How to win the game of life, by Garry Kasparov

Stephen Moss: Gary Kasparov, the former world chess champion is in London promoting his self-help book, How Life Imitates Chess, and has been enticed to the Stowe Centre in Paddington, west London by BBC2's The Culture Show, which is making a programme about inner-city chess.

Give me an ‘Ow’! Give me an ‘Argh’!

Stuart Jeffries: Is cheerleading dangerous? According to the New York Times, acrobatic manoeuvres such as throwing women (known as "flyers") 20 feet in the air or forming human pyramids have made "knee braces and ice-bags accoutrements as common as mascara" among the US's four million cheerleaders.

Walking boots

If you're planning to hit the great outdoors over the Easter weekend, the right footwear will be essential. Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones, self-styled 'Black Farmer' and boot fan, gives five pairs the runaround.

Celebrity fit club

They are some of the best-selling DVDs on the market, but beyond the vaguely famous faces and the thumping music, are celebrity home fitness regimes actually any good? We asked our writers to put them to the test.

Fun and games

Open Thread: Nintendo's latest console could be just the thing to get Britons moving. But should we just get out more?

The unsporting life

Why aren't more British Asian women bending it like Beckham, wonders Urmee Khan.

How dangerous is the Great North Run?

Adam Sills: "Whatever you do, don't stop." In the six months of training and straining before last year's Great North Run, this was the key advice that carried me over the finish line.

To sleep, perchance to clean

Laura Barton: For some it is lullabies; a few wafty verses of Rock-a-Bye Baby or Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, perhaps. For football's enfant terrible Wayne Rooney, however, it is a vacuum cleaner.