About five years ago, the percentage of Hong Kong adults who were overweight/obese stood at about 39 per cent, according to the Centre for Health Protection.
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26 Feb 2013
Wherever he is - warming up a crowd of marathon runners in Tiananmen Square, or leading a pack of joggers in a Beijing park - Linus Holmsater is easy to spot.
26 Feb 2013
I was a top age-group triathlete and a sub-three-hour marathon runner, spent a year as an officer cadet at Sandhurst in the 1990s and had been on operational tours. Pregnancy was going to be a...
19 Feb 2013
It's finally here. Three months of arduous training have flown by, and on Sunday, I will run the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon.
29 Jan 2013
You could eat as much as you wanted before a marathon, but for such a long race, it's almost inevitable that you'll still run out of energy
If your excuse for inactivity is "I don't have the time to work out", Carolyn Barnes empathises.
Defending champion Novak Djokovic will face another test of his extraordinary fitness when he takes on Spanish terrier David Ferrer for a place in the Australian Open final today.
Remember the 2008 film Tropic Thunder, and how ripped Ben Stiller, playing a narcissistic Hollywood action star, looked in it?
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The city’s lifestyle leaves well over half of Hongkongers with too little time or energy for exercise, according to a city-wide study released on Monday.
It all began with a lot of puffing and panting.
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