How taking up boxing helped me beat anxiety – and regain control of my life

On my first session, my fist made a loud and satisfying thunk on the pad, and I was hooked. And my physical progress has rippled out to how I felt emotionally

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

Fit in my 40s: sophrology – a mind-boggling mix of Zen, yoga and psychology

I came to it with scepticism. It sounded like a card game made up by a child

Fitness tips: three sophrology exercises for beginners

Learn to focus, release tension and bring awareness back to your body

Fitness tips: Netball drills to improve hand-eye coordination

Test yourself with these different passes, says the England Netball coach• Fit in my 40s: New to netball? Learn your positions first

Fit in my 40s: New to netball? Learn your positions first

Netball players are everywhere, meeting constantly, beginners, socials, in parks and school playgrounds

Sprinter Michael Johnson on recovering from a stroke: ‘I did feel like, why did this happen to me?’

The four-time Olympic champion didn’t know if he would ever recover from his stroke. Eight months later, he warns: it could happen to anyone

Opening up school sports facilities would give every child a healthy summer

The fitness of children from low-income familes suffers in the holidays, say former sports stars Tanni Grey-Thompson and Lawrence Dallaglio

Fit in my 40s: can a home-testing kit tell me if I’m menopausal?

It turns out that numbers don’t necessarily tell the whole story