Healthy Tips to Make it Through the Quarantine with Matt Bailey

Hey! I’m Matthew Bailey, Kelly’s Personal Trainer, and I’m going to share a few easy tips that will help you get through the quarantine.

1. The first and most important tip is to stay moving. This can be taking walks outside, doing a bodyweight workout indoors or going for a bike ride. Whatever it is, make sure to get active once a day. This will not only help your physical health, but you will feel much better mentally after you get your body moving. Most importantly, while getting active, be sure to practice social distancing.
2. Cook More Than You Carry Out-Now is the time to learn a few new healthy recipes. I encourage you to eat out and support local occasionally, but make sure you aren’t taking 3 meals a day to-go. If you find yourself eating out too often, pick up some groceries and prep food that will last you a few days.
3. Develop a New Routine-Right now, everyone’s normal routine is thrown off. 3 weeks ago you probably had a rhythm to how you started and finished your day, Now, everyone must finish Tiger King to stay relevant in conversations and that might keep you up a few hours later than usual, throwing you off for the next day. It’s great to enjoy working from home for a few days, but make sure you settle into a new routine that works for you in order to stay productive during these crazy times.
4. Limit the Alcohol-Drinking is great, and I would never tell anyone to cut it out of their life completely. But while we are forced to spend more time at home, it gets a lot easier to open that next beer, or that next bottle of wine. Try your best to stay diligent so you don’t come out of the quarantine with a few extra pounds.

Building a Home Workout

I attached an instagram video below of a simple workout that I wrote for my fiancé. It contains 5 basic movements, and 10–20 reps of each movement. To complete the workout, all you have to do is complete 3–4 sets of each movement, and you’re done! Now is not the time to get too complicated with your fitness. Focus on consistency and variety, and try to find what you enjoy.

Here is a simple indoor workout template to follow

Choose 4–5 exercises

Perform the exercises in circuit format

Exercise 1-Squat-20 reps

Exercise 2-Lunge-10 reps each leg

Exercise 3-Push Up-10 reps or whatever you can do

Exercise 4-Plank-30 seconds to a minute

Exercise 5-Jumping Jack-20–50 depending on skill level

Repeat for 3–5 Rounds. If you don’t like doing reps, you can set a timer for 30 seconds to a minute, and do each exercise for time instead.

Any of the exercises above can be substituted for what you prefer (side plank, bicycle crunches, whatever you are comfortable with and have done before). If you don’t love indoor workouts, go for a bike ride or a walk with the dog if you have one. Whatever you do, don’t stay sedentary for days at a time.

Thanks so much for reading, and hopefully you can take a few of these tips and work them into your current routine.