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Exercises You Can Still Do At Home To Stay Fit

Rosibel Garcia Najarro, Reporter

Katherine Murcia-Rodriguez

December 4, 2020

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There are still exercises you can do at home to stay healthy and stay in shape; and if you're an athlete, to stay fit and ready for when sports come back. Here are some exercises we recommend doing while we are doing virtual learning:

General Exercises You Can Do:

Basic:

  • Push-Ups

  • Knee Push Ups

  • Sit-ups

  • Crunches

  • Planks

  • Walking Up And Down The Stairs

  • Squats

  • Bridge

  • Lunges

  • Plank To Downward Dog

  • Straight-Leg Donkey Kick

  • Bicycle Crunches

  • ​Jumping Jacks 

 

Advanced :

  • Kickboxing

  • Chair Squats 

  • Single-Leg Bridge

  • Walking Lunges 

  • Pike Push-Ups 

  • Supermans

  • One-Legged Push-Ups

  • Jumping Lunges

  • One-Leg Or One-Arm Plank

Sport-specific Exercises You Can Do:

Basketball:

  • Goblet squats

  • Single-leg hip bridge

  • Front lunge pass under

  • Side-to-side twist

  • Sit-up to toes

  • Supermans 

  • Ball pass push-ups 

  • Front squats 

  • Laterals kater

  • Heel slides 

  • Side plank leg raise 

  • Bulgarrian squats 

  • Split squats jumps 

  • Squat hoops to wall swat

  • Fingertip push-ups 

  • Line hops

  • Curl to overhead press

 

Soccer:

  • Jump rope

  • goblet squats

  • Change-of-direction dribble drill

  • Front plank row

  • Lateral single-leg bound

  • Side box jump

  • Kettlebell reverse lunges

  • Ladder shuffles 

  • High knees

  • Bodyweight squats 

  • Front lunges

  • Dynamic squats 

  • Shoulder rotation front and back 

  • Single-leg jump

  • Overhead press

  • Side jumps 

  • Single-leg Romanian deadlifts 

  • Mountain climbers

Some of the exercises are difficult and some are not, so we recommend that you pick different or a couple of exercises to do. For example,  pick a different one each day and do them in the early morning around 6:30-8:00. You can keep workouts/exercises and do it every day, but sometimes you can miss a couple of days which is okay; just get back at it because exercising is good for your health!

Published by The Manassas Park Middle School News Club

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