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Your Fitness Personality
Find out how personality-typing systems can help you discover activities and regimens you’ll really enjoy.
How to Build Your Balance
No offense to your wobble board—but the best way to improve your balance may be to keep at least one foot on solid ground.
How to Find Your Anaerobic Threshold
Whether you want to lose weight or improve performance, knowing your anaerobic threshold can help you achieve optimal results in minimum time.
Are You an Endomorph, Mesomorph, or Ectomorph Body Type?
Adopting a fitness routine suited to your athletic body type can make the difference in whether your workouts are frustrating or fulfilling.
How to Prevent an Athletic Injury
Athletic injuries are one aspect of fitness we can all do without. Here’s how to avoid the pain, heal the damage, and come back better than before.
The “Shortest Mile” Track Workout
Increase your aerobic capacity and strength in just four short laps around a standard running track.
5 Creative Cardio Ideas to Add Variety to Your Workout
Not one for marathons on the elliptical machine? Maximize the burn and minimize the boredom with these innovative options.
How to Integrate Vertical Core Training in Your Workout
Still crunching to strengthen your core? Time to get your core off the floor. Try Vertical Core Training, which recruits more muscles for a more effective workout.
How to Vary the Concentric, Eccentric, and Isometric Phases When You Strength Train
Fat loss? Muscle gain? A little extra bat speed at your next softball game? Reach the fitness goal of your choice by speeding up—or slowing down—the tempo of your lifts.
3 Dynamic Kettlebell Exercises for Building Strength and Endurance
These low-tech wonders offer a super-effective full-body workout. Here are some tips from several experts, including Pavel Tsatsouline and Mike Mahler.
Which Style of Martial Arts Is Right for You?
Martial arts aren’t only for action heroes and kids. The training is a great workout for the rest of us, too.
How Good Sportsmanship Builds Resilience and Integrity
We tell our kids to play fair, to be team players. But are we practicing what we preach?
What Is Functional Training?
Functional training teaches your body to move more effectively in specific sports — and everyday activities. Read on to learn more.
A Full-Body Outside Workout
When the best weather of the year arrives, you want to be out there soaking it up. Here’s what you need to know to make your outdoor workouts as effective as they are fun.
5 Essential Core Exercises
These days, nearly everyone at the gym seems to have embarked on a “core-training” regimen of some kind. But what exactly does that mean? (Hint: It’s not about abdominal crunches.)
Fresh Thoughts on Fitness Nutrition
Get the latest phase-by-phase advice on what to eat for optimal fitness progress — and what to avoid.
Strengthen Family Ties and Fitness With an Athletic Event
Participating in an athletic event as a family—from a fun-run 5K to a full-on Olympic triathlon—can improve your fitness, and your bond with each other.
The Young and Not-So-Restless: Assessing Your Kid’s Activity Level
They run, they jump, they play, they compete. That’s great. But how well do their real-life activities measure up to recommendations?
The Rest-Pause Workout
Adding a short pause at the end of a tough set can help you overcome plateaus in your resistance-training routine.
4 Exercises to Help Get to Your First Pull-Up
The source of many a humiliating grade-school gym memory, the pull-up is actually a great whole-body workout. Here’s how to get your chin over the bar – with confidence.
5 Pull-Up Hand Grip Variations
There are plenty of ways to grip the bar — here are just a handful of options.