The Art of Procrastination
Faced with an important task, it's not uncommon to come up against a wall of resistance. In The War of Art, author Steven Pressfield tells you how to break through.
Why Do I Have an Emotional Release During Exercise?
Have you ever had a profound emotional experience during your workout and not understood why? Here's a scientific look at what's behind exercise-induced emotional release and what it may be telling you.
How to Use a Heart-Rate Monitor to Measure Your Fitness Success
Feel like your fitness regimen is stalling? Grab a heart-rate monitor for instant feedback and lasting motivation.
How to Use Active Recovery to Heal from an Athletic Injury
Many sports injuries heal faster, and many athletes appear happier, when they augment rest with modified recovery workouts.
Mission Possible
Ever get to the point when you’ve read so much depressing news that your brain and heart reach some kind of maximum density and you just feel defeated by it all? I must admit that despite my usually relentless optimism, I was there last month.
Championing Ourselves
When we think of champions, we think of people who have accomplished things beyond the bounds of accepted belief or expectation. While such feats might require tremendous strength or ingenuity, in many cases there's another underlying requirement: courage.
Smart and Simple Grocery Store Swaps for Healthy Choices
Want to feed you and your family right? Start at the supermarket. This eight-week guide provides the shopping know-how you need to give your cart a healthful overhaul — without facing a mutiny from your family.
Good to the Core: Apples
It's apple season. What better way to celebrate than by making family-friendly apple dishes with your children?
Kids & Carbs
Reduced-carb diets are helping millions of people lose excess weight. But what's right for some adults may be all wrong for their children.
Fit Fathers, Strong Families: Why Men’s Health Matters
Somewhere between being breadwinners, role models, and lovers, many married men lose track of their commitment to fitness. Here's what men can do to reclaim their health and vitality, and why it matters to those who depend on them.
How to Properly Spot Someone at the Gym
Learn how working with a spotter can help you ratchet up the intensity of your free-weight routine.
Mother Knows Best
Not long ago, I came across a quote from an unknown source that read: “Sound really does travel slower than light. The advice parents give to their 18-year-olds doesn’t reach them until they’re about 40.”
Fitness as a Family Value
For far too long now, the pursuit of fitness has been equated with individual achievement. In the media and general culture, fitness has typically been about performance (who can go farthest, fastest), or it's been about possession – washboard abs and seductive good looks. The body as object.
5 Rules for Anti-Inflammatory Eating
Say no to sugar, embrace your inner herbivore, and three other tips for anti-inflammatory eating.
Fighting Inflammation
Some aging factors are beyond our control, but one of the biggest — inflammation — needn't be. Here's how you can extinguish the flames of chronic inflammation before they ignite.
The Joy of Not Cooking
Living foods provide your body with the very best raw materials for greater energy, vitality and mental clarity.
How Plant Sterols Naturally Lower Cholesterol and Boost Health
Get the latest on these cholesterol-lowering compounds — and learn the best ways to get an extra helping.
Silver Lining: Cindy Joseph
The word 'old' has been given a bad rap, explains Cindy Joseph. Life has been mistakenly described as a downhill process, when, in fact, it's an ever-continuing expansion.
Workout Wisdom
“Get yourself an exercise buddy.” That’s some of the best exercise advice I’ve ever heard. But I swear, no health and fitness idea (except perhaps “eat more vegetables”) has been so completely overexposed, yet so totally underutilized.
Right-Track Retrospective
I just realized that this year marks my 30-year fitness anniversary. I was 13 when I started working out and I've been doing it ever since, studying and experimenting with all sorts of different sports and fitness techniques along the way.
