The moment you put on running shoes or roll out a mat or reach for dumbbell, it’s half the battle. There’s a wealth of research about how our personality influences how we engage with exercise, but less is known about whether it influences if we enjoy specific types of exercise. Now, a team of researchers has investigated and found that our personality can influence how we engage with exercise, which forms of exercise we enjoy the most, and who could experience the greatest stress-reducing benefits from working out.

Leading global doctors, researchers, and lawyers have joined forces with patient representatives and created the first-ever information guide to better support and protect patients across the world who are considering pioneering, but also potentially risky, surgery.