The Latest Breaking News from Phil Daoust

I wallowed in booze for four decades. Here’s what five sober years have taught me

To give up drinking once seemed unthinkable – and when I finally made the leap, it didn’t go quite as expected

The Guardian - UK · Aug 3, 2025

The deadlift difference: is this the exercise you need for an active and pain-free future?

Life is easier with a strong, flexible body – and this weightlifting move will help with everything from rearranging the furniture to picking up your groceries. You might even learn to love the barbell

The Guardian - UK · Jun 1, 2025

Best boots forward into glorious mud

Letter: Phil Daoust is right to praise ‘just walking’ to improve fitness, and joining the Ramblers Association gets you in the habit, writes Steve Townsley

The Guardian - UK · Feb 14, 2025

Doing the heavy lifting in your 60s

Letters: Kathleen Askew and John Wise respond to Phil Daoust’s article about taking up a punishing resistance training regime

The Guardian - UK · Apr 11, 2024

Morning Mail: Who screwed the millennials, IS videos show Moscow terror attack, investors shun nuclear power

Those born between 1981 and 1996 are becoming the first generation worse off than their parents

The Guardian - AU · Mar 24, 2024

I’m 60 – and want to live to 100. Will my years of drinking and inactivity be a problem?

Can a late convert to wellbeing undo decades of beer and barbecues? In the first of a new series, Phil Daoust has a health MOT – and gets some worrying news about his heart

The Guardian - UK · Mar 24, 2024

The pet I’ll never forget: Glenn was a funny, barky dream of a dog. Then one day he just wasn’t there

Ours was a friendship cut short by a mystery. Decades later, I still miss that border collie

The Guardian - UK · Sep 4, 2023