Your guide to the opportunistic winter bulk

Mum-of-three Sarah Best, 51, took up strength training seven years ago and this year qualified for the Hyrox World Championships in Stockholm. She shares some of her workout routine and how strength training has changed her body and her life.

Wellness coach Diego Carrete specialises in helping busy dads get back in shape. His F.I.T Dad programme will help any new dad – or just anyone short on time – to build muscle, lose fat and rebuild their metabolism

Fine dining and fitness aren’t exactly natural bedfellows. But no one seems to have told Tom Aikens, the Michelin-starred chef who’s as fanatical about his training as the food he serves

This session – from Gymbox PT Ben Foulis – will target every major muscle group, with the three sections combining for increased mobility, muscle growth, strength, aerobic fitness and muscular endurance

One MH editor took on a month-long curling challenge – 100 reps a day, every day – to see if relentless repetition could finally bring his biceps up to size