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The Pool as a Training Tool
If you haven’t already made swimming a part of your cross-training repertoire, here are some great reasons for diving in.
The 7 Best Exercises You’re Not Doing
Mix up your strength routine with these seven underused — but supereffective — moves.
Beyond All or Nothing: Finding the Balance in Youth Sports
Kids are often sports obsessed or activity averse. Here’s how to help your children find movement that’s just right for them.
Your Seasonal Fitness Guide
Mother Nature can be an inspiring personal trainer. Follow her rhythms to banish workout boredom, stave off injury, and build your fitness.
A Guide to Exercise at Every Age
Your body evolves as you age — and your workout program should, too. Here’s a guide to staying active through the decades.
How Exercise Benefits the Brain
The benefits of physical activity are more than muscle-deep. Moving your body builds and conditions your gray matter, making you smarter, happier, and more resilient.
16 Ways to Move More
Resist the call of the couch! For our basic well-being, we need to get moving.
Every Body Is a Yoga Body
Discover how yoga inspired personal transformations — both on and off the mat — for these 10 practitioners.
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 Use Intuitive Training
Learn how to blend your exercise preferences with biofeedback to help you get stronger and fitter.
Why Your Fitness Mindset Matters
The key to sticking with a workout program may be strengthening the “muscle” between your ears.
How to Create a Strong Core
Strengthening your muscles is only one part of the equation. Learn how posture, breathing, and coordination can make your center more stable and solid.
The New Science of Concussions
As doctors learn more about their consequences, people who have suffered traumatic brain injuries are finding renewed hope.
6 Ways Strength Training Supports Overall Health
Here are six ways strength training supports your overall health — beyond building muscle and burning fat.
The Importance of Fitness Buddies
Workout partners can help you stay committed to fitness and have fun. Here’s what you need to know to form an active relationship that gets results.
How Exercise Affects Circulation (and Vice Versa)
Discover how your circulatory system can support athletic performance — and help nutrients flow through the body.
Yoga for Athletes
New approaches are making this ancient practice work for those who exercise, play hard — and want to keep their edge.
Relearn to Walk
When it comes to walking, many of us have fallen into bad habits. But, by “relearning” to walk, we can improve our bodies and our minds.
Strong, Fast, and Fit: Your Action Plan
Are you going through all the motions, but not getting the results you want? A master training plan founded on the principles of periodization is the surest route to reaching your goals.
Stretch Yourself Strong: The FRC Stretching Workout
Tired of the same old stretching routine? Functional Range Conditioning can help you build flexibility, athleticism, and real-world strength in a whole new way.
11 Common Fitness Beliefs Explained
Your trainer tells you one thing. The Internet says another. And your workout partner says they’re both wrong. It’s time to get the straight scoop on prevalent fitness adages.