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4 Strategies to Get More From Your High-Intensity Workout
Read More: 4 Strategies to Get More From Your High-Intensity WorkoutThese tips can help you make the most of your HIIT workout. A low-carb diet can help you lose weight quickly, but one downfall is its ability to drain your body of metabolism-revving muscle. Luckily, new research reveals that there is something you can do to combat this side effect. A study published in the European…
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How to Breathe for a Better Workout
Read More: How to Breathe for a Better WorkoutTap into the power of your breath — and get into the best shape of your life. If there’s one thing we should all be experts at it’s breathing, but believe it not, you may actually be doing it wrong. Whether you’re running a 5K, attempting a new barbell lift or just sitting at a…
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Ask the Professor: Are Crunches Bad for You?
Read More: Ask the Professor: Are Crunches Bad for You?Professor Erin Calderone answers this burning question about crunches. Are crunches bad for me? People love to categorize things as being good or bad, but when it comes to crunches, there is no absolute. The answer is far more nuanced and requires an assessment of your individual needs and goals. Are crunches bad? The answer…
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Weighted Vest EMOM Workout
Read More: Weighted Vest EMOM WorkoutWant to give your home workouts more of an edge? Try adding a weighted vest. While most of the world is trying to lose weight, you might want to gain some — in the form of a weighted vest. This versatile training tool can make even the most basic of exercises more demanding by increasing…
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Eat to Beat Soreness
Read More: Eat to Beat SorenessRelief from sore muscles could be one meal away. Here, we reveal the best and worst foods for postworkout recovery. Nailing your postworkout nutrition is of utmost importance, and eating the right things at the right time can promote quicker recovery, reduce muscle soreness, build lean muscle and replenish lost glycogen. There is definitely a…
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7 Martial Arts Moves for Self-Defense
Read More: 7 Martial Arts Moves for Self-DefenseTrain to protect yourself and get fit with these kick-butt martial arts moves. Fitness is said to be “functional” when it transcends the gym and extends to real-life situations, and it doesn’t get any more functional than martial arts. This kind of workout improves your strength, mobility and cardiovascular prowess while giving you the skills…
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8 Exercises Every Woman Should Do
Read More: 8 Exercises Every Woman Should DoIf these eight body-sculpting moves aren’t in your current training program, they need to be. Like, right now. Are there certain exercises specifically for men and others specifically for women? Absolutely not, though it sometimes seems so. Men make up the vast majority of gym-goers who do heavy bench presses and barbell curls, and women…
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Flexibility And Mobility, Sports Medicine for Women, Stretching Workouts for Women, Training Tips for Women, Workouts for Women
5 Yoga-Inspired Stretches for Hip Mobility
Read More: 5 Yoga-Inspired Stretches for Hip MobilityMobility in your hips could be the key to strength, speed and a pain-free life. Your hip joints are an anatomical miracle — and also a pain in the butt (literally). Nearly every person on the planet has experienced some sort of physical issue that is directly related to their hips, which, considering the intricacy…
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What Type of Cardio is Right for You?
Read More: What Type of Cardio is Right for You?Level up your cardio with LISS, MIIT, HIIT or SIT. Cardio is perhaps the most polarizing form of exercise on the planet, and typically you’re either a low-key endurance type or a fast and furious metcon type. Regardless of your intensity bent, you could benefit from varying your cardio on the reg. Here are four…
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The Anti-Aging Workout
Read More: The Anti-Aging WorkoutThese unique routines will surprise your muscles and keep you feeling — and looking — younger than ever before. Honestly, getting older itself isn’t so bad — spending time with the ones you love, accomplishing your goals, traveling the world… if only it didn’t come with the aging part. But you have in your reach…
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Double Dipping: Is Working Out Twice a Day Right for You?
Read More: Double Dipping: Is Working Out Twice a Day Right for You?The answer isn’t quite so cut and dry, but here are the pros and cons to working out twice a day. Did you click on this article because you’re wondering about the etiquette for double dipping a celery stalk into hummus? That’s easy: Never double dip in mixed company. But if you clicked in hopes…
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The Ultimate Kettlebell Blueprint
Read More: The Ultimate Kettlebell BlueprintYour how-to guide on how to pull off the five best kettlebell moves — without making a single mistake! Kettlebells have been around for centuries, and some of the earliest illustrations of old-timey strongmen depict men in singlets hefting some huge homemade kettlebells. But even these icons of iron were flawed in their technique, and…
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Spring/Summer 2020 Mind-Body Research
Read More: Spring/Summer 2020 Mind-Body ResearchRead some key take-aways from recent research on fitness training, health and nutrition. Being alone often helps us understand who we are, what we want and what we can do to become better. The Benefits of Spending Time Alone Experts agree that spending time alone can improve your creativity, boost your confidence and strengthen your…
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6 Essential Functional Movements
Read More: 6 Essential Functional MovementsReturn to your ancestral roots with these six innate movement patterns to improve your functional — and physique — results. The term “functional training” has gotten a bad rap, probably because of an inordinate number of so-called influencers who perform every strength move while standing on one leg wrapped from head to toe in resistance bands while juggling SandBells and reciting the…
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Score a Three-Minute Core
Read More: Score a Three-Minute CoreAdd a stability ball to your plank training and work your core and more! As if planks weren’t hard enough, here are three new moves to amp up your core training using a stability ball. The ball forces you to engage more muscles in order to balance on an unstable surface, which — when added…
