Grace Walsh

2 weeks ago | womanandhome.com | Grace Walsh

Along with the muscles deep in the core and the pelvic floor, the pelvic tilt exercise targets the glutes and lower back, making this simple exercise ideal for improving mobility and posture, and firing up the muscles at the start of a lower-body workout. Alternatively, you could do them to wind down from your Pilates home workout or as a way to stretch out if you spend your days sitting at a desk.

2 weeks ago | womanandhome.com | Grace Walsh

While we might have spent the last 10 years battling our way through HIIT workouts with the promise of better fitness, the exercise world has turned on these intense training sessions in favour of something more chilled. Moderate intensity exercise is the new golden child. In these sessions, you go for longer but much slower. A swimming workout, bike ride, or slow and steady run all count, as do some home Pilates workouts and even some types of yoga.

2 weeks ago | womanandhome.com | Grace Walsh

I love the clamshell exercise, too. I do this simple movement on the floor, from the comfort of my yoga mat (or carpet), and it's done more for my hip mobility, core stability, and glute (buttock) strength than many other weighted exercises. The squat certainly has its place in a strength training routine. There's no denying this compound movement is a good one, strengthening multiple large muscle groups at once.

3 weeks ago | womanandhome.com | Grace Walsh

Swimming might be a low-impact exercise but it can be tough on the back, shoulders, and core muscles, which is where Pilates for swimmers comes in. The movements help work all these areas, boosting strength and improving mobility and flexibility. If you do a Pilates workout at home or a regular Pilates abs workout, you'll likely be familiar with some of the movements, but in the pool, you'll find the single arm and leg focuses have a particularly unique effect.

3 weeks ago | womanandhome.com | Grace Walsh

But, what happens when you take the Garmin Vivoactive 6 back to basics? As one of the top brands for exercise lovers, I was confident this watch would deliver on all fitness tracking fronts, so I was interested to see whether it could help me stick to my workout routine and help improve my fitness. I have been wearing some of the best fitness trackers for over five years, both as a keen runner and gym goer, and as woman&home's digital health editor.