

With all this extra time on our hands, what sparked the movement of working out? Why didn’t it lead to other things, like baking or making your own hand sanitizer? It didn’t hit me until I started scrolling back through our messages in The Groupchat, and I realized we send a lot of Tik Toks. The school days also end earlier and give students the entire afternoon to themselves. For some reason, this extra hour makes all the difference. Remote school days start later than normal school, allowing students to get an extra hour or two of sleep in the morning. “I’ve been working out for a while but I found myself more motivated during quarantine because I’m not tired and I have more time,” Amber Zeitz wrote. Sophomore Yusra Khan said she works out to “make the most of my time” and “get away from my family.” The latter she was just kidding, slightly. Naturally, I turned to my friends to investigate.

So why does it now seem that every teenage girl in America is doing Chloe Ting’s at home workouts? This goes for most of my friends too – we got our exercise in during our extracurricular activities and deemed that enough. Before quarantine, I rarely worked out because I had dance practice at least 4 times a week, and that’s where I got my exercise in.īetween dance and school, there was no time for me to budget in an extra workout. Lately, The Groupchat hasn’t had much to share since we’re all stuck at home, so we’ve been talking about our daily workouts. This video was posted 8 months ago, so why is it only blowing up now?

Chloe Ting’s 2 Week Ab Shred Challenge has reached over 64 million views with the majority of them being in the past 2 months. One way we’re keeping occupied is by exercising. I know my friends and I have.Īs day 50 of quarantine approaches, teenagers like me are starting to go insane. It’s too far out to tell the specifics of what will happen on November 3, but it can be confirmed that the Coronavirus has impacted it already.Īlmost half of teenage girls in America have probably heard this during quarantine.
