With warm weather finally here, it’s time to strap on your sneakers, hit the pavement and leave the treadmill behind. There’s no better time to improve your running form than now, when you have the next six months to take advantage of the sunshine and fresh air outside.

Fluids are vital for your body’s health; hydration is important for keeping muscles healthy, maintaining focus and concentration, and battling tiredness. You’ve already heard the drill about misreading thirstiness as hunger pangs. If you’re undertaking an intense fitness workout, then it’s doubly important to dose up on fluids to ensure that your body doesn’t become dehydrated.

When you hear about yoga, the first things that spring to mind are probably physical exercise and people stretching into bizarre poses. Yet yoga is much more than just an exercise - it connects your body, mind, and spirit so that while you’re performing yoga, you can relieve stress and experience peace of mind.

When it comes to losing weight and getting a toned body, we rely on gym workouts for the best results. Most gyms have all the equipment you need - treadmills, weight lifting benches, and exercise bikes to name just a few. Of course, once you purchase membership, you probably have a general idea of what to do at the gym.

We’re exposed to hundreds of toxins everyday. From the exhaust fumes we breathe to the chemicals in foods, soap and shampoos, plastics, pesticides and more. That’s why it’s important to do all you can to keep your body as healthy as possible. And one way to do that is to mind what you eat.

Like any form of exercise, yoga needs to remain interesting, exciting and fun if it’s something you are going to continue to enjoy practicing. If you are doing the same old routines each week and never mixing things up, then it’s only going to be a matter of time before you start getting bored and think about quitting.

There are some foods on which we never seem to be able to quite decide on the health benefits - and eggs are one of them. Just as advice seems to vary from one week to the next as to whether we should store eggs in the fridge or at room temperature, so it feels like the verdict on the dietary value of eggs changes constantly.

When it comes to exercise, getting a proper recovery after a workout is essential to repairing muscles and improving your performance. Muscles need anywhere from 24 to 48 hours to repair and rebuild, and working them too hard for long periods of time may lead to tissue breakdown rather than building.

We’ve all seen her. The smiling blonde, super-sexy, super-toned girl beaming on the cover of Women’s Health magazine or the like. Decked out in her yoga pants and tank top, we’re all just dying for a body like that. But the truth is that many of us don’t fit that mold.

No-one considers massage an exercise - we all think of laying back and being pampered as a treat. But the truth is that there are great health benefits to be derived from regular massage therapy. In conjunction with other activities as part of your exercise routine, massage can help you keep both your body and mind in great shape.