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Expert Answers: 10-Minute Fitness, Creatine, Toxic Cardio, and Why You Should Warm Up
Here we wrangle leading experts to address your most perplexing workout quandaries and conundrums — from teens and creatine to the impacts of cardio on strength training.
Expert Answers: Building Healthy Joints for Runners, Vitamin D for Postworkout Recovery, and More
Here we wrangle leading experts to address your most perplexing workout quandaries and conundrums — from building up joint strength for runners and why you want to progress from pushups on your knees to your toes.
How to Use Resistance Stretching For Strength
Conventional stretching nets you conventional results. Resistance stretching (the secret weapon of Olympic athletes) can make you more flexible — and stronger! — in a hurry.
Emphasizing Eccentrics for Tendon Strengthening (Video)
Eccentric or the lower phase of resistance exercises has been shown to strengthen tendons and connective tissues in your joints.
Expert Answers: Ab Wheels, Postworkout Nutrition, Finding Your Fitness “Edge,” and Back-Saving Squats
Here we wrangle leading experts to address your workout quandaries and conundrums — from conquering love handles with an ab wheel to alternatives to prevent pain when performing a squat.
Primitive Workouts: How Training Like Our Ancestors Boosts Strength, Endurance, and Health
Why today’s hottest fitness regimens are looking back to our ancient, hunter-gatherer past for the best ways to get fit and live healthy.
An Easy Guide To Heart-Rate Training (Video)
Quick heart-rate training tips that will help you lose weight and work out more efficiently.
Expert Answers: “Barefoot” Shoes, Lean Muscle, and Training With Sandbags
We wrangle leading fitness experts to also address the benefits of sandbag training and how to lift to create long, lean muscle.
Expert Answers: Caffeine and Your Workout, Hand Calluses, and Beginner Tabata
We wrangle leading fitness experts to address your most perplexing workout quandaries and conundrums.
More of the Best Exercises (You’re Not Doing)
Some of our favorite fitness experts return to share another batch of the most effective, little-known exercises for your upper body, lower body, and core.
How Social Connections Influence Your Health and Habits
You’ve heard by now that you can “catch” obesity from your friends, family — even distant acquaintances. But you may have missed the flip side of that story: Good health and fitness are catching, too.
Switch!: How to Create Lasting Change
Brilliant ways to change things for the better — even when change is hard.
The “Shortest Mile” Track Workout
Increase your aerobic capacity and strength in just four short laps around a standard running track.
TRX “Y” Deltoid Fly (Video)
Jen Sinkler, senior fitness editor for Experience Life magazine, demonstrates a TRX “Y” deltoid fly.
TRX Suspended Side Plank (Video)
Jen Sinkler, senior fitness editor for Experience Life magazine, demonstrates a TRX suspended side plank.
TRX Kneeling Rollout (Video)
Watch as Jay Ross of CrossFit 215 demonstrates a TRX kneeling rollout during a photo shoot for Experience Life magazine.
TRX Supine Pull-Through (Video)
Jay Ross of CrossFit 215 demonstrates a TRX kneeling rollout during a photo shoot for Experience Life magazine.
TRX Hamstring Curl (Video)
Jay Ross of CrossFit 215 demonstrates a TRX hamstring curl during a photo shoot for Experience Life magazine.
TRX Suspended Lunge (Video)
Jen Sinkler, senior fitness editor for Experience Life magazine, demonstrates a TRX suspended lunge.
How to Train for a Sprint Triathlon
Your complete guide to training for a sprint triathlon.
6 of the Best Exercises You’re Not Doing
Tired of doing the same old lifts? Hungry for variety—or just looking for some exciting new results? Try these six innovative, underutilized moves.