Fitness
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A Source of Strength
When her mother died, Patty Masters decided to relaunch her life.
How to Increase Muscular Stamina and Cardiovascular Stamina
There’s more to building stamina than increasing your time on the treadmill. Find out how your endurance affects your overall health.
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 Use Resistance Bands to Build Strength
It doesn’t take pumping iron or fancy weight machines to get a strong body. Fitness bands let you do a wide array of safe, effective exercises that make building strength simple.
Unlock Your Fitness Potential as a Master’s Athlete
Wine and cheese aren’t the only things that get better with age. Thanks to masters divisions in many sports, older athletes are finding fun new ways to get fit.
Gung-Ho Guy Trips
Dude-only vacations can bring guys closer and yield benefits far beyond simple camaraderie.
Overcoming 4 Common Fitness Obstacles for New Moms
Having trouble fitting fitness into your new mom life? Here’s how to create a fresh routine.
Superdad!: Mike Jasper’s Success Story
When Mike Jasper took charge of his health, his whole family benefited.
Up for a Challenge
A determined goal-setter in his professional life, Tommy Johnson found a way to make his personal fitness a higher priority: He embraced the triathlete’s lifestyle.
On the Edge: Will Gadd
Adventurer Will Gadd scales rocks and kayaks choppy waters to deepen his connection with nature – and to spread the message that outdoor spaces are worth saving.
Wilderness Lessons: Developing Outdoor Survival Skills
Can you make a fire without matches? Build a shelter with no tools? Track a small animal across a forest? At today’s wilderness and survival schools, these skills aren’t lost arts. They’re tomorrow’s lesson plans.
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.
Home Team Advantage
By improving her diet, Elizabeth Allen found the energy she needed to keep up with her kids.
Born to Run: Carrie Tollefson
Whether piling up the training miles or racing against the world’s top middle-distance runners, Olympian Carrie Tollefson just loves to run.
Take a Fitness-Immersion Adventure for Your Body and Mind
Bring your athletic skills to the next level. Take your body and mind on a learning adventure. Attention campers: Your fitness-immersion experience is about to begin.
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.
Tips and Strategies for Improving Your Posture
Bad posture doesn’t just look bad. It can also compromise your workouts, undermine your health and contribute to injuries. Here’s how to straighten up.
Pavel Tsatsouline’s Guide to Pushups, Sit-Ups, and Squats
Think you know everything about sit-ups, squats and pushups? Well, Russian strength trainer Pavel Tsatsouline thinks you might know just enough to be dangerous.
Earth-Friendly Forays
Outdoor excursions restore and rejuvenate your body, but if you travel with the environment in mind, your vacation can also help restore some of the world’s most pristine wilderness.
What Is Nordic Walking?
Discover one of the world’s fastest-growing and easiest-to-learn fitness routines: Nordic walking.