Recovery

How to Use Intuitive Training to Reach Your Fitness Goals

Want better workout results in less time? Start taking direction from your body. It knows exactly what to do.

By Andrew Heffernan

Fitness Tips Healthy Habits/Goal Setting

How to Give a Neck Massage in 5 Simple Steps

Surprise your partner (or anyone you love!) with the gift of a relaxing neck massage.

By Heidi Wachter

Headaches & Migraines Pain Relief

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.

By Maggie Fazeli Fard

Arthritis & Joint Health Fitness Tips

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.

By Experience Life Staff

Recovery

How to Loosen Early-Morning Body Stiffness

Two stretching drills to help mitigate morning-movement woes.

By Bryan Krahn, CSCS

Fitness Tips Flexibility & Mobility

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.

By Experience Life Staff

Recovery Work

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.

By Andrew Heffernan

Body-Weight Workouts Flexibility & Mobility

Fitness Fix: How to Correct Computer Slouch

Two exercises to help undo damage of poor posture.

By Nicole Radziszewski

Fitness Tips Flexibility & Mobility

2 Moves for Weak Wrists

Why you have weak wrists and how to fix it.

By Experience Life Staff

Fitness Tips Pain Relief

Learning From Injury

Why sports writer Chris Ballard (almost) wishes he’d been injured years earlier.

By Chris Ballard

Attitude/Mindset Fitness Tips

Can Watermelon Juice Aid in Faster Exercise Recovery and Reduced Muscle Soreness?

New science supports the old notion that drinking watermelon juice eases postexercise muscle soreness.

By Experience Life Staff

Fitness Tips Nutrition Tips

Healing Spaces: How Our Surroundings Affect Health and Well-Being

Can the spaces in which we live, work, and recover from illness have an impact on healing and well-being? Integrative-medicine doctor Esther Sternberg says yes.

By Esther Sternberg, MD

Functional/Integrative Medicine Recovery

Show Me How: The Hip Hinge (Video)

Learn how to do the hip hinge, one of the most common moves of everyday life.

By Experience Life Staff

Fitness Tips Recovery

How to Fix Plantar Fasciitis

Expert answers on how to relieve plantar-fasciitis pain.

By Andrew Heffernan

Fitness Tips Pain Relief

a man holds his knee while standing on a stopped treadmill

How to Prevent Knee Pain When Doing Cardio

Expert answers on keeping your knees safe while still getting a high-value cardio workout.

By Andrew Heffernan

Arthritis & Joint Health Cardio

How to Foam Roll Your IT Band

Is mysterious knee or hip pain curtailing your workouts? Tight iliotibial bands may be to blame. Phil Malloy, PT, a physical therapist based in Chicago, shares two exercises to help.

By Experience Life Staff

Fitness Tips Flexibility & Mobility