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Week seven of getting fit while social distancing
It’s week seven now so it’s fitting I picked a phone app called the “7 Minute Workout.”
I wish I could tell you I planned it, but it’s just a coincidence.
It’s a free workout app that has seven workouts that should take about seven minutes each. There is not much more to it. There is not a whole lot of customization to it. After working out for five days using it, I’m not sure if it updates with new workouts regularly or if you have to pay to get that feature.
I previously complained about the Nike Training app for the lack of customization, but this app feels more bare bones than that. If said exercise is too hard or you just don’t feel like doing it, there is no skip button that keeps the workout moving along at a fast pace. You just have to sit there for 30 seconds while you contemplate how your hardworking, in-shape teenage self would be disgusted if he could see you now.
With it being a free app, there are ads present. I would not call them super intrusive since they are not videos. Usually a full screen one would pop up right before or after a workout, but it would not take long to exit out of it.
The app does want to track your weight and wants you to rate how hard each workout was for you. I freely rated each workout, but I own no scale and have not weighed myself outside of a doctor’s office in several years now.
Maybe it is because I know the number will just depress me. As a super skinny guy for most of my adolescence, weight only came on once I stopped being active after the final whistle of my football career. I still identify and see myself in that light despite knowing my clothes are bought in a bigger size now.
Instead of beating myself up about it, I have come to terms with what I look like and I am okay. Until a doctor tells me I am unhealthy or I really start to hate how I look, I am not going to worry about it.
Putting numbers to it would just ruin it since I still remember what I weighed when I was younger. The simple math equation of how much more I weigh now to then would never make me feel good, so I just don’t want to know.
Back to the app, there are some fine print readings that go against its title. With “7 Minute Workouts” you expect every workout to be seven minutes long. It’s what it’s called.
Every workout is done in a circuit style, with 30 seconds to do as much or as little of each exercise before moving on to the next one, with 10 seconds in between each one. It’s pretty set in stone.
In reality, the five workouts I did took somewhere between seven to nine minutes. I never paused during a workout. I guess those five seconds add up.
It is not the biggest deal, but when a company names something a specific time because the whole gimmick is it only takes that long and then it routinely goes over said time, you just ask why.
Why not name it “8 Minute Workout?” Why did it have to be seven minutes? Is that just a more pleasing advertising number?
This is petty I know, but as someone who has mostly only stuck to 10 minute workouts in the past, I like the full round evenness of the number, seeing an even shorter workout promise got me to download the app.
One last thing that contradicts the app’s name that I did not appreciate. In the instructions that touted how the app can change people’s lives, how you do not need any equipment, ect., it says workouts should be repeated two to three times.
Excuse me? If I do this workout again or even a third time, that is not seven minutes. I know 14 or 20 minutes is not that long either, but as someone who has dedicated to spending longer taking a shower each morning than I do working out for six weeks now, I am not doing that.
The promise in the app’s name says seven minutes. You can’t get it done in seven minutes, don’t name your app that.
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It was announced last week Nocona Athletic director/football coach Blake Crutsinger is resigning from his position at the school after serving four years.
Crutsinger said now is the time for his family to make the move, with his daughter Avery graduating after spending four years at Nocona and with his son Kellar about to enter high school and wanting the same for him at another school.
“With her going off to college, she had a really good four years here and just looking at Keller heading into high school and exploring some opportunities that might be better for him, it is just time,” Crutsinger said.
Crutsinger went 19-22 overall, helping the Indians to two playoff appearances in 2022 and 2023. The team’s best season was 2023, when it went 8-2 and won the district title, the first one in 11 years for the program.
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Saint Jo senior Payzlie Cervantes signed her letter of intent to play college basketball last week at Highland College in Kansas. She also played volleyball, softball and ran track at Saint Jo. “After talking with Coach Tana Coleman, I really connected with her and loved the campus vibe and direction she wants for the team,” Cervantes said. “I’m looking forward to continuing my basketball career while getting my associates degree in nursing to become a registered nurse.”
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Last week Montague County had five girls from Bowie and Saint Jo compete at the state tennis tournament, and one team brought back some hardware.
Sisters from Bowie, junior Heidi and freshman Willow Siebert brought back a bronze medal competing in the 3A girl’s doubles bracket.
The pair were the first people from the program to make it back to state since their half sisters, Meagan and Myah Russell, advanced nine years previously.
The Sieberts came into state as a two-seed, having finished second at the regional tournament the previous week.
The duo was ready as they blew through their first two matches. They beat a team from Hondo in the first round with the scores being 6-1, 6-1 and dominated even more in the second round against a team from Tatum, winning 6-0, 6-1.
That got them through to the second day of the tournament, but Coach Dayna Boothe was worried they had had it too easy on day one.
Playing in the semifinals, the Lady Rabbits faced a familiar foe, a team from Peaster they had beaten in the regional tournament the previous week. Unfortunately, near the end of the first set, with the Sieberts fighting to stay alive, Heidi went after a high lob and slammed into the fence. She hurt her right arm and had to play through it for the rest of the match.
They lost the match with the scores being 6-3, 6-3.
It was an all Peaster final, with the other side of the bracket producing the team that both beat the Sieberts at the regional tournament and won their second straight state title.
Still, despite the disappointment, Bowie is bringing back a bronze medal. According to Boothe, after contacting people who would know dating back to the late 1970s, it could possibly be the program’s first medals from the state tournament in tennis.
Of course, Bowie was not the only school represented. Saint Jo had Taylor Patrick competing in girl’s singles and the team of Bailie Nobile and Maxey Johnson competing in girl’s doubles in the 1A classification.
Senior Patrick was making her third appearance at the state tournament, but her first in the singles competition.
She finished third at the regional meet which meant she had a tough first round matchup against a second seed from Fort Davis.
It took everything from Patrick in a match that lasted two and a half hours. She went down in the first set 6-2, but rebounded in a tight second set to win 6-4 to force a third and final set. She had the momentum and won 6-2 to move on.
She had to summon the energy to play later that day against a fresh one-seed player from Utopia. Patrick lost 6-1, 6-1 to end her Saint Jo career. Her opponent would go on to finish second.
Juniors Johnson and Nobile were making their first appearances at the state meet after finishing second at the regional tournament. In the first round they played a tough match against a team from Marathon. It seemed evenly matched throughout, but small mistakes at inopportune times cost them throughout the match. In the end, the team lost by the scores of 6-3, 6-3.
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