If your goal is simply to stay fit ad healthy, these shortyet thorough workouts will boost heart health, build bone density and strengthen muscles."Runners often think that the more they run, the healthier they'll be," says Bill Pierce, co

on Lundy Island. I won’t go into details, but it explains why Nature, in her wisdom, has allotted such different habitats to the cider apple tree and the cannabis plant. My pelvic bone misread the accident as a decree of independence. It was as if my DNA

from the double bone graft, “See you in February for the implants. Bring six thousand pounds.”I haven’t been able to run since that day. The grafts came from a bone bank in San Francisco and were granular. They’re held in by little plates of Teflon

West rodeos. I was catapulted in a soaring parabola, and connected with the ground with a bone-crushing finality.Eventually I realised that I wasn’t dead. But I’d juggled my vertebrae like the black-cat bones in a shaman’s pouch and wrenched every

diverting amble across the bone-strewn dunes to Petra?Well, yes, it seemed he was. Excellent!So now the training can begin in earnest. We’re starting with the Ridgeway, Northern Europe’s oldest road. For 50 miles, this chalky trail meanders across

, the human body is bone-idle. It’s a backsliding waster. For thousands of years, it pretended it couldn’t run 26 miles and 385 yards. “Oh! Oh! Stop! The pain, the pain!” And we believed it. And then we woke up one April morning in the early 1980s and said

-up race. And so I’m utterly paralysed by the prospect, drinking heavily and just occasionally managing a feeble set of 10 reverse crunches in the gym. Seaton’s e-mail was like God clearing his throat. “Game’s up – do the work or your bleached bones

its toll on bones, muscles, and tendons. At the least, over-racing causes fatigue and staleness. At worst, too much racing will increase injury risk.How much is too much depends on the distance of your races and whether your goal is speed or fun

fraction of the strain on your joints, bones and muscles. "It's a good way to increase the length of your runs without stressing out your body," says Anderson. "A session might involve aqua-jogging for 60 minutes at threshold heart rate. Then come out

. Resistance work is essential to skeletal health. It guards against bone loss and osteoporosis, and facilitates a higher level of fat metabolism, 24 hours a day. No matter what your age, you can enjoy significant gains in strength and bone density in a matter