Heel striking – is it really the enemy of good running form?

Heel striking has had a bad press, blamed by many for a tendency to cause injury. But is forefoot running always best? Sam Murphy sifts the evidence

Is it worth it? P90X exercise programme

Each week Stuart Heritage test out an exercise programme so you don't have to

Could sea-bathing machines return to Margate’s shores?

Marina O’Loughlin: Mobile saunas showcasing the health-giving properties of the town’s seawater offer a chic update on modesty-preserving Victorian beach huts on wheels

Mapping our lives: the importance of lifelong health studies

Frankie Mullin: Longitudinal health studies follow subjects from ‘womb to tomb’ to create a fingerprint of a healthy human. And there is one thing that has a huge impact on our wellbeing

‘Sleep trackers made me far more interested in my sleep’

Motion-sensing sleep monitors vary in comfort and accuracy, with a few annoying habits for bed fellows, our writer finds

Sleep sensors: waking up to the need to study our night’s rest

Many people are turning to fitness trackers to help boost the health benefits of better sleep

Stage fright can lead to addiction, even in the world of classical music

Tom Eisner: As a professional violinist, I used to see colleagues turn to alcohol to calm the nerves, but physical fitness is now the drug of choice

Bondi fitness scheme turns the tide on treating mental illness

Mark Gould: Australian 'Keeping the Body in Mind' programme imported to boost fitness of UK mental health patients

Running into problems: plantar fasciitis, or jogger’s heel

In the third of our series about common running injuries, physiotherapist Rebecca Christenson looks at plantar fasciitis, AKA jogger's heel: what causes it and how to treat it

There’s a fitness tracker for vaginas. Quantifying your life has gone too far

Jess Zimmerman: Biofeedback is great ... right up until you use it to get positive feedback from everyone you know

Fitbit flex wristband review: a weight loss tracker that makes fitness a habit

Counting steps and calories adds up to shedding 5lbs sensibly

Zepp sensor review: a racket-mounted app that can improve your tennis

How to capture, measure and analyse your swings in three dimensions

I’m with Father O’Baoill – yoga is a deeply unsavoury activity

Naomi McAuliffe: An Irish priest has warned parishioners that yoga endangers the soul. It's turning into a rubbery, vainglorious dullard that worries me

Lance Armstrong was both a fraud and cycling’s most high profile drugs victim

Fran Langdon: Disgraced cylist stripped of his seven Tour de France titles should be judged in the context of the culture that dominated the sport

Running and academia: the intellectual aspect of pounding the pavements

At the first International Festival of Running, academics gathered to explore the scientific, spiritual, cultural and political sides of running. Alex Lockwood reports