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Celebrating International Parkrun Day

Parkrun is a deceptively simple concept – it’s a free, weekly, 5km timed run. This Saturday 7 October marks Parkrun’s 13th birthday.

The world’s craziest workouts

Immerse yourself in another culture’s weird and wild exercise practices.

How to get to sleep: 7 surprising tricks and tips

Getting to sleep has never been so easy with our top tips and tricks to achieving the ultimate slumber.

Changing your ways

Routine, ingrained actions can have a powerful impact on our lives. Psychologist Mary Grogan explains how to take control and change your habits.

This is how your body reacts after just two weeks without exercise

Regular exercise is encouraged for everyone but not everyone can stick to a routine that includes a regimented fitness regime. […]

Five exercises for all-over tone

Simple to achieve, these gentle exercises will shape and tone your body in all the right places.

Exercise can beat disease, but you do need a lot more of it

Five to seven times more activity needed than World Health Organisation recommends, Australian researchers say

Smart Moves: Tone and Strengthen

Take a step towards a leaner and more toned body with these simple exercises. Perform each in turn and then repeat the circuit up to five times. You can increase your repetitions as your strength builds.

Believe it or not: exercise does more good if you think it will

It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy: people who believe working out is good for them experience more health benefits

Feed your Creativity

The cells in our brain are in a constant state of activity as they fire messages between them. Here’s how to boost your capacity for inspirational ideas by nourishing your nerve cells.

Brain ‘10 years older’ in overweight people, study shows

Jury still out on links between obesity and memory loss, dementia.

Exercise just as good as surgery for certain knee injuries

Exercise therapy is as effective as surgery for middle-aged patients with a meniscal tear injury to their knee, according to […]

5 easy ways to exercise at work

Weave these simple fitness take-outs into into your workday and you could be getting fitter before you know it!

The link between exercise and dementia

A new study has shown that the link between exercise and dementia could be more prominent than ever before.

5 Food myths debunked

Facts helping you make better choices for your health and well-being.

Strong legs = a strong mind

With every lunge you not only improve your physical health but increase the strength of your mind.

Try this 10-minute yoga flow for a good night’s sleep

The physiological symptoms of insomnia can be dealt with by doing these poses, helping to keep the mind quiet for a good night’s sleep.

Stand more at work, sit more at home, study shows

Standing more at work may mean you are lazier in other aspects of your life, a study has found.

6 ways to feel better

Life can be frantic, but these simple take-outs will have you feeling great without too much effort. Try them to increase your mental, emotional and physical wellbeing.

On your bike

Can these under-the-desk bike pedals solve work-related health problems?

She Rides programme tells women to “get on your bikes”

New cycling acronym needed! MAMIL’s (middle aged-men in lycra) are not the only ones getting social on two wheels these days.

Michelle Obama’s workout puts us all to shame

Prepare to be awed by Michelle Obama’s impressive gym regime

Top Winter Fitness Must-Haves

Winter is coming and so too is an ebb in our workout motivation. To help you get through those winter […]

Is chocolate milk the new sports drink?

Chocolate milk is the new ‘gold standard’ for recovering from a workout, according to sports nutritionist

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