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What Is Dynamic Stretching?
If you’re looking to take your joints and muscles through their full range of motion, try dynamic stretching.
5 Superfood Seeds
These tiny but mighty seeds deliver plant-based protein and a bevy of other health-supportive nutrients.
How to Stretch and Strengthen Your Calves
Here are four moves to stretch and strengthen your lower legs to avoid pain, stiffness, and cramping.
A Few of My Favorite Things
The author of Joyful, featured on this month’s cover, inspires this moment of self-reflection.
How to Correct Muscle Imbalances
Symmetry is often perceived as the holy grail of fitness. But for many activities, powerful asymmetric moves are essential. Here’s how to find the right balance.
PUMPING IRONY: Destined for Diabetes?
A prediabetes diagnosis can trigger all sorts of nightmarish scenarios, but mounting evidence suggests that seniors are a lot less likely to develop type 2 diabetes than we’ve been led to believe.
Does Intermittent Fasting Help Weight Loss?
A new study suggests intermittent fasting might lead to less muscle mass, not body fat.
What Is Static Stretching?
The health benefits of static stretching depend on when you do it.
It Starts With the Soil
One of the solutions to the global climate crisis is right under our feet.
How to Deal With Loneliness
Here’s how to maintain social connections — even amid a pandemic.
The Pandemic Exercise Deficit
Just when we need the immunity boost that exercise offers, many of us have become more sedentary.
Health Consequences of Being Black in America
Here are just a few sobering statistics.
How to Do the Bird Dog
Build a strong core while improving your posture and cross-body coordination with this back-friendly move.












