Fitness tips: a beginner’s guide to sea swimming
Why smart swimmers opt for early starts, low tides, and late-summer dips
How to do breaststroke
Technique and timing are everything when it comes to perfecting your swimming. A head coach explains how it should be done
Fitness tips: three parkour moves for beginners
A focus on technique will pay off as you gain confidence, says Dan Edwardes, from Parkour Generations
Fit in my 40s: I love parkour, but running at walls is even harder than it looks
Anything that is too high to vault, you have to approach with a cat leap
Bluetooth your bladder: the hi-tech way to beat incontinence
Urinary leakage affects millions of women, who have often suffered in silence. That may change with Elvie, a new way to strengthen the pelvic floor – involving an app
Fit in my 40s: will Shaolin training bring me calm?
I’m sitting in a carpeted temple-ish space, with three Buddhas looking down peaceably
Fitness tips: three key Shaolin moves
Learn to strengthen and relax body and mind
‘I wouldn’t be the refugee, I’d be the girl who kicked ass’: how taekwondo made me
The long read: When she arrived in the US as a 10-year-old refugee, Dina Nayeri found it hard to fit in. But that all changed when she hatched a plan to get into Harvard – by becoming a taekwondo champion
Fitness tips: ways into football for beginners
Soccercise, five-a-side and walking football are just some of the avenues into the game
Fit in my 40s: will Soccercise get me closer to my World Cup dream?
It has the look of a Pilates class interrupted by someone throwing footballs into it