Due to the Coronavirus outbreak, school and football have been cancelled so here is what I am doing to keep fit. Every Tuesday, Thursday after I finish my schoolwork, I go on the rowing machine for 20 minutes. When I am on, I watch Netflix or YouTube on my i-pad to pass the time. On the days I do not go on the rowing machine, I usually go for a 5k run. I normally go up past the farms but today I decided to change my route and go through the Dean. At night, my dad takes me down the Dean to practice my football. It is usually fitness related. After all the running we normally have a game of football golf.

At the weekend or when I come home from playing football, I usually practice my golf short game by chipping the ball into a practice net. Hopefully, this year I will spend more time playing golf on the fairway than looking for my ball in the bushes.

On the weekend we take my neighbour’s dog on a walk to West Lothian golf course. We walk from our house up to the golf course where we walk around the golf course generally going a different way each time.

I have been doing online dance classes and paying to do zoom classes with josh denyer and adam scott etc, also I have been doing daily stretches to keep my flexibility in my hips. I have had to do my acro mock exam at home and I am still working on my ballet exam and jazz exam too and keeping my style in commercial. I have been keeping active by running every Wednesday to keep my stamina up.

Miss Stein has been so busy keeping fit during lockdown she decided to share her experiences via the use of a SWAY.

Miss Stein’s Fitness Ideas

Hello everyone! I hope you are all well and keeping as active as possible during lockdown. In the following sway I have recorded some of the things I am doing to keep my mind and body activ…

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During lockdown I have been doing quite a few things to keep fit. I’m usually at swimming 4 times a week but I can’t attend it now for obvious reasons, so I needed to come up an alternative. I have been doing online body attack classes offered by Les Mills, and I have recently started jogging. I’ve also been on my trampoline every day for at least 20 minutes. Besides that, I have been using an app that has mini workouts for muscle training. Lastly, I have been stretching every day and am now fully down in my splits on one leg and almost there on the other.

Adam has been working really hard on a beginners strength and conditioning programme.  You can see what he has being doing in the picture below.  We are very impressed.  We have also attached the word document which gives you better detail about his training programme.

Adam Lee S&C Beginners Prog (1)

During lockdown, I have tried to stay active as much as possible, including using my once a day outside activity either running or walking my dogs.

Although I was ill for a time with a virus at the start of lockdown (not sure if it was THE virus or not), for the past 4 weeks or so I have tried to exercise / train at least twice a day.

This has also coincided with me getting a new canoe sprint coach who has been setting me a land based, six days a week training plan designed to increase my endurance, technique and strength until we get back on the water to paddle.

A typical week for me can include 3 or 4 runs (6km, 1500m – I am currently doing this in laps around one of the football pitches in Douglas Park), 3 or 4 Gym sessions (mix of strength and cardio work – I do this with equipment I have at home) and 5 ERGO sessions which can either be longer distance or repeated short sprints (this is a paddle machine similar to a rowing machine but for kayaking).

I use a GPS heart rate monitor to record my sessions and to stay within the required level for the session which is set by my coach.

During lockdown I have been doing many activities to keep my physical and mental health in good condition. Before lockdown I done some form of exercise everyday through basketball, pe or going to the gym, so now I have been keeping the same routine of following a 20-minute workout each day. The Joe Wicks ‘7 days of sweat’ has been my favourite classes so far! I have also taken part in the 5k run challenge for the NHS and donated money towards the cause. Doing these daily exercises has not only helped me physically, but mentally also. It has given me a sense of motivation to get up at a reasonable time in the morning and complete a session which helps me get through each day.Exercise has helped me mentally, along with playing music and making art, especially during this time. I have noticed improvements in my drawings and have been learning new instruments. This gives me a great feeling of achievement and gives me something to release/focus my mind on instead of my thoughts spiralling, helping me cope with this new lifestyle we must momentarily live in.

I have been trying to remain active during lockdown as physical and mental well-being are interlinked.

This is a time where I think people rely on physical activity as it is a means of taking a break from work/school work and a way of getting out of the house. I am someone who can’t tend to sit around for too long and therefore like being active.

I have been going for regular walks with my partner and our dog, I have also been going runs (I took part in the Run 5k, Donate £5, Nominate 5). I have also done some home workouts (mainly circuits or HIIT). These have all kept me active during a very different time.

During the Covid-19 lockdown I am sad to be missing out on my usual sports and dance classes during the week, but I have found other ways I can keep fit and healthy. I have been taking part in online zoom classes with my cheerleading squad at Storm Evolution Allstars 2/3 times a week to keep my fitness up through taking part in conditioning classes as well as working on my flexibility and maintaining/learning new skills through stretch classes. I have also been enjoying pushing myself through the Chloe Ting programmes published online, these are great hit work outs that I really love doing. These definitely are on the harder side, but I really enjoy the challenge. I also decided running was something I wanted to get myself into, I’ve never been the strongest at running but thought it could definitely be something I could work on, for the first three weeks of lockdown I was running a mile every morning to try and build on my stamina before increasing the distance. I then slowly began increasing the distance to allow me to run 5k in support of the NHS challenge donating £5 at the end. Just today I ran my longest distance of 11.21k something I am extremely proud to have achieved and hopefully will keep building onto this.

We have all made made great advancements in online learning during the lockdown.  Within Bo’ness PE this has been predominantly within our theory work.  One area we are keen to address is setting practical challenges for pupils.  These will always be in the form of skill development and we wanted to share one quick and easy way for you to put your video together.  If you have an iPhone or iPad you can use Clips.

🎬Want to use the #classroomclips app to teach your students how to create “Show what you know through a video” projects? This tutorial is for you! @AppleEDU @Mattbaier1234 #EveryoneCanCreate #ForTheLoveOfLearning #AppleClips #AppleEduChat #iPadED #appleteacher #ADEdu pic.twitter.com/l6sIw3Vh6B

— Kristen Brooks #PhysicalDistancingNotSocial (@KristenBrooks77) March 31, 2018

Here is another excellent tutorial video on YouTube:

This is on the agenda for our next team meeting but what this should do is give pupils some ideas for creating clips of them performing skills and techniques. We look forward to posting some of your creations on our department twitter page.