ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- “Everything is different now -- everything.”
Lindsay Alvestad, the co-owner and manager of CrossFit9, sits in an empty gym in the St. Pete. Warehouse District.
“My job went from all high-fives and sweating in this gym together and getting a lot of human contact to now,” Alvestad said. “It’s a ghost town, it’s totally quiet. Doors are closed. We’re the only ones here.”
Alvestad is training all of her clients digitally.
“That means I’m attached to my computer and my phone all the time to get that same amount of connectivity with them,” she said.
The gym isn’t just missing people — it’s missing equipment.
Alvestad and her partner sent it home with their members as a thank you for keeping their memberships.
A sense of routine can help the people physically and mentally.
“For me personally I just try to control the few things that I can control. It makes me feel so much better if I set the alarm for the same time every day I get up,” Alvestad explained. “Whether or not you need to, get out of bed, put on clothes, try to have some sense of order about your life and you are going to feel a lot better.”