How To Exercise Your Way To Better Mental Health

At the start of lockdown earlier this year, unmoored from normality, I found myself drawn to a decade-old book called You Are Your Own Gym by Mr Joshua Clark and Mr Mark Lauren, a former fitness trainer for US Special Operatives. Doing pull-ups on the top of a door spoke to me of resourcefulness and resilience – although, as prescribed, I used a towel to protect my hands. I drew comfort from making some small progress in stasis, seeing some sort of the future mapped out amid the uncertainty in the tables of workout programmes.