3 Ways in 30 Days to Stay Healthy and Fit While in Quarantine

30 more days, or more?! Oh boy! What an ideal time for families to join in collective goals to stay healthy and fit together.  Whether it’s a fitness class online, a walk around the neighborhood or baking healthy treats, there is no doubt you can take advantage of this time, build some strength and hopefully, get healthier day-by-day.  There is a silver lining to all of this, after all!

If you want to get on board, but you’re just not sure the healthiest approach, here are three simple ways to stay in shape with the family during quarantine.

Find an Online Fitness Class - and Get the Entire Family Involved

Instructors and studios have flocked to Zoom, Instagram and Facebook Live to bring you classes. Don’t have weights? Simply get a towel, twist it up and use it for resistance. Consider a cast iron skillet or other heavy items around your house. Fill up your water bottles, use them as weights - wine bottles work too!

Join Binay’s Bootcamp Fun Family Workouts on Zoom on Sundays at 10 (or Binay’s daily workouts with family or on your own)! There’s no better way to stay connected then moving your bodies together with handshake planks, high 5 squats and sit-up challenges to reach a common goal - stay strong!

Photo Credit: @scottellisonphotography, Front Door Project

Set Your Goals to 10k Steps a Day

Get your Quarantine Family team together, your watches ready, track your steps and set a goal to get in 10ksteps a day! If you don’t have a tracker on your watch, every iPhone has a “health app” that will automatically track steps for you. Don’t get caught up on accuracy, every improvement helps so just step a little more day-by-day.

Snack Healthy

Do you and the kids have a case of the munchies? AIM’s Farmer Market is still open every Sunday; stash your fridge with strawberries, carrots and make sure to try crunchy vegetable snack crackers and dips from Mami’s Crunch! Additionally, Star Route Farms is offering pick up at Watershed at Mill Valley Lumberyard. When fresh fruits and vegetables are just not an option, here are a few of my favorite snacks, created by local companies, to keep around the house:

iWon Organics Protein puffs and sticks that are bound to keep the kids snacking healthier. My son loves the spicy flavors and I’m so grateful to have a healthy protein based snack around the house versus chips without any nutritional benefits.

Another great option for the entire family is Dosa Chips, made with a slow fermentation process and antioxidant-rich rice bran oil creating healthy guts, ideal for building our immune system. It’s so crunchy and delicious you would never know they’re good for you too! Available online or at Mill Valley Market, Juice Girl and Nugget Market.

Get the kids off soda and into Kombucha, rich in probiotics and antioxidants, which benefit your brain, heart and gut. One of our favorites is Marin Kombucha’s Pinot Sage (but every flavor is equally as delicious.)

Just because we have to remain inside doesn’t mean we have to give up our health. As a matter of fact, this is the ideal time to join together and stay healthy and fit as a family.

About Binay

Binay Curtis, Certified Nutritionist and Fitness Instructor, focuses on a balanced approach to health through real foods at the right time, fun fitness and energetic instruction. With an emphasis on feeling good on the inside out, each program is tailored based upon an individual’s needs. Her approach, while deep and knowledgable, is also practical and simple to allow successful outcomes for even the busiest client.

With more than two decades of health writing, fitness, nutrition, health and biotechnology marketing at Galaxy Six Strategies, Binay leverages her experience to bring nutrition education programs to individuals and corporations through her company, Bacon + Broccoli = Nutrition in Balance. Previously, Binay represented Life Fitness, Nordic Track and Foodily through a 20 year career in public relations and marketing. In addition, Binay worked as a contributing health and fitness writer at Muscle & Fitness Magazine and The Daily Herald. She received a BS in Health Writing at the University of Wisconsin, and is certified as a Nutritional Therapy Consultant from the Nutritional Therapy Association. With a 25+ year career in personal training and exercise instruction, she teaches Binay’s Bootcamp HIIT, Inferno Hot Pilates and holds numerous fitness certifications through AFAA, US Yoga Association and YogaKids.