This week, I’ve got some tips for you to help you with your home workouts.

I know what it’s like to buy online courses and then never find the time to do them. I have spent over a £1000 during lockdown on online training, and I have to be so strict with myself about setting aside time to complete the courses I’ve signed up for, otherwise I’m just pouring my pennies down the drain.

It’s so easy to be swept up by the clever marketing, but the hard bit is putting in the time to actually watch the courses, and do the learning.

So here are my top tips:

Get up in your workout kit first thing in the morning – you don’t need to do your workout immediately, but it means that you are ready to go when you do have the time and you don’t need to add in the faff factor of having to get changed.

Have a space where you do your workout, with all your props in one place (mat, ball, band etc). You may well have to move a coffee table each time you lie down, but at least you have all your kit in one place and you don’t have to wander all over the house to find your bits and pieces.

Time – you do not need an hour’s workout every day. Research shows that even 20 minutes is great for us, and you can break your workout into chunks to be done over the course of the day if you only have five minutes here or there.

Even five minutes will make a huge difference to your mental health (not that your mental health needs improving, but we all know that if we move more we feel better physically and mentally).

Have a plan – maybe even write it down. If you normally join me for morning Pilates at 8:30, set your alarm, make that your time to move, and pretend that I am at the other end of your computer teaching you.

You have paid for your class after all – don’t miss out on it.

Make daily movement a priority. How much time do you spend scrolling through Facebook or Instagram each day? Maybe replace some of that with a Pilates video. You will be a nicer person to the rest of your family/friends/partner if you get your Pilates in – that is definitely true for me at any rate!

And finally… this stuff really works. Three weeks ago I could hardly walk without sharp, burning pain shooting through my lower back.

I have done some Pilates every day, and I am now 98% pain free – in three weeks. I think that is nothing short of a miracle.