If you want to gain upper body muscle mass, this exercise inspired by the Ancient Greeks and Romans could tick all the boxes for your next workout.

The word gymnastics is derived from the ancient Greek “gymnazein," meaning “to exercise naked.” The sport, now among the Olympics’ most beloved events, was born millennia ago, as young men ...

What appears to be drawing practitioners to the ancient Indian art is not just the physical benefit of the exercise but the spiritual and emotional benefit as well, said Cynthia Griffith-Hoss, co ...

Ancient physicians prescribed swimming, ball games and walking on sand as ideal forms of physical exercise. A treatise published in 1569 is the best source of information on their advice.

They said it had been practised since the time of the ancient Greeks and is used today still by members of the military and professional gymnasts.

The Exercises more or less season everything I write, consciously and unconsciously. So it was recently that I was speaking at Yom Kippur about spiritual exercises in Jewish culture and theology.

Many Ancient Greek inventions, created many centuries ago, still play an incredibly large role in our daily lives today.