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Outdoor & Extreme: Health & Fitness

Outdoor & Extreme: Health & Fitness
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Clapping finger push-ups are hard, but not for India’s Guinness World Record-holder
Extreme fitness

Video | Indian teen holds Guinness World Record for clapping finger-push ups

Trying (and failing) to jump start our way into Spartan Race shape

Wellness

Run with a cold? Why you shouldn’t even think about it

VR and AR

Video | Hong Kong, Singapore hosts for tech-fuelled urban exploration races

Events part of a global series meant to inspire urban dwellers to get off the couch and rediscover their city as they race to clear dozens of augmented-reality checkpoints and tackle challenges on the go

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Events part of a global series meant to inspire urban dwellers to get off the couch and rediscover their city as they race to clear dozens of augmented-reality checkpoints and tackle challenges on the go
Nokia

Review | Nokia Steel HR review: fitness tracker that doesn’t blitz you with data

Old-school watch look makes Nokia tracker stand out from the pack; it’s as accurate as market leader Fitbit’s devices when it comes to fitness data, but falls down on sleep tracking and notifications. Battery life is great

Wellness

The surprising foods fitness influencers eat to stay lean

Seven fridge invasions found a common thread: plant-based foods

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Outdoor & Extreme

Hong Kong charity gives Kenya’s forgotten runners a second chance

Lukas Wambua Muteti coaches in Hong Kong and Taipei. Photos: MIRARunners
Wellness

A middle-aged Hong Kong ultrarunner's seven tips for endurance

Derek Kwik has run an ultra-marathon every year since 2000, but despite approaching 50 years old and being a father of one-year-old twin girls, he plans to keep going. He gives his advice on how to juggle exercise and family

Wellness

A Hong Kong first: hiker who did whole 3,500km Appalachian Trail

He almost lost all his gear before starting out, and encountered bears, rattlesnakes and dangerous ground, but Tony Or hung in there thanks to friendship, the kindness of strangers – and Swedish death metal

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Outdoor & Extreme

View From The Edge | Only mad dogs and Scotsmen cycle 160km in unseen China

Cycling 160km through China, from Zhuhai to Chikan. Photos: Mad Dogs

Feet and heat the challenge as Hongkongers run 300km in Cambodia

Matthew Pocock (pictured) is running 300km through Cambodia for charity. Photos: Handouts
Wellness

Video | Rebounder training - shock absorber for joints and way to work your core

Hongkonger Lucia Tam used a rebounder during rehabilitation after an injury, and was so impressed she opened a studio in Sheung Wan, where her Bounce classes offer a fun way to get fit

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Outdoor & Extreme

Recruiter puts grit to test in Spartan Race after loved ones fight caner

Outdoor & Extreme

‘Real Moana’ says SUPyoga is an escape for imprisoned Hongkongers

Stand-up paddle board yoga teacher Charlotte Piho has been dubbed The Real Moana because she feels at home on the water. Photo: Jonathan Wong
Outdoor & Extreme

Seeing is believing as Hong Kong nature wows hikers

The Classic Hong Kong takes hikers from around the world on a three-day hiking and camping trip through the New Territories. Photos: Lloyd Belcher Visuals
Outdoor & Extreme

The pair paddle boarding around Lantau turning values into action

Cyclothon has the city on the right track

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Lunar: Stories

Video | Three Hong Kong women weightlifters happy to show their muscles

Powerlifting is growing in popularity among Hong Kong women, who see having a muscular figure as inspiring and feminine and say the sport has boosted their self-confidence

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Weightlifter and founder of Trybe Studio, Kay Kay Keung, works out at Trybe Studio in Wong Chuk Hang. Photo: Nora Tam

Video | Female weightlifters in Hong Kong

We’ll come back stronger in the Cyclothon next year, vow HK riders

Why this outdoor gear is designed to last 61 years

Cotopaxi, an Outdoor Apparel Company Designed for Doing Good ONE TIME USE ONLY

Why this Hongkonger swapped cage fighting for clinical psychology

Former mixed martial arts fighter Kimberley Carder talks about teaming up with Women’s Five, a five-week, female-focused training programme, and why mental health has become just as important to her as the physical side

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Despite giving up MMA, Kimberly Carder continues to be a fitness advocate but now focuses just as much on mental as on physical health. Photo: Jonathan Wong

Opinion | How bodybuilder Rich Piana died trying to perfect his physique

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Outdoor & Extreme

Vegan model and athlete sees improved recovery from plant diet

Paddlers forced to deal with pollution rashes ... but now they fight back

A young paddler collects plastic in Repulse Bay in an attempt to curb the pollution problem. Photo: Ocean Recovery Alliance
Consumers

Ex-rugby star to run new gym in California Fitness venues

Former Hong Kong rugby player Ricky Cheuk and his son in his new fitness centre. Photo: Handout

How to switch from road running in Hong Kong to trail running

Experienced trail runners offer advice on the best ways to train and compete for off-road events, emphasising it’s better to focus on climbing and descending hills, rather than putting in the hard yards on the flat

New technology could break down Hong Kong’s plastic problem

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