MADRID (AP) — Standing in his living room with family photos in the background, the fitness trainer for Spanish soccer club Leganés started the day’s online session.
Using an elastic band, a couple of large water bottles as weight and a chair, Pol Lorente began demonstrating the exercises players had to do back home while in a lockdown caused by the coronavirus outbreak in Spain.
Monday’s live session was transmitted online through the Twitch app, and the club opened the feed to anyone who wanted to participate.
“The idea was to work a bit with the players, and since the state of emergency was declared, the club thought it would be good to open the session for everyone else who wanted to follow it,” said Lorente, using a Leganés training uniform and wearing glasses that perfectly fit the “harrypottercdleganes” username in which the online session was streamed.