Health and wellbeing at home

There is a lot of advice and information online about how to keep fit and healthy whilst staying at home; below are just a few of the many links available. Let me know of any others that you would like me to add for others to use.

Every Mind matters - NHS website offering lots of advice and tips about how to look after your mental health while you're staying at home, and how to deal with anxiety about the coronavirus outbreak.

SignHealth - the Deaf Health Charity website provides lots of links, information and advice to improve deaf people's health and wellbeing.

If you're new to exercise the NHS physical activity guidelines gives guidance on exercising.

Wellness and Exercising

• One You webpage: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/for-your-body/move-more/

• Home-based strength and cardio workouts for adults: https://www.nhs.uk/oneyou/for-your-body/move-more/home-workout-videos/

• Seated strength and flexibility exercises for adults with mobility issues: https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/exercise/sitting-exercises/

• Five-week strength and flex programme: https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/exercise/strength-and-flex-exercise-plan/

• Sport England: #StayInWorkOut work: https://www.sportengland.org/news/how-stay-active-while-youre-home

• Mind: https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/tips-for-everyday-living/physical-activity-and-your-mental-health/about-physical-activity/

• British Heart Foundation: https://www.bhf.org.uk/informationsupport/heart-matters-magazine/activity/get-active-indoors

• Chartered Society of Physiotherapy / AGE UK, : https://www.csp.org.uk/public-patient/keeping-active-healthy/staying-healthy-you-age

• LED Digital Wellbeing Community - workouts from Leisure East Devon

• The Body Coach TV, fitness coach Joe Wicks's YouTube channel.

• Les Mills has a free trial on more than 800 online workouts.

• Glo - free trials of Yoga, Pilates and meditation classes.

• Yoga With Adriene is another YouTube source of free yoga videos for all levels.

• To help you wind down at the end of the day, the mental health app Headspace has a selection of ambient 'sleepcasts' designed to help you drift off to sleep. The app also has a range of tailored meditation courses, free for everyone, designed to support your mental health during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.