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What Is DOMS (Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness) and How to Prevent It?
You worked hard – and now you’re feeling the hurt. Time to get wise about delayed onset muscle soreness.
Fitness Fix: 2 Exercises to Fix a Slouched Posture
Perk up your posture with these two easy exercises.
The Workout: Prehab Your Body
Injury-proof yourself with these prehabilitation mobility moves.
Fitness Fix: Improve Your Hip Mobility
Exercises to improve hip mobility.
Expert Answers: Back Hurting After Yoga Class
Why does my back hurt after yoga class?
Fitness Fix: Preventing Shin Splints
Three easy exercises to prevent shin splints.
Fitness Fix: Improve Your Shoulder Mobility
2 exercises to improve your shoulder mobility.
Healing Spa Retreats
More than just a vacation, these retreat centers offer restoration for mind, body, and soul.
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.
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.
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.
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.
How to Loosen Early-Morning Body Stiffness
Two stretching drills to help mitigate morning-movement woes.
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.
Fitness Fix: How to Correct Computer Slouch
Two exercises to help undo damage of poor posture.
Learning From Injury
Why sports writer Chris Ballard (almost) wishes he’d been injured years earlier.
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.
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.
Sore back? Aching feet? Read this.
Natural Posture for Pain-Free Living: The Practice of Mindful Alignment by Kathleen Porter explains postural problems and offers functional advice to restore healthy alignment, aiding you in relieving chronic pains, building flexibility, and increasing strength and vitality.