How to stay healthy and active in the office
Modern working life can be stressful. Try taking walks on your lunch hour, standing up in your team meeting and talking instead of emailing, say experts
UK gym membership spending up by 44%
Budget gyms with more flexible contracts contribute to increase in membership in last year
Is it worth it? Edge Cycle
‘With its huge studio, deafening sound system and flashing lights, it was like entering another dimension’
Is it worth it? White-water rafting
‘Inevitably everything goes wrong and the boat flips and everything goes dark’
Save your holiday – leave your running shoes at home
‘Sight jogging’ is the latest way to inveigle targets and self-improvement into your break. I would counsel the opposite, and keep your holiday time sacred
How science is fine-tuning our elite footballers
In February, football’s lawmakers approved the analysis of a player’s performance during live matches, via a tracking device in the shirt. So what impact will this have on a player’s health, game management – and the half-time team talk?
Is SoulCycle too snobby for America? Cycling experts weigh in
As the high-end cycling chain’s IPO approaches, other owners enter the market for $34-a-pop classes outside of New York, San Francisco or Los Angeles
The women reframing the fitness industry
“When we first opened in Shoreditch we didn’t bother running classes on a Sunday, everyone was too trashed”. Pip Black and Joan Murphy, founders of Frame, explain how they’ve revolutionised London’s attitude to exercise
An outdoor swimming tour of London – top 10 lidos and ponds
There’s no better way to escape the stresses of city life than to go for an outdoor swim. London has some historic lidos and even the odd truly beautiful swimming pond, as our writer discovers as she visits 10 of them in a weekend
George Osborne ruined my yoga retreat
There’s no escaping the budget – not even when you’re halfway up an Italian hill with a bunch of highly literate yogis
Get walking, while working: the treadmill desk
Sedentary lifestyles – and particularly sitting – are bad for your health. But treadmill desks can cost several thousand pounds, so Rose George made her own
Five exercises to make you a faster, stronger runner
Paula Radcliffe and Mo Farah aren’t just fast – they’re strong, too. Up your body power with these five simple moves
Run for your life: why cancer treatments won’t stop me
Jenny Baker planned plenty of runs to celebrate her 50th birthday. Instead, she found herself undergoing chemotherapy. If she couldn’t do marathons, she could at least run to the hospital each time
Is it worth it? Swimming
‘Three breaststroked lengths of my local pool was enough to exhaust me, while middle-aged ladies went backwards and forwards for what seemed like hours’
Is it worth it? Expresso Bike
‘This was by far the best, and most fun, workout I’ve had on an exercise bike in my whole life’