‘Annie …’ came the email from my editor. ‘We’d like you to decide a workout for our readers – something to motivate them, something where they’ll see results … It should be short, manageable and … ’ I didn’t read the rest. I excitedly rolled up my sleeves and got stuck in.
Then came another email. ‘It’s to be based on the Royal Canadian Air Force 5BX workout.’ I did a little search and it seems that this series of five basic exercises (hence 5BX) was devised in the early 1960s for the