So when his brother challenged him to take part in the Escape to Miami triathlon, Matt Damon decided to give it a shot. He was part of a team that included his brother Kyle, stepfather Jay Jones, and friend Barry Hetherington. Matt didn't have to do the whole triathlon, mind you. His portion was a 6.2-mile leg of the road race, which he ran in 59 minutes, 54 seconds. "I knew I was in trouble when the old guy with the oxygen tank passed me," he quipped.

So Matt has a little work left to do, but that's OK. He's putting himself out there and working hard at regaining his fitness. I don't know if I'd be willing to put on weight for a movie role; it seems like it's a lot easier to maintain a healthy weight than to try and lose 20 pounds or more. But then again, if I was earning Matt Damon's salary, I might have to think about it!

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The American College of Sports Medicine has tallied the statistics to rank 15 of America's largest metropolitan cities. Which cities were deemed the fittest? Which fell at the bottom, and why?

The goal of the fitness index is to give a quick glimpse of the health status of America's metropolitan areas. Ultimately the ACSM hopes to help cities achieve a higher level of physical activity and healthy eating habits. The reports about each city include strategies for improvement. The top five cities were:

• San Francisco, CA
• Seattle, WA
• Boston, MA
• Washington D.C.
• Atlanta, GA

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Brooke Zepp wasn't taking no for an answer. The 63-year-old Florida woman had a rare tumor deep in her abdomen. Her doctors told her that it was inoperable, and that she had only months left to live. Rather than accepting her fate, however, she asked someone else. Eventually, she ended up at the Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center Transplant Institute.

The team there did a surgery that was the first of its kind. They removed six of Zepp's internal organs -- the stomach, liver, pancreas, spleen, small intestine, and part of the large intestine -- to get at the tumor. The organs were left on ice while the tumor was removed, then put back in place, using artificial blood vessels to reconnect the blood supply.

Zepp claims to be feeling great and has a new lease on life. The surgery may lead to new procedures for operating on people with tumors that are tough to remove.

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So maybe the thought of joining a regular old spinning or Pilates class at the gym just doesn't trip your trigger. Maybe you're looking for something more interesting and different than that? Well then maybe, if you're lucky, one of these unique classes are located near you:

• In the Los Angeles area at the Crunch gym try the Rocket Workout. You'll get to use a new machine that is rapidly catching on in gyms all over called the Orbital 360, and the workout includes everything from strength training to stretching to Pilates.
• In Boston at Healthworks try the class called Burn. You'll alternate between walking and running on and off a treadmill for up to 50 minutes. Feel the burn!
  
• The Miami David Barton Gym has a class called Barton Biking where you'll alternate between biking and arm strengthening moves to burn over 500 calories in an hour.
• Chicago's Equinox is home to Chaos, where you'll get to do intervals of strength training and cardio, but with an element of make-believe mixed in.
• And finally, at the New York Health and Racquet Club in New York City you can opt for the Bin Zhou class where you'll meditate and do tai chi, qi gong, and isometrics.

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