THE GOAL My posture has been terrible for as long as I can remember. As a child, my parents would constantly tell me to sit or stand up straight and as an adult, a pilates instructor friend informed me that my bad posture is due to a weak "core". Her tip, which years later comes hurtling back

THE GOAL I wanted to improve on my front crawl in preparation for my first triathlon season. My aim was to get off to a speedy start with the swim portion in two sprint distance and one Olympic triathlon events. A gadget to motivate, measure and remember my swim sessions, in all their glory, would

Mo Farah has a penchant for chocolate milk after races and intense training sessions, but far from being a rare moment when the double Olympic champion strays from his almost monastic nutritional regime, this is actually a vital part of his post-run recovery programme.The explosion of research in

As many as five people under 35 die in Australia each week from sudden cardiac arrest and in half the cases the first sign of something wrong “is when they die suddenly”, a leading cardiologist says.On Sunday 27-year-old Chris Head died during the City2Surf fun run in Sydney. He went into cardiac

When I was a teenager in the early 90s, there was a definite trend adopted by a specific type of hippy student I dated, who told themselves and those around them that hair was "self-cleaning". For weeks, even months, they would refuse shampoo, resulting in hair that emitted cheap cider and bong