Health Notes: Now Made in Chelsea's Binky Felstead catches the workout bug

MIC star Binky joins hot American gym in Kensington to tone up
Former England striker Alan Shearer has developed a workout machine
'Successful' cheating feels great, assuming people feel remorse is false

PUBLISHED: 16:00 EST, 26 October 2013 | UPDATED: 16:00 EST, 26 October 2013

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The fitness bug is obviously catching among the cast of Made In Chelsea.

Last month we revealed that Spencer Matthews was training for next month’s New York Marathon – now his co-star Binky Felstead has started an intensive new regime and is working out seven days a week.

The pretty brunette, is now a regular at the upmarket Equinox Gym in Kensington, West London, where she has signed up for a one-hour class called The Workx.

Re-made in Chelsea: Binky Felstead have chosen to join a new gym to sculpture her body

It involves running on a treadmill, followed by dumbbell exercises and those aimed at improving core strength.

The 24-year-old has also been spotted lifting weights with a personal trainer. Let’s hope that the men of SW3 don’t get on Binky’s wrong side.

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Shearer's next goal? Cutting obesity rates

Fit for fight: Workout machine designer Alan Shearer on the pitch

Former England and Newcastle United striker Alan Shearer has his sights set on a business idea aimed at solving the nation’s obesity epidemic.

Alan has developed a new fitness workout machine called the Speedflex with former Newcastle physio Paul Ferris and businessman Graham Wylie.

The high-tech machines respond to an individual’s force as opposed to the amount of weights you add to them.

So if you push or pull the overhead bar harder, it will resist your body weight and force you to exert yourself more.

This means that unfit people can take classes alongside professionals as each machine works to the individual’s ability.

Classes will take place in Speedflex centres, which are being rolled out across the UK.

No remorse from the cheats who prosper

Cheating and getting away with it feels great, says a new study from the University of Washington.

Research published by the American Psychological Association found that the assumption that people feel remorse from cheating is false.

Many people actually feel good – even describing it as a natural high – as long as they’re not hurting anyone.

The study looked at 1,000 people in their late 20s and 30s in the US and England. Just over half of those participating were men.

The volunteers were given mathematical and word-puzzle tests, some of which were virtually impossible – such as determining that the letters ‘unaagt’ were an anagram for taguan, a species of flying squirrel. Previous testing had shown that the likelihood of solving the problems correctly was minuscule.

Participants were also handed the answers to the problems during the test but were told ‘not to look at them’, thereby allowing them to cheat.

Half the participants got the question right – meaning a high proportion must have cheated, claim the researchers – and all said they felt good about it.

‘Showing people experience positive emotions when cheating is a novel finding,’ says Dr Daniel Frings, senior lecturer in psychology at London South Bank University. ‘Unfortunately, it chimes with other research showing that when faced with dilemmas, people don’t always behave in ways beneficial to society,’ he says.