Have you seen an urban outdoor gym in a park near you? In recent years, local councils have been trying to tackle our national couch potato problem by investing in obstacles and machines in public outdoor spaces that are free, and easy to use.The main provider of these spaces, The Great Outdoor Gym

I remember my first week with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, on stage at the Alte Oper in Frankfurt, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau singing, Sir Georg Solti conducting. Although I had a number of years behind me playing in provincial orchestras, nothing prepared me for the perceived “big-time”

A groundbreaking "lifestyle medicine programme" developed on the surfers' paradise of Bondi Beach in Australia will be used by the NHS to improve the scandalously neglected physical health of people with serious mental illness.There are more than 300,000 people in England diagnosed with conditions

If you're a woman between 20 and 50, you have lived through – and probably paid to participate in – at least one of the following: "strippercise"; trampolining; jump rope; belly-dancing; trapeze artistry; water yoga, aerial yoga, naked yoga; pole-dancing. Some of us even went to that class at

Endurance runners are far more likely to die of heat stroke than an undetected heart condition, according to a new study. The researchers pointed out that endurance athletes participating in events in warm climates are actually 10 times more likely to develop severe and life-threatening heat