Team USA Olympic ice dancers Evan Bates and Madison Chock are quarantining in Montreal
Chock, 27, started playing the massively popular Nintendo game, while Bates, 31, has taken up the guitar. The couple has also binge-watched Netflix shows likeBut quarantine hasn't been all fun and games — Chock and Bates are athletes, after all, and need to be ready to hit the ice rink when restrictions are finally lifted. Fortunately, their skating school has set up virtual classes over Zoom to keep them fresh. These lessons include ballroom dancing, ballet, yoga and hip-hop training.
"It was actually pretty great that our school was able to establish a schedule of virtual classes for us," he adds.The classes have provided some much-needed structure for the couple, plus extra motivation to turn off video games or television shows."You would be surprised how easy it's been to just slip into a less active routine," Chock tells PEOPLE.
Like many others around the world, the couple says they are struggling with the distance between them and their loved ones."We haven't even seen our families since this whole thing started," Bates says. "We're kind of used to living far away from them at this point, but once the borders closed it just kind of changed something psychologically.
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