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How Your Ability to Get Up and Down Can Determine Your Health

By K. Aleisha Fetters, C.S.C.S.; September 14, 2023

When you’re looking to gauge your progress with an at-home fitness test, you might rely on some of the standard exercises from those presidential fitness tests in P.E....

Fitness

12 Health-Forward Holiday Ornaments (Yes, Really)

By Toshi Jones; December 19, 2022

This holiday season, you could put some candy canes on the tree… or you could celebrate your hard work and perseverance by finding the perfect...

Fitness

This Holiday Movie Workout Guide Is the Easiest Way to Stay Active This Season

By Michael Martin; December 18, 2022

It’s tough to stay active during the holidays, even for the most committed exercisers. Cold weather, exhausting events, copious amounts of food and drink at...

Fitness

18 Working Out from Home Memes That Are Too Relatable

By Toshi Jones; November 8, 2022

Like many of us, you may be adjusting to a new work/workout from home routine — and we know that is a challenge. Beyond the...

Fitness

I Tried a 30-Day Squat Challenge — Here’s How It Went

By Chelsea Frank; March 9, 2023

When my editor asked me to take the 30-Day Squat Challenge, I more than welcomed the opportunity. Get paid to sculpt my booty? Yes, please!...

Fitness

33 Relatable Thoughts Everyone Has During Hot Yoga

By Chelsea Frank; March 23, 2023

As a Los Angeles native, I was basically raised on green juices, spirituality, and masking torture as “self-care.” One of the most popular ways to...

Fitness

Learning to Swim as an Adult: Tips to Help You Get Started

By Sarah Wassner-Flynn; March 14, 2023

Even for the fittest athletes, learning to swim as an adult can be a challenge. For example, Exavier Watson is extremely fit by most accounts....

Fitness

20 Active Date Ideas for Fitness Lovers

By Chelsea Frank; March 9, 2023

Looking for ways to incorporate more activity into your love life? Active date ideas are a great place to start. Interested in finding healthier date...

Fitness

Personal Trainer vs. Dietitian vs. Health Coach: Who Will Help You Reach Your Goals?

By Brittany Risher Englert; January 23, 2024

Deciding to make changes to live a healthier lifestyle is a huge step. And after you decide to do that, the next step is figuring...

Weight Loss

15 Hilarious Weight Loss Memes for Every Step of Your Fitness Journey

By Chelsea Frank; March 2, 2023

Getting in shape and sticking to your health goals can be a roller coaster. Sometimes it’s a struggle, and you feel like you’re swimming upstream....

Fitness

How to Sculpt an Hourglass Figure

By Linnea Zielinski; June 14, 2024

So you’d like to see a curvier silhouette when you look in the mirror, and you’re wondering how to get an hourglass figure. First, you...

Fitness

Does Crying Burn Calories?

By Kate Bayless; March 28, 2023

Had a good cry recently? Crying is a natural reaction to experiencing intense emotion. It’s often associated with feelings of sadness, but you may also...

Fitness

How to Do a Squat Thrust

By Andrew Heffernan CSCS, GCFP; November 3, 2023

What makes the squat thrust so effective? Using only your bodyweight, it repeatedly hits many of the major muscle groups in both your upper and lower...

Fitness

15 Ripped Celebrity Women Who Define #StrongIsSexy

By Eric Alt; March 2, 2023

With fashion magazines having long ago surrendered their status as the sole arbiters of style and trends to the more egalitarian Instagram, the culture at...

Fitness

19 Things You Don’t Know About Andrea Rogers

By BODi; March 6, 2023

If you’re a fan of barre workouts, you’re probably familiar with Andrea Rogers and her famous barre workout program, Xtend Barre, plus her other Xtend...

Fitness

How Barre Workouts Help Change Your Body

By Elizabeth Millard; March 10, 2023

Which changes your body more: HIIT sessions done multiple times per week, weightlifting with progressively heavy weights, or barre work with light weights (or none at...

Fitness

Why Do My Legs Shake During Barre?

By Elizabeth Millard; March 14, 2023

You’re holding on to the back of a chair, positioned perfectly in a barre-style squat with heels raised and back straight, and then it begins....

Fitness

6 Barre Form Mistakes You’re Probably Making

By Stepfanie Romine; February 15, 2023

By now you’ve likely heard all about the benefits of barre workouts, with their slow, controlled movements designed to make your muscles shake and burn. Inspired by ballet and...