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

Once confined to weightlifting, workout hype tracks have become a hugely popular (and profitable) genre online. Jenny Valentish goes in search of the daddy of them all

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

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

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

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