Learn how to avoid these common exercise slack-offs and improve your workouts.

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.

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.

Which is better – wild caught or farm raised? Explore the pros and cons of America’s favorite fish.

Expert fats researcher Dr. Mary Enig offers surprising insider views on good fats, bad fats and the food police.

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.

Are Unidentified Fitness Obstacles sabotaging your fitness goals?

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.

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.

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.

“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.

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.