Cycling

Ski fitness

The white stuff

Charmaine Yabsley It pays to be prepared before you hit the slopes.

Lifestyle secrets

Lifestyle secrets of the world's healthiest countries

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Cassy Small Australia is up there with the world's fattest countries. What are the thinner, healthier countries doing right?

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Spinning Wheels

Get on your bike

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Charmaine Yabsley It may not seem like it, but riding a stationary bike can get you somewhere.

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Chew on this

Skip these workout blunders

Get more bang for your buck by working multiple muscles.

Paula Goodyer Get more out of your precious exercise time by avoiding the common pitfalls that can make your efforts less effective.

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Chew on this

Bend and stretch your style

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Paula Goodyer For those who don't know their iyengar from their ashtanga, how to tell which class to take?

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Study finds short bouts of exercise better than long

Running

Good news. When it comes to exercise for weight loss, less may be more. By Gretchen Reynolds.

Celebrity sweat

Hard candy mixed with sweat: Madonna's tips to become 'eye candy'

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Jenna Clarke Take cover slackers, Madonna's fitness regime has hit our shores.

Stay lean in the fat season

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Paula Goodyer How to keep kilo creep at bay this winter.

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Excess baggage

Top diet disaster destinations

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Luke Malone The top 10 countries where you're most likely to gain weight.

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Diet dilemma

Chew over a few diet truths

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Perversely, it seems, if you want to get fatter, just go on a diet and wait for a bit.

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Urban fitness alternatives

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Monique McDonald looks at the city a little differently to the rest of us. Where we see a park bench as somewhere to sit, she sees it as something to leap over.

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Excuses

We all have reasons why we can't take better care of our bodies, whether it's time, our ''situation'', an old injury or that we don't know where to start.

Commuters go full cycle

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A two-wheel revolution is happening on the streets of Sydney as Australians hang up their car keys in favour of the humble bicycle.

Stepping out

The simplest health fix

Trainers.

Megan Johnston Hate the gym? No time for sport? There's a simpler way to get the exercise you need.

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Don't sweat it

Don't sweat it

Research is increasingly stressing the need to get off our butts and avoid a sedentary lifestyle. Incidental exercise is no substitute for running, cycling or hammering away in the gym but it's a...

Get up, stand up

Alarming reasons to get off your backside

Worry.

Nick Galvin Congratulations you are sticking with your New Year's resolution to work out a couple of times a week. And you are also playing social soccer and going for a few walks and the odd run, too.

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Pedal power

Choosing the right bike

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Michelle Bridges What to look for in a bicycle and where to get it.

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Myth conceptions

Fertility: facts v furphies

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Stress? Too much sex? WiFi waves? What's really stopping you from conceiving?

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Tune in, tone up

Genetics matter but there's still much you can do to obtain the body you want, writes Isobel King.

Shape shifting

Can you change your body shape?

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Isobel King Genetics matter but there's still much you can do to obtain the body you want.

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