Exercise is a very good thing to do for both physical and mental health. In saying that, I really am not a very sporty person at all. I can enjoy watching a bit of various sports like rugby, football (soccer for my non-English readers) and even a little cricket in the background, but doing them isn’t my thing!

Exercise for me is something active that I don’t mind doing. I enjoy doing a bit of swimming, but can only spend twenty minutes or so doing it before I get bored. I also do some pilates, but that is more stretching than exercise. Where I do most of my physical exercise or movement is in the garden, both at work and at home.

In the garden, I do plenty of walking around, hedging, mowing and all manner of physical movement in a full day outside. While gardening isn’t always a task that makes you out of breath, you are still moving around and that’s what is important. It means you aren’t sat in front of the TV or on your phone scrolling through irrelevant nonsense and you also get fresh air. For me, gardening is the most perfect sort of exercise, precisely because you don’t realise that you are doing it! Plus, you get your nice flowers, tasty veg or fancy shrubbery, which is a joy to the person growing those things within that particular garden.

Many people love doing what I consider crazy-things like marathons or Iron Man triathlons or whatever floats your boat in that way. Great stuff, but that really isn’t my thing at all. Whatever exercise/activity/sport that gets me up, moving and a littler healthier is what is more important than going out and feeling like I’m dying as I’m doing it!