Rambling with Dolly Parton and meditative strolls: the best podcasts for walks

From a trip down memory lane with celebs to adventures in remote Scotland: if you’re looking for company on your next walk, there’s a podcast for that

Emotions run high as parkrun Australia restarts nationwide

From next Saturday, all events will be operating as normal as the fun run ‘family’ reunites

Emma Beddington tries … being a mermaid: ‘I’m more beached seal than beguiling siren’

Being a beautiful watery creature is a challenge if you have no technique or breath control – and can’t hear a word beneath your floral swimming cap

Fit fiftysomethings: why the hot new sex symbols are moreish middle-aged men

Whether it is Paul Rudd, Will Smith or Gareth Southgate, men who have passed their half century are having a moment. Welcome to the age of affability, steadiness and deeply desirable dependability

I used to hate exercise, but with support from my parents, I’m now jumping for joy

I was turning 40 and very unfit. Now my super-healthy parents, both in their 70s, have inspired me to exercise and I love it

Edith Pritchett on workout apps – cartoon

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Second act sensations! Meet the people who reached peak fitness – after turning 50

Rich started working out, Mags started running and Shashi started walking three times a day. It is possible to reach new goals as you get older and it is not only your physical health that benefits

It’s snow time: 10 new winter holidays in Europe for skiers and non-skiers

Fresh ideas from the Dolomites to the Arctic include rail tours, gourmet mountain huts, eco-friendly snowmobiling – and great skiing

Meditation, vodka and vinegar: can the morning routines of the rich and famous make me a better person?

I am not empowered or optimised by my current morning routine. I am a bleary-eyed doom-scroller. So I spent a month ditching my phone, exercising, journalling and embracing the dawn, to find out what really works

‘At once intolerable and addictive’: five wellbeing courses and apps, road-tested

From bibliotherapy to burpees, gratitude journals to cathartic workouts, Nadine von Cohen logs into Australia’s new crop of wellbeing apps

Jump in and chill out: 10 of Britain’s best affordable retreats

From an ice-cold plunge to a Finnish sauna, treat yourself to massages, steam rooms and scrubs

Stop all the clocks: why are we so bad at going to bed?

Putting off bedtime for one more boxset episode, or some ‘me time’? You may be a sleep procrastinator – and doing yourself serious harm

’You feel like a child again!’ Would exercising at 5am make you a happier person?

While 99% of us are still fast asleep, members of the Win the Morning, Win the Day movement are throwing themselves into a dawn walk or swim. We join them where it all started, on a beach in Hampshire

You be the judge: ‘Can I ask my tenant to stop working out on the front porch?’

In our new column, we air both sides of a domestic disagreement – and ask you to deliver a verdict.

Core needs: wellbeing holidays bounce back to tackle ‘pandemic posture’

Wellness tourism continues to grow with demand driven by the ageing boomer generation and health-conscious millennials