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Tricky exercise to end gym contracts
New research shows 45% of Generation Y gym-goers did not read the terms and conditions before they signed up for their gym contracts.

Fitness Challenge: Gentle art of hoops
Each week Rachel Grunwell tries a new sport to bring you the lowdown.

Fit families
Tired of sitting on the sidelines? Danielle Wright goes in search of sports the whole family can play together

Fitness Challenge: Thrills, chills and spills
Each week Rachel Grunwell tries a new sport to bring you the lowdown.

Tunes for workout winners
Most gym-goers enjoy listening to a few tunes to help inspire a workout.

Fitness Challenge: Boogie and box to beats
Each week Rachel Grunwell tries a new sport to bring you the lowdown.

Exercise beats breakfast
The Government might have better spent it's $9.5million school breakfast money on walking school buses, findings from a Danish study into children and exercise suggest.

Fitness Challenge: Resist and you'll reform
Each week Rachel Grunwell tries a new sport to bring you the lowdown

Fitness Challenge: Only for the tough
Each week Rachel Grunwell tries a new sport to bring you the lowdown.

Keeping healthy in the cold
Fondling a chocolate biscuit on the couch instead of an exercise bike at the gym?

Fitness Challenge: Hop in to try lindy swing
Each week Rachel Grunwell tries a new sport to bring you the lowdown.

Like flying, but on ice
Ice skating is a way of life for the owners of Auckland rinks, finds Dionne Christian.

Heart problems plaguing top athletes
Hamish Carter is the latest in a series of elite endurance athletes to have encountered heart problems. Phil Taylor investigates whether training programmes are excessive.

How much is gym gear washed?
The majority of fitness fanatics are the pits at keeping their workout kit clean, with many confessing to only washing their sweaty rags after every third visit to the gym.

No barbells, just bubs
Each week Rachel Grunwell tries a new sport to bring you the lowdown.

Walk between the poles
Each week Rachel Grunwell tries a new sport to bring you the lowdown.

Namaste to a new generation
Danielle Wright finds yoga for kids is as much about becoming grounded as it is about getting up and moving.

One man's extraordinary steps
A running regime that would defy most of us is soul food to Malcolm Law, writes Andy Kenworthy.

Fitness Challenge: Faith moves mountains
Each week Rachel Grunwell tries a new sport to bring you the lowdown.

Colin Hogg: Remarkable shows restore faith
Programme on teenagers fighting flab overcomes clutter of cliches to succeed and Maori TV offers hope.

Fitness Challenge: Slipstream for race success
Each week Rachel Grunwell tries a new sport to bring you the lowdown.

The Cuban diet: eat less, exercise more - halve preventable deaths
In a unique natural experiment, researchers have observed how a nation that lost an average of 5kg per head over five years contributed to a halving of the death rate.