Join a Zest challengeWelcome to the Zest challenge blog. Every month we're setting a new challenge and we want you to join us!The challenges will vary from learning to run your first 5K race to drop-a-dress-size diets - some will take place over a

.  Even though there was no target to this challenge, when I started I thought that if I lost half a stone I’d be over the moon. So having reached 11.5 pound is fantastic and to get there just in time for the New Year is a double bonus.I found the diet

Yes, it's that time again! The Zest Challenge is back – and for 2012 it's bigger and better. Following the runaway success of last year's event, when almost 800 Zesties took part, we've upgraded our women-only challenge to create a fun course

I think I've had a pretty good week with my post-pregnancy challenge. The exercise plan isn't going too badly, I'm finding the moderate exercise fits in with my daily routine most of the time though I do have two days of the week when my commitments

Meet our three Zest readers, who each want to make this the summer they step up to the bikini challenge - but with slightly different goals.Natalie, 29, works in advertising sales. She wants to lose a stone and feel confident in her summer clothes

Last year, as I turned 30, I decided the time had come to push myself and set myself a challenge. Something that I could train towards, that would keep (get) me a bit fitter and that would give me a sense of achievement once I'd got there. I'd done

Fancy setting yourself a fundraising fitness goal for 2012? Breast cancer charity Walk the Walk has a series of international challenges that might inspire you.From trekking in Peru to the gruelling four day 'challenge of challenges' in Nijmegen

Worried you won't stick to your fitness goals? Want to raise money for a good cause at the same time?Maybe you simply fancy an adventure this year?TheMencap charity, supporting people with learning difficulties, runs sports challenges across

I attend my first TRX class (at the Third Space, Soho) and gingerly test my weight on the suspension belt.Because you're working against an unstable surface, you're automatically engaging all those core muscles without even thinking about it (there's a reason this class is just 3...

A little confession: from the start of my 12 weeks of training, right up to my long nervous walk to the startline, I was never really properly sure that I’d be able to run 26 miles. Hence my inane cartoon character grin when I clunked over the finish line at the Mall in 4:41. Thi...