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[GOLF LESSON]

STAYING HOME

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fter 10 long months of staying home, the new few to optimize your snowshoeing or hiking adventure:
Aroutines we adopted to stay active and healthy at the ● Standing quad stretch. Standing up straight, bend
start of the COVID crisis are growing old. And while the your right leg up behind you and grab hold of your
arrival of vaccines brings hope for a return to “normal” in foot with your left hand. Count to 30, then lower your
the not-too-distant future, we’re not there yet. It’s time for leg and repeat with the other for three repetitions.
a reset. We asked the pros at top resorts (and one window ● Forward bend: From a standing position, bend
treatment expert) to share their tips for a mid-pandemic forward at your hips, keeping your legs straight as you
wellness tune-up, and here’s what they had to say. lower your hands until they reach your ankles. Hold
Head outdoors. Don’t let winter weather keep you from for 30 seconds to stretch your calves, hamstrings and
exercising outdoors, advises Wayne Cowan, activities hips. Repeat three times.
director at Whiteface Lodge, a mountain resort in the ● Forward lunge: Elevate your left foot at least 12
two-time Winter Olympics host town of Lake Placid, New inches, resting it on a stair, bench or even a large
York. His suggestions: rock. Staying vertical and squaring your hips, extend
your right leg behind you, squeezing your right glute,
• A cold-weather workout helps ease seasonal depression then reach your right arm overhead to deepen the
while offering great cardio benefits and higher calorie stretch. Hold 30 seconds, then repeat on the other
burn than exercising in warmer temperatures. side for three repetitions.
• Make it fun by trying something new, like snowshoeing
or a winter hike. Snowshoeing in particular can burn Raise your (golf) game. To help golfers keep primed for
about 500 calories an hour on average—twice as many their return to the course, Laird Small, director of the
as walking, and the higher leg lift it requires means it Pebble Beach Golf Academy at Pebble Beach Resorts,
also might beat running. offers these simple tips:
• Warming up with a few stretches is crucial. Here are a

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