Temple student-athletes combat ‘quarantine fatigue’ with home workouts

.....Quarantine fatigue is defined “as exhaustion associated with the new restrictive lifestyle that’s been adopted to slow the spread of COVID-19,” according to a report by Massachusetts General Hospital. Symptoms include feeling tense, irritable or anxious, changes in eating or sleeping habits, loss of motivation or reduced productivity.

When campus shut down in March, there was “a pretty significant decrease” in athletics counseling services, Coakley said. Toward the end of the semester, she saw an uptick in student-athletes wanting to receive counseling. 

“Everybody’s dealing with it differently,” Coakley added. “Some student-athletes were really stressed out about online classes. And some international students had to wake up around two in the morning to go to class. That’s a huge stressor just to go to class. For others, it was not being with their friends and their community even though they were with their family.”

Coakley thought if she made athletes realize others were having a tough time it could help with them handle the stress, she said......

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Bethany`s Notes: Are you or your student athletes dealing with quarantine fatigue? How are you dealing with it? What other ways are you learning to adapt and adjust?