05 Exercise will be preventive medicine

Until we all get a jab of the vaccine, exercise is, along with hand sanitiser, one of our best defences against illness and a key determinant of outcomes. Hence there will be a renewed emphasis on the first half of the phrase “health and fitness”, which trainer Luke Worthington says has “gotten a little lost”. There’ll also be a reversion to the tried and tested – and an aversion to the new and spurious. “I’m seeing more people wanting quantifiable results: asking for fitness and body composition assessments, then tracking their progress so they know they’re mitigating their risk factors,” says Worthington. Many gyms now offer these services. “It’s how the industry was 10 years ago, before Instagram,” he points out.