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Week six of getting fit while social distancing

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I decided to dive into the world of yoga this week as I followed another YouTube workout personality.
I have always been curious about yoga as a workout. I have always had what I think is above average flexibility. Even when I was younger, I felt like I needed to stretch before I did any physical activity to get my body feeling right. That feels especially true now I am older.
I only know the basic information about yoga. I’ve seen people hold poses. I know its about breathing. I know it’s a way of life for some people that goes beyond just being the preferred way to workout.
With the practice dating back to the third century and being more of a philosophy than just another way to work one’s body into shape, yoga has many layers and an intricate history to it that goes beyond the weight lifting, running and calisthenics and I have done in my life.
That has been the reason I have been hesitant. The stereotypical yoga practitioner that movies and television have fed me my whole life, one who is in touch with their spiritual side in a eastern religious type of way, is just not someone I could ever see myself being around for very long.
I know it works for plenty of people and that’s great, but I have been skeptical if it was for me. I don’t like being told how I am supposed to be feeling and constantly being told to exhale away all of my worries while I transition to a pose is not really how I deal with my stress.
Still, I went in with as open as my mind could be. I settled on this channel called SarahBethYoga. This woman has yoga workouts dating back to eight years ago, but eventually settled on putting out one new video a week. She seems to be pretty successful on the platform, with more than 800,000 subscribers and 68 million total views. She also has her own mobile app and membership website.
Videos can be anywhere from five to 30 minutes long. No mater what you want out of yoga, she has a workout for you. The video titles are pretty clear what you are going to get.
There are videos for beginners, intermediate, stretches, weight loss, body target and more. There are also videos for the spiritual like a 10 minute calming workout for anger and frustration. I didn’t really mess with those.
I started easy with one titled to “wake me up in the morning” on Saturday. I did not invest in a yoga mat, but I do have good news.
My dreaded shedding rug is no more. My sister decided to get me another one, even though I did not really have much issue with it the last two years until I made it my regular workout area.
I learned the first day that just hanging my body limply in certain poses that were supposed to be relaxing were not that relaxing to me. The one where my upper body was slumped forward down reaching the floor while my knees were bent was described as a resting type of pose of some sort.
Even with my ability to comfortably touch the floor with my hands with my legs straight when I stretch, this pose proved more taxing to me than it should have been.
I also picked up on that as people got more comfortable with yoga, it would sort of start to resemble dance steps to me.
Each pose was kind of taught as a step and some would transition into other poses. Eventually several poses would be strung together.
No more than two or three at this beginning level, but I can see the appeal of the idea of seeming to flow through ones workout.
Another thing I was prepared for and tried to keep note of was the part that breathing plays when doing yoga. Every move was specifically made to either be breathing in or exhaling a breath.
Each exhale was sometimes described as blowing away certain thoughts from the mind or stresses from the day. I’m not sure I was able to do that last part, but I did my best to breathe right when directed.
I’m sure the workout did something for me, but I could not tell the difference afterwards.
After another beginner stretch on Sunday left me underwhelmed, I looked for a workout that was advertised to burn more calories than anything else.
While it had more poses and the pace was fast enough for me to start sweating, again I was not too impressed. Maybe after five weeks of consistent beginner exercise, I just needed more than the 10 minute gentle yoga workouts.
I know yoga can be hard, so I found a 15-minute core workout. It involved a lot of time on my back as I did a lot of similar movements I had done in other core workouts. The difference was instead of reps, it was transitioning through a couple of poses in a controlled pace.
This workout pushed me at times. It was the one where I felt the most benefit from as there was some light burning afterwards that had been mostly absent.

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Two teams compete at state tourney

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Colt Henry, Lane Smith, Cooper Johnson and Corbyn Patton competed at the state high school bass tournament at Lake Conroe. (Courtesy photo)

The Red River High School Bass Club competed this past weekend, May 31 – June 1, at the State Tournament on Lake Conroe for the two-day tournament.
Two of the teams from Montague County traveled south to try their best at the culmination of the year for the state title. Teams were able to pre-fish on Friday before the Saturday and Sunday competition. On Friday, there was a flipping contest for the youth and Cooper Johnson won third overall and won a $500 scholarship and an Academy gift card.
The club’s two teams who competed were Lane Smith/Colt Henry with boat captain Jimmy Smith. The team placed 63rd with a total of 16.22 pounds. The second team of Cooper Johnson/Corbyn Patton and boat captain Jayson Toerck placed 169th with a total weight of 2.29 pounds.

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15 athletes playing in Oil Bowl

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The Maskat Shrine Oil Bowl is this week on June 6-7 and graduating athletes from Bowie, Nocona and Saint Jo are confirmed to be playing.
In total, seven athletes from Bowie, five from Nocona and three from Saint Jo are planning to play in the all-star games this week. Nocona also will have a pair of coaches participating as well.
The girl’s basketball game kicks off events on June 6, scheduled for 6 p.m. at Wichita Falls Memorial High School. In the game, the east team will have Nocona players Avery Crutsinger, Meg Meekins and Reagan Phipps playing while Kyler Spitzer and Clayton Brown coach them one last time.
On the west team, Saint Jo’s Payzlie Cervantes is confirmed to be playing.
The boy’s basketball game is scheduled to follow at 7:30 p.m. On the east team, Bowie’s Boston Farris and Nocona’s Jose Gomez Jr. will be playing.
On June 7, the volleyball games are scheduled to start at 4 p.m. with the small school game. On the west team, Nocona’s Kaygan Stone and Saint Jo’s Taylor Patrick are confirmed to play. On the east team, Saint Jo’s Aubrey Morman will get to play her teammate.
There are no local athletes confirmed to be playing in the big school volleyball game.
The final event is the football game, scheduled for 7:30 p.m. at Memorial Stadium. It is an all Bowie affair with six players confirmed to be playing for the east team: Justin Clark, Jorge De Leon, Hunter Fluitt and Braden Rhyne, Preacher Chambers and Moh Azouak.

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New Nocona Athletic Director Jeff Hill along with his wife Amy and their kids Kason, Camden and Kinsley. (Courtesy photo)

Nocona Independent School District officials looked inward for a new athletic director/head football coach, selecting Jeff Hill for the position.
Hill, who served last year as Nocona football’s offensive coordinator and also led the softball program to the playoffs for the first time in a while as its head coach, was upgraded to the role.
This came on the heels of former Athletic Director Blake Crutsinger, who served in the role the last four years, resigned in May.
For Hill, the choice to apply for the position was a no brainer. His one year in Nocona had impressed upon him and his wife that it was the place they would like to be long term.
“I’m looking for a town to raise my kids in and Nocona has treated my family really well,” Hill said. “There are some really good people. The kids work hard. Everything I am looking for in a hometown is right here in Nocona and I want to try and make it as best as it can be, especially through athletics.”
Before Nocona, Hill served as the athletic director at S&S Consolidated while also spending time at Hebron and Whitewright in his coaching career.
Hill expresses great respect for the departing Crutsinger and besides changing a few small things in how he personally wants to do things, he is not trying to come in with a sweeping restructuring of the whole athletic department.
The program had five of its six team sports make the playoffs, with volleyball playing in the regional final and the girl’s basketball team winning the state championship.
That along with two athletes competing at the state championship in cross country and track with one earning a gold medal, it was one of the more successful school years in athletic program history.
“Coach Crutsinger was awesome and did a great job so honestly just little tweaks, a little bit of structure and cohesion amongst the coaching staff between boys and girls,” Hill said. “I hope to keep the winning tradition going overall in the athletic department.”

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