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The Body

Wellness and fitness for people who play. The body that has to last the season, and the long game beyond it.

What lives in this section

The Body is the physical life of the sport: how to keep playing, how to recover, how a game built on quick feet and long rallies asks something of you at thirty that it asks again, differently, at seventy.

Not a clinic, and not a fad. We treat fitness, mobility, sleep and rest as part of the same practice as the game itself, written by people who train and play rather than people who sell.

Every piece in this section has to answer the same question: whether the court is in it.

Read in The Body

The Alborán · 3rd August 2026

The Groundwork

The body is the thing you bring to the court, and it plays better for a little work done away from the game.

See all eight pieces of Issue Two →

The Alborán · 1st July 2026

The Sport You Can Play at Seventy

The first column from The Body: on why movement is not a project for later.

See all nine pieces of Issue One →

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