The best home workouts for 2021
Last year working out in your living room became a necessity. Now, innovative new tech means you may never set foot in a gym again
16 January 2021 • 6:00am
With new tech such as Apple Fitness+ makes it feel like you are in a class (even when you re in your living room)
Stuck in isolation, with work to do, children to look after and mental health to sustain, there was nothing else for it. In the first UK lockdown last March the home fitness market, which had been steadily on the up for the previous five years, boomed. Gym equipment got a makeover – no longer was it just big, bulky machines that turned into expensive coat hangers. Now you could buy ‘smart’ bikes, treadmills and rowers with built-in digital screens to follow workouts, and there were live classes and virtual communities to join. Peloton, the brand behind that ubiquitous £1,750 bike, posted a 172 per cent rise in sales year-on-year between July and September.
What Tiger King s Carole Baskin did next
A year on from the hit Netflix show, Carole Baskin’s life has changed and Joe Exotic is in prison. But she s still looking over her shoulder
15 January 2021 • 6:00am
Carole Baskin speaks to The Telegraph Magazine on life since Netflix s The Tiger King
Credit: Photo for The Washington Post by Zack Wittman
Unless you were unduly interested in big-cat conservation, happened to be the owner-operator of a questionable roadside ‘zoo’, or perhaps just ran a tie-dye leopard-print blouse wholesaler and wondered who kept buying everything, it’s unlikely the name Carole Baskin meant a lot to you this time last year.