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How to Use Your Heart Rate Monitor to Maximize Fitness Results
What your heart monitor is trying to tell you.
Expert Answers: Does Compression Gear Work?
And, if so, when should I use it?
How to Loosen Early-Morning Body Stiffness
Two stretching drills to help mitigate morning-movement woes.
Expert Answer: The Fitness Value of Walking
I enjoy walking and hiking for fitness. But am I getting a decent workout? Do I need to be doing something more?
Expert Answer: Why Do My Feet Go Numb While Working Out?
Our fitness experts tackle your questions on why hands and feet go numb during certain movements.
Expert Answers: How Men Can Overcome Yoga Jitters
Our fitness experts give you suggestions for taking your first yoga class — and keeping the nerves at bay.
Expert Answers: Spine Rotation During Strength Training
Our fitness experts tackle your question on why it matters how you twist your spine during strength training.
Fitness Fix: How to Correct Computer Slouch
Two exercises to help undo damage of poor posture.
Improve Your Golf Swing
Here’s how to build the strength and mobility you need — while warding off injuries that could put a crimp in your golf game.
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.
Learning From Injury
Why sports writer Chris Ballard (almost) wishes he’d been injured years earlier.
Expert Answers: Minimalist Running Shoes, Intermittent Fasting, and Yoga
Our fitness experts tackle your questions on replacing minimalist running shoes, intermittent fasting for fat loss, and yoga and hypermobility.
Can Watermelon Juice Aid in Faster Exercise Recovery and Reduced Muscle Soreness?
New science supports the old notion that drinking watermelon juice eases postexercise muscle soreness.
How to Improve Your Wheel Pose
Expert answers on how to build up to this advanced yoga pose.
Expert Answers: On Caffeine and Exercise and Overexercising
Our fitness experts tackle your questions on caffeine and athletic performance, and rhabdomyolysis.
Jumping Rope May Suppress Appetite
Researchers suspect vertical motion may disrupt the gut in ways that reduce the urge to eat.
Does Physio Tape Really Work?
Expert answers on physio, or kinesiology, tape and if it’s right for you.
How Exercise Keeps the Skin Young
New research shows that exercise cannot only prevent, but also reverse, signs of aging in the skin.
Expert Answers: Cardio and Weights, Physio Tape, and AMRAP
Our fitness experts tackle your questions on mixing cardio and weights, using physio tape, and more.