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8 Out-of-the-Box Exercises for a Strong Core
Read More: 8 Out-of-the-Box Exercises for a Strong CoreIf you’ve been feeding your core nothing but plain old planks and common crunches, chances are you’re bored witless — and all progress in the ab department has come to a standstill. As with all body parts, variety is imperative when it comes to core training, whether it be with the programming or the exercises…
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Mix-and-Match Workout: Resistance-Band Blast
Read More: Mix-and-Match Workout: Resistance-Band BlastThis fast-paced circuit designed by Jim Ryno, owner of Iron House home gym design in Alpine, New Jersey, consists of six hard-hitting exercises using a resistance band 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…
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7 Gymnastics-Inspired Warm-Up Exercises
Read More: 7 Gymnastics-Inspired Warm-Up ExercisesGymnastics movements commonly seen in the fitness community — like bar or ring muscle-ups, handstand walking, handstand push-ups, kipping/butterfly pull-ups and chest-to-bar pull ups — utilize a range of motion beyond what the average gym goer may need. Building up to this range is just one of the fundamental aspects of moving safely and efficiently…
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Oxygen Live Workout: Glutes and Abs With Janelle Trujillo
Read More: Oxygen Live Workout: Glutes and Abs With Janelle TrujilloLive at Oxygen, we’re back with another workout! Register here for a 30-minute live workout with Janelle Trujillo on August 11 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. Hit two tough spots — abs and glutes —…
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The Resistance-Band Drop-Set Workout
Read More: The Resistance-Band Drop-Set WorkoutMarrying resistance bands with drop sets is as natural as pairing caffeine and cardio. To do this classic weight-room intensity technique, you perform an exercise to near failure or failure with one weight, then decrease (“drop”) the weight one or more times, continuing to rep it out to near failure or failure with each drop.…
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Fitness Quest: Hike Mount Everest
Read More: Fitness Quest: Hike Mount EverestMount Everest is the tallest peak in the world, rising 29,029 feet above sea level; however, the route to the summit via Nepal is way longer than that, beginning in Lukla and winding its way up to the very top of the world (literally) — an estimated total distance of 52½ miles. You’d be nuts…
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The 100-V-In Fitness Quest: Final Check-In
Read More: The 100-V-In Fitness Quest: Final Check-InThe 100-V-in Fitness Quest has come to a close, and by now we’re sure you have abs of steel. It’s no small feat to rep out 100 in a row, but that’s exactly why it’s a quest to begin with! Are you up for another challenge? Stay tuned for more Oxygen fitness quests here. If you’re not feeling…
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6 Steps to Perfect Deadlift Form
Read More: 6 Steps to Perfect Deadlift FormWhat’s in a name? If it happens to be “deadlift,” then a whole bunch of fear and loathing among the lifting gen pop. The moniker is apt, though. Not that a deadlift will literally kill you, but if you’re doing it right, you’ll be dead tired afterward. Deadlifts engage every major muscle group in your…
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6 Killer Workouts to Do at the Beach
Read More: 6 Killer Workouts to Do at the BeachAh, the beach — the sun, the sand … the workout? Why not! Sand is a forgiving surface, reducing the force of normally high-impact moves such as plyometrics. It’s also unstable, requiring all those small, stabilizing muscles to play a bigger role than they usually would on solid ground. These eight exercises leverage those sandy…
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The Ring-Ready At-Home HIIT Boxing Workout
Read More: The Ring-Ready At-Home HIIT Boxing WorkoutAt some point, you grow tired of the same old cardio routines — treadmill, elliptical, running, boot camps, what have you — and need something a little different to mix things up. How about boxing? It’s more stimulating than most cardio machines, provides an incredible cardiovascular and conditioning workout, and can be done at home with…
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Oxygen Live Workout: Booty and Abs With Sandra Jersby
Read More: Oxygen Live Workout: Booty and Abs With Sandra JersbyRegister here for a 30-minute live workout with Sandra Jersby on July 7 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. This workout from Sandra Jersby will utilize tempo changes and circuit-style training to torch your glutes and…
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The 100-V-In Fitness Quest: Midpoint Check-In
Read More: The 100-V-In Fitness Quest: Midpoint Check-InWe’re halfway through the month, so if you’ve been following along with the plan, you should be halfway through your V-In Fitness Quest! It may be a rest day in the overall plan, but you’re well on your way to those 100 straight reps. (You are keeping up, right? If not, you can always play catch-up…
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Is Your High-Intensity Workout Draining Your Energy?
Read More: Is Your High-Intensity Workout Draining Your Energy?If you’re seeing diminishing returns from your workouts, or feel more exhausted as the week goes on, we’ve got you. Optimizing your iron levels can be the lynchpin to feeling resourced and energized. And now new research shows that the type of workout you get, in addition to your diet, supplementation, and sleep cycles, matter…
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The Functional Upper-Body Workout for Killer Arms
Read More: The Functional Upper-Body Workout for Killer ArmsFunctional workouts tend to allow for some creativity — which is perfect when you find yourself trying to figure out how to train around a freak injury. That’s the position certified health coach, personal trainer and IT health-care consultant Kelly Von Schleis found herself in following an Alaskan adventure this spring. “I was on a heli-skiing trip…
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Total-Body Strength and Cardio: Live With Janelle Trujillo
Read More: Total-Body Strength and Cardio: Live With Janelle TrujilloRegister here for a live workout with Janelle Trujillo on July 14 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. Total-body workouts are a favorite over here at Oxygen, and so are bodyweight routines. It doesn’t get much more convenient…
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Mix-and-Match Workout: Dumbbell Circuit
Read More: Mix-and-Match Workout: Dumbbell CircuitDumbbells are a common at-home training tool, and this circuit consists of six tried-and-true movements that can help you build lean muscle while also burning fat because of the nonstop nature of the programming. With hard-hitting workouts like this circuit, designed by Jim Ryno, owner of Iron House home gym design in Alpine, New Jersey,…
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The Lean Muscle Series: Back Burner
Read More: The Lean Muscle Series: Back BurnerWe can’t tell you which fashion designer first conceptualized the backless dress — but we can certainly say it was an inspired creation. After all, the human back is a beautiful work of art, a series of elegant lines, rounded edges and striking symmetry well worth showing off, especially when you’ve put in the hard…
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Oxygen Live Workout Registration
Read More: Oxygen Live Workout RegistrationRegister here for a live workout with Sandra Jersby on July 7 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. Summer’s in full swing — and hopefully, so is your training regimen. But as the weather heats up…
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Oxygen Live Workouts: Come Train With Us!
Read More: Oxygen Live Workouts: Come Train With Us!Join us for a live workout with Sandra Jersby on July 7 at 12:30 p.m. EST (9:30 a.m. PST). Summer’s in full swing — and hopefully, so is your training regimen. But as the weather heats up and the opportunity to play hooky from your fitness routine in favor of summertime fun arises, it helps…
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Oxygen Fitness Quest: 100 V-Ins
Read More: Oxygen Fitness Quest: 100 V-InsV-ins are one of those difficult exercises that even dedicated fitness enthusiasts might find themselves half-assing when they come up in a workout. If you’re one of them, we get it — they’re absolute core crushers. But if you do them properly and consistently, a stronger and more shredded core is all but guaranteed. Not…
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100-Squat Fitness Quest: 100 and Done
Read More: 100-Squat Fitness Quest: 100 and DoneIf you’ve stuck with the 100-Squat Fitness Quest to the end, we have but one question for you: How are those glutes feeling? It takes both strength and endurance to rep out 100 of any exercise in a row, so you give yourself a pat on the back — or maybe the quads — once…
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The One-Kettlebell Upper-Body Workout
Read More: The One-Kettlebell Upper-Body WorkoutShe may have played a technologically advanced super soldier in 2019’s Terminator: Dark Fate, but when it came to getting into prime fighting shape for the role, Mackenzie Davis sometimes needed nothing more than one very low-tech kettlebell. Often left with only what they could scrounge up at hotel gyms during filming, Davis and her…
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6 Pool Workouts For New, Intermediate, and Advanced Swimmers
Read More: 6 Pool Workouts For New, Intermediate, and Advanced SwimmersLooking to add some cross-training to your weekly workouts? Consider scheduling a little pool time. Not only can swimming be a fantastic recovery activity for runners — especially if you log a few laps holding a pull buoy between your legs, allowing your arms to do the work while your legs float behind you —…
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Mix-and-Match Workout: Medicine Ball and Stability Ball
Read More: Mix-and-Match Workout: Medicine Ball and Stability BallIf you’re looking for unique, minimal-equipment workout to incorporate into your regimen, look no further. This 30-minute workout designed by Jim Ryno, owner of Iron House home gym design in Alpine, New Jersey, trains nearly every major muscle group in the body using a combination of medicine-ball and stability-ball movements — easy on the joints…
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The One (Kettlebell) and Done Lower-Body Workout
Read More: The One (Kettlebell) and Done Lower-Body WorkoutSome people get stuck on the idea that you need a gym full of equipment to get a good lower-body workout in. That flawed thought process has led to a lot of skipped sessions … and missed opportunities. Consider the following six-move lower-body workout, designed to torch your quadriceps, hamstrings and glutes using an array…
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The Lean Muscle Series: Churn and Burn Cardio
Read More: The Lean Muscle Series: Churn and Burn CardioThroughout the Lean Muscle Series, we’ve delivered a gauntlet of challenging, high-intensity exercises that mainly targeted one area of your body at a time — from your shoulders to your back to your chest, arms, core and legs. Do all the sessions over the course of a week and stick with the program for at…
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100-Squat Fitness Quest: Midpoint Check-In
Read More: 100-Squat Fitness Quest: Midpoint Check-InYou’re halfway through the 100-Squat Fitness Quest, and by now you should be knocking out 60 reps in one shot with no problem. (You are keeping up, right? If not, you can always play catch-up or get started right now!) Angela Gargano, four-time American Ninja Warrior competitor and host of the Fitness Quests, gives her pointers for staying…
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4 Jump Rope Workout Programs
Read More: 4 Jump Rope Workout ProgramsJump ropes have been around forever, and you probably took a turn or two with them when you were a kid. But little did you know back then that jumping rope is one of the most effective fat-burning, endurance-building activities you can do, incinerating a ton of calories and boosting your metabolic rate for hours…
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Mix-and-Match Workout: Medicine Ball
Read More: Mix-and-Match Workout: Medicine BallThis routine packs a major fat-burning punch with a piece of equipment made popular by boxers of yesteryear: a medicine ball. The central exercise in the workout is the medicine-ball slam, a dynamic move initiated by a powerful contraction in the abs and punctuated by the back, chest and arms throwing the ball into the…
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The 20-Minute Total-Body Takedown
Read More: The 20-Minute Total-Body TakedownSomewhere along the way, the idea of “functional fitness” got, well, a little twisted — and not in the beneficial “rotational core exercise” sort of way. More like, let’s shun the most popular, foundational exercises for unnecessarily “creative” and complicated movements. People will use bands, kettlebells, TRX trainers, tractor tires, flaming Swiss balls, rusty tools…
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Mix-and-Match Workout: Minimal Equipment
Read More: Mix-and-Match Workout: Minimal EquipmentSo far in this series, we’ve focused on workouts using only one piece of equipment. But if your home gym is a bit more expansive, so too are your training options. Let’s say you have an exercise bench to go along with your dumbbells; this opens up a few variations of standard floor movements. The…
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The Lean Muscle Series: Core Work
Read More: The Lean Muscle Series: Core WorkA tight, defined core is more than just for show. In fact, it serves as the power center of your whole body, so a good core workout should hit every part of this complex muscle group. Encompassing the rectus abdominis, transverse abdominis, internal and external obliques, multifidus and erector spinae, your core overlaps with every…
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Fitness Quest: The 100-Squat Challenge
Read More: Fitness Quest: The 100-Squat ChallengeLooking for leaner, stronger legs? Then this quest is for you. With this 30-day schedule, you’ll gradually increase the number of bodyweight squats you do starting with 20 on Day 1 and ending with 100 on Day 30. While you can do them any time of day, you have to do the squats continuously in…
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Oxygen Push-Up Quest: 30 Days Down!
Read More: Oxygen Push-Up Quest: 30 Days Down!It’s been 30 days since you embarked on your quest to do 50 push-ups uninterrupted, and this challenge was no walk in the park. If you do the math, you did a total of 949 push-ups this month between all of your workouts and the final 50 — amazing, if you ask us! Are you…
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Mix-and-Match Workout: Dumbbells
Read More: Mix-and-Match Workout: DumbbellsAll you have are some dumbbells at home? Perfect, that’s all you need for a serious body-sculpting dumbbell workout! The below routine, designed by Shayla Rog, CPT, transformation coach and owner of Operation: Badass, takes basic movements (squats, lunges, presses, rows, flyes) and tweaks them ever so slightly to provide a unique stimulus for the…
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6 Moves to Fix Muscular Imbalances
Read More: 6 Moves to Fix Muscular ImbalancesAn accessory movement is a lift that targets muscles that provide vital assistance during the larger lifts that get you the most bang for your buck. For example, the lats are the primary movers in a chin-up, but they can’t perform without the assistance of the traps. Adding a kettlebell angled press to your workout…
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Mix-and-Match Workout: Mini Bands
Read More: Mix-and-Match Workout: Mini BandsFew pieces of exercise equipment match the “bang for your buck” you get with mini bands. For about $10 (and oftentimes less), you can get a five-band set that will provide a great at-home workout for all areas of the body. Mini bands are typically used primarily for glute-specific exercises, but they can do much…
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Here’s Why Outside+ Will Be Your New Favorite Fitness Resource
Read More: Here’s Why Outside+ Will Be Your New Favorite Fitness ResourceOutside+, formerly known as Active Pass, just got a serious upgrade to the tune of $300 worth of new benefits, providing members with exclusive access to 20 active lifestyle brands under one subscription. From Oxygen to Clean Eating, Women’s Running, Yoga Journal, and more, there’s no shortage of content for active women looking to expand…
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The Lean Muscle Series: Legs to Lean On
Read More: The Lean Muscle Series: Legs to Lean OnLeg workouts can be challenging. Difficult. Sometimes painful, in a deep, muscular exhaustion sense. A word much less often used to describe a typical leg day? Fun. Yet there is no rule that the more tedious and boring a leg workout is, the better it builds lean muscle. In fact, by opening up your leg-training…
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Oxygen Push-Up Quest: Midpoint Check-In
Read More: Oxygen Push-Up Quest: Midpoint Check-InIf you’ve stayed on track so far, you’re officially halfway through the Oxygen Push-Up Fitness Quest and well on your way to repping out 50 consecutive push-ups by the end of the month! As much progress as we’re sure you’ve made, 30 days of consistent work toward a goal definitely comes with setbacks and questions. Here,…
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Mix-and-Match Workout: Resistance Bands
Read More: Mix-and-Match Workout: Resistance BandsDon’t underestimate the power of rubber bands. Resistance bands offer what’s called linear variable resistance, in which the more the band is stretched, the greater the tension — which is why the very end of each rep throughout a resistance-band workout is so hard! This type of resistance follows the natural “strength curve” of your…
