Overstretched

With rising cases of injuries and claims that it won't get you fit, yoga is facing a backlash. Is it just a victim of its own popularity? Alice Wignall reports

Dinghy sailing vs rowing

Dinghy sailing Body strength You use your body weight to balance in small boats, which develops great strength in leg and core-stability muscles. Constant pulling of ropes to control sails builds upper-body strength. four stars Brain power Sailing requires you … Continue reading →

Two wheels

Matt Seaton on the beer-and-fag-in-hand, noisy, gaudy circus of Belgium's cycling festival Ghent's Six Day

Running under cover

Fewer than one in five women do enough exercise, and many Muslim women are among them. But, says Peta Bee, with specially designed sportswear and single-sex classes on the rise, this could soon change

Bike doc

I am a 12-year-old cyclist who is very keen on improving. At the moment, I can cycle up to 40 miles with my dad on roads, but I would also like to cycle with children my own age. Do you know any organisations that arrange cycling events and training for children?

Shame on you, sisters

Helen Pidd: Women are facing a fitness crisis, as they seem to think that exercise makes them red-faced and sweaty. Isn't that the point?

More speed, less pain

A new approach to running, using the principles of the Alexander technique, is claimed to hugely reduce the risk of injury. Sam Murphy tries it out.

Running v walking

Running certainly burns calories, but it has its drawbacks - could walking be a better bet?

Bike doc

Matt Seaton: I am looking at new bikes for my six-year-old daughter. She is used to cycling both on her own and for longer distances on the back of a tandem. When should she be starting to use a bike with gears?