Hello to my lovely listeners. This is a podcast that will hopefully reassure you a bit. I know that within the Commit to Sixth group, there's been a bit of anxiety and I guess people being a little bit scared and uncertain about what's happening. And I am no virus expert, so I can't tell you or advise you what to do, but a lot of you have decided that you are not going to go to the gym, which, do you know what, potentially is a good idea? If you are going to catch something, the gym is a very good environment to spread it. So if you have chosen to do that, or even if you haven't and you are going to go to the gym,

I am going to outline which factors we're going to put in place and implement to provide the best support and accountability.

During this time where there is a lot of uncertainty.

The nice thing is, one thing that we still have

control over is what we eat and one thing we still have control over is exercise and activity.

So yes, you might not be able to eat the exact diet you want to eat. I've not seen huge food shortages

but maybe you couldn't get a certain

type of food, not really a problem. Again, with exercise, maybe you're not going to the gym,

or maybe your gym's shut. And at this moment while I'm recording this podcast, I'm sure things are

going to change very quickly. But most gyms are open. But even if you're not going to the gym, that doesn't mean you can't exercise. Even if you're someone like myself who usually hates home workouts, try and flip that round and see this as a bit of a challenge. And certainly don't put it up as a barrier. I've seen the few people saying, I really struggle to

get motivated at home. Yeah, to be honest, so do I. I like the gym environment. But that doesn't

mean I can't do it. And that doesn't mean that actually, after practicing it for however long this

is going to be, that I won't actually have developed that skill of being able to train hard at home,

which is quite a good tool to have.

It's also a brilliant opportunity to work on weaknesses,

or things that maybe we conveniently leave to the end or forget to do,

or just, you know, really don't have time for, like mobility, like maybe working on some body weight

exercises, I've decided that I want to learn to double under, so with the skipping rope. So I'm going to

start trying to do that every day to try and build that skill. Basically, I want you to be able to

look back and be like, remember that time we all had to

social distance or go out less, the gym was shut. Yeah, that's when I learned to do a handstand press

up or that's when I got my first 10 press ups in a row. You can find positives in every situation if you start looking for them.

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