Fitness

Video: Top tips to improve your Strava results

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Prioritise walking and cycling to halt UK’s inactivity epidemic, urges Parliamentary commission

All-Party Commission on Physical Activity's report calls on party leaders to draw up National Action Plan to tackle crisis

New study shows cycling really is better than running

US professor confirms what we all knew, says cycling “a lot easier on the muscles” than running & has science to back it up

Strava launches Prove It distance challenge

New incentive scheme to rack up the miles in January

Pippa Middleton ditches the tennis skirt and learns to ride a bike

Almost-royal socialite takes to two wheels to see what 'intimidating' urban cyclists get out of it

Rapha Alpe d’Quiz starts today

And you can sign up for the Festive 500 challenge too

Round-the-world cyclist completes Land’s End-John O’Groats journey – swimming all the way

Sean Conway rode bike round world with fractured back - but says this was toughest journey yet

All Party Commission to address UK kids’ “physical inactivity epidemic”

Launch coincides with survey results revealing that 7 in 10 UK children don’t get enough exercise

UK study to examine how people can be encouraged and supported to keep cycling into old age

Academic at Oxford Brookes to lead three-year project which starts next month

Strava causes antisocial cycling, says academic – this time on club runs, as people focus on own rides

Riders using app more focused on own goals than interacting with clubmates, according to paper presented to Royal Georgraphical Society

Ride Report: Prudential RideLondon-Surrey 100

Sarah Barth takes on the Olympic legacy event - and comes out smiling

Video: Top ten post-ride tips

Look after yourself and your bike with GCN

Video: Dr Steve Peters explains how a fit body helps keep a healthy mind

Team GB psychiatrist tells the Beeb that keeping moving is good for your head too

Laurens ten Dam’s Tour de France on Strava

Following the Belkin rider on Strava reveals the sheer scale of the speed of the professionals

FREE Kindle book: An introduction to cycling climbs by Simon Warren

Digital taster with content from all three of his ever-popular books

Sir Chris Hoy launches Summer Cycling Challenge + WIN

Aimed at families who want to get the miles in over eight weeks

Video: Mike Cotty’s 300-mile training ride

Mike's in training for something, but what does it take to get fit for a big challenge?

UCI presidency: McQuaid comes out fighting as he questions Cookson over Makarov links

UCI president says challenger "may be a pawn in a larger game" orchestrated by Katusha owner