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The best home workouts for 2021
Last year working out in your living room became a necessity. Now, innovative new tech means you may never set foot in a gym again
16 January 2021 • 6:00am
With new tech such as Apple Fitness+ makes it feel like you are in a class (even when you re in your living room)
Stuck in isolation, with work to do, children to look after and mental health to sustain, there was nothing else for it. In the first UK lockdown last March the home fitness market, which had been steadily on the up for the previous five years, boomed. Gym equipment got a makeover – no longer was it just big, bulky machines that turned into expensive coat hangers. Now you could buy ‘smart’ bikes, treadmills and rowers with built-in digital screens to follow workouts, and there were live classes and virtual communities to join. Peloton, the brand behind that ubiquitous £1,750 bike, posted a 172 per cent rise in sales year-on-year between July and September.
This is how to test how fit you actually are
You re in safe hands with advice from five top PTs Jan 3, 2021
of course. You ll probably be extra keen to know if you work out regularly and feel like you ve made progress in the last few months.
Physical fitness, according to Lucie Cowan, Third Space master trainer, isn t just your school beep test or how fast you can sprint 400 metres: rather, it s a general state of health and wellbeing that encompasses a whole spectrum aspects, from resistance training, to mobility, to flexibility, to core strength, to cardio fitness, to mental wellbeing.