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Seminoles having to get creative while forced to stay away from training facilities

Josh Storms was looking to make do with what he had around him.

Like much of the country stuck in selfisolation because of the coronavirus outbreak, Storms was preparing for his afternoon workout. For Florida State’s new director of strength and conditioning, that meant replacing dumbbells with whatever was on hand.

“I’ve got a cylinder of propane that I got off my grill that I’m about to work out with this afternoon,” Storms told the Orlando Sentinel Wednesday.

For Storms and his staff, the challenge has been communicating with the Seminoles football players, who are now scattered across the country after spring practice was canceled and the university was closed in response to the pandemic.

“We’re taking it week by week,” Storms said. “No one can predict how long this is going to draw out. Hopefully, we’re through the other side quickly. Nobody really knows.”

The players are facing the reality of being without the use of the state-of-the-art equipment typically found in the Dunlap

Athletic Training Facility for weeks. Instead, many of the players have been forced to create makeshift gyms in their homes or backyard.

“It’s easy when you have all of those options at your fingertips, when you walk up to a facility that has everything that you would ever need,” said Strongs, who followed new FSU football coach Mike Norvell from Memphis in December.

“Now you walk up into your backyard and look around and say, ‘What do I have?’ ”

For those lucky enough to have weight sets or workout equipment available, the transition has been a bit smoother. But