Women's Fitness Guide

We all want to look and feel our best, so our Women's Fitness series provides you with your own personal trainer in bookazine form. Each edition focuses in on one aim, using expert advice from fitness professionals and nutritionists to help you reach your goals. You could try out the Women's Guide to Running, the Best Body Bootcamp, Tone up in Ten Minutes, Get Your Body Back – and numerous other titles all dedicated to helping you feel fitter and healthier at your own pace.

Welcome • If you want to increase your longevity and feel vibrant for years to come, it’s about more than lotions and potions. In the second of our guides to ageing well, we explore more natural ways to look and feel your best.

Women’s Fitness Guide

What’s your real age? • Take this fun quiz to find out if your chronological age matches up with your body

What’s ageing you? • Whether or not you look older or younger than your calendar age doesn’t just depend on your genes. A cocktail of factors determine how fast you age

Free radicals explained

Your skin

Daily rituals • A regular skincare routine is the basis of a radiant, healthy complexion

24/7 care

Be beautiful for ever • Your skin has different needs in each decade. Tailor your regime accordingly and you can look fabulous whatever your age!

Care for your skin in pregnancy

Here comes the sun! • We all feel better when the sun comes out, but as it’s the leading cause of premature ageing, it’s good to know how to protect yourself

Keep your face fit • Smooth away lines the natural way with a facial workout

Work out with the facial exercise gurus

Fabulous hair • Glossy, healthy hair is a sure way to make you feel amazing and get heads turning. Here’s how to keep yours at its youthful best

Your body

Mind games • Follow our brain-boosting tips and keep your little grey cells on tip-top form

Perfect posture • Want to look instantly slimmer and younger? Just make some simple changes to the way you carry yourself

Body shapers

A youthful smile • There’s nothing more ageing than yellowing teeth and receding gums, so time-proof your teeth now – and stay looking younger for longer!

Your diet

Feed your face • A nutritious diet doesn’t just boost your health and reduce your risk of age-related disease, it can make you look more youthful too. Here’s how to eat to boost your looks

Eat for your age • Your decade-by-decade healthy eating guide for a slim and youthful body

Superfood recipes • Look and feel your best with these stay-young dishes

Age-defying exercise

Age-fighting fit • Regular exercise won’t just keep you toned and energised, the latest research shows it keeps your body young too

Your exercise prescription

Wonder workouts • We’ve cherry-picked the most effective forms of exercise to help you keep those tell-tale signs of ageing at bay

Your mind

Breathe yourself better • Balance your active life with plenty of chill-out time. Breathing well paves the way to a younger body

Youthful yoga • We’ve picked the best age- and gravity-defying yoga poses to help you look young and stay super flexible

Yoga essentials • Yoga is pretty kit-light and most classes will provide equipment, but these are the common props you’ll encounter in classes.