How to Stop Overreacting
Do you fly off the handle at the slightest provocation, or mount a major defense to even the slightest criticism? Here's how to ditch the drama—and manage a more measured response.
Being Healthy Is a Revolutionary Act: Renegade Perspectives for Thriving in a Mixed-Up World
You want to be healthy? Well, hey, that’s wonderful! This article is designed to help you succeed.
The Kettlebell Effect on Aerobic Capacity, Muscle Development, and Fat Loss
A study by ACE, the American Council on Exercise, confirms what all dedicated kettlebell afficionados already know: that kettlebell training torches calories and builds cardiovascular fitness at the same time it builds muscular strength.
How to Turn Stairs into a Full-Body Strength and Cardio Workout
Get a full-body workout anywhere with this stair-well routine that combines strength and cardio using just a flight of stairs.
The Morning Banana Diet and Other New Year’s Follies
'Tis the season for fad diets and crazy weight-loss schemes. But real change still relies on patience, calm focus and healthy common sense.
Order Out of Chaos: The Entryway
Simple, thoughtful, low-cost strategies for transforming the first place you see when you walk in the door.
An Interview With You
Instead of just listing the same old resolutions, consider asking yourself some pointed questions about the goals that matter to you.
Cooking With Grass-Fed Beef: Recipes, Techniques, and More
High in antioxidants, essential fatty acids, vitamins and minerals, meat from pasture-fed cattle is a nourishing delicacy.
PUMPING IRONY: Hurts So Good
True to form, I overdid it a little yesterday at the gym (gotta scale back my reps on those 350-pound bench presses), and today I'm paying for it. I think I strained a bicep or something on my left arm…
The Plyometrics Workout
Want to increase your power, refine your reflexes, decrease your chance of injury and sculpt your bod? Hop to it with this high-energy plyo primer.
PUMPING IRONY: Plenty in Reserve
Winter has arrived in the form of wet snow and icy sidewalks, so I've retired my bicycle for the duration and have been making the 1-mile trek across the river to my office on foot. I do this each morning with some trepidation, but my knee seems to be improving.
Expert Answers: Building Healthy Joints for Runners, Vitamin D for Postworkout Recovery, and More
Here we wrangle leading experts to address your most perplexing workout quandaries and conundrums — from building up joint strength for runners and why you want to progress from pushups on your knees to your toes.