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Fending Off Adrenal Fatigue

By Matt Fitzgerald

Are you exhausted for days following your workouts? Or are you just too tired to make it to the gym? If so, you may be suffering from adrenal fatigue.

Loosening Tight Hamstrings

By Matt Fitzgerald

Tight hamstrings can limit your freedom of movement and increase your risk of injury. Here’s how to loosen ’em up with hamstring exercises — including hamstring stretches.

How to Do a HIIT Workout

By Matt Fitzgerald

Get more results in less time with high-intensity interval training.

Your Guide to Treating a Muscle Strain, Joint Sprain, or Bruise

By Matt Fitzgerald

A muscle strain, joint sprain or contusion suffered just before a competition could put you on the shelf. Here are some quick-fix options.

Every Body Into the Pool: 8 Strength and Stamina Water Workouts to Try

By Matt Fitzgerald

Water workouts aren’t just for hardcore swimmers anymore. Learn how aquatic exercise can help you take your fitness to a whole new level.

How to Fix Hypermobile Shoulders

By Matt Fitzgerald

Poor stability in your shoulder joints can cause pain at the source set you up for trouble throughout the kinetic chain. Here’s how to correct common problems.

What Is Functional Training?

By Matt Fitzgerald

Functional training teaches your body to move more effectively in specific sports — and everyday activities. Read on to learn more.

How to Test Your Endurance

By Matt Fitzgerald

Sometimes the best way to track your progress toward your fitness goals is to pick a test and make it a regular part of your regimen. Which benchmark assessment you choose depends on what you want to measure.

High-Performance Supplements

By Matt Fitzgerald

There are lots of sports supplements out there, claiming to make you faster, stronger or more enduring. But which ones really boost sports performance?

Making the Rounds: A Guide to Circuit Training

By Matt Fitzgerald

Circuit training can rev up your metabolism and extend your endurance. Find out how.

The 5-Move Strength Workout

By Matt Fitzgerald

Only have a half-hour to get your resistance workout done? These five moves will do the trick.

3 Exercises for an Immobile Thoracic Spine

By Matt Fitzgerald

Immobility in your thoracic spine can send pain into your shoulders, neck or lower back. Here’s how to correct the problem.

The Rest-Pause Workout

By Matt Fitzgerald

Adding a short pause at the end of a tough set can help you overcome plateaus in your resistance-training routine.

How to Prevent Lower-Back Pain from Spreading Throughout the Body

By Matt Fitzgerald

To deal with stubborn back pain, look to your local lumbar stabilizers for answers.

The Tabata Cardio and Strength Workouts

By Matt Fitzgerald

The Tabata Protocol isn’t easy, but it can dramatically increase your aerobic and anaerobic capacity in just minutes a month.

A Beginner’s Guide to the Health Club

By Matt Fitzgerald

Feeling adrift in a sea of fitness equipment? Not sure how to best spend your time at the club? Learn the basic components of a balanced workout program, and you’ll put confusion behind you for good.

How to Relieve Shoulder Blade Pain

By Matt Fitzgerald

The scapulae, or shoulder blades, can cause a whole lot of shoulder pain. Are imbalanced blades bothering you?

How to Exercise With Knee and Hip Pain

By Matt Fitzgerald

Pain in your hips or knee joints may cause you to shy away from exercise, but there are ways to work around (or through) the condition – without sacrificing your fitness.

How to Start Olympic Weightlifting

By Matt Fitzgerald

Looking for a time-efficient workout that builds muscle power and functional fitness? Then give Olympic-style weightlifting a try.

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