Exercise during coronavirus: Here are new pandemic-friendly ways of keeping fit

January is generally the month people vow to get fit and look after their health more.

January is generally the month people vow to get fit and look after their health more. Source: AAP

With lockdowns, social distancing, stay-at-home orders and more, it's not surprising that online workout videos continue to be extremely popular with people hoping to keep fit during the pandemic.


In London - where they've just entered their third strict lockdown -  experts at a London fitness studio have come up with something a little different.

It's called NOGA - as Yoga Instructor Alexandra Grimshaw explains.

"We developed something called NOGA which was based on "Not Yoga", which is yoga for people who don't enjoy yoga. And as someone who teaches yoga, I get that, I feel very intimidated by people who 'Om' at me, I feel very intimidated by people who might start chanting at me, and I know what those chants mean, I've trained professionally, I know that they are and even I'm a bit like 'Oooh, I'd rather not.'

"So what we developed was something that gives you all of the benefits that the physical asana as they call it or the physical yoga gives you but using a prop to help or make it harder and getting rid of Sanskrit, getting rid of anything that might feel really yogic, so that's what the NOGA's about."  

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