This could be due to a lack of inspiration or lack of variety.

At home, with little or no equipment, it can be hard to draw the same motivation you might find at the gym. Being able to turn up to the gym and have an instructor tell me what to do is a luxury I will never take for granted again. Nor will I audibly groan at the suggestion of an assault bike or ski erg in a workout any more.

I love running but what I would give to be able to do some other form of cardiovascular training at the moment other than trotting out laps at the park.

As well as running, I am trying to keep ticking over with what weights equipment I have at my disposal.

There are plenty of ways to keep moving at home with limited equipment.

Aim for a mix of strength and cardiovascular training throughout the week to break up the monotony and to keep your program balanced.

Strength training is an area many recreational runners, for example, let go by the wayside but has many benefits, including injury prevention.

Newcastle personal trainer and power lifter Courtney Miller, who usually trains out of Strength Republic gym in Hamilton North but is instead now using her Elermore Vale carport, has been regularly posting some at-home strength workouts to social media (www.instagram.com/courtos/) to keep others moving during this challenging time.

These include using resistance bands.

"They're easy to pick up and are a good way of adding extra resistance to your training, especially if you don't have any weights," she said.

"You can make it harder by working up to different resistance levels or by using more than one at a time. You adjust the number of reps [repetitions].

"The first couple of times you'd probably just use a lighter band and, for example, do sets of 15. You would then work your way down to 10 reps with a medium band then when you reach sets of eight you'd use a heavy resistance. It's progressive overload and you can still do it with bands."

Another way to make your workout harder, she suggested, was to superset. That is combining two exercises to perform in succession before taking a rest.

The following leg session is one of the workouts Courtney has shared through Instagram complete with video instruction. It can be done using a booty band or a resistance band looped in half:

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Renee Valentine is a journalist, qualified personal trainer and mother of three.