Middle age fitness cuts heart failure risk

Research finds that shaping up in middle age lowers the odds for heart failure later in life.

• New fitness centers cater to ageing baby boomers
• Only 1 in 5 gets enough exercise
• How exercise lowers breast cancer risk

Are you consuming substances that can get you banned?

Worldwide, governments and professional sporting bodies have expressed their outrage that the use of banned performance-enhancing drugs in professional sport has yet again come to the fore.

• The tip of the doping iceberg
• Genetically altered athletes: fact or fiction?
• 7 ways to make fitness fun

Get moving!

It's World Move for Health Day on the 10th of May.

10 weird gym facts

Check out these 10 weird gym facts that might surprise you.

• 7 ways to make fitness fun
• 7 tips for a healthy lifestyle
• Rookie mistakes in the gymwatch

Dieting and exercising together is best

Study finds giving dietary and exercise advice simultaneously produces better results than focusing on one behaviour change at a time.

• A new body
• The 9 worst diet myths
• The healthy vegetarian diet

What's your exercise DNA?

A simple DNA test could boost your training and performance by giving you some insight into the kind of exercise to which you might be suited best genetically.

• A privacy risk in your DNA
• DNA strand length predicts life expectancy
• DNA test for weight loss?

Starting at the beginning

With two of the big races of the year behind us, have you been inspired by the Argus or the Two Oceans? If you start training now you could very easily take part in one of next year’s races.

New outdoor active fitness programme for CT

The V&A Waterfront will continue their free Outdoor Active fitness programme during April.

Fit kids may dodge fractures in old age

Regular exercise linked to increases in peak bone mass, study says.

Americans host "fitness parties"

From spinning birthday celebrations to pole dancing bachelorette bashes, US gyms are offering fitness parties as new way to mark life's milestones - with a few friends and a good sweat.

• A fitness-friendly world

A fitness-friendly world

Imagine a world that is designed to help us be active.

Exercise, less sitting time, tied to better sleep

Insomniacs looking for a good night's sleep may want to hit the treadmill, take a walk or play a game of golf or tennis because a new report shows exercise promotes good sleep and the more vigorous the workout the better.

• Kids who exercise get better grades
• The 6-minute workoutview
• 6 good reasons to exerciseview
• Exercise eases depression in obese
• Sweat together, stay together

4 exercises for amazing abs

Add these four abdominal exercises to your fitness programme and you will see results in no time.

• Ab crunches with small ballview
• 5 moves for a sexy bumview
• 4 exercises for amazing abs
• Home workout essentialsview

Sweat together, stay together

See how this couple have lost more than 30kgs in 8 weeks.

• 6 good reasons to exerciseview
• Exercise eases depression in obese
• Overcoming exercise excuses
• 5 ways to fit exercise into your life
• Top 10 exercise myths
• Not exercising could kill you

Fitness experts dispel common exercise myths

Several often-cited fitness "facts" are really myths, according to experts on exercise.

• Stick to fitness resolutions
• Tips against office stress

Set fitness goals

When it comes to fitness, planning is everything.

8-minute ab workout

Getting great abs needn't take hours of your time.

6 sweaty truths

Here are six need-to-know facts about sweat.

Extreme pull-ups

The guys in this video take pull-ups to new extremes.

Get brilliant biceps

Few things are more sexy than great biceps on a guy. Get some!

Why choose running?

Here's why running is such a great way of getting fit.

Build bigger muscles

Here's how to build bigger muscles efficiently and effectively.

Home gym basics

These 3 simple pieces of equipment will help maximise your home workout.

10 fitness motivators

You've started exercising. Here's how you can stick to it.