I’m not a particularly lazy person, but I’m not big on exercise either. I know I ought to do more, but I’m not overweight (if anything, slightly underweight) and I leave the car behind and walk as often as I can (about half an hour every other day on average I think).

However, I am prone to getting back ache and just recently I’ve started getting painful varicous veins in my left leg (noooo it’s not fair! I’m too young to get varicous veins! Oh well, something else to blame Akra Jr for) – plus I’m generally stressed and run down as a result. I’ve started to think about whether I should plan some regular exercise back into my life.

Now, I have tried various exercise things. I have done: the gym, yoga, callanetics, swimming, various exercise bike type things and Mr Motivator. None of these really suited me. I’ve decided what I need to find is something that I can do at home (while Akra Jr is asleep), needs minimum equipment (if I need to get something out of a cupboard, it’s NOT going to happen), is reasonably low impact to avoid joint problems and only takes 15 minutes a day.

Why 15 minutes? Well, I figure 15 minutes a day is achievable – I can fit 15 minutes in somewhere without too much effort. I’m more likely to do 15 minutes a day (with the odd day here and there I skip) than trying to fit in half an hour 3 days a week, or an hour’s routine once a week. I had a 4-minute exercise machine/bike thing once but that was so hefty and awkward to drag out I never bothered – plus I was an exhausted wreck at the end of 4 minutes as it was too high impact.

Okay, so I’m thinking yoga is probably the only thing that’s going to meet all my criteria, but the only yoga routines I can find seem all to be half an hour or more. Or they lie and say 15 minutes when really by the time you’ve figured out what the pictures are trying to suggest then you’ve used 15 minutes up on the warm up.

Any suggestions?