If you are prone to balancing a newspaper on the handlebars of your spin bike, chatting on your phone while running on the treadmill, or mentally planning a work presentation during your legs bums and tums class, you could be preventing your body from reaping the full benefits of exercise.   According to the Guardian, the read more »

We all resolve to begin a New Year more healthily than we ended the last one, but often we set unrealistic and unreachable goals that mean our good intentions do not last long. Below are a few tips on how to boost your health and well-being in ways which can be easily integrated into your read more »

Obesity is at an all time high, good parenting is at an all-time low. Have we ‘squandered’ our chance to create an Olympic legacy of fitness, as sports medicine specialists claim? One leading sports medicine specialist, Dr Andy Franklyn-Miller, has warned that the government’s failure to give PE the same priority as other subjects has read more »

If you thought the vogue for tight lycra hot pants was safely confined to the 80s along with catsuits, perms and Wham!, you’d be sadly mistaken. Proskin has recently launched a range of ‘cellulite-busting hot pants’ called ‘Zagorra Hot Pants’, designed to miraculously absorb inches of fat from thighs and bottoms. The skin-tight garment is read more »

Leading mental health charity ‘Mind’ advocates the great outdoors as a great way to improve mental health. Research shows that as the clocks go back in October, beginning a long winter of dark afternoons, our happiness levels drop due to the reduction in sunlight. According to Mind, our habitual patterns of sleep, appetite, sex drive, read more »

Thousands of brave Brits abandon the spa for the ‘liberating feeling’ of outdoor swimming. On a dark chilly morning in October, the idea of stripping off and throwing yourself into an icy pond seems a little counterproductive – but for around 50,000 of you, outdoor swimming has become something of an all-year-round hobby. Membership numbers read more »

Last year 1.3 million new cyclists hit the streets of Great Britain as more and more workers opted for a healthier morning commute. As the pressure peaks for getting Britain green, an increasing number of commuters are choosing the bicycle over the car, bus or train. As well as helping the environment, cycling is an read more »