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Your Guide to Navigating the Fitness Floor
The gym can be confusing and intimidating to navigate. Our experts weigh in on venturing out of your comfort zone.
You, Inc.: A Practical Guide for Setting Fitness Goals
Want solid returns on your fitness investment? Get down to business — with a smart, strategic plan worthy of an MBA.
How to Avoid Knee Pain
Improving knee strength and mobility can help alleviate pain and irritation while improving performance and quality of life.
14 Boomers Who’ve Got Game
These senior athletes may inspire you to rethink your perceptions of aging.
What Is the Difference Between Low-Impact and Low-Intensity Workouts?
Impact is frequently confused with intensity, but the two are not synonymous. A high-intensity workout can be low impact — and a low-impact workout can be high-intensity.
The Case for Low-Impact Exercise
Low impact doesn’t mean low intensity, low effort, or low reward. Learn how to have fun, stay engaged, and get results without sacrificing your joints.
How Movement Therapy Can Heal Traumatic Stress
Traumatic stress can be debilitating and terrifying. Movement therapy — involving increasingly accessible, thoughtful approaches to exercise — offers new hope.
Why Workout Recovery Days Are Essential for Optimal Fitness
The key to getting stronger, faster, or fitter is giving yourself time to recover properly between workouts. Learn how to leverage your rest days to reach your fitness goals.
Lift to Lose Weight
Can you lose weight just by lifting weights? If you want to get leaner, it’s time to start strength training. Here’s how to lift to lose fat.
The Purposefully Primitive Workout
Our ancestors built their amazing functional fitness through intense, daily physical demands and a no-nonsense, super-basic diet. There’s no reason why we can’t do the same.
The Real-Fitness Manifesto
Our best fitness tips to help you move well, recover fully, and achieve your fittest life.
Escape From Inertia: Strategies to Overcome Resistance to Start Exercising
Most of us struggle at some point to overcome a stubborn resistance to exercising. Here are some tips for getting — and keeping — your body in motion, even when you don’t feel like it.
Simple Ways to Move More During the Workday
Squeeze in activity throughout the day with these creative body-strengthening mini-workouts.
5 Exercises to Build Strong Feet
Here are five strength and mobility moves for fit feet.
Strength Training for Your Feet
Improving strength and mobility in your feet can help alleviate pain, boost athletic performance, and enhance your quality of life.
The Power of Working Out in a Group
Discover how training in a fitness community can improve your performance, keep you accountable, and help you tap into a greater sense of purpose.
Meet 6 People Who Are Redefining Fitness
These change makers are shifting the way we think about what it means to be fit.
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.