SAN ANTONIO – The need to maintain a healthy lifestyle hasn’t dissipated during the Covid-19 pandemic and local nonprofit San Antonio Sports launched its ‘Stay Active. Stay Healthy’ initiative to help the community stay fit by providing free resources and promoting wellness. San Antonio Sports’ Director of Youth and Community Programs, Mandy Adkins, said the organization wanted to find a way to channel fitness to families sheltering at home.
“Once Covid-19 happened and things started shutting down and social distancing came into play, we realized the need for physical activity doesn’t go away,” Adkins said. “And we just had to rethink, ‘How do we offer that opportunity to families but from the comfort of their own home?’ That’s how we decided to provide the resources that we have online to hopefully still offer those opportunities to families to get them active together.”
The program encompasses the ‘Fit Family Challenge Home Edition’ which…