Play/Recreation

When it comes to the quest for greater happiness, waiting and hoping are out. Learning and practicing are in.  Here’s how to create your own happy reality — starting now.

Setting aside time for restoration isn't just good for your health — it just might help you be more productive and creative, too.

Get fit and have a blast with this adventurous outdoor workout.

Research shows that playing organized sports offers young girls a better shot at a healthy, successful future. 

Inspire your next workout with these strategies for incorporating more fun.

What are some good ways to include my dog in my workouts?

Enjoy all the perks — and avoid the pitfalls — of exercising outdoors this summer.

Experience Life’s fitness editor discovers that PrimalCon — an immersion into primal living in the modern world — involves more than just eating like a caveman.

A canoe transports you to places you’d never see otherwise — at a speed that allows you to appreciate them.

No matter how often or how far you move, relocating is a major, often emotional, life change. Here on some tips on how to deal.

Strategies for rethinking your self-image and goals so you can enjoy the benefits of a realistic, and really fun, fitness identity.

Tips for exercising like a kid again.

Whether you hire an instructor or head off to surf camp, learning to ride the waves is an excellent way to conquer your fears.

Not wild about working out? Maybe you just haven’t found the right activities for you. Here’s how to start falling in love with physical activity.

Kids and tweens today aren’t getting enough exercise. You may think of their attachment to electronic gadgets as a big part of the problem, but two fitness experts explain why one gadget in particular — a heart-rate monitor — may be an important part of the solution.

Weary of your workouts? Ditch the drudgery and the long face, friend! You’re due for an amusement infusion.

Routines – even healthy ones – have a way of becoming, well, routine. Here's how to put the fun back into your fitness experience.

When it comes to exercise, the more, the better . . . right? Not necessarily. Finding your own fitness sweet spot is a balancing act.

Listen up: There's a quiet subculture of outdoor enthusiasts who prefer muscle power to motorized recreation — and they're beginning to make some noise.

10 reasons to celebrate (and ways to get even happier in the process).