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Focusing on silver linings on the road to recovery
Well, that’s an autumn we won’t forget in a hurry – however
much many of us may want to. Ironically, as winter hits
its stride, we find ourselves tentatively emerging from the
enforced hibernation that has profoundly affected every
aspect of our lives and work.
To say the experience has been a learning curve
would be an understatement. While we’ve all learnt
things about ourselves in isolation, we have probably
also made some unexpected discoveries about our
clients, members and colleagues (who knew that Rita
would be such an avid adopter of Zoom in order to keep
attending her weekly, now land-based, aqua class?)
The question now is, how are things going to look
on the other side of shutdown? As of this week, gyms
and studios in every state and territory are reopening,
provided they are compliant with social distancing and
hygiene rules. It’s a return to business, though clearly
not as usual, with echoes of the pandemic likely to
reverberate indefinitely: in the layout of gym floors, in the
mandatory booking of spots in classes, in heightened
cleaning protocols, and more.
In this issue of Network, our writers address various
pandemic-related topics, from PT mental health,
maintaining positivity and returning from physical
deconditioning, to virtual training, optimising immunity
and even COVID tax implications.
In her opinion piece on page 7, Leisl Klaebe discusses
our industry’s return, writing that, above all, ‘There
must be heart in how we deliver post COVID-19 fitness:
compassion, understanding, gentleness and permission.’
On page 37, meanwhile, Brooke Turner acknowledges
the frustrations of downtime, but focuses on the silver
linings of the situation for fitness professionals – and the
fact is, although the future remains uncertain, we must
all do the same.
For one thing, the pandemic has increased awareness
of the importance of good health and fitness, because
healthier people have not been so personally impacted,
health-wise at least. This presents an opportunity for our
industry to reach out to the 80% of the population not
using our services, and to recruit them to the vital cause
of their own wellbeing.
On behalf of Network, I wish you the very best as we
take the first steps towards recovery.
Stay safe,
Oliver Kitchingman, Editor
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