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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.
Hot Wheels: Bike Tour Adventures
Roll right over the winter blues by heading south for a warm-weather bike tour.
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.
The Power of a Pushup: Tyson Mayr
World traveler Tyson Mayr crusades for clean water in the Third World — and proves that simple acts can make a big difference.
The Tri-Planar Workout
These 3D functional tri-planar moves will give you a workout that’s fully rounded.
Expert Answers: Is it Safe to Wear My Fitness Tracker All the Time?
Yours Qs answered about fitness tracker usage.
How to Use Your Heart Rate Monitor to Maximize Fitness Results
What your heart monitor is trying to tell you.
Out of the Darkness: Jenni Engebretson’s Success Story
How one woman overcame depression and addiction by rebuilding her mind, body, and spirit.
The Art of Recovery Q&A With Matt Dixon (Full Interview)
Matt Dixon, MSc, the author of The Well-Built Triathlete explains the essence of recovery.
Explosive Power Workout (Video)
This full-body explosive-power workout will amp up your athleticism for sports — or anything life might throw at you.
Primal Inspiration
Experience Life’s fitness editor discovers that PrimalCon — an immersion into primal living in the modern world — involves more than just eating like a caveman.
Expert Answers: Does Compression Gear Work?
And, if so, when should I use it?
Exercise Makes Skin Healthier
Regular workouts don’t just benefit your fitness. They benefit your skin, too — particularly as you age.
How to Loosen Early-Morning Body Stiffness
Two stretching drills to help mitigate morning-movement woes.
Buddy System: Naddir Eldeeb’s Success Story
How a determined friend helped one man lose 225 pounds and reclaim his sense of self.
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?
The Desk-Dweller’s Repair Plan (Video)
Follow along as our fitness editor, Maggie Fazeli Fard, shows you how to undo the damage of too much sitting with these eight exercises.
8 Moves to Fix Computer Slouch
Tired of hunched shoulders, a sore back, and tight hips? These six moves are a great cure for the common computer slouch.