Fit in my 40s: ‘If you breathe properly, it will improve skin, sleep, digestion, mood’

First, you must concentrate…

Fit in my 40s: ‘I’m on a mixed ride, and I am intimidated’

‘Don’t fear the middle-aged men in Lycra,’ I’m told. ‘Most are retired.’ They don’t look very retired

Experience: my workout nearly killed me

I felt like a truck had hit me. I couldn’t move my arms. I could hardly talk. I was so tired

How to Stay Alive by Bear Grylls – digested read

‘Nipping out for milk? Take a 12-inch knife, a defibrillator, three chicken tikka masalas and a solar-powered microwave oven’

Fit in my 40s: ‘I’d rather eat earth than meditate for 17 more seconds’

Mindfulness has to be principled, otherwise it’s just a guy in California eating a raisin really, really slowly

Fit in my 40s: sedentary day job + stupid attitude = weekend warrior injuries

I’m struggling to bounce back from my first ever sporting injury – and learning that I’m not alone

Fit in my 40s: ‘These people are like an improved species’

Millennials seem to train as if they are preparing for life post-apocalypse. It’s exhausting just listening to them

Fit in my 40s: ‘Give up this fitness tracker? I’ll die first’

How Zoe Williams fell in love with the Fitbit Blaze smartwatch

How to do the perfect plank

How do you know you’re planking wrong? You can feel it in your core. Here’s how to nail the popular exercise

Is watching sport as good as playing it?

Studies show that being a spectator certainly increases the blood pressure, but it can also double the risk of a heart attack. So is there any health benefit?

Fit in my 40s: ‘My DNA test results are in. How did I do?

I congratulate myself – but then spot the mistake in my analysis

What’s the ultimate way to defy depression, disease and early death? Exercise

As a new report reveals the mental health benefits of just an hour’s physical activity a week, it seems there is nothing a workout can’t cure. Here is why we should all sit less and move more