A Macclesfield woman has praised the online fitness classes on offer from instructors at the local leisure centre for "getting me through lockdown".

Lisa Bosworth has been a member at Macclesfield Leisure Centre for around six years after joining as a way of dealing with a cancer diagnosis within her family.

When Lisa first heard we were going into lockdown and the gyms were having to close last March, she was worried about how it was going to affect her as she found exercise essential to her mental health.

However, for nearly 12 months Lisa has been taking part in the online health and fitness classes that local health and wellbeing charity Everybody Sport and Recreation has been offering.

She said: "I cannot praise the [Everybody] team enough, they have quite literally saved my sanity. I actually think as the classes are more targeted than those I was doing at the gym, that I am stronger and more toned with the online classes."

Since last March, Lisa has never missed a Legs, Bums and Tums online class with Victoria, one of the Master Fitness Leads at Everybody. Even when the centres were able to open back up over the summer months, she managed a mixture of online and in-studio classes in Macclesfield.

Lisa takes part in a variety of classes on the Everybody @ Home website, her favourite being Legs, Bums and Tums, Plates and Weights, Kettlebells and the occasional HIIT class.

Lisa added: "The classes are essential for my mental health, it's too easy not to have a routine in lockdown even though I am working full time at home, and have done throughout all the lockdowns, exercise is my time. No work, no children, just me. The fact I can do the classes in my own time means I can fit in a class most days."

She praised the online instructors, saying they "got me through the last two lockdowns and you're getting me through this one too".