Which is the healthiest city in the US?

City links: Fit cities in America, gentrification in Hong Kong and London’s canalside ‘duck lanes’ feature among this week’s best city stories

Is it worth it? Mio Fuse

‘The heart rate breakdown you get at the end of every work-out shows you in cold, hard numbers how much you’ve been slacking off’

‘Your running days are over’: the words I hoped I’d never hear

I have been running all my life – it has kept me fit, calm and even sane. But now, after two children and multiple ailments, I’m being told to stop. Should I?

Is it worth it? PEMF

‘I genuinely did feel much better, although part of me thinks this is just because I got to go lie on the floor twice a day for six weeks’

Birmingham capitalises on running to tackle obesity problem

England’s second city steals a march on rival cities to declare itself ‘European capital of running’ in bid to inspire 100,000 people to take up activity

Extreme fitness: are you tough enough?

Forget spinning and Zumba, gyms are now filled with chains, hammers and tyres. When did work-outs get so hardcore? Stuart Heritage joins the men and women going primal

Is it worth it? Rebounding

‘While springing around is a ridiculous amount of fun, I’ve been told that from the floor below it sounds like I’m trying to shake the fittings loose’

Exercise brings me friends, happiness and health. It’s not about losing weight

Doctors now say diet, rather than working out, promotes weight loss. But after gruelling boxing or calming yoga, the last thing I want is to stuff a burger into my face

I run this body: how I battled meningitis and won

At 18, Kim Lo ran for her school. Then meningitis nearly killed her and left her with no toes. The consultant said she would never win another race. Could she prove him wrong?

Fitspo: how strong became the new skinny

Health has become fetishised on social media by ‘fitspiration’ devotees posting pictures of ‘clean’ food and gym-tight abs. But does the trend inspire better living – or is it promoting a new form of body fascism?