newly-cooperative landlords), running debt-free, and offering exceptional service at a higher price point will be able to withstand periodic closures if they're not too long. If closure is built into the cash flow management model, small gyms might be able to survive, and large companies may decide to move into this niche. But I don't see the possibility of a viable new 30,000 square foot commercial gym in the future. Some areas, with a proven predisposition to government control of private business, will be gym-free very shortly.

The other path is the home gym. Depending on how you train, and your ability to make training independent of the social exposure that is an important part of the activity for some people, a gym in the house is the best way to go. At this time, lots of people have already decided on this, and there may not be a single 45-pound plate for sale in the country, new or used. This very fact opens up business opportunities for people, and I know several who have responded.

This is a catastrophe of our own making. We have responded to a bad situation in a shameful way. Some of us have given up liberty for perceived safety, and some of us have seized power in this undeniably rich opportunity to abuse cowardice. It will be interesting to see how the market responds to such an insult. And it will it always does.

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ENVIABLY fit, glamorous and successful, Davina McCall doesn't look like a woman who needs anything to boost her confidence but the 52-year-old has a secret weapon.

"Smoking hot underwear," which, she says with a laugh, helps her feel like a "foxy minx".

"I've always worn smoking-hot underwear, even when I was single. It's nothing to do with anyone else, it's just for me. It's like a little shield, only you know you're wearing it and it's the best thing ever," declares the presenter and fitness guru, who was due to host the first WellFest UK in June before it got postponed due to the pandemic (she's previously taken part in WellFest Ireland).

She's appalled that from 50 onwards, many women can "feel invisible when it comes to underwear and are often only offered something really boring: plain big pants ugh!

"We're perfectly able to feel sexy and vixen-like, with or without a man. You can be in your 50s, 60s and 70s and need a bit of va-va-voom. I regard it as an act of self-love to treat my body to lovely lingerie every morning."

Launching her own lingerie range is just one of her current projects she's still presenting ITV's Long Lost Family and recently appeared as a judge on The Masked Singer.

Away from the screen, life seems settled. McCall who has three children with ex-husband, Pet Rescue presenter Matthew Robertson (they announced their divorce in 2017 after 17 years of marriage) is dating hairdresser Michael Douglas, her best friend of 20 years, and says she's in her "best place ever".

Here, she tells us more...

:: How do you feel about being in your 50s?

"I'd like to be a spokesperson for women in their 50s or approaching that milestone and tell them, 'It's going to be OK I'm having a blast and you can too!' I'm proud of being 52. This is going to be my decade where I grab life by the horns and ride with it.

"When I was a kid, women in their 50s looked like they were in their 70s and like it was all over. It's so different now. Getting older has made me looser, calmer and happier in my own skin.

"Embracing fitness has boosted my body confidence way higher than it was when I was 18, when my body was at its peak because it has nothing to do with what your body actually looks like, and everything to do with how you feel."

:: Do you think you've changed over the years?

"Definitely. I'm truly in a time in my life where my kids are good, my life is good, I'm proud of my work. I feel sort of happy where I am and with what I've got. In my 30s and 40s, I was always trying to get somewhere, trying to achieve something.

"I've looked at clips of myself on YouTube in the late-90s in those early days on television, and it's like looking at somebody else. I was so frantic and over-enthusiastic, but that was just who I was. I think at that point, I was so excited because I felt like I'd been given a second life after giving up drugs.

"I notice now when I get together with my mates, we're all more outrageous, funnier and more carefree than we were in our 40s."

:: You've experienced a lot of trauma over the years how have you coped?

"Going through a divorce is an emotional turmoil and very hard, but after two years we've come through it and are co-parenting happily.

"Nothing can ever be as bad as losing Caroline [McCall's sister passed away from cancer in 2012]. Remarkably, she supported me throughout, even though she was the one dying, just like she supported me through life really. She also taught me to not fear death. I admired her bravery so much.

"It's very hard to see my dad, Andrew, suffering from Alzheimer's. It's heartbreaking watching someone who was so active and intelligent and argumentative having to be helped with the most basic tasks. We are losing him but he's amazing, he still recognises my face and can smile and laugh when I'm there, even though he can't really speak.

"All these experiences have made me try harder to just live in the day, so each day brings its own set of joy, or trials or tribulations, but the next day is like a clean slate and you start again."

:: How have you coped with menopause?

"It's a huge turning point for women. I started the perimenopause at 44 and had a couple of tough years.

"I chose to go down the HRT route. It's been a game-changer and helped me feel back to my old self again. I realise it's not for everyone everyone has to do their due diligence and research but I felt it was the best option for me."

:: How do you look after your health?

"I do find, at 52, I'm exercising and eating the right food for a slightly different reason. I think about my health and longevity my sister died at 50 from cancer, my mum had cancer, my granny got vascular dementia following a stroke.

"I don't want to start obsessing about it or driving myself nuts, but I try to do everything I can to be the healthiest I can be so I can take care of my kids for as long as possible, and also I want to feel good in myself.

"I think being fit should be fun and enjoyable, and not punishing and driven by unrealistic targets. I only train three times a week, as I have to fit in work and family. Before going to bed, I may do some toning and stretching really because it's relaxing and helps me sleep. I watch my cholesterol, eat lots of fibre and try to avoid refined sugar."

:: How do you look after your wellbeing?

"The mental health benefits of working out are amazing and that's huge for me. It relieves stress, clears my head and sorts my mind out. I can't ever imagine a time when I won't do it.

"I'd recommend any exercise even a long walk for anyone who's feeling a bit down. It's one of the reasons I got involved with WellFest UK an event where people can learn about healing through exercise and all the benefits you can gain from it.

"What I find so heartening nowadays is that people can talk openly about mental health. When I got clean [from addiction] 27 years ago, talking about your mental health, admitting you used therapy, or you'd had a drug problem, was just unheard of.

"Even though I feared it could be career-ending, I did reveal it all because hearing about other people's experiences helped me, and I hoped maybe mine could help others. Also, part of me was frightened I was going to get outed by the media. I thought it was better to tell my own story and the response was amazing and so positive.

"I tell my kids all the time: 'Failing's good, make mistakes because you'll gain and learn from them'. They're amazing and I want them to be independent and live their own lives; hopefully I've given them the tools to cope with whatever happens to them."

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Davina McCall on fitness, failure and why turning 50 isn't something to fear - The Irish News

Wed all like to come out of lockdown prison fit. But if youve recently dedicated yourself to a home fitness program and are not seeing the consistent results the trim-tummied instructor claimed you would, you might find yourself wondering: why the hell is my weight loss journey less consistent than a bi-polar yoyo?

Or is that just us?

In any case, if you can relate, online body transformation coach and founder of The Transformation Academy James Kew is here to set the record straight: weight loss isnt meant to be linear, even if youre doing everything right.

Why? James recently took to Instagram to explain: Bodyweight can fluctuate a LOT from one day to the next, James wrote on Saturday, which often leads people to advise you to ditch the scales.'

Whilst I agree that focussing too much on the scales is a mistake, they CAN be a helpful tool for tracking your progress if you understand their limitations, and how to interpret the numbers, James added.

James then wrote: To lose one pound of fat requires you to create a calorie deficit of roughly 3500 calories. In the vast majority of cases, you are not going to even come close to creating a deficit that big in a single day. This means that if you drop a pound from one day to the next, most of it is probably not fat. And equally if you gain a pound its not fat either.

Then: Most of our body is made of water, which is why our weight can change so rapidly from one day to the next. Factors such as fluid intake, salt intake, the last time you went for a pee and much more can influence your water weight.

Once you understand that its perfectly normal for weight to fluctuate a lot, you can begin to understand why weighing yourself only once a week is often not very useful.

This is because you could easily catch yourself on a high or a low day which might have a big influence on your mood (and perception of your progress).

Instead, James advises you take more regular measurements, and calculate your AVERAGE weight for a week. You can then compare that to the previous weeks average, and this will give you a much clearer idea of how your weight is actually changing over time!

Summed up, this means, rather than fixating on every minor fluctuation you see on the scales, you want to look at the bigger picture and concentrate on getting the fundamentals right (as well as weighing yourself more regularly and taking averages).

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HARTLAND Eric Mullett owns four Snap Fitness locations in the region as well as a private aviation firm.

With no customers exercising in recent weeks, Snap Fitness still has bills to pay, without their revenue coming in.

Weve got four clubs. They roughly cost us about $10K a month to keep open and we have zero revenue. Weve added around $40,000 in debt to our portfolio, he said, which eventually will have to be repaid.

The clubs three part-time employees and trainers who work as contractors have been let go. But they will soon be needed Mullett said on Friday the clubs will reopen next week.

We are reopening next Saturday, he said. Regardless of what Gov. Evers has said, we feel this is a violation of our civil rights. We have a right to protect our businesses, our families, our communities and we are reopening.

He said the businesses wont be charging customers as usual instead they will accept donations for food pantries and to help support other businesses in the same straits.

We are trying to support the right things here that the governor has asked us to do and even the president has asked us to do with social distancing to offset the curve. At some point enough is enough and we have to get back whats been taken away, said Mullett.

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In response to dozens of consumer complaints, Attorney General Bob Ferguson sent a letter to Washington fitness centers and gyms Friday providing the following guidance:

Fergusons letter warns that any gym failing to comply is violating the Washington State Consumer Protection Act, and will face legal action from his office.

My office received dozens of complaints from Washington consumers that their fitness center is continuing to charge them membership fees in the midst of this crisis, Ferguson said. The law is clear: Washingtonians are allowed to cancel their gym memberships any time, for any reason.

Fergusons guidance applies to all health studios, defined in the Washington State Health Studio Services Act as any person or entity engaged in the sale of instruction, training, assistance or use of facilities which purport to assist patrons to improve their physical condition or appearance through physical exercise, body building, weight loss, figure development, the martial arts, or any other similar activity.

Nothing in the law prohibits a fitness center from waiving the written requirement and accepting cancelations from its members by phone. Gyms can also comply with the law by not charging membership fees until gyms can safely reopen.

The letter states that the Attorney Generals Office has contacted many gyms and fitness centers that have already frozen memberships or issued refunds.

Consumer protection lawsuits brought by the Attorney Generals Office can seek civil penalties of up to $2,000 per violation plus consumer restitution.

Anyone experiencing problems with their fitness center membership is encouraged to file a consumer complaint with the Attorney Generals Office at http://www.atg.wa.gov/file-complaint.

For more information for boomer consumers, see my blog The Survive and Thrive Boomer Guide.

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Investors were pumping shares of Planet Fitness (PLNT) - Get Reporthigher on Friday on expectations that the gym and fitness chain will be among the first allowed to reopen its doors under President Donald Trumps guidelines for easing the lockdown amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Planet Fitness stock was up 10% at $55.11 in trading on Friday following Trumps phase one recommendations to restart the U.S. economy that would allow it to open itself back up - so long as it adheres to strict physical distancing and sanitation protocols.

The administration's 18-page guidance document, revealed on Thursday,details three phases to reopen state economies, with each phase lasting, at minimum, 14 days.

Phase one includes much of the current lockdown measures such as avoiding non-essential travel and not gathering in groups, though it says large venues such as restaurants, places of worship and sports venues "can operate under strict physical distancing protocols."

Gym operators have been hit particularly hard during the pandemic and ensuing shutdown of all non-essential businesses, which has left them with rent and other overhead costs but no income from monthly memberships.

Meantime, at-home fitness equipment and exercise-training providers have performed well through the Covid-19 crisis, with the likes of Peloton (PTON) - Get Reportand Nautilus (NLS) - Get Reportposting solid gains in recent weeks as fitness buffs move to workouts from home.

Shares of Peloton were down 7.54% at $33.61 in trading on Friday, while shares of Nautilus were down 9.14% at $4.67.

Marketing itself as a "Judgment Free Zone" that caters to novice and casual gym users,Hampton, N.H.-based Planet Fitness operates 1,859 clubs throughout the U.S., Canada and Central America.

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Growing up, my dad, a nice Jewish guy from New York, was obsessed with bluegrass and country music. That meant every morning on the way to school, the radio was tuned to WPOC, the country station in Baltimore. I have to admit, I grudgingly picked up some of his musical tastes through diffusion. I have come here to admit that I was a country fan through college.

One of the songs that sticks with me is Alan Jacksons Remember When. It seems appropriate these days, if for the title alone.

Remember when Liverpool last played? It was about a month and a week ago, that disastrous loss to Atletico Madrid in extra time. It feels like a lifetime ago.

Remember when Alisson Becker was last fit? It was February 29, the epic collapse against Watford.

After that not so great jaunt down memory lane, I am here to bring you some good news at least. When Liverpool next play, whenever that may be, Alisson Becker is likely to be fit and ready to step between the posts. Between recording videos for the Safe Hands initiative, Alisson has been training hard at home.

He sent videos, doing some jumping and exercises, said John Achterberg, goalkeeping coach extraordinaire. Obviously, we were working with him until the lockdown and he was basically fit.

Well, thats a little bit of brightness during these gloomy times. Achterberg continued on to talk about now the training routines were focused on maintaining fitness.

Now its for him to maintain it in the house, like the other goalkeepers. They all get their programmes from the fitness department so they will do the job and the work to try to stay as fit as they can, like all the other players as well.

Alisson seems to be taking those sentiments to heart. Here is a video of him maintaining his distribution by throwing a ball very accurately at his house.

So, Alisson Becker is fit and raring to go it seems. Hopefully we can sometime soon say remember when Liverpool won the league with Alisson in goal?

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Injury Update: Alisson Becker Regaining Fitness During Coronavirus Shutdown - The Liverpool Offside

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