Well-exercised writers are better writers

Having a hard time focusing on work? There’s so much to think about with Covid-19 and the market decline. When I feel like this, exercise sometimes helps me to focus more. I used to run out to my gym for exercise. That’s not an option now. To help me exercise, I’ve compiled a list of online exercise videos that are free—or temporarily free as their providers’ response to the coronavirus crisis. Some of the free classes offer paid versions.

I am grateful to my writer friends who suggested these resources to me.

Exercise in general

YMCA 360 currently offers videos for yoga, barre, boot camp, and active older adults.
Millionaire Hoy
The PERFECT Home Workout
Orangetheory temporarily offers a different free 30-minute workout daily
FitOn, an app and website, offers live and on-demand workouts.

Barre

Barre3—I really liked the first of this YouTube series, but the second video had lots of ads, which I found disruptive.

Yoga

Do any of you know of good free Iyengar yoga classes? I really miss the Iyengar classes that I took at my gym that went out of business a couple years ago.

Your Journey Yoga with Cheryl
Yoga with Adriene—When I checked YouTube, the featured video was Meditation for Anxiety, which seemed appropriate. One of my friends is doing Adriene’s 30-Day Yoga Challenge.

Workouts for older adults

Go4Life—These exercises come from the National Institute on Aging at NIH.
My elderly mother-in-law enjoys the “exercise for seniors” videos from HASfit on YouTube. Here’s a link to one of them.
The YMCA site listed above also has exercises aimed at older adults.

Workouts for kids

If you’re working at home, your work may benefit from keeping your kids well-exercised. Writer Cheryl Alkon told me about the BOKS Facebook page:

There is a program called BOKS that does exercise classes at school before school starts. I believe they are doing daily workouts on their Facebook page at noon. My nine-year-old daughter and I did one last week and it was effective—lots of squats and push-ups and running in place. We enjoyed it.