Jen Sinkler
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The SAQ Workout
Increase your power, coordination, and cardio capacity with speed, agility, and quickness (SAQ) training.
3 Moves to Improve Your Turkish Get-Up
Improve your Turkish get-up technique — while boosting strength, endurance, and fluidity — with these three moves.
What is the Difference Between Fast-Twitch and Slow-Twitch Muscle Fibers?
Short on speed? Lacking endurance? You may have trained those limitations into your system. With some muscle know-how, you can train ’em out.
Can Yoga Make Me Too Flexible?
Expert answers on why yoga may cause hypermobility and loose joints.
What Is Rhabdomyolysis?
Also known as “rhabdo,” this life-threatening condition can result from extreme overexercising.
Should I Work Out With Adrenal Fatigue?
Expert answers on how to be strategic when working out with adrenal fatigue.
Will Drinking Even a Little Alcohol Derail My Efforts in the Gym?
Expert answers on alcohol and its impact on your fitness and strength regime.
Expert Answers: Resistance Training and Flexibility, Chiropractic Care, and More
We ask the experts if resistance training causes inflexibility, if drinking will derail workout efforts, and if chiropractic care can improve fitness.
The Strength to Sit Still: A Meditation Retreat
Fitness buff Jen Sinkler tests her limits — at a mountaintop meditation retreat for beginners.
Can I Avoid Building Thick “Traps”?
Expert answers on how to build your shoulders and arms while avoiding bulky traps.
How to Lose Injury-Related Weight
Expert answers on why focusing on healing is important to lose the injury-related weight.
Expert Answers: Thick Trapezius Muscles, Injury-Related Pounds and More
We ask the experts how to avoid building thick “traps,” naturally minimizing joint pain, and sprinting for non-runners.
Does Housework Count as Exercise?
Expert answers on how to use daily housework and chores as part of your workout.
How to Heal Diastasis Recti
Expert answers on how to close the separation of your abdominal muscles.
Expert Answers: Refined Carbs, Breaking Your Slump, and More
Fitness editor Jen Sinkler asks the experts what counts as a refined carb, if housework qualifies as exercise, how to break a fitness slump, and how to heal abdominal separation.
How to Prevent Asymmetrical Injuries
Do many of your injuries occur on one side of your body? There’s often a logical explanation and a simple solution.
Expert Answers: Saunas for Weight Loss, Sore Achilles’ Tendons, and More
We the experts if saunas can help lose weight, why Achille’s tendons get sore, how many exercise sets and reps to do, and how to deal with lopsided injuries.
Expert Answers: Eating After Exercise, How Often to Change Up a Routine, and More
Fitness editor Jen Sinkler asks the experts when to eat after exercising, how often to change up a workout routine, how to look fresh after a workout and how to cure “computer neck.”
Expert Answers: Multivitamin Boosts, Agility Ladders, and Sleep and Weight Training
We ask the experts about multivitamins boosting workout results, if agility ladders live up to their name, and if lifting heavy weights can make you sleepy.
Fitness Fixes: How Do I Strengthen a Weak Lower Back?
Use loaded-carry exercises to build QL strength and break the “chain of pain.”
How Many Sets and Rep Should I Be Doing in My Lifting Routine?
Expert answers on creating a weight lifting routine.