Exercise Items

Get bikini ready with an urban bootcamp around London's landmarks

Tired of the gym? Why not try out a unique urban bootcamp that takes you around the most famous landmarks of London this summer.

Start your 10k training with Boutique Sport

If you've signed up for a new running challenge, Boutique Sport are experts in building up your stamina and pace, with a little bit of luxury on the side!

Slim into your ‘goal dress’ with M&S

M&S nutritionist Helen Stevenson offers up some diet and weight loss tips to get into you ‘goal dress’ this spring.

Train better with someone fitter

Try to working out with someone fitter than you - you’ll work up to 200% harder, say experts

The ultimate 15minute at-home workout

Burn calories and tone up fast with this intense 15 minute workout you can do in your sitting room!

The four parts of the body women are most concerned about - and how to keep them looking good!

All women have hang ups about their bodies. Even those women who are considered to have 'perfect' figures will tell you there are parts they would like to change. And while every woman is different there are four body parts that are commonly listed when women are asked what they're unhappy with.

What's so great about zumba?

Unless you've been on another planet you'll know there's a new exercise craze sweeping the world – zumba. Zumba is based on Latin dance routines and is a high calorie-burning fitness activity.

Four reasons people quit exercise

Experts have told us many times that the most effective way of losing weight and keeping it off is to combine a healthy, balanced diet with regular exercise. However, while many people find it relatively easy to include healthy foods in their diet lots of people struggle to introduce exercise into their daily routine.

Lack of exercise 'as deadly as smoking'

Lack of exercise can be as deadly as smoking – and something as simple as upping your exercise can help lower your risk of heart disease and cancer. More than 5.3 million of the 57 million deaths worldwide in 2008 could be linked to inactivity.

Love ballet? Love Pilates? Try BarrePlus

Want to try something new? It's a good idea to mix up your fitness to keep your body guessing. Blending dance with posture-strengthening pilates and impact aerobics, BarrePlus is the latest craze to hit the fitness studio.

Five top tips to beat cellulite

If there is one thing that 99% of women all over the world have in common it is cellulite. Yes, as much as we may try to eat healthy or work out it seems the dreaded crinkly skin just won't go away.

Bootcamp beauties opt for FitFarm clothing

Ladies of all shapes and sizes can be bootcamp beauties and the new clothing range from FitFarms ensures you have everything you need to get exercising before, during and after camp. The clothing range will vary in size from small to XXL.

Diet vs Exercise

Are you thinking about losing weight? We all know that diet and exercise are the best ways of doing so and combining the two will give the best results. But here we look at the benefits of them both.

Is Facebook ruining your body image?

Pictures of muffin tops, bingo wings and double chins on social networks are making Brits more body conscious than ever before. This summer one in five Brits will want to get into shape after seeing themselves in an unflattering Facebook photo.

Shape up at London bootcamp sessions

Bootcamp is about much more than fitting into those skinny jeans. Regular bootcampers feel the benefits of a healthier lifestyle; they become stronger, fitter, slimmer and have more energy. Sessions are ideal stress-busters, too.

Why you're not losing weight

When you're on a diet and the weight is coming off you feel fantastic, don't you? All that hard work is paying off and suddenly all of the cravings and the sacrifices have been worth it.

Celebrity diet tricks

Do you ever look at celebrities with their fabulous figures and wonder just how they do it? Besides having the money to wear the best clothes and have the best hairstyles, celebs use a series of tricks and tips to keep their figures trim and toned. Here are just a few.

Five things you MUST believe for healthy weight loss

With summer now upon us – although you could be forgiven for not knowing that thanks to the weather we’re having! – many of us will be thinking about trips to the beach and days spent lazing around a swimming pool…and dreading it!

Escape to Portugal for a bootcamp break

Thanks to the girls from TOWIE, bootcamp remains an enduring fitness trend. If you want to shape up for summer, but also get some sun, there are various fitness holidays abroad that combine training with sunshine and spa treatments.

Get sexy in the city with 30-minute bootcamps

Are you on a mission to flaunt a hot bikini body this summer? There are so many options now to help you tone up that there’s no excuse! Sexy in the City Bootcamps fit easily into busy schedules with sessions lasting only 30 minutes.

Queen inspires Jubilee fitness workout

There are all sorts of items inspired by the Jubilee - tea towels, paper masks, cupcake trays - even a special workout. Harpers Fitness have devised 'Queenacise' using moves the Queen might to try to help her keep trim and slim.

Save money on gym fees: hit the great outdoors

Why waste money on the gym when there is a natural fitness centre outside your front door? Nearly half of women polled said they are exercising outside three times a week and many cite expensive fees as the reason they’re not going to the gym.

Most women 'reluctant to exercise outside'

Most women are reluctant to exercise outside because they are worried about looking unattractive in their exercise gear. That’s according to results of a charity poll, which looks at body confidence and self esteem, for mental health firm Mind.

Does work distract you from chocolate cravings?

What's your guilty pleasure? Nuffield Health, promoting their free three-day guest pass offer, analysed a YouGov survey of more than 2,000 people, and found that chocolate is still the biggest vice of UK men (19%) and women (38%).

How to maintain weight loss

You've done the hard work. You've dieted and you've exercised and you've lost the weight. Now it's plain sailing, right? Well no, not exactly.