Exercise

When SmugMug, a Silicon Valley photo-hosting startup, wanted some pictures for the company gym, it turned to Benjamin Von Wong. What resulted was a dramatic series that turned the company’s employees into extreme athletic warriors in black and white.

A grassroots fitness movement called the November Project is drawing big crowds for early morning workouts around Boston. Now this free exercise ‘tribe’ is expanding. The World’s Andrea Crossan decided to take the challenge to join a November Project.

May is National Bike Month, a month promoting cycling as a transportation alternative. New data show dramatic increases in bicycle use over the past decade in cities across the country. The data also revealed economic savings from bike commuting.

A survey in the United Kingdom recently found that a majority of the nation’s police officers are overweight. In response, a proposal has been floated to require fitness testing of all officers. But some police say this is unnecessarily broad.

More and more South African universities are requiring applicants to take a math and English aptitude test. It helps them gauge students’ preparedness, but may also be preventing poor students from applying.