Co-owners of the Anytime Fitness gyms in Regina, Kim and Jake Sinclair are one of many locally owned businesses forced to close because of COVID-19.

One of the many locally owned businesses forced to close down during the COVID-19 pandemic, is Anytime Fitness Regina.

Both of the city’s locations do not know when they’ll be able to re-open, but for the time being they’re trying to help others in self-isolation get creative and stay active.

Co-Owners Jake and Kim Sinclair are staying active themselves, and are posting workouts on Anytime Fitness’ Facebook and Instagram pages.

Jake said it’s all about getting creative and doing exercises like body weight workouts.

“We’re posting on our social media pages through this time, we also have an interactive app that allows people to clock their workouts and get pushed into new workouts from home, the franchise itself has been really supportive in that aspect trying to make sure our members fitness doesn’t fall to the wayside if they’re stuck quarantined inside their homes,” he said.

Sinclair says with it being spring time yard work can even be turned into exercise.

“Yard work is for sure something that can be made more enjoyable by turning it into exercise,” he said.

“Abs are made in the kitchen, not the gym,” Sinclair said. So because of that they’re also posting some healthy creative recipe ideas for people to experiment with while trying to stay busy at home

On the business side of things the uncertainty has been perhaps the toughest thing to deal with.

Sinclair says right now every small business owner is in a unique situation, but at the same time all are in the same boat when it comes to the uncertainty of when they’ll be able to operate normally again, and if they’ll be able to financially recover when the pandemic is over.