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Is it true that … muscle turns into fat if you stop working out?
‘This is not true,” says Prof Leigh Breen, a specialist in muscle physiology at the University of Leicester. But it’s ...
Expert tips to make you a better runner – start slow, enlist a friend, choose strength over stretches
Whether you have never been for a run or are building up to a marathon, sometimes the biggest challenge is ...
Bailiffs and 100 unpaid teachers: inside the collapse of ‘groundbreaking’ yoga studio Triyoga
Kate Comer is a single mother with two children, so she is used to living on a financial knife-edge. But ...
A moment that changed me: My mother fell off a mountain – and my life began again
To steal a well-known line, 2023 is not a year on which I shall look back with undiluted pleasure. My ...
The viral Hyrox horror: is the ‘go hard or go home’ attitude to exercise finally over?
How far would you go to secure an impressive marathon time, or a Hyrox personal best? Maybe you’d turn down ...
A new start after 60: I’m 92 and cycling is my life – despite the crash that left me unconscious
When Arthur Plummer retired at 65, he bought a secondhand bicycle. His sister was a member of a cycling club ...
There’s a long history of athletes pooing themselves mid-race – why, and how can you avoid it?
Soiling yourself in public sounds like a bad dream. But the Australian athlete Joanna Wietrzyk has now apologised for doing ...
Ultramarathon runners train for months, sometimes years. But what happens when they don’t finish a race?
Drenched, freezing, utterly miserable and with a GI catastrophe ready to blow, my internal conflict of quit/don’t quit was in ...
‘There is no break-in period’: running experts offer five tips to finding the perfect shoe
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