The Floor Test

Thirty days. One small job a day. All of them things people used to do without thinking.

This is not a fitness plan and there is nothing to buy for it. You need a chair, a worktop, a door frame and thirty days. Each page gives you one movement with a name you will remember, the support to hold while you do it, a tick box, and a line to write what you noticed.

You score yourself on day one. You score yourself again on day thirty, in your own handwriting, on the same page. That is the whole point of it.

Inside: thirty daily pages, four themed weeks, a fridge tracker, the seven day version for anyone who will not do thirty, a card for the person who helps you, and what to do if you do end up on the floor and you are not hurt.

Written by Edith Hartley, 79, who taught PE for forty years and still stands on one leg while the kettle boils.

Check with your GP before you start anything new.