You can have the healthiest diet in the world, but if you want to age well and remain independent, the key things you’ll need are balance, strength and flexibility.

As a fitness coach specialising in strength workouts at home – specifically for those of us in midlife – I can’t stress enough how important it is to future-proof our bodies. From the age of just 35 onwards, we lose bone density and muscle mass. Research repeatedly shows that exercise and daily movement are essential to combat this. Putting in the effort now, there’s no reason why we can’t be healthy in our later years.

The Telegraph London