Pumping Irony

I can’t think of a better way to enter my seventh decade than by being completely present right now.

A tennis injury reveals the wisdom behind listening to your body and the surprising advantages we all have over professional athletes.

Golfing has been mostly a social exercise, but what happens if I suddenly start hitting it straight?

A bicycle outing in the north woods results in a whole new way to think of the triathlon.

One happy consequence of aging is the decline in testosterone levels, though a new study suggests that age has nothing to do with it.

There’s still hope for those of us who don’t always have our brains fully engaged.

Thinking about death might be one of the healthiest things anyone can do.

When it’s 70 degrees in March, watching basketball on TV really loses its appeal.

French lessons haven’t made me fluent, but at least my brain’s getting a good workout.

When I decided to get back on the basketball court a few weeks ago, my main concerns involved sprained ankles, blown-out knees, dislocated fingers and minor heart attacks. I had no idea that my Achilles tendons would capture so much of my attention.

The old colonoscopy debate was renewed again last week, when researchers at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York released…

For several weeks now, I’ve been having some trouble with my hearing.

I’m not the kind of guy who regularly visits the doctor, but if I were and if I lived in…

It’s often said of rookies who have graduated from the college hardwood to NBA arenas that they have to wait for the game to “slow down” before they can feel comfortable with a basketball in their hands.

I had an interesting revelation last week. After a long absence, I headed downstairs to the gym after work on Tuesday and dragged myself through about a 45-minute workout, including a stint on my old nemesis, the Elliptical Death Machine, and a trip to The Pit, where I got reacquainted with some heavy (for me) iron.

The other day, I was playing golf with my two older brothers and a friend — all retired — and overheard my senior sibling mention that he had just been in to see his doctor.

I didn’t do much that would count as actual gym-type exercise this week, but I’m going to say it was…

I get a lot of emails each week extolling the virtues of various anti-aging products, but this one was more entertaining than most:

I stumbled upon an interesting theory in the NYT recently that suggests the brain has more influence over our athletic…