Not everyone who has asthma has lived with it since childhood. I didn’t – my diagnosis came at the beginning of the pandemic, just as the noise about a dangerous new respiratory disease was reaching a crescendo. In that new reality, I found myself joining the 5.4 million people in the UK who live with asthma.

Like so many people at the time, I wanted to move and exercise safely but was confronted with the fact that I now had extra precautions to take. How are you supposed to exercise safely when you have asthma, particularly when you’re still getting to grips with the condition? Rather than go it alone, I roped in personal trainers and healthcare professionals to help find a strategy for getting stronger with asthma.