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For years I was busy with everything except myself. Then at 40 my body made the decision for me.

I am Anna. Mum of two. This is the whole thing, including the parts I am not proud of.

For years my day had one thing in common. I was always at the bottom of it.

Not because anyone put me there. I did it myself, every morning, without noticing.

  1. School run
  2. Work
  3. Shopping
  4. Washing
  5. Dinner
  6. Me

Busy with everything except myself

I am a mum of two. For a long time my life belonged to my children, my house, and a list of things that never got shorter. Looking after my own body was the thing I kept moving to next week.

Later. When things calm down. When I have more time.

The word that stopped everything

At 40 I heard the word cancer. Everything I had been holding together stopped mattering in about a second. The schedules, the expectations, the pressure to cope.

The hardest part was not the diagnosis. It was being a mum, trying to stay steady for my children while feeling completely broken inside, and knowing how long I had ignored my own body.

You cannot pour from an empty cup. I had been trying to for years.

Ten minutes, on the days I could

Treatment was hard. Some days getting out of bed was the whole achievement.

It did not start as fitness. It started as ten minutes of gentle movement, sometimes twenty. I added breathwork and I learned to actually listen to my body instead of pushing through it.

Week by week something shifted. My energy came back slowly. I felt present again. And for the first time in a long time, I felt like I was breathing.

That is also why I later filmed a gentler set, for women starting from nothing.

Coming back to myself

I did not bounce back. I rebuilt, slowly, between school runs and tired evenings and busy mornings.

Not to be perfect. Not to look like anyone on Instagram. Just to feel like myself again. Stronger, more present, and here.

Why no two of my workouts are the same

Before any of this I followed other people's programs. I quit every one of them, and not because they were too hard. Because the exercises repeated week after week and I was bored out of my mind.

So when I started filming my own, I made one rule and I have never broken it. No two workouts are ever the same. That is why women finish mine.

Forty eight of them now, and not one of them repeats.

Anna talking to camera at the end of Workout 16
It wasn't my day. I think you could see I didn't have that energy. We all get those days, even me. It was so hard for me to even start. It took me around half an hour to press play. But I did it.
Workout 16, said on camera, left in

I could have filmed that one again on a better day. I left it in, because the half hour before you press play is the actual hard part, and I am not going to pretend it does not happen to me.

Same woman. Ten years apart.

Before

Rarely left the house. Put everyone else first. Started programs and quit them. Thought looking after myself was something to get to later, once things calmed down.

Now

Films a workout in her living room most weeks. Nearly three million women follow along. Still nowhere near perfect, and no longer trying to be.

What I am not

  • I am not a physiotherapist and I am not a doctor. If something hurts, your doctor knows more than I do.
  • I am not 25. I train the way a woman my age actually can, because that is what I am.
  • I do not film in a studio. You will see my sideboard, my lanterns, and sometimes my dog.
  • I am not going to promise you a new body in four weeks. I will promise you more energy and a bit more strength, because that is what women tell me happens.
Anna stretching at the end of a workout
Anna lifting a knee with light dumbbells

Women write to me every week. These are three of them.

Just started back but I like the simplicity of the exercises shown. And knowing that Anna is a walking testimony of it working for her, then it should work for me too.

Lara, 54

My mental health is better on the days I do the workout. I never skip them now. Even on a weekend the workout is the first thing I do.

Joanne, 58

I've been feeling stronger and much happier. I look forward to working out, which hasn't happened in years.

Christine, 43

Lara, Joanne and Christine are all on different programs.

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If you are somewhere near where I was, start with ten minutes.

That is genuinely how this began. Pick a program, press play, and see how you feel at the end of the week.

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