After discovering the power of movement for your mind, 47-year-old Helen Foster, from Yorkshire, experienced a debilitating episode of depression, one that could have cost her her life. Here, she reveals what running means to her

Real, Spurs and Wales icon Gareth Bale on life after football, staying fit and swapping boots for golf clubs

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

J ack Wilshere is such a smiling character that it’s occasionally easy to forget how much of a competitor he is. Short in stature but not willpower, Wilshere was training alongside Thierry Henry at 14

What’s the best excuse you have ever made for performing badly in a race? I’m not talking about those deliberately vague ones we all trot out at short notice when we’ve had a shocker like “I’ve had a

Some of motorsport’s most enduring figures can’t resist the urge to keep racing. Matt James finds out why