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Doing HIIT (high-intensity interval training) has a range of benefits. This type of workout burns a lot of fat and keeps you in the fat burning state for hours after the workout. Doing HIIT regularly can also boost metabolism too. Better still, there is an abundance of HIIT workouts available online and many fitness celebrities provide them for free on platforms such as Instagram.

One of the most prominent figures in the field is Joe Wick, a.k.a. the Body Coach, who delighted kids and adults alike with his free morning workouts on Youtube during the original lockdown in early 2020. But is it Joe Wicks who provides the sweatiest, most intense workouts on Instagram? As it turned out, he is not even in the top 3.

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Online and offline home workouts are getting more popular by the day and it seems like they are here to stay on the long run. In a research conducted by RunRepeat, 1,990 gym members were asked how they will approach staying fit in 2021, in comparison to the start of 2020.

Not surprisingly, only 15% of current gym members thought a gym membership was the best way to achieve their fitness goals in 2021 and nearly three-quarters of gym members said running and other outdoor activities or home fitness options (21.86%) are the best ways to achieve their fitness goals in 2021.

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No wonder all eyes are on online fitness influencers. Golfsupport.com ran a little experiment of its own to see which 30-minute Instagram workout burns the most calories.They asked 67 people to complete one workout from a predetermined list per day and record the calories burnt.

Participants were wearing fitness trackers to measure heart rate and calories burned; probably wearing the best running watches or best Fitbits would've been a good option too. As well as measuring calories burned, Golfsupport asked testers to give a rating out of 10 for music and enjoyment of each workout and finally, asked them if they would do the workout again or not.

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Bradley Simmonds HIIT workout burned a whopping average of 412 calories in 30 minutes, making it the most sweat-inducing and calorie-burning workout on the list. 68% of people also said they would do another workout with him.

Body by Ciara took second place, only just. Ciara's workout burnt an average of 403 calories in half an hour, with 72% of people saying they would do the workout again. Ciara also came out on top in terms of music, with an average rating of 9/10.

In third place for calories burnt is Barrys Bootcamp UK (386 calories per 30 min workout).

National treasure Joe Wicks PE workout came relatively low down on the list in terms of calories burnt, torching 290 per half hour session. However, Joe came joint top in terms of enjoyment rating, an average 9/10 score.

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Confirming that Rohit Sharma has obtained clearance from the National Cricket Academy to travel to Australia, the BCCI on Saturday said Rohits availability for the last two Tests in Australia would be subject to reassessment by the Indian teams medical staff in Australia.

Mr. Sharmas physical fitness has been satisfactory, however, he will be required to continue work on his endurance, BCCI secretary Jay Shah said in a statement on Saturday.

He has been given a detailed programme to follow for the duration of the two weeks he will be quarantined for. He will be reassessed by the Team India medical team post his quarantine to establish his fitness status and a call on his participation in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy will be taken accordingly, the statement said.

Rohit, who suffered a left hamstring injury on October 18 during Mumbai Indians Indian Premier League match against Kings XI Punjab, will be required to spend 14 days in his hotel room as per COVID-19 protocols in Australia and will thus join the India squad only after the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne.

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Social media and fitness have become close bedfellows in 2020 and while weve already guided you through some of the best Instagram and YouTube workouts you can do, and talked to some of the biggest names in fitness on home workouts that turn your living room into the country's best gym, we also wanted to take a moment to share some names with you that will help inspire you even when scrolling on the 'gram.

Across this list are some titans and some emerging talent, people who will provide you with full live workouts and some who will just give you excellent tips for your posture or working out in transit or even some important motivation. Some of these people we just follow from afar and some are fitness gurus we consult monthly for our fitness guides and other exercise pieces. Some of them might be perfect for where you currently are and some might give you more inspiration when youre at a different point in your fitness journey. All of them, however, are worth knowing.

Zack George, by his own confession, is the sort of man youd see at the gym and feel intimidated by. He is, after all, the UKs fittest man, our greatest Crossfit athlete and built like a house. But once you speak to him, theres a far more impressive side to him: hes intelligent, eloquent and an excellent source of fitness knowledge. After a year in which his Crossfit career had to take a backseat to coronavirus, and the sport he called home had to grapple with a racist CEO, George has gone on to feature on the cover of Mens Health and also become one of our sagest fitness and nutrition experts, working with us on features covering what to eat before a workout and more yet still to come. You can do a lot worse than seeing him crush an assault bike workout next time you boot up Instagram.

For proof of Luke Zocchis training prowess look no further than Chris Hemsworth as Thor:hes the trainer responsible for sculpting those godly muscles, as well as the 500-calorie-a-day cut the actor underwent before appearing as a shipwreck survivor in In The Heart Of The Sea. Tattooed Australian Zocchi, like all the best fitness influencers, favours a simple but effective attitude towards training and a no-nonsense attitude towards nutrition (think: fish, chicken, veg and pulses, with the odd #cheatmeal photo thrown in for good measure). As a lead trainer at Hemsworths gym, Centr, his simple recipe videos are handy, sure, but its the workout tips that really make him worth a follow. As a champion of shorter, more efficient training sessions from 90-second flash reps to 30-minute between-scenes workouts Zocchis high-performance moves are sure to upgrade your usual routine. Be it a brutal but blessedly quick warm up, a killer finisher or speedy circuits, expect plenty of bear crawls, kick sits and push-ups.

This year, Joe Wicks went from celebrity fitness influencer to national hero with his mission to keep the nation fit through livestreamed workouts. Where Wicks free workout videos tend to live on YouTube, his Instagram is largely focused on food, dispersed with motivational posts driven by his own ten-year overnight success story and the importance of exercise for mental wellbeing. His recipe videos showcase healthy meals that take only 15 minutes to prepare, filmed in his signature lo-fi chuck it all in style, hence his lean in 15 tagline. With his no-fuss recipes and meal inspiration posts, Wicks debunks the idea that healthy means vegetables, protein and not much else, advocating a rounded, nutritious diet that allows for familiar favourites such as chicken pie, chips and even breaded cheese (he oven-bakes his halloumi in coconut oil). Broccoli is midget trees and scales are the sad steps. Think of Wicks as the enthusiastic everymans influencer, the likeable bloke next door (albeit with abs of steel and, not incidentally, a face like a Disney prince) a chirpy optimist who wants to making boshing out decent dishes accessible for all. Since having his own kids, hes branched into childrens nutrition too, with the launch of Instagram profile and book @weanin15.

If youve ever done one of Hendricks classes at Rowbots or Equinox, you know this former Olympic powerlifter is a kind soul, a great instructor and also relentless in making you sweat. As well as showing off his incredible skills, Famutimis Instagram is a great source of myth-busting and inspiration, a place to go when youve heard 15 contradictory opinions and want someone to give you an answer on anything from weights to losing weight. If you cant make it to one of his classes? Hes done workout guides for us on lats, legs and arms, which you can take into your own regime as a sample of just how good he is.

London-based Jack Hanrahan has been in the fitness industry for a decade, working both as a trainer and a soft-tissue therapist. Hes best known for his celebrity clientele, with gigs training A-list actors on sets from X-Men: Apocalypse to Bohemian Rhapsody, as well as his ultra-efficient style of strength training. He believes in training like an athlete rather than a bodybuilder, meaning a focus on building lean, functional muscle as opposed to a bulked-up aesthetic. On Instagram, Hanrahan shares his instructional, to-the-point approach with more than 200,000 followers, posting practical videos that demystify moves, equipment and misleading ideologies.

Intermittent fasting is impractical and unnecessary, bootcamps are a plague on the fitness industry, free weights are way better than machines and an espresso is more effective than a pre-workout booster. Hanrahan also believes in quality, not quantity. He advocates training four times a week, split into two upper and two lower days, one with heavier weights and the other lighter, in more of a pump style. During the first lockdown, he developed his anti-HIIT format, comprising a series of low-impact, dynamic exercises done in intervals with very short rest times. Like most of his workouts, these can be done easily from home with just a few sets of weights and a resistance band, with a focus on physical fitness goals over gains.

Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, his own app Alex Crockford is something of a fitness renaissance man. Clear and concise in his instruction, with a huge spectrum of videos and content that can show you everything from a new exercise to adopt to a whole new workout, Crockford has an output few can rival and thats why you should definitely be adding him to your list.

George has been one of our most consistent workout guide contributors this year, capable of making detailed and effective workouts leap off the page. An instructor at both Core Collective and Gymbox as well as a personal trainer, Palmer manages to make the difficult art of health and fitness sound much more attainable than it can feel at times, someone who understands everyone is on a different path and able to speak to every level. If you havent got enough of his words on the site, his Instagram contains a looks at how to keep your head held high during the exercise tempest that was 2020, as well as useful workouts or exercise tips.

With an Instagram following of 7.2 million, British-born, LA-based Simeon Panda is one of the most influential trainers on the planet. His body is, depending on which way you look at it, either ultimate goals or a little unnerving: Panda has a real-life waist-to-shoulder ratio that looks like its been photoshopped, gigantic traps, bulging calves and an eight pack.

He uses his channel to tease the secrets to his success (he is, of course, trying to push downloads of his online training programme, his YouTube channel and exercise-gear brand at the same time), with ultra-technical, gym-focused short videos that will help you to improve your form. If you want to grow your arms and back and already know your way around a gym then this is a great place to look for inspiration Panda is all about building as much muscle as physically possible. Breathing, weight and posture are all of central importance, as is method (Panda advocates for the pyramid, combining higher rep hypertrophy sets and much heavier lower rep strength sets).

Arby Kehelis workout guides for our site have, across the board, been excellent: lengthy, detailed guides on how to do everything from working out your core to maximising your use of bodyweight. Hes also an incredible trainer, which I can attest to after spending three exhausting months of my life learning to lift increasingly heavy weights under his careful tutelage. Kehelis Instagram page has been a great source of home workouts during lockdown, including ways of using things you have around the house to get right and tight during this ludicrous phase in human history.

James Stirling, AKA London Fitness Guy, is the man to follow for unintimidating, straight-forward home workouts from someone with a vaguely normal (but obviously still pretty ripped) physique. He started posting 30-minute home workouts during the first lockdown back in March, all shot in his front room or garden and with minimal equipment, but his gym workouts are just as accessible (bodyweight reigns supreme).

Stirlings smiley, sometimes silly content screams warm, friendly and accessible, making his a great profile for beginners, with videos covering topics from how to warm up and how to stretch before a run to a Photoshop explainer and posts about his struggles with anxiety and de-stigmatising therapy. He demonstrates each move clearly and frequently runs workouts on Instagram Live, bringing a nice community feel to your living room as well as the opportunity to ask questions and get a real-time response.

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As the creator of fitness programs like Insanity and T25, trainer Shaun T has helped a lot of people to find their own confidence through their fitness journeysbut there are still times when he feels insecure about the way he looks.

On the most recent episode of his Trust & Believe podcast, Shaun speaks about how, as part of his job, he makes it a priority to stay up to date with the latest fitness trends and influencersbut that scrolling through pic after pic of other people's jacked physiques on social media can take a mental and emotional toll.

"If someone posts a photo and they say 'hey, I lost weight, I feel really great, I finally got my six-pack back,' that's cool, they have a journey," he says. "But if someone is making you feel bad because they're literally like 'you should look like this, and this is the correct way to have the best physique,' then maybe that's somebody you shouldn't necessarily follow."

"My rule of thumb is, if they're showing their body and there's a message and a journey attached to that, and it fits what I need for my own inspiration, I'll follow," he continues. "But I definitely need to take control of that algorithm."

He also acknowledges that in addition to Instagram, there is an additional element to this for gay and bisexual men, as physique plays such a big role in queer male dating culture, especially on dating apps. "In the gay world there is this thing where they do like fat-shaming, and you have different types of bodies, it's like the jocks, the bears, the beefy," he says. "You are defined as a body type... I just think that is so annoying, and it works against our confidence."

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Elsewhere in the episode, Shaun mentions some of the techniques he uses to boost his own confidence, such as "resetting" his outlook at the start of each day, taking time to reflect and engage in positive self-talk, and take lessons from everything he does.

"Go to the mirror and just love on yourself," he concludes. "And if you have to do that every single day to eliminate those thoughts of 'what do other people think of me' or that voice in the back of your head, 'are other people going to think I'm attractive,' if you have to go in the mirror every single day to get rid of that, please do it... You have the power to make a change and make enhancements in your life so that you feel really great about who you are."

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Tim Cook: How are you?

Michael Roberts (Host): I'm good.

Cook: Great to meet you.

Roberts: Thank you so much for making the time this morning.

Tim Cook: My pleasure. I love what you do. Good to meet you.

Roberts: Thank you so much. You too. I appreciate you hosting me here. This is my kind of assignment.

Cook: It's pretty spectacular. It's like working in a park.

Roberts: Yeah. Literally, it is like working in a park.

Roberts (narrating): This is Michael Roberts, host of the Outside Podcast. And today, were going to take a walk around Apple Park with Tim Cook.

Earlier in the fall, Apple had invited me to their headquarters in Cupertino, California, to speak with Cook, the CEO since 2011. Our conversation took place several weeks after the Apple product event where they introduced Series 6 of the Apple Watch. The headline news was the addition of a blood-oxygen sensor. The slogan for the device, according to one promotional video: The future of health is on your wrist.

The other big announcement at the event was the launch of Fitness+, a subscription-based service that will offer guided studio workouts streamed to Apple devices by mid-December. It marked a significant step for the company: they are jumping into the rapidly expanding online training space in a major way.

Tim Cookwho is a fitness obsessive and bit of a nature nerd, who regularly reads Outside magazinewas interested in speaking with me about Apples commitment to creating products that improve our health, as well as Apples environmental initiatives, his love for Americas national parks, and even how we can all learn to put away our devices and just be outside.

Apple Park, which is more than 80 greenspace and has some 9,000 trees, is in fact a really good place to talk about all this.

Roberts: I mean, we were sitting you missed it a few minutes ago. There was there he is. There's a red-tail hawk sitting on the top of a tree there.

Tim Cook: Yeah. Yeah.

Roberts: So obviously, it's working. We were joking if you've staged some deer to run out on the path as we walk along. [laughter] But is that kind of the way to think of it as a

Cook: It's sort of to bring the outside in and the inside out. So people can many people do. They work outside. And they find places where maybe for solitude at some times and maybe for group kind of things in our pre-pandemic world anyway.

Roberts: Right.

Cook: It'll be fairly quiet today when we walk in because we only have about 15 percent, give or take, of the folks working. Everybody else is remote. But the idea of having a home like this in the valley was just unheard of. You know, most people did the skyscraper kind of thing or the typical corporate campus of all these buildings where people never left their building so to speak.

Roberts: With some vision there of efficiency, right? Let's work. [laughs]

Cook: Yeah. I mean, it is very much that old mindset was not around collaboration at all. So we wanted to build a place where people would sort of run into each other. And in a circle, that is the design point.

Roberts: Right. As far as the park goes and you were speaking about how people engage with and I'd be curious to hear like how let's pretend it's not 2020 COVID times.

Cook: Yeah.

Roberts: What does it look like normally if I'm standing here or walking around? What am I seeing? How is the community of Apple employees engaging with this outdoor space?

Cook: You would see people riding bikes along here to get to one meeting to another. You would see people walking. You would see some people exercising, you know, running and so forth because it's a two-and-a-half-mile track around the place.

Roberts: Mm-hmm.

Cook: So you put in a couple of laps in, and you've got a good workout for the day. And you would see people sitting as we get into the inner circle, you would see people sort of spread out and working along tables and over near the pond, some people alone, some people with groups.

Roberts: What about you? Because you're a sort of I think I'll say notoriously busy CEO, [laughter] someone who gets up early and maybe the last guy to turn out the lights every night. This space it's 150 acres. It really is it's pretty incredible just starting at it. What does this like literally and personally mean to you? And how do you use this space?

Cook: This is like working in a national park for me. And it provides that kind of feeling. So you know, we all operate on inspiration and motivation. And you find your somewhere. And the only difference between people is generally what level of insof how inspired they are and how motivated they are to do different things.So nature really inspires me and motivates me as it does the bulk of the people here. If you were to go inside the offices, you would see conference rooms named after national parks. Right.

Roberts: Right. Yeah.

Cook: I'm right around the corner from the Grand Canyon room.

Roberts: Which follows what you do with operating system names too

Cook: Yeah. Absolutely.

Roberts: in recent history.

Cook: Absolutely.

Roberts: So here's the question then.

Cook:Yeah.

Roberts: You have this incredible outdoor space. You have people who are inspired by nature. I wonder if Apple I don't know if it's official or unofficial policy how you encourage your employees to spend time here whether it's you know, because it's one thing to go for a bike ride, and you're staring at your watch. And you're closing some activity loops.

Cook: Yeah.

Roberts: And it's another thing to take an outdoor conference call or meet with a group of people. And it's another thing to say, hey, everyone. Make sure you spend some time out there. And just like don't bring any devices.

Cook: Yeah.

Roberts: Like leave is that something that Apple consciously does? Or is it something that you think people are just choosing to do here on their own?

Cook: It's a combination the two. I mean, we even have monthly activity challenges across the whole of the company to try to get people outside, get people moving, get people exercising. They form teams informally. And they compete.

Roberts: Okay.

Cook: So we do little things like that that plant the seed. We have one caf essentially in the building. So everybody you have a certain amount of activity just to get to the caf.We have a couple of outdoor kind of cafes. But the big caf there's one. Everybody goes to the same place. The restrooms are a reasonable distance from people's area

Roberts: Force them to walk.

Cook: of working. We force them to walk.

Roberts: Yeah.

Cook: You have little coffee bars where people congregate. And these things not only get people moving, but they provide that serendipitous kind of discussion and collision of ideas that bring out innovation.

Roberts: Yeah. And I was just asking about the idea of encouraging people to maybe not take devices with them on a walk because we all know what it's like

Cook: Yeah.

Roberts: whether you're on the street or even in a park where it just changes the relationship to the space. And this is really special. I mean, the investment here by Apple in the natural landscaping is extraordinary.

Cook: It is.

Roberts: So you think about like, okay. This is here. How are we choosing to engage with it? And how are we encouraging, you know, even just your office community here to engage with it?

Cook: Last month or actually, this month it's going on right now we have a meditation challenge where people are being motivated to meditate. There's no better meditation than, in my view, walking out in nature.

Roberts: Yeah.

Cook: You know, it's the ultimate meditation for me. So again, lots of small things like that that get people thinking and hopefully, they're applying that in their own lives too, not just while they're at work but when they're away as well.

Roberts: What about, if we expand it from you and the employees here to the users of your products because I think we all know one of the great challenges of our time is finding ways to really escape, to step away from it all.

Cook: Yeah. Yeah.

Roberts: And a lot of that has to do because, if you have an iPhone with you, it's like the whole world is in your hand, you know.

Cook: Yeah.

Roberts: It's all there.

Cook: It's a window to the world.

Roberts: It is. And it's a portal to the world. So you can be just about anywhere, and the world comes and grabs you. Or you are drawn by this force to engage with it.

Cook: Yeah.

Roberts: So as the CEO of a tech company, which people depend on your products to engage with that world, do you feel a responsibility to those users just like you do to your employees to help them learn how and when to disconnect?

Cook: Very much so. We think very deeply about all the things that we create, about how they're going to be used, how they're going to be used in scale the great ways they'll be used but also the not-so-great ways that they can be used. So an example of that would be screen time. Right. We do not want people using our products too much. We want to create them in such a way people get the most out of them in short periods of time to free themselves up to do whatever it is that they want to do. And so screen time was a way of making all of us aware of how much time we're spending in our technology. And I think including for me personally it was my estimates versus the reality were very different. And I

Roberts: Do you have any numbers you remember?

Cook: They were high. [laughter] They were high. I was but what I did though so the action I took was I started asking myself, why do I need all these notifications?

Roberts: Right.

Tim Cook: Why do I really need this? Do I really need to understand things in the moment that they're happening? And you know and I started taking a meat ax out to some of these things that would grab my attention but didn't need to in the moment

Roberts: Mm-hmm.

Cook: to free me up to do other things. So yeah. I learned like I think like probably most people underestimate how much they're using it.

Roberts: Sure.

Cook: And we've never designed our products to dominate people's lives. That's never been our purpose. It's not our business.

Roberts: Right.

Cook: Our business is to give people tools that enrich their lives and allow them to create something that they couldn't create or do something or, you know, sort of transform themselves in some sort of way. We've never been into this, How long is somebody spending on our property? And let's try to figure out a way to make that as high as possible?

Roberts: Yeah.

Cook: How many clicks can we get? We're not into that business model.

Roberts: Right. But it is the thing is the tool is so impressive, and the design is so alluring. And so that's one part of it. You know, we're naturally sort of people pick it up.

Cook: Yeah.

Roberts: It's why we see people have you know, you find that moment of boredom. And what do people do? They lean into a device. So that challenge of helping your users have that healthy relationship I would suggest that we are still figuring that out and not just Apple.

Cook: I think there's more to do. I think there's more to do. And you know, another example of things that we do is we give parental controls.

Roberts: Right.

Cook: So for those people that are helping address their kids, it's a proactive way for them to have not only a conversation but also to put some rules of the road in. So we have thought deeply about each of these. And we continue to do it. We're not saying we've arrived, and we've got all the answers today. We innovate there just like we innovate with the latest camera system and the latest watch and so forth.

Roberts: Sometimes, I feel like th because I use Screen Time too.

Cook: Yeah.

Roberts: And I noticed right away. I was like, man, you know, I'm doom-scrolling a little on the New York Times here. Like I've got to stop this. And I just got pulled into another random evening of Instagram. Get me out of here. But I had an experience recently that I think got to me the challenge of this which is I was hiking with my family in Point Reyes National Seashore. But it was like three weeks ago.

Cook: It's beautiful.

Roberts: It's beautiful.

Cook: Yeah.

Roberts: Took the phone, threw it in the pack. We're just with the kids, my wife and I. I forgot to put do not disturb on. So like a few hours into the hike there's not a lot of connectivity out there. But all of a sudden, I got some reception. And I heard and felt the buzz in my pack. And it was like, in that moment, everything I had been escaping, work concerns, the news, it was all just I was carrying it emotionally and psychologically. And I was upset with myself for forgetting. And I had that challenge we all have where I didn't grab the phone. I didn't take it out. But there was this gnawing feeling in my head of like, what is that? Did I forget to do something for work? You know, is something the matter? And it took a real effort to quell that.

Cook: Yeah.

Roberts: And to me, that just gets at this challenge and my sense of how early we are on that part of this. I mean, the iPhone has been around since it's relatively new in our relationship to techno

Cook: 2007.

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BOSTON (CBS) Bill Belichick is getting two more years on President Trumps Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition. The President announced his intent to appoint the Patriots head coach and several other sports figures to the council on Friday.

Belichick was initially appointed to the council by President Trump in 2018. The objective of the council is to increase sports participation among youth of all backgrounds and abilities and to promote healthy and active lifestyles for all Americans, according to its website.

Former New York Yankees closer Mariano Rivera, former Olympic beach volleyball star Misty May-Treanor and former star NFL running back Herschel Walker serve as the three co-chairs of the council. Former Red Sox outfielder Johnny Damon is also among the council members.

Belichick does have a few football minds to chat with during the councils yearly meetings, with former college football coach Urban Meyer and NFL VP of football operations Troy Vincent also on board.

President Trump has always spoken fondly of Belichick, and earlier this year, he even said that hed seek military advice from the New England coach. The Patriots visited President Trump at the White House in 2017 following the teams Super Bowl LI victory over the Atlanta Falcons.

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Gov. Tom Wolf announced the latest rounds of restrictions on Thursday due to COVID-19, and among the businesses that have to cease indoor operations and close for three weeks are gyms and fitness facilities.

This is the second ordered shutdown for such businesses. They were among the non-essential businesses ordered to close in March, and stay closed for months.

The restrictiosn go into place at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday and remain in effect until 8 a.m. Jan. 4.

For Steve Kindler Jr., president of National Fitness Partners, a midstate company that owns a number of Planet Fitness franchises in the Harrisburg area, there was one word that summed up his reaction to the governors latest restrictions: disappointed.

Obviously were just really disappointed with the direction the governor went, he said.

Kindler said that of the 113 Planet Fitness locations in the state, theres not one case of COVID-19 infections as far as the company knows. He said this latest setback wont only impact his gyms.

Were highly disappointed in, unfortunately, another blow to the industry, he said.

Its devastating for small business, said Brittany Holtz of Studio B Power Yoga. Its devastating for my small business and for all of my friends that have small businesses. We all have done our part.

She said that when fitness centers had to close previously, she thought they were closed longer than they had to be and her business still continues to be affected.

Since then we have been operating at a small capacity, which continues to cut into our revenue, she said.

Holtz said that many of her clients are teachers and healthcare workers who depend on her services for their own health.

What they shared with me is our services have helped them stay healthy these last few months, she said.

And its not just about improving someones physical health. She said that yoga helps with mental health as well.

Its devastating from an economic standpoint and from a mental health standpoint, she said.

The latest restrictions for gyms and fitness centers are part of a long list of restrictions that Wolf ordered on Thursday that also include prohibiting indoor dining in addition to closing casinos for nearly three weeks.

Today I am announcing additional, temporary COVID-19 protective mitigation measures in the commonwealth, Wolf said. With these measures in place, we hope to accomplish three goals: First, stop the devastating spread of COVID-19 in the commonwealth. Second, keep our hospitals and health care workers from becoming overwhelmed. And third, help Pennsylvanians get through the holiday season and closer to a widely available vaccine as safely as possible. This is a bridge to a better future in Pennsylvania.

The National Federation of Independent Business in Pennsylvanias state director, Gordon Denlinger, said that his group is concerned about the consequences of these latest restrictions.

While acknowledging the serious nature of the ongoing COVID emergency, we again raise concern over the harm these actions will have on Pennsylvanias small businesses and their employees, Denlinger said in a statement. These steps will result in another wave of business failures and the loss of all the jobs that go with it.

While indoor gyms and fitness centers will have to close, outdoor facilities and outdoor classes can continue as long as participants wear face coverings in accordance with the Secretary of Healths updated order requiring universal face coverings and physical distancing guidelines.

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Ohio State former head coach Urban Meyer comes back to Ohio Stadium with Fox Sports before the game against Wisconsin on Oct. 26. Ohio State won 38-7. Credit: Amal Saeed | Lantern File Photo

Urban Meyers expertise will be called on once again, but this time it wont be as a head coach or an analyst.

According to a Friday press release from the White House Press Secretarys Office, President Donald Trump announced his intention to appoint the former Ohio State football coach to a two-year term on the Presidents Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition. Meyer joins other notable sports figures such as New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick and former Heisman running back Herschel Walker in receiving the appointment.

According to its website, the council aims to increase youth participation in sports and promote healthy lifestyles. Council members serve as advisors to the Secretary of Health and Human Services.

Meyer was hired as Ohio States football coach in November of 2011. He retired from coaching in 2018.

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Many of us are in the same boat these days. With the coronavirus killing more people by the day, we are increasingly stress-eating and drinking more alcohol. At the same time, with gyms shut down, we are sitting around more and glued to screens.

So you may be wondering what Im wondering: How is the pandemic affecting my body? Because we cant easily leave the house to see doctors for nonemergencies, we are largely left to figure this out on our own.

Enter the Halo, a new fitness-tracking bracelet from Amazon with a novel twist: It claims that by using a smartphone app to scan images of your body, it can tell you how much body fat you have much more precisely than past technologies. The bracelet also has a microphone to listen to your tone of voice and tell you how your mood sounds to other people. (The masochist inside me said, Sign me up!)

The Halo is Amazons foray into so-called wearable computers that keep an eye on our health, following in the footsteps of Apple and Fitbit. Amazon is selling the Halo for $65 on an invitation-only basis, meaning you have to get on a waiting list to buy it. I volunteered to be a guinea pig and received mine in October.

When the Halo arrived, I installed the app, removed my T-shirt and propped up my phone camera. Heres what happened next: The Halo said I was fatter than I thought with 25 percent body fat, which the app said was too high.

I was skeptical. Im a relatively slim person who has put on two pounds since last year. I usually cook healthy meals and do light exercises outdoors. My clothes still fit.

I felt body-shamed and confused by the Halo. So I sent my Halo data and body scans to Dr. Lawrence Cheskin, a professor of nutrition and food studies at George Mason University and founder of the Johns Hopkins Weight Management Center.

After reviewing my results, Dr. Cheskin jotted down my height and weight to calculate my body mass index, which is a metric used to estimate obesity. A man my age (36) with my body mass index, he said, is highly unlikely to have 25 percent body fat.

Unless you were a couch potato and ate a very poor diet, I have my doubts about the Halos diagnosis, he said.

Dr. Cheskin encouraged me to gather more data by measuring my body fat with other devices, and to do the same with at least one other person. So I did and found that the Halos body fat readings consistently skewed higher than other tools for myself and my test subject.

I concluded that the Halos body analysis was questionable. More important, it felt like a negative experience that failed to motivate me to get fit. Ive had much more uplifting experiences with other products like the Apple Watch and Fitbit bands, as laid out below.

Body fat measurement can be complicated because the traditional methods available to consumers are not always accurate.

Smart bathroom scales that measure body fat use bioelectrical impedance analysis, which sends a small current through your bare feet. Skin calipers, a more dated method, are essentially rulers that pinch down on skin folds to measure thickness.

These techniques are not perfectly reliable. If people step on smart scales at different times of day or with different levels of hydration, their results may vary. Calipers can measure skin folds incorrectly if you pinch in the wrong areas.

Amazon said the Halos technology was much more precise. To scan your body, you use the smartphones front-facing camera to take photos of your body from the front, sides and rear. Then Amazon stitches the images together into a 3-D model to analyze your body composition and calculate the percentage of fat.

I decided to record consistent body fat measurements for myself and a friend using the Halo, a Fitbit bathroom scale and a highly rated skin caliper. In November and December, I took early-morning measurements with the Halo and bathroom scale; my wife pinched my skin folds in four areas with the caliper. I measured my test subjects body fat once with each device.

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Our results were remarkably similar for two men with very different body compositions:

The Amazon product estimated that my friend, a 6-foot-3 man weighing 198 pounds, had 24 percent body fat, the Fitbit scale read 19 percent, and the skin-fold measurements added up to 20 percent.

For myself 5-foot-6 and about 140 pounds the Halo said in November that I had 25 percent body fat, the Fitbit scale said 19 percent, and the skin-fold measurements added up to 20 percent. In December, the Halo said I had 26 percent body fat (alas, I had more Thanksgiving leftovers than usual), the Fitbit scale said 20 percent, and the skin-fold measurements added up to 21 percent.

Dr. Cheskin speculated that the Halo might have an overestimating bias in its algorithm because underestimating body fat for an obese person would be more problematic.

Dr. Maulik Majmudar, Amazons medical officer, who worked on the Halo, said people should expect the devices results to be different because the method was more accurate than body fat scales and calipers.

Amazon developed its body-measuring algorithm from a sample set of tens of thousands of images of peoples bodies from across a wide range of demographics, he said. Amazon then did internal tests measuring peoples body fat using the Halo scanner, smart bathroom scales and DEXA, a technique that uses X-rays to scan for bone density, which studies have found to be a reliable measure for body fat. It found that the Halo method was twice as accurate as bathroom scales.

Still, Dr. Cheskin was unconvinced by Amazons accuracy claims. He said a valid study would involve a clinical trial measuring body fat of many human subjects with each method the Halo, DEXA, bioelectrical impedance scales and calipers and comparing the results side by side.

Accurate or not, the most disappointing part of Amazons body fat analysis was that it lacked important context. Even though the app asked for my ethnicity, age and sex, it said my 25 percent body fat level was too high and well outside the Healthy zone (roughly 12 to 18 percent). It also said healthy results were associated with longer life and lower risks of heart disease.

Dr. Cheskin offered a more nuanced analysis. Body fat levels may have different health implications depending on your age, ethnicity, sex, cholesterol levels and family history. Waist circumference matters, too, because severe abdominal fat can be associated with health problems.

For an Asian man my age with a 34-inch waistline, whose family has not had a history of diabetes or heart problems, and whose blood tests recently showed normal cholesterol levels, even a 25 percent body fat reading would probably not be alarming, he said.

That context, combined with my body mass index along with the measurements taken with a body fat scale and caliper, led Dr. Cheskin to doubt Halos analysis.

He worried about the technologys potential consequences.

Does it potentially create eating disorders? he said. Youre taking a bunch of people with normal weight and B.M.I. and telling them theyre too fatty. What are they going to do with that? Some of them are going to be more compulsive and start doing things that are going to be inappropriate.

This experiment raised another question: What in the world was Amazon thinking releasing a product like this now? It has been impossible for us to move around as much as we used to this year. If anything, we should accept that our bodies will be imperfect during this time.

Dr. Majmudar said he felt the opposite. As a clinician, he said, he would encourage patients to mitigate the health risks of gaining weight and being more sedentary in the pandemic. The goal of the Halo was to drive behavioral change with education and awareness, he said.

The desire or intention was never to body-shame people, he added.

In my experience, there are better fitness-tracking products that offer more positive motivation.

The Apple Watch, for one, lets you set goals for how much you want to move or exercise each day, and those goals are symbolized by colorful rings that are shown on the watch face. Once a ring is completed, you have met your goal. Fitbit devices send notifications to your phone, egging you on when you are nearing your step goal. Neither device comes anywhere close to giving you body dysmorphia.

Another of Halos unique features is Tone, which uses the bracelets microphone to periodically listen in on your conversations to tell you what your mood sounds like. I turned the feature off after two days because it felt like a creepy invasion of privacy. But I left it on long enough to complain to my wife about what a bad idea it was.

After analyzing the conversation, the Halo app said I sounded irritated and disgusted. That, at least, was accurate.

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