Rock – and Roll
Spring is the season of new projects and brave commitments. It's a time when many people decide they are ready to take on big changes. Just having a couple more hours of daylight can be enough to flood our bodies with the desire to tackle new challenges and convince us to set a new plan in motion.
7 Signs That You’re Lifting Weights Too Fast
Holding your breath, noises from the resistance machine, and loss of balance are just a few signs.
The Lure, The Lie: Marketing “Healthy” Food
Salads! Yogurt! Grilled chicken! It sounds so alluring. But wherever there's a massive marketing plan, there's also often a catch. So is it safe to go back to the drive-thru?
Andrew Zimmern on the Slow Food Movement
The Slow Food movement is showing our eat-on-the-run society why it should take the time to select and create fresh, high-quality meals.
What You Need to Know About Acrylamide
Acrylamide, a cancer-causing agent, has shown up in a variety of fried foods, but also in healthier baked and roasted items, including home-cooked meals. Should we be alarmed? Here's a look at what we know about acrylamide, its risks and whether we need to take action.
The Inspiring Journey of Kent Keith’s Paradoxical Commandments
In 1968, when Kent Keith first penned his paradoxical commandments, he never imagined they'd travel so far - or be misattributed by so many.
5 Strategies to Help You Cope When You Get Dropped During a Race
In the swim lanes, on the road or on the run — here's how to manage when you get dropped at your race.
How to Pace Yourself When Lifting Weights
You're lifting weights. You want results fast. Whoa there! Here's why you need to slow down.
Are You Making These Common Fitness Mistakes?
Learn how to avoid these common exercise slack-offs and improve your workouts.
Making Connections and Taking Action
Zowie! Ever since the last issue lit a fire under me (Jan./Feb., Action Plan 2004), I’ve been on kind of an action rampage.
What Life Expects of Us
When I travel outside the country, I am regularly reminded of how many people are struggling with immense problems and living in great need, without basic necessities like food, shelter and freedom. I am also reminded, at these times, by how blessed many of us are to be facing lesser struggles.
Good Salmon Sense
Which is better – wild caught or farm raised? Explore the pros and cons of America's favorite fish.
Navigating Nutrition Controversies Surrounding Fat
Expert fats researcher Dr. Mary Enig offers surprising insider views on good fats, bad fats and the food police.
Tips to Keeping Your Joints Healthy
Degenerative joint disease can cause debilitating pain, loss of mobility, and function, even severe disability. But what if you're just starting to suffer from a little wear and tear? Here's how to work with your joints — not against them.
Overcome Unidentified Fitness Obstacles (UFOs) for Lasting Health and Happiness
Are Unidentified Fitness Obstacles sabotaging your fitness goals?
How to Pace Your Exercise to Optimize Your Metabolism
Eager to be leaner? Don't work harder (or wait longer) than you have to! Learn the art of heart-rate training for optimal fat loss.
Resolutions Workshop: Resolutions Reconsidered
For this year's Resolutions Workshop, we gathered up four of our favorite personal-development experts and asked them to weigh in with how — and how not — to go about crafting New Year's resolutions. They wound up recasting the whole resolutions process and sketching out a more successful, sustainable course for personal change.
Weight Loss 101
Feel like you're failing at weight loss? Forever stuck in the remedial class? Don't despair! Here's the study guide you need to make the weight-loss honor roll once and for all.
Getting It Done
“Is this supposed to press down on my nose so much,” I asked Ryan, the trainer administering my metabolic and VO2 max test. “Yeah, it needs to be snug enough so air doesn’t get in through the sides,” he explained, adjusting the straps and checking the seal of the mask.
Reinventing Yourself
It’s resolutions season again - a time of review and reflection, and for many, a time of frustration. We may find ourselves facing some of the same issues we faced last year and the year before. And not all of them have improved with age.