I used to hate exercise, but with support from my parents, I’m now jumping for joy
I was turning 40 and very unfit. Now my super-healthy parents, both in their 70s, have inspired me to exercise and I love it
Edith Pritchett on workout apps – cartoon
Conditioning …
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
It’s snow time: 10 new winter holidays in Europe for skiers and non-skiers
Fresh ideas from the Dolomites to the Arctic include rail tours, gourmet mountain huts, eco-friendly snowmobiling – and great skiing
Meditation, vodka and vinegar: can the morning routines of the rich and famous make me a better person?
I am not empowered or optimised by my current morning routine. I am a bleary-eyed doom-scroller. So I spent a month ditching my phone, exercising, journalling and embracing the dawn, to find out what really works
‘At once intolerable and addictive’: five wellbeing courses and apps, road-tested
From bibliotherapy to burpees, gratitude journals to cathartic workouts, Nadine von Cohen logs into Australia’s new crop of wellbeing apps
Jump in and chill out: 10 of Britain’s best affordable retreats
From an ice-cold plunge to a Finnish sauna, treat yourself to massages, steam rooms and scrubs
Stop all the clocks: why are we so bad at going to bed?
Putting off bedtime for one more boxset episode, or some ‘me time’? You may be a sleep procrastinator – and doing yourself serious harm
’You feel like a child again!’ Would exercising at 5am make you a happier person?
While 99% of us are still fast asleep, members of the Win the Morning, Win the Day movement are throwing themselves into a dawn walk or swim. We join them where it all started, on a beach in Hampshire
You be the judge: ‘Can I ask my tenant to stop working out on the front porch?’
In our new column, we air both sides of a domestic disagreement – and ask you to deliver a verdict.
Core needs: wellbeing holidays bounce back to tackle ‘pandemic posture’
Wellness tourism continues to grow with demand driven by the ageing boomer generation and health-conscious millennials
The wonder stuff: what I learned about happiness from a month of ‘awe walks’
Feeling down? You need to experience more awe, psychologists say. So I set off every day to explore my local area, leaving my phone behind
Emma Beddington tries … the Cyr wheel: ‘I’m about as supple as an ironing board’
I have always dreamed of joining the circus and thought this could be the skill for me. Do I have the guts and grace to start spinning around?
Fit in my 40s: I suck at table tennis. Instead, here are my final seven fitness lessons
My last observation – of everything from boxing to circus skills – is that competition between beginners is a mug’s game
‘I felt my body wasn’t good enough’: teenage troubles with Instagram
As research emerges on the harmful effect of the app, three people discuss its impact on eating disorders