Neglect, rape and wrenching loss: can Rebecca Roberts survive it all to become the strongest woman in history?

She has battled all the odds to haul trucks, carry cars and hold up columns like an ancient god – and is currently the strongest woman in the UK, Europe and the world. Now she wants to take her extraordinary quest even further ...

All gain, no pain: how to avoid injuries from running, skiing, swimming, cycling, football, rugby, yoga …

One minute you’re pushing your body to its limits, the next you’ve gone too far and you’re stretched out with an icepack. Sports pros explain how to escape pains, sprains, tears and swellings

‘Afterwards I would feel blissful’: how exercise convinced a psychotherapist to become a personal trainer

Therapists and gyms are working both brain and body as the full benefits of fitness are increasingly recognised

‘It takes over your life’: Britain’s world champion strongwomen on the joy of pulling trucks and flipping tyres

Three UK women have won six out of the last seven World’s Strongest Woman contests. They explain how they broke into the world of super strength

A new start after 60: ‘I became a powerlifter at 71 – and I’ve never felt so good about myself’

Peeps Nicol was newly widowed, ‘really unfit’, and struggling with MS when she first visited her local gym last year. Now she can deadlift 55kg and has begun competing

‘Eight hours’ sleep! And you must eat breakfast!’ The truth behind 10 of the biggest health beliefs

Should we really be aiming to walk 10,000 steps a day, or drink two litres of water? Time to sift fact from fiction

Experience: I’m a 79-year-old world champion powerlifter

People look at me and say, ‘She won’t be able to lift that.’ I like surprising them

My party outfit was so fancy I couldn’t even use the toilet. Some joker still told me I looked ‘comfy’

I like a compliment as much as the next woman. But why do they so often leave us smarting, asks the comedian, actor and writer Jessica Fostekew

Second act sensations! Meet the people who reached peak fitness – after turning 50

Rich started working out, Mags started running and Shashi started walking three times a day. It is possible to reach new goals as you get older and it is not only your physical health that benefits

Parklife! When gyms reopen, will anyone go back?

During lockdown, gymgoers have adapted, buying equipment for their homes and exercising outside. But there is one benefit of the gym that can’t be replaced

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