10 great UK coastal walks: readers’ tips

From Sheppey to Shetland, our readers share their favourite walks along beaches, estuaries and clifftops

Fit in my 40s: safe at home, I can cycle a tour and listen to the whole of Hamilton

With a turbo trainer I can join cycling groups or races, add music and hit the virtual road

Fit in my 40s: I thought I could use YouTube to learn skateboarding. I was wrong

You’re not going to kickflip immediately, but after weeks of practice, you’ll certainly have better abs

Fit in my 40s: protein boosts fitness, but who wants to eat a kilo of chicken a day?

Powders are the way forward – you can even bake with them

Soap dodger: meet the doctor who says we have been showering wrong

Hand-washing aside, James Hamblin has not used soap for five years. He warns that our obsession with being clean is harming the microbiome that keeps us healthy

The Asian hiking group blazing a trail through Scotland’s peaks

Boots and Beards is helping Glasgow’s Asian population to discover freedom, camaraderie and mental wellbeing in the Scottish mountains

UK plans to boost cycling and walking under threat, say campaigners

YouGov survey for BikeIsBest finds 77% support changes despite protests by pro-motoring groups

In lockdown I pined for the gym, but now I know there’s more to life than toned abs

Gyms are opening their doors and raising the bar on hygiene. However, after the pandemic, will people want to go back? asks writer Imogen West-Knights

Fit in my 40s: can I flex my swim muscles on dry land?

From running to resistance bands, there are plenty of ways to keep your form without getting wet

My summer body is ready. So it’s big and bouncy: deal with it

We should feel zero pressure to ‘prepare’ for a holiday, able to relax on the beach without fear of a ‘Daniel Craig coming out of the water’ scenario