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Some of the world's biggest cities have been put under full or partial lockdown to slow the spread of coronavirus.

While Scott Morrison continues to avoid implementing a widespread lockdown, many Australians are facing self-isolation for 14 days after either returning from overseas or contact with confirmed cases.

The Prime Minister has however insisted Australians only leave their homes if necessary, and millions of others are now working from home.

Bond Universitys Associate Professor of Exercise and Sports Science, Dr Justin Keogh, tells Yahoo News Australia his top tips for keeping fit and healthy while in isolation.

If you are working from home or in self isolation, try to limit your sitting time as best as possible. The more you are standing the better for your overall health and fitness.

If you have a smartwatch, use that to track your steps and try to maintain a high percentage of what you would normally cover.

If you usually do 10,000 steps in a day, see if you can get as close to those numbers as possible on a regular basis. Whether walking around the backyard or in a safe space, its important to keep the body moving.

Get outside in your backyard if you have one - and look for opportunities to be active. If you have kids, find ways to be active with them. All incremental exercise will help.

Bodyweight exercises can be really effective in maintaining your health and fitness. This includes things like push-ups, squats, sit to stand exercises and lunge patterns.

If you can do a chin-up or prone row where you pull yourself up towards an object, these are great exercises.

Exercise is vital when spending long periods indoors. Source: Getty

Other options include isometrics -- where you contract your muscles just like a bodybuilder posing.Wrestling with your kids is also an easy way to keep active, engaged and is a good way to keep the whole family fit.

If we become more inactive and are working from home, the risk is well all be spending more time in the kitchen. Boredom and eating often go hand-in-hand.

It's important to be cautious of extra snacking and eating, because your calorie intake may increase as well.

Trying to maintain regular dietary intake and not increasing it is perhaps going to be a challenge for many parts of the community.

One way to help is to continue to buy your regular foods, its hard to eat cake and biscuits if you dont have them in your fridge or pantry.

There are free resources online that people can use, and having some variety is going to be important if any lockdown is ongoing.

There are plenty of exercise programs, instructions on how to exercise safely and ways to mix up your training online. It is important to set goals and diversify your training so you dont get bored.

Our national body Exercise and Sport Science Australia (ESSA) have recently released information on this topic that includes links to the Exercise Right at Home program that provides a range of free workout videos for strength training, aerobic exercise and fall prevention exercises that can be easily done at home, which is availablehere.

You might not be able to see your friends and extended family like youd like, but it can be really beneficial to still be in contact with them.

If you can incorporate them virtually, through Facetime or video conferencing, they can be involved in your exercise session.

Its a great source of motivation having them involved.

The social isolation can be a massive issue and any way you can involve other people, the better for your general health and wellbeing.

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Dr Justin Keogh is an Associate Professor within the Faculty of Health Science & Medicine at Bond University on the Gold Coast. He is a former national champion in powerlifting and strongman.

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