With the current stay-at-home measures, we understand it may be difficult to get daily activity.
Though many of us are at home, it doesn’t mean that we can’t stay active! Doing daily activity has many benefits including regulating stress, mental health, energy levels and concentration.
ASRAB has put a list together of healthy at home options to increase physical and mental health. Check them out below!
1. Online Yoga Program. Take part in ASRAB’s Online Described Iyengar Yoga with Accessible Media Inc (AMI). Our very own yoga instructor, Lynne Swenson, will guide you. Click HERE for yoga
2. Learn how to cope with stress. Listen to fellow ASRAB member and psychologist, Lowell Taylor, talk about how to cope with stress. Lowell Taylor has been on Amazing Race Canada with his lovely wife Julie and also has 2 silver medals from the 2019 Parapan Am games.
Click HERE to hear Lowell
3. Workout from Home! Complete one or all of the list of activities below and tag us on Instagram at @abblindsports
Push-ups. Push-ups are an exercise done on the ground where you start with your hands on the floor right underneath your shoulders and your legs are straight. You lay with face, palms and toes facing down, keeping legs and back straight, extending arms straight to push body up and back down again. Work up to 10 pushups.
Plank. A plank is maintaining a position similar to a push-up for a maximum possible time. Instead of your palms being on the floor, your forearms are on the floor. Suspend your body so that only your forearms and your feet are on the floor. Work up to 45 seconds.
Jumping Jacks. A jumping jack is an exercise in which a person who is standing, jumps to a position with legs and arms spread out and then jumps back to the original position. Work up to 20 jumping jacks.
Burpees. From a standing position squat down until your thighs are parallel to the floor and place your palms on the floor. From there kick your feet back as far as you can while keeping your arms extended. As soon as your feet land jump them back in towards your hands, then jump up into the air. Land and immediately squat down to go into the next rep. Work up to 15.
4. Complete free online guided meditation exercises! Click HERE for free meditation.
