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2 High-Volume Leg-Complex Workouts
Read More: 2 High-Volume Leg-Complex WorkoutsJust like ice cream, your leg workout should have a different flavor each time you train. Some days you hit it hard and heavy and go deep into the pain cave, and others you want to turn ’em till you burn ’em with some high-volume programming. These two leg complexes are perfect for the latter…
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The 6-Move Resistance-Band Blast Workout
Read More: The 6-Move Resistance-Band Blast WorkoutThis fast-paced resistance-band workout designed by Jim Ryno, personal trainer and owner of Iron House home gym design, consists of six hard-hitting exercises that train all the major muscles of the body. Since everyone’s band setup is a little different, you need to have some flexibility on how many reps you do per set. The…
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Jet-Set Your Fitness With This Pre-Travel Workout
Read More: Jet-Set Your Fitness With This Pre-Travel WorkoutIf you’re an avid traveler, you already know the toll long trips can take on the body. Aside from the usual culprits of fatigue and dehydration , hours of sitting in one position can easily lead to stiff, sore muscles and chronic pain. While there are stretches you can do during travel to help alleviate…
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The Adventure-Ready Workout
Read More: The Adventure-Ready WorkoutAmelia Earhart famously said, “Adventure is worthwhile in itself.” If, like Earhart, you crave the physical and mental test of wild, challenging and daring activities, then this adventure-ready workout is the perfect preparation. From hiking and backpacking to rock climbing and rafting, use this sequence to get in shape for any outdoor adventure. This adventure-ready…
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The 30-Minute Dumbbell Power Workout
Read More: The 30-Minute Dumbbell Power WorkoutIf you’re short on time, equipment, or both, I have something spicy for you. This full-body, dumbbell-only workout is fast and furious and keeps your heart rate and engagement high. Dumbbells are so versatile and extremely functional, allowing for range of motion in several planes. Dumbbells also allow for full-body compound movements, even when you…
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4 Reasons to Try Jumping Rope for Exercise
Read More: 4 Reasons to Try Jumping Rope for ExerciseWhile jumping rope might seem like a basic and relatively easy activity that many of us learn to do as young children, we soon come to realize that it holds some serious merit in the exercise sphere. Jumping rope not only can help increase your heart rate and facilitate weight loss, but it also can…
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13 At-Home Cross-Training Exercises for Runners
Read More: 13 At-Home Cross-Training Exercises for RunnersRunning can be an amazing way to support your mind, body, overall health, and even community. But like any exercise, running also has a cost. Like other aerobic activities, it’s catabolic, meaning it demands more oxygen and breaks down your muscles. Lots of catabolic exercise over time decreases muscle mass, lowers your metabolic rate, and…
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5 Outdoor Workouts to Boost Athletic Performance
Read More: 5 Outdoor Workouts to Boost Athletic PerformanceWe spend more than half of the year waiting for sweet summer to arrive. Then when it does, we persist in trudging to the stale, dank confines of the gym to do cardio on the same old machines we labored on over the endless frigid months. Nothing against treadmills, but it’s time to kiss them…
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6 Effective Pelvic Floor Exercises — That Aren’t Kegels
Read More: 6 Effective Pelvic Floor Exercises — That Aren’t KegelsHow many of you are willing to run and jump wearing white leggings? Giggles followed when I asked this question of a group of ladies, but why? Because we’re not used to discussing pelvic floor health and incontinence in public. But it’s about time for open and honest awareness of how this topic affects so…
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The Full-Body Landmine Workout to Shock Your Muscles
Read More: The Full-Body Landmine Workout to Shock Your MusclesLandmine exercises are a form of weight training that can level up your fitness game in more ways than one, especially when you’re short on time or stuck in a crowded gym. The landmine setup — either sliding a barbell into a landmine attachment on a rack or simply placing one end of the barbell…
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The Time-Saving One-Bench Total-Body Workout
Read More: The Time-Saving One-Bench Total-Body WorkoutLet’s be real. Some days, the gym is crazy busy, and moving from one piece of equipment to the next is a lesson in extreme patience. That’s why it’s important to have a workout readily available that will target the entire body with only one bench so you can find a corner in the gym…
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5 Yoga-Inspired Hip Stretches for Better Mobility
Read More: 5 Yoga-Inspired Hip Stretches for Better MobilityYour 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 of this ball-and-socket joint, isn’t really a surprise. Each hip is surrounded by 17 muscles,…
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Cardio and Strength Training: Do You Need Both?
Read More: Cardio and Strength Training: Do You Need Both?If you’re reading this article, chances are you’re someone with an established workout routine. Good for you. Exercise is one of the most beneficial things you can do for your health and overall well-being. You might be wondering, however, what type of exercise will yield the best results and help you reach your goals —…
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The Lean Muscle Training Program
Read More: The Lean Muscle Training ProgramYou’ve heard it before — there are no shortcuts when it comes to fitness. But what if this were only halfway true? What if there was a faster and arguably better way to change your body and lean out, involving fewer sets and reps and less time spent in the gym? How about a shortcut…
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The 3-Week Training Plan for All Fitness Levels
Read More: The 3-Week Training Plan for All Fitness LevelsWe’re a few months into 2022, so we have to ask: Has all the excitement and hope of the new year — setting new goals, changing your mindset and chasing your dream of a perfect body — already dissipated? If you’re feeling that way, you’re not alone. When it comes to fitness resolutions, the statistics…
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The At-Home Bodyweight Partner Workout
Read More: The At-Home Bodyweight Partner WorkoutSometimes motivation is right in front of you. No, we’re not talking about your social media feed but rather your social circle. Recent research shows that teaming up with a friend, family member or significant other motivates you to exercise harder and longer, improving your chances for success by almost half: Study participants who undertook…
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Tabata Quest: Final Check-In
Read More: Tabata Quest: Final Check-InTabata-believe it! The Tabata Quest has finally come to a close. This is the final check-in! Right now, you should have much more endurance and have a handle on Tabata. You might even be feeling all the proven benefits to Tabata — in a 2013 study by Trusted Source, people who did a 20-minute Tabata workout…
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Fitness Quest: 30 Days of Tabatas
Read More: Fitness Quest: 30 Days of TabatasTabata intervals are one of the most underestimated yet difficult HIIT-style workouts. They get your heart rate super high for 20 quick seconds — this is where you’re putting in the work and hustling as fast as you can — followed by 10 seconds of rest. A classic Tabata segment has eight movements in one…
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14 HIIT Workouts to Get You Through the New Year
Read More: 14 HIIT Workouts to Get You Through the New YearThe holidays are a time of good cheer, but with all the celebrations and libations, it’s easy to overstuff your stockings. The (sort of) good news is that the average holiday weight gain is only about 2 pounds, which means if you keep up with your regular training — and set your sights on maintenance…
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8 Medicine-Ball Exercises for a Total-Body Workout
Read More: 8 Medicine-Ball Exercises for a Total-Body WorkoutYou don’t need to have an entire arsenal of equipment to your name to get a good workout in. In fact, one solid piece of equipment (and some creativity), will suffice. The medicine ball, also commonly called the “med ball,” is versatile, easy to work with and comes in a variety of weights. Gyms typically…
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The AMRAP Workout for When Holidays Get Hectic
Read More: The AMRAP Workout for When Holidays Get HecticTime management is key during this busy time of year, and the first thing to go by the wayside is usually your workouts. But, honestly, everyone has 10 minutes to spare, so put on your Spandex and get your lift on with this kick-ass AMRAP that will burn fat and work every major muscle group…
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5 Tough Finishers to End Your Workouts
Read More: 5 Tough Finishers to End Your Workouts“It’s not how you start, it’s how you finish.” That old cliché may have more meaning in sports than in the gym — where every rep counts — but even so, a good finishing move can be just the thing that pushes your results over the finish line. “Adding in a good finisher exercise to…
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Are Ankle Weights Actually Useful? Experts Weigh In
Read More: Are Ankle Weights Actually Useful? Experts Weigh InMost fitness fads are short-lived, but some gear persists and survives the march of time. Take ankle weights: Though not nearly as popular as in days gone by, this training tool is still affordable (ringing in around $30), but is it money well-spent? Two trainers give their opinion, and the result is a split decision. Yea…
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How to Use HIIT in the Gym and at Home
Read More: How to Use HIIT in the Gym and at HomeHave you heard people talking about their latest “hit” workout and wondered whether it was some new kind of boxing class? Actually, the term is HIIT, which stands for high-intensity interval training. This style of training means alternating short periods of intense aerobic exercise with less-intense recovery periods. If you haven’t tried it yet, you’re…
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5 Movements You Can Do With One Plate
Read More: 5 Movements You Can Do With One PlateFitness used to be all about excess — bigger gyms, bigger weight machines, bigger muscles, and if you look back over those old ’80s workout photos, bigger hair. Definitely bigger hair. Those days are thankfully over, as fitness has trended toward a more holistic, minimalist approach. Now the world’s top trainers are able to forge…
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Your Complete Guide to Tempo Training
Read More: Your Complete Guide to Tempo TrainingSo you’ve been lifting for years, and you even have some solid performance and physique results to show for it all. Good on you. If you’ve reached a plateau in your gains, however (and we all have), it’s worth taking a closer look at the particulars of your program, your exercises and even your individual…
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Scary Tough Workouts with Hannah Dawson
Read More: Scary Tough Workouts with Hannah DawsonBOO! ‘Tis the season for all things scary, spooky and downright ‘EEEK worthy. So we asked a few of our ambassadors to show us the workouts that are SCARY hard. Hannah Dawson comes to us first with this nail-biting EMOM (every minute on the minute) workout. Do push-ups make you quiver in your gym shoes? Well,…
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5 Ways to Find Out How Fit You Actually Are
Read More: 5 Ways to Find Out How Fit You Actually AreExactly how fit are you? How do you measure up? Find out with these next-level self-trials from Autumn Calabrese, Beachbody trainer and author of Lose Weight Like Crazy Even If You Have a Crazy Life. 5 Fitness Tests to Push You Harder 1. Push Your Upper Limits “A traditional push-up test gauges strength and endurance…
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4 Effective Medicine-Ball Movements with Jeanette Chandler
Read More: 4 Effective Medicine-Ball Movements with Jeanette ChandlerThere’s almost always a set of medicine balls at the gym; personally, we think they’re one of the most under-utilized fitness tools in the game. Oxygen Ambassador, trainer and owner of Fit with Jeanette, Jeanette Chandler, shows us four unique movements that can be done anywhere with just a 10-pound medicine ball. When you feel…
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Learn How to Love Morning Workouts
Read More: Learn How to Love Morning WorkoutsMorning workouts can be a killer if you’re not used to them. Even if you’re an early bird, it still takes your body — and mind — some getting used to. “It’s doable, though you may have to reset your body clock, which will take some time,” says Carol Espel, MS, director of fitness at…
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Fitness Quest: The 1,000-Skip Challenge
Read More: Fitness Quest: The 1,000-Skip ChallengeWho doesn’t like jumping rope? At the very least it makes you feel like a kid again. Plus, it’s one of the fastest ways to burn calories, amp your metabolism, build endurance and train coordination. No worries if you have two left feet: With this Fitness Quest you’ll work in shorter time increments that increase…
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Feel The Burn With Just Your Bodyweight
Read More: Feel The Burn With Just Your BodyweightBodyweight training has been the bread and butter of quarantine fitness, especially earlier in the year when gyms were shut down. The appeal of bodyweight training is fairly obvious: No equipment required. You can do bodyweight workouts virtually anywhere; at the beach, in a hotel room, at the park — the world is your oyster. …
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Fitness Quest: Double Your Pull-Ups in 30 Days
Read More: Fitness Quest: Double Your Pull-Ups in 30 DaysThere’s no getting around the fact that pull-ups are a difficult exercise to master. Even longtime lifters often struggle with this simple yet demanding move, so there’s no shame in needing some help from a resistance band or lifting buddy to get your reps in. Enter our pull-up fitness quest, which can help you double…
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Hike Mount Everest Quest: Final Check-In
Read More: Hike Mount Everest Quest: Final Check-InSo, did you do it? Did you actually (sort of) hike Mount Everest over the past 30 days?! You should be proud of that accomplishment, ’cause we sure are proud of you! Are you up for another challenge? Stay tuned for more Oxygen fitness quests here. If you just can’t get enough of this quest, run through it again and…
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Oxygen Live Workout: Upper-Body and Plyometrics With Janelle Trujillo
Read More: Oxygen Live Workout: Upper-Body and Plyometrics With Janelle TrujilloRegister here for a 30-minute live workout with Janelle Trujillo on August 25 at 12:30 p.m. EST (9:30 a.m. PST). If you’re unable to attend this event live, we will post the workout here for on-demand viewing post-event. On a time crunch but want to get a total-body workout in? This week’s live event with…
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Outdoor Track Sprint Interval Workout
Read More: Outdoor Track Sprint Interval WorkoutIf you were a high-school athlete, then you probably remember doing a workout or conditioning at your local track. Running expert Annie Cooper shows us how to return to the rubber with this explosive sprint interval workout. Cooper goes through six sets of 400 meters (400 meters = one lap on a track) with 80-85…
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Advanced HIIT Cardio Blast
Read More: Advanced HIIT Cardio BlastAll cardio workouts have one thing in common — they can be made harder and more effective if you have the will and the skill to keep up. “You can make any workout more advanced by dialing up the intensity level, dialing up the difficulty level of the exercise or by dialing down the recovery…
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At-Home MMA HIIT Workout
Read More: At-Home MMA HIIT WorkoutVery few athletes on the planet are as well-rounded, conditioned, functionally strong and lean as mixed-martial arts (MMA) fighters. Think UFC superstars like Ronda Rousey, Amanda Nunes and Rose Namajunas. These women are tough, well-respected and in amazing shape. Want to be a little more like them, at least from an “in shape” standpoint? (You…
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Hike Mount Everest Quest: Midpoint Check-In
Read More: Hike Mount Everest Quest: Midpoint Check-InWelcome to the midpoint of your quest to hike Mount Everest. By now, you’ve climbed approximately 26 1/2 miles. Halfway there! Along the way, you might have seen the Rongbuk Monastery, a Buddhist temple believed to be the highest temple in the world. You may have even spotted some of the mountain wildlife crazy enough to…
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The 20-Minute Arm Workout to Torch Your Bis and Tris
Read More: The 20-Minute Arm Workout to Torch Your Bis and TrisGreat arms don’t require long workouts and endless reps. In fact, the biceps and triceps already get a lot of attention during your other workouts, with the biceps engaging during any pulling movements on back day, and the triceps called to action for shoulder and chest presses. Because of that, a short, intense, focused arm…