The COVID-19 lock-down and a chance to get fitter.

During the height of the pandemic and lock-down a lot of people put on weight. But for some Indonesians observing health protocols like social distancing resulted in them in increasing their exercise and their pattern of exercise.

The COVID-19 social restrictions made the traditional communal morning exercise problematic. Source: Photo by Merekayangpeduli/Creative Commons

Marya Yenita Sitohang, is a Researcher in the Research Centre for Population, at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) explains a number of changes in peoples’ exercise regimes during the pandemic and how we can learn from their example. 

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Weights are great but you don’t really need a lot of expensive equipment to exercise effectively at home. Source: Image by Sandi Iswahyudi (TravelBlogger)/CreativeCommons