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.
Balanced?
Ian Botham, cricketer
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.
He shoots, he scores, he lights another fag …
Just days before France played Portugal in the World Cup, photographers caught Zinedine Zidane having a crafty cigarette. It's not what we expect of sporting heroes, but, says Simon Hattenstone, that's because we've got very short memories.
Seven essentials in buying trainers
We spend more time in our sports shoes than any of the others we own. So be sure to pick the right pair for you, says Sam Murphy.
Should you ever take a sickie?
Lucy Mangan: The commitment of the average British worker to the health and happiness of his company and colleagues being what it is, the attractions held out by major sporting events mean that during the World Cup, sickie-ness becomes endemic.