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  • Monday, 31 January, 2022
    FT Globetrotter
    Pillow talk: the best ‘sleep programmes’ in London’s top hotels

    How one long-suffering insomniac’s quest for shut-eye led to pillow menus, temperature-controlled mattresses and a night inside an Antony Gormley sculpture

  • Friday, 7 January, 2022
    How To Spend ItThe Wellness Issue
    The best new spas for 2022

    Stays and ways to find your inner balance, from the Cotswolds to Kotor

  • Tuesday, 12 October, 2021
    FT SeriesWellbeing and fitness: the cool guide to winter cycling
    Women’s cycling in London: the best routes and groups

    One FT writer’s journey from two-wheeled commuter to ‘Lycra-clad obsessive’

  • Tuesday, 7 September, 2021
    Wellbeing and fitness
    Biotech hacks to get you back on track

    Reset your personal best this autumn with the latest health and fitness gadgets

  • Monday, 6 September, 2021
    FT GlobetrotterRide with the FT
    Two wheels good: four of London’s best and most bike-friendly new routes

    A steadily expanding network of protected lanes means that cyclists can explore the capital virtually unbothered by drivers — on routes that zip through 1,000 years of history

  • Tuesday, 24 August, 2021
    FT SeriesWellbeing and fitness: six new ways to optimise your health this winter
    Power to the pedal: the galvanising effects of experiencing London by e-bike

    How going electric brought new energy to the way the FT’s CEO — formerly an e-bike sceptic — navigates the UK capital

  • Tuesday, 27 July, 2021
    FT Globetrotter
    Laps of luxury: London’s best (and longest) hotel pools

    Whether you want to power along or be pampered, here’s where to get in the swim

  • Monday, 5 July, 2021
    FT GlobetrotterRide with the FT
    Peripheral vision: three bike routes to London’s outer edges and beyond

    Two-wheeled explorations of the capital’s outskirts peel back layers of history

  • Tuesday, 29 June, 2021
    Exercise and the city: fitness classes for urbanites 
    Row big or go home – gym classes for the oar-some

    Embrace the ergometer at these custom-made rowing sessions

  • Friday, 4 June, 2021
    FT Magazine
    How walking became a radical act during lockdown

    Hitting the streets every day didn’t just help me get through the pandemic, it changed my sense of self

  • Monday, 24 May, 2021
    FT Globetrotter
    Tips from the top

    In this series from FT Globetrotter, leaders across a range of industries, from food to finance to fashion, share guides to their cities, with top spots to eat and drink, exercise, explore — and more

  • Tuesday, 9 March, 2021
    Wellbeing and fitness
    Run the world – the best jogs, city sprints and ultra-marathons on the planet

    Lace up for the most beautiful running routes on earth

  • Monday, 15 February, 2021
    FT SeriesThe therapeutic power of water
    Go with the London flow: six top walks along the Thames

    To explore the capital’s biggest liquid asset on foot is an adventure in architecture, culture and nature

  • Friday, 20 November, 2020
    FT Globetrotter
    The best of London: at home

    While staying in is the new going out, this series from FT Globetrotter will bring you the capital’s top offerings available on your doorstep

  • Tuesday, 29 September, 2020
    Exercise and the city: fitness classes for urbanites 
    London’s best (and socially distanced) HIIT classes

    Itching to get back to the gym? Here are five ways to work off the quarantine kilos

  • Sunday, 6 September, 2020
    The best of the FT Weekend Festival 20206 min
    Robin Lane Fox: five tips from a lifetime of gardening

    Insights from the veteran FT columnist from his base at New College, Oxford

  • Tuesday, 25 August, 2020
    FT Globetrotter
    FT readers: safety tips for cycling in London

    With many commuters now preferring their bikes to the Tube, FT readers share their tips for staying safe on the road

  • Sunday, 23 August, 2020
    FT GlobetrotterRide with the FT
    Cycling in London: how to ride to work

    Long intimidated by the idea of commuting to work by bike, an FT writer takes an urban cycling lesson

  • Monday, 10 August, 2020
    10 great walks – all over the world
    London walks: gardens and green therapy in Dulwich and East Dulwich

    From pretty Dulwich Village, to the Picture Gallery and the park, this rural corner of south-east London is perfect for a summer stroll

  • Monday, 20 July, 2020
    Style
    UK gyms reopen: will we go back?

    The £5.5bn fitness market was expanding rapidly before lockdown. But social-distancing measures and the rise of home workouts are cause for concern

  • Thursday, 2 July, 2020
    FT Globetrotter
    Lockdown fitness

    This series from FT Globetrotter has tips, workout routines and reflections on staying active during the coronavirus crisis

  • Sunday, 7 June, 2020
    FT GlobetrotterNeighbourhood walks
    London walks: canal boats, boozers and traders in Hackney and Shoreditch

    In the east of the locked-down city, life continues to be lived defiantly on the streets

  • Tuesday, 2 June, 2020
    FT GlobetrotterLockdown fitness
    FT readers share their lockdown workouts

    We asked our readers around the world how they’re staying in shape under stay-at-home orders, with social distancing measures and no gym access. Here’s what you told us

  • Saturday, 30 May, 2020
    FT GlobetrotterNeighbourhood walks
    London walks: pangs of hunger in Notting Hill

    Evening strolls are whetting the appetite for the area’s vast array of culinary delights currently off the menu

  • Tuesday, 19 May, 2020
    8 great swims round the world – from Norway to New York
    How cold-water swimming saved me

    The chilly sea off New York’s Long Island has never felt so welcoming — or necessary — as during lockdown

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