Your Daily Dose: 10 creative workouts

Just because the sports world has stopped doesn't mean your sports consumption has to. In this Daily Dose series, Neo Yee Pung looks at how athletes are getting creative with their workouts. TOMORROW: Best of school sports

Olympic pole vault champion Renaud Lavillenie improvises. PHOTOS: TWITTER/OLYMPICCHANNEL, JAZZCARLIN, INSTAGRAM/MAXWHITLOCK

British gymnast Max Whitlock uses his sofa as a pommel horse. PHOTOS: TWITTER/OLYMPICCHANNEL, JAZZCARLIN, INSTAGRAM/MAXWHITLOCK

Argentina hockey player Carla Rebecchi and her little one getting their practice. PHOTOS: TWITTER/OLYMPICCHANNEL, JAZZCARLIN, INSTAGRAM/MAXWHITLOCK

British swimmer Jazz Carlin exercises with fins and floats as her cat watches. PHOTOS: TWITTER/OLYMPICCHANNEL, JAZZCARLIN, INSTAGRAM/MAXWHITLOCK

Neo Yee Pung

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Apr 04, 2020, 05:00 AM

DWAYNE BACON GOES SMALL BALL

With the National Basketball Association (NBA) suspended indefinitely, the Charlotte Hornets' American guard has given small ball new meaning. He has turned to mini-basketball at home, making a shot all the way from his balcony to his driveway.

Watch: bit.ly/3aFXLey

BIANCA WALKDEN TAKES ON WASHING MACHINE CHALLENGE

The British taekwondo world champion executed a different kind of strike, sending a football into a washing machine off the wall.

Watch: bit.ly/3dMQ9sz

SOFA SO GOOD FOR MAX WHITLOCK

The British Olympic pommel horse champion performed a routine on his sofa and enjoyed a soft landing.

Watch: bit.ly/2R61Fpc

KANE WILLIAMSON GETS CAUGHT

The New Zealand cricket captain was dismissed in his own backyard by his dog. Sandy seems well trained.

Watch: bit.ly/3aH1NmM

RENAUD LAVILLENIE IMPROVISING

No equipment? No problem.

The French Olympic pole vault champion's exercises include squatting while carrying his wife, doing skullcrushers while carrying his daughter, and weightlifting using tyres.

Watch: bit.ly/3bG6A7W

EQUIPMENT WORKOUT WITH JAZZ CARLIN

No use for your swimming equipment because pools are closed?

Do not worry, as the British double Olympic medallist demonstrates exercises you can do with fins and floats.

Watch: bit.ly/2xNcAgv

FOGNINI RACKS UP HITS

Italian tennis player Fabio Fognini has an accomplished sparring partner at home in wife Flavia Pennetta, the retired 2015 US Open champion. The couple traded volleys, with a clothes rack as a makeshift net.

Watch: bit.ly/2UD8XCM

APRIL ROSS SETS HERSELF UP

Beach volleyball for one? World champion April Ross shows how it can be done - with a wooden board.

Watch: bit.ly/3aEH6Yu

CARLA REBECCHI'S CHILD'S PLAY

What is better than watching an Olympic hockey medallist practise her dribbling with some castle buckets? Watch the Argentinian play with her daughter.

Watch: bit.ly/2UZneJj