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Calculate Your Waist-to-Hip Ratio
This quick measurement can tell you a lot about your current health — and your future chronic-disease risks.
How to Start a “Do-and-Dine” Fitness Group
Looking to improve the palatability of your fitness routine? Maybe you need a side of social interaction — and a standing date for dinner.
Expert Answers: Healthy Alternatives to Commercial Gels and Chews
Are there healthy alternatives to commercial gels and chews?
Fitness Fix: Improve Your Shoulder Mobility
2 exercises to improve your shoulder mobility.
Expert Answers: Working Out While Pregnant
Should I temper my workouts now that I’m pregnant?
Expert Answers: Is there a right way to “train to failure”?
Fitness expert Meredith Butulis, DPT, MSPT, Life Time Academy instructor and fitness competitor, answers your question.
Fitness Fix: How to Engage Your Core
Two easy exercises to engage your core.
Expert Answers: How do I find my resting heart rate and what does it tell me?
Expert, Roy Benson, MPE, answers your question.
17 Common Fitness Excuses and Tips on Overcoming Them
Don’t hit the snooze button on your fitness goals. Here are 17 of the most common obstacles to exercising — and expert advice on how to overcome them.
Build a Strong Butt
Sprint faster. Jump higher. Prevent injury. Avoid back pain. With a strong set of glutes behind you, you can do it all.
How to Use Intuitive Training to Reach Your Fitness Goals
Want better workout results in less time? Start taking direction from your body. It knows exactly what to do.
15 Body-Weight Moves You Can Do Anywhere
Here’s how to squeeze in a series of invigorating activities that turn idle moments into body-strengthening mini-workouts.
Strong Muscle Mass Linked to an Extended Lifespan
One more great reason to start strength training now: Older adults with more muscle mass live longer.
Expert Answers: Is it OK to Chew Gum While Working Out?
Discover why you’ll want to ditch the gum chewing habit while working out.
Are You an Endomorph, Mesomorph, or Ectomorph Body Type?
Adopting a fitness routine suited to your athletic body type can make the difference in whether your workouts are frustrating or fulfilling.
Expert Answers: Do I Always Have to Wipe Off the Workout Equipment?
In short, yes – but here’s why.
Ready-for-Anything Fitness: 7 Essential Functional Moves
Why you need Functional Training and how to do it.
Fitness Fix: Building Better Ankle Mobility
Think you can’t squat because of a bad back? Tight hips? Weak knees? You may want to look lower down in the kinetic chain — the problem may just be tight ankles.
Tyson Mayr: How to Do Pushups (Video)
Tyson Mayr, a.k.a. The Naked Traveller, offers tips and pointers for how to do pushups correctly — plus five reasons they’re a go-to exercise for whole-body fitness.
Expert Answers: What’s the Best Way to Build Biceps Strength?
Instead of biceps curls, rows or pull-ups might be the way to go.




















