Two wheels

Matt Seaton: One value of cycling is that it keeps your inner child alive. More than alive, in my case: in rude good health and boisterous with it, frequently threatening to overwhelm the outer adult. Snow, can have the same effect

Two wheels

Matt Seaton: With time fast running out, you might be wondering what to get a cycling-obsessed loved one for Christmas. There is one item that a cyclist would always be glad to receive and will thank you sincerely for: waterproof socks

Yoga rocks!

Put off by naff 'celebrity' workouts? Leonie Cooper, music lover and exercise-phobe, tries out two new fitness DVDs with a difference ...

Two wheels

Matt Seaton: My first, autodidactic lessons in bicycle maintenance were not happy occasions

Overstretched

With rising cases of injuries and claims that it won't get you fit, yoga is facing a backlash. Is it just a victim of its own popularity? Alice Wignall reports

Dinghy sailing vs rowing

Dinghy sailing Body strength You use your body weight to balance in small boats, which develops great strength in leg and core-stability muscles. Constant pulling of ropes to control sails builds upper-body strength. four stars Brain power Sailing requires you … Continue reading →

Two wheels

Matt Seaton on the beer-and-fag-in-hand, noisy, gaudy circus of Belgium's cycling festival Ghent's Six Day

Running under cover

Fewer than one in five women do enough exercise, and many Muslim women are among them. But, says Peta Bee, with specially designed sportswear and single-sex classes on the rise, this could soon change