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Why Your Hips Matter
Hip problems can affect your lower back, knees, ankles, and feet. Here's why.
6 Exercises for Healthy Hips
Our experts show us how to prevent and recover from hip issues with a series of simple moves.
How Exercise Heals
Regular physical activity can help us recover more quickly, heal more easily, and get an edge over all kinds of disease and injury. In fact, exercise may just be nature’s best medicine.
Healthy, Happy Hips
Improving strength and mobility in your hips can help alleviate pain and irritation while improving performance and quality of life.
The Qigong Workout
This stress-busting routine harnesses movement and breath to open your mind and invigorate your body.
Amy Zellmer’s Success Story
After suffering a traumatic brain injury, one woman spent years trying to recover. In the process, she became a nationwide advocate for TBI survivors.
New Rx for Cancer: Exercise
Why exercise may be just as important as rest and recovery for cancer patients.
STRONG BODY, STRONG MIND: Out With Earn-and-Burn
Our fitness editor challenges the mindset of exercise as a way to "burn off" your last meal.
DIY Myofascial Release
Here are four exercises to keep your fascia tissue healthy.
8 Yoga Poses to Help You Unwind
Find calm with these eight relaxing bedtime — or anytime — moves.
5 Signs You Need More Recovery After a Workout
Here are some warning signs that you might be overdoing it on the exercise front.
How Massage Can Heal the Body and Mind
Think of massage as an indulgence? Perhaps. But it can also be a powerful tool for health and well-being — from easing pain and inflammation to soothing stress and anxiety.
Fending Off Adrenal Fatigue
Are you exhausted for days following your workouts? Or are you just too tired to make it to the gym? If so, you may be suffering from adrenal fatigue.
3 Simple Shifts to Soothe Back Pain
Lengthening your spine, rolling open your shoulders, and alternating between "stretchsitting" and "stacksitting" can help — and even prevent — back pain.
6 Exercises for Knee Pain
These exercises can help knee mobility and strength.
How to Avoid Knee Pain
Improving knee strength and mobility can help alleviate pain and irritation while improving performance and quality of life.
Exercises for Lower-Back Pain
Lower-back pain might get you down, but it doesn't have to take you out. This program can keep you moving to come back stronger than ever.
Kate Mihevc Edwards’ Success Story
When an endurance athlete was diagnosed with a rare genetic heart condition, it forced her to change her entire lifestyle — and offered her the opportunity to really listen to her body.
3 Pelvic-Floor Exercises
Three moves to improve pelvic-floor strength and prevent dysfunction — for men and women.
Should I Work Out With Sore Muscles?
Rather than take a few days off, try light-intensity workouts after about 24 hours.
3 Ankle-Mobility Exercises
Three drills to loosen up your ankles and their kinetic chain.