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The Tabata Cardio and Strength Workouts
The Tabata Protocol isn’t easy, but it can dramatically increase your aerobic and anaerobic capacity in just minutes a month.
Tips for Staying Healthy While Traveling
The demands of travel can prove perilous, undermining both good intentions and well-established routines. Here’s how you can fight back and win — even when you’re moving at supersonic speeds.
Getting Past Perfect
As a working mother of three children, Jean Kane has carved out better life balance – and deeper satisfaction – by focusing on her core values.
How to Prevent Lower-Back Pain from Spreading Throughout the Body
To deal with stubborn back pain, look to your local lumbar stabilizers for answers.
A Beginner’s Guide to the Health Club
Feeling adrift in a sea of fitness equipment? Not sure how to best spend your time at the club? Learn the basic components of a balanced workout program, and you’ll put confusion behind you for good.
Special Event
When Micki Gibbs took up running, she just wanted to be part of her sister’s wedding. She had no idea she’d inspire her friends to get moving, too.
How to Build Your Glutes
Weak glutes can wreak havoc on your back, hips and knees, so building a strong bottom should be a top fitness priority.
Pulling Together: Skijoring
Escape with your dog to snowy climes this winter and discover the fast-paced and exhilarating sport of skijoring.
Master Your Game With Sports Vision Training
Improving your visual skills — and acuity — can give you an edge in virtually any sport. Here’s how to start seeing more.
Down(hill) but Not Out: Lindsey Kildow
Olympic downhill skier Lindsey Kildow has faced some daunting injuries. But her strong spirit and her willingness to take time to heal have kept her coming out on top.
On the Comeback Trail
Despite intense preparation and a maximum effort, your competitive season didn’t go as planned. How do you recoup and regroup?
How to Relieve Shoulder Blade Pain
The scapulae, or shoulder blades, can cause a whole lot of shoulder pain. Are imbalanced blades bothering you?
On a Roll: The Benefits of Foam Rolling
Using foam rollers can help relieve myofascial pain and increase flexibility. Best of all? They’re really easy to use.
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!
When Mike Jasper took charge of his health, his whole family benefited.