Any day now, Ben Lecomte will plunge into the Pacific Ocean off a Tokyo beach toward San Francisco. He wants to become the first person to swim across the Pacific. He's already the first person to ...

When Lewis Moody revealed this week that he had been diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND), the reaction was instant, and visceral. Within hours, tributes flooded in for the former England ...

TORONTO – As the saying goes, too much of anything isn’t good for you – even when it’s supposed to be good for you – like exercising. A new study published online by Mayo Clinic Proceedings, a first ...

Regular exercise is one of the most important activities for improving heart health and maintaining a healthy brain, body, and lifestyle. However, recent research suggests that too much exercise can ...

Weekend warriors and people starting a post-holiday fitness program too hard and too fast after time off are being warned that extreme exercise risks damaging the vital kidneys and muscles. Dr. Mark ...

Fitness pros share their favorite exercises to do in the swimming pool. (Getty Creative) Let’s be honest: The last thing you want to do on a hot summer day is go for a run. But just because the pool ...

For many people, summer is an opportunity to bring their exercise routine out of the gym and into the great outdoors. But as heat waves, wildfires and smoke-choked skies become commonplace for more ...

Calum Marsh: This is exercise as voluntary incarceration, as recruit training for a new athletic corps on the vanguard of the fitness field You can save this article by registering for free here. Or ...

Amber Miller didn't come anywhere close to winning this year's Chicago Marathon, but she did become the most famous person to run the race. Or perhaps that should be infamous? Ms. Miller, who lives in ...

The Biggest Loser could be the biggest turnoff for people looking to get in shape, according to research out of the University of Alberta. The NBC series — and its international spinoffs — has obese ...