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View all search resultsPhysical exercise: How to pick up where we left off
People who had stopped physical exercise for more than two months would inevitably face a performance decline, thus it was essential for them to decrease the frequency, intensity, duration and types of exercise upon resuming training.
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ndriana Apriani, a 32-year-old consultant currently working for a financial institution, loves exercising. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, she used to do 5-kilometer runs three times a week during the weekdays, while on the weekends, she would run 10 km to 15 km on Car Free Day in Jakarta.
Her 5 km runs on the weekdays usually took about 50 minutes, while her extended weekend regimens could take one-and-a-half to two hours. Her friend Fitri Putranti, a 32-year-old telecommunications company employee, used to follow the same regimen. Both women live in South Jakarta.
Yet, starting in March 2020, due to fears of the coronavirus outbreak, Indriana and Fitri stopped these outdoor exercises, opting to do some indoor exercises instead such as yoga and Latin dance from home.
Several months into home quarantine, both began longing to resume their more intense outdoor physical exercises.
“Spending too much time being inactive at home, my sleeping patterns became abnormal. Back when I was commuting to the office, I would usually get so tired at around 10 p.m. and fall asleep straight away. Now, it takes longer for my body to feel tired, so I am only able to sleep at around 12 a.m.,” Fitri said.
Meanwhile, Indriana said that after a while, her “lighter” daily yoga and dance exercises did little to help keep her physical lethargy at bay. “I started to get tired and feel weak more easily,” she said.
To feel better, Indriana and Fitri have recently started to engage in their more strenuous outdoor activities again by running around the neighborhood complexes in which they live, wearing face masks and keeping proper distance from passersby, of course.
