CONTEST: What do you do to keep active? || By @iraguha

Hello Steemians, am so happy to be apart of this community and thank you @fendit for putting up this community. Kudos for the good work. My entry in the What do you do to stay active? contest.

What do you do to stay active?

Wow, this is a good question actually. I love being active to an extent that when I seat in one place without doing anything, I feel incomplete. I always have something that am doing to keep me occupied.

With the current lockdown in my Country Uganda, I spend most of my time at home since I can’t go to work. My work place is a sports facility and mid last month our President H.E Yoweri Kaguta Museveni closed all business that have lots of people gathering and ours fell in that category.

While at home these are a few activities I do to keep my body, mind and soul active.

Jog, Walks and Work outs. I have a workout routine. This is a daily morning and evening activity. I walk or job for about a kilometre and back home daily. My dog ‘Snow’ is my best exercise buddy. Walking with him is a bit of a work out because he is always dragging you here and there as he tries to snitch around and mark his route by peeing on the side of the road. Haha. When I get home I do work outs to relax the muscles. I do planks, pledges, push ups, stretches and seat ups. These are very refreshing.

Sports. One of my greatest hobbies is involving myself in sports. In my different levels of school, I played different sports. That is basketball, soccer, tennis, handball, a bit of athletics and swimming. Though at the moment I often play only soccer and basketball.

These are definitely a huge reason I am active. Before the whole Covid-19 pandemic, I and my friends would play on a daily but with the current lockdown, we are not playing soccer because sports facilities are closed. We hope and pray someday we can get back to our sporting routines when it’s safe to play.

Content Creating. Professionally I am Communications person. At the university I studied mass communication and majored in broadcast. That is TV and Radio. So in my free time I love to get my camera out and take come pictures and capture videos and edit them into stories.

I recently created a YouTube channel where I am going to be playing all my content. This keeps my mind active for new ideas. Link to my channel

Cooking. Am not a good cook. I should start with this so that you all don’t think am a low-key chef hehe. But I have passion for cooking and I try to learn new recipes and prepare some meals at home. I don’t know if it’s just me alone but food cooked by you has a few it tastes sweeter.

Watching Movie. These specifically help my mind keep active. I not only watch to enjoy the action or see my favourite actors. I enjoy watching movies because I want to see the techniques, storyline development and all tricks that were used in the making of these movies.

Board Games These are great with keeping active both physically and mentally. Games like Chess and Monopoly will get your mind thinking hard about your next move.

As I sign off I just want to say that there are many other ways we can all use to stay active mentally, spiritually and physically. We just have to be able to identify which one helps each of us better to keep active. Thank You for reading my post.
God Bless You