Resolution Workshop: Life Launch
Ready to have your best year ever? Two of the country's top coaches weigh in with advice on getting liftoff for the next phase of your life.
Tips for Creating a Sustainable Fitness Plan
Take the time to step back and examine your goals, your desires, your personality, your life. A little self-awareness now could prevent exercise derailment later.
What Is Rolfing and Structural Integration?
Structural Integration techniques like Rolfing can improve your posture, your athletic performance and your sense of well-being. But are you ready to be Rolfed?
How to Find Your Estimated Maximum Heart Rate
Knowing your maximum heart rate is essential for effective aerobic workouts. But if you're using 220 minus your age, you may be missing the mark entirely.
Connecting the Dots
Over the three years that I’ve been editing this magazine, I’ve been developing my own little mental image of how this whole health and fitness thing works.
Setting a Course
This time of year, a lot of us start thinking about the big changes we want to make in our lives over the course of the next 12 months.
Can Amino Acids Help Improve Mood?
More people than ever are medicating for mood disorders, but author Julia Ross, MD, says there may be a more natural approach that's just as effective.
Andrew Zimmern’s Healthy Holiday Side Dishes
Forget the cream of mushroom soup and onion crisps. These rustic dishes will jazz up your main course and have guests coming back for guilt-free seconds.
Jump to It: What Is Plyometric Training?
Plyometrics are a demanding form of exercise, but they can add speed and power to your athletic endeavors.
Tips for Cooking a Perfect Heritage Turkey
This holiday season, consider breaking with your supermarket-turkey ritual. Opt instead for an older tradition – a heritage bird.
How to Breathe for Strength and Endurance Training
Use proper breathing to go longer, get stronger and give your workouts extra oomph.
Why Getting Enough Sleep Is Vital to Your Health
Want to be fit and healthy? Find out why your shuteye should be a top priority.
Analyze This
Not a month goes by that I don’t hear from at least one friend or relative who says: “I had the weirdest dream last night; listen to this ...” People call me to tell me their dreams because I am, seriously, the queen of amateur dream analysis.
Fields of Dreams
If you build it, he will come. That line, made legendary by the 1989 film Field of Dreams, still resonates with a lot of people. I think that's because it says everything about what we instinctively know to be true about pursuing our own dreams.
Food Fright: What Are You Really Eating?
The food industry has turned out some scary stuff in recent decades, but that doesn't mean you have to stand quaking in your kitchen. Here's how to take the fear out of your food choices — and put common sense back in.
The Art of Procrastination
Faced with an important task, it's not uncommon to come up against a wall of resistance. In The War of Art, author Steven Pressfield tells you how to break through.
Why Do I Have an Emotional Release During Exercise?
Have you ever had a profound emotional experience during your workout and not understood why? Here's a scientific look at what's behind exercise-induced emotional release and what it may be telling you.
How to Use a Heart-Rate Monitor to Measure Your Fitness Success
Feel like your fitness regimen is stalling? Grab a heart-rate monitor for instant feedback and lasting motivation.
How to Use Active Recovery to Heal from an Athletic Injury
Many sports injuries heal faster, and many athletes appear happier, when they augment rest with modified recovery workouts.
Mission Possible
Ever get to the point when you’ve read so much depressing news that your brain and heart reach some kind of maximum density and you just feel defeated by it all? I must admit that despite my usually relentless optimism, I was there last month.