Life during lockdown Fitness freaks switch to yoga, take virtual lessons

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Keeping themselves fit

Taking motivation from the social media, the exercise enthusiasts have even adopted a 15-day yoga challenge. With the extension of every lockdown, the yoga challenge stretches further. Netizens are challenging each other with different yogasans.

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Ajay Joshi

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, May 7

With the country entering the lockdown 3.0, people are opting for various measures to cope up with boredom, anxiety and depression. Missing out on their workouts in clubs and grounds, fitness fanatics are utilising the confinement by practising yoga everyday.

Taking motivation from the social media, the exercise enthusiasts have even adopted a 15-day yoga challenge. With the extension of every lockdown, the yoga challenge stretches further. Netizens are challenging each other with different yogasans.

Sachin Sharma (26), who has been performing yoga for over an year now, said, it not only helped them shape the body, but also relaxed their mind. “Learning to know about basic and extensive postures, my peers have also started devoting their time in yoga. With easy-to-do stretches, one can rapidly programme one’s body in performing comprehensive asanas”, added Sachin, who urged people of every age group to deal daytime fatigue with yoga.

Similarly, Rupinder Singh, a kabaddi player said, since they couldn’t hit the grounds while the curfew was on, yoga seemed to be a good escape. “It’s a great tool as stretching poses help to reduce tension in muscles and joints, and this can, in turn, help relax the sympathetic system,” he said.

Deepak Sharma, who is currently providing virtual yoga sessions to his clients in abroad and in the city, said even as his yoga centre had been lying shut for the last two months, the online sessions had been in progress.

On a daily basis, he conducts online sessions for around eight hours, for both local and international clients. “There are some basic yoga poses such as vraksh asan, tarasan, manmudra asan, Om chant, pranayam, parwat asan and others, that help manage blood pressure, build immunity and maintain body and mind balance,” said Deepak.