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How to Exercise With Knee and Hip Pain
Pain in your hips or knee joints may cause you to shy away from exercise, but there are ways to work around (or through) the condition – without sacrificing your fitness.
How to Start Olympic Weightlifting
Looking for a time-efficient workout that builds muscle power and functional fitness? Then give Olympic-style weightlifting a try.
What You Need to Know About Barefoot Training
Grin and bare it — barefoot training can make you faster and less injury prone.
Elastic Energy: A Plyometric Workout
With the help of a few plyometric training tools, you can teach your neuromuscular system to unleash impressive speed and strength –the two ingredients behind the explosive power treasured by athletes.
Correcting Muscle Imbalances: 4 Exercises to Combat the Effects of Sitting All Day
Muscle imbalances caused by too much sitting, typing and monitor gazing can set up chronic problems throughout the body. Are work-related imbalances throwing your body out of whack?
Why the Warm-Up and Cool-Down are Essential to Your Workout
Are you skipping your warm-up or cool-down? You may be squandering fitness results and making your workouts harder than they have to be.
4 Tips to Bring Fun Back to Your Fitness Routine
Routines – even healthy ones – have a way of becoming, well, routine. Here’s how to put the fun back into your fitness experience.
Are You Overexercising? Find Your Just-Right Fitness Routine
When it comes to exercise, the more, the better . . . right? Not necessarily. Finding your own fitness sweet spot is a balancing act.
How to Navigate Fitness Priorities in a Busy Life
In the context of other life priorities — such as career and family — sometimes our workout plans have to give a little. But how much, and for how long?
How to Make a Fitness Plan
Determined to get into better shape? Don’t drive yourself to exhaustion: Coach yourself to satisfaction — and real results that last.
A Better Way to Burn Fat
If your weight-loss efforts seem stalled or stymied, heart-rate-based interval training may provide just the metabolic boost you need.
Celebrate Your Fitness Accomplishments
Before you rush into setting health and fitness goals for the year ahead, stop and appreciate what you’ve already accomplished.
Strategies to Find More Inspiration — and Motivation — to Workout
Low on motivation? These four tips will get you to – and through – your workout with ease.
What is Mental Performance Training?
Using visualization and meditation techniques, mental performance training helps you to set goals and overcome obstacles, such as negative thinking, to achieve optimal performance. It can also help you to prepare mentally for high-pressure situations.
How to Do Overspeed Training
Feeling the need for speed? Yearning to turn on your turbojets? Overspeed training may deliver the velocity you’ve been missing.
What is ChiRunning?
Plagued by chronic running injuries? Perhaps it’s time to try ChiRunning, an intuitive style that works with your body and draws from your physical and spiritual center.
What Is Eccentric Training?
Go ahead and focus on the negative. With eccentric training, you can achieve some very positive workout results.
Are Women More Prone to Knee Injuries?
If you’re an active woman you may be at greater risk for knee injury than your male counterparts. Learn how to protect one of your body’s most valuable joints.
How Swimming Supports Healthy Aging and Longevity
Forget splashing around in fountains of youth. If what you want is a lifetime of health, fitness and vitality, you’re better off swimming laps.
Fuel Your Fitness: A Guide to Eating for Each Phase of Your Workout
Wondering what to eat before and after your workouts? Learn the essentials of fueling for optimal energy, recovery and health.
Fitness Testing 1, 2, 3: Be Flexible
Think stretching is for sissies? You may be surprised at how essential flexibility training is to your overall fitness condition.