Getting fit is about more than losing weight

Why are women told that exercise is a way to lose weight, when so many of us enjoy sport for how it makes us feel, not how it makes us look?

What I’m really thinking: The personal trainer

'I don't want to stamp on your dreams, but at some point I must come clean: I can't fix you'

However you want to get fit, there's a boot camp to suit you, discovers Gemma Bowes, from a fitness ranch in Texas to a boutique camp in Tuscany

Forget chilly lessons in the UK. Sarfraz Manzoor decides to beat his childhood phobia of water on an intensive course in Morocco

Don't be fooled – there are more ice baths than fluffy towels even at boutique boot camp, discovers Lisa Allardice

What's the best way to stay motivated? Rachel Dixon weighs up 10 common tips

Zoe Williams: This dressing up of vanity in the sackcloth of good health obscures the basic fact that exercise won't make us thin – just hungry

… be slightly overweight, don't exercise too much and stop peeling your fruit and veg. Dr Tom Smith on seven simple steps to better health

The Guardian took part in a month-long experiment to find out how the environment we work out in can affect our fitness results

Fitness fanatics in their 60s, 70s and 80s explain what motivates them to hit the pool or pull on their running shoes