I started teaching spin and started getting into spinning about 14 years ago when I had a road traffic accident, broke my arm and my leg and recovered by spinning.

At the time I was working in TV, so I would teach spin before and after working in TV. I then left TV and went full time teaching and launched a business that teaches people who want to become spin instructors.

Since then, I've just got into teaching lots of different places, and most recently started working with a charity called Misfits, which helps people who are trans and non-binary feel more comfortable with getting into exercise a little bit more by giving them a safe space to train.

There's two teachers in Misfits, myself and Cairo. We used to run it in a format that had six weeks on then and a few weeks off so people could come in and do one term. But now we're doing it every week.

Cairo does a class on the weekend and I run a spin class every Tuesday to sort of encourage people. There are a lot of non-binary and trans folks who are unfit because they don't have those spaces, and don’t train because there isn’t a space that makes them feel like they belong in the gym.

Even where we train there's no non-gendered, changing rooms. We were saying the other day, "Well, maybe people can just come into the spin room and get changed if they don't feel comfortable."

So it's about finding and teaching in a very different way to how I'd normally teach. A big element to this is about making people feel comfortable so there’s a lot of chat at the beginning and end of the class which is fun. Exercise comes second.

[As told to @Ragi Gupta — continued]