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Six exercises to help you strengthen your body's weakest links
How professional skier and Olympic gold medalist Ted Ligety recovered from a debilitating knee injury.
Injuries are a fact of life. Here's how to recover faster.
Want to make this year memorable? Start training now and destroy your office mates in a 10K.
Gluten is the protein found in wheat, rye, and barley, but it鈥檚 also found in foods like ice cream and ketchup. Gluten-free diets are typically followed by people suffering from a gluten sensitivity or celiac disease, a condition that causes a negative reaction to gluten and results in damage to…
When 34-year-old Hobie Call lost the Death Race this past August, he also lost his chance to win $100,000 for sweeping the Spartan Races. So why does he keep competing?
Big-city marathons, triathlons, and adventure races have never been more popular. Here's why it's time for you to line up for the starting gun, too.
It seems like most people I see in the gym use the same exercises. Which exercises work and which moves are overrated?
Created in 2007 by Christopher Harrison, AntiGravity Yoga takes place a few feet above the ground inside a silk hammock.
(Photo by Stewart Dawson/Wikimedia) On Monday, the New York Times ran an article on elite track athletes who have had kids mid career. Anecdotally, the Times story presented a mixed picture: Kara…
The lifeguard and paddleboarder talks about his passions.
Competitive cyclist Steve Yore demonstrates a simple exercise for maintaining your core.
The Human Performance Center's Kele McDaniel shows you how to do the most effective leg extensions as part of a series designed to condition the entire body for any sport.
The Human Performance Center's Kele McDaniel shows you how to do a combination dumbbell row and lunge as part of a series designed to condition the entire body for any sport.
The Human Performance Center's Kele McDaniel shows you how to work your obliques using a Swiss Ball as part of a series designed to condition the entire body for any sport.
Keira Newton of Dynamic Kettlebell Fitness shows us an advanced exercise.
The Human Performance Center's Kele McDaniel shows you how to tighten your abs by rolling out a Swiss Ball as part of a series designed to condition the entire body for any sport.
Keira Newton of Dynamic Kettlebell Fitness shows her strength by swinging 88 pounds.
The Human Performance Center's Kele McDaniel demonstrates a lunge as part of a series of conditioning exercises for runners and cyclists.
The proper technique for one of the best upper body exercises.
Keira Newton demonstrates advanced kettlebell exercises.
The Human Performance Center's Kele McDaniel demonstrates push-ups with a Swiss ball as part of a series of conditioning exercises for runners and cyclists.
A lateral exercise to help you build speed and power.
The Human Performance Center's Kele McDaniel demonstrates a reverse crunch as part of a series of conditioning exercises for runners and cyclists.
Step-by-step instruction on performing the ultimate lower body exercise.
The Human Performance Center's Kele McDaniel demonstrates an oblique crunch as part of a series of conditioning exercises for runners and cyclists.
Behind the scenes of 国产吃瓜黑料's January 2011 cover shoot with soccer star, Landon Donovan.
Nick Heil shows you how to do the dumbbell bent over row. For more info check out our 10-Minute Fitness package.
Nick Heil and Chauncey Billups work out on the Power Plate.
Go behind the scenes with the Men's National Team and photographer Susanna Howe on an 国产吃瓜黑料 shoot. Video courtesy of U.S. Soccer…
Nick Heil shows you how to do the hindu push up. For more info, check out our 10-Minute Fitness package.
Nick Heil and Chauncey Billups work out on the TRX Suspension Trainer.
Go behind the scenes with the Man Vs. Wild star as photographer Justin Stephens shoots him for our May cover.
Nick Heil shows you how to do the reverse crunch. For more info, check out our 10-Minute Fitness package.
The tennis champ talks about his career and honeymoon plans.
Nick Heil shows you how to do the squat press with dumbbells. For more info, check out our 10-Minute Fitness package.
Students of Dynamic Kettlebell Fitness in Santa Fe talk about the benefits of a good kettlebell workout.
Marathoner and accountant Alan Horton talks about the Boston Marathon.
Competitive cyclist Steve Yore demonstrates an easy 30-second exercise.
Ultramarathoner and Navy SEAL David Goggins talks about his training.
Competitive cyclist Steve Yore demonstrates an appropriately named exercise.
MOVNAT‘s Erwan LeCorre demonstrates how to jump onto rocks naturally. Read Nick Heil’s full story here.
The mountain biker and investment manager on balancing work and play.
Competitive cyclist Steve Yore demonstrates a variation of the plank.
Erwan Le Corre runs, climbs, and lifts logs barefoot. Will paleo fitness be the next big thing?聽…
It's an easy exercise to get wrong. Competitive cyclist Steve Yore shows you how to do it right.
The bestselling author power-hikes, powerlifts, and receives a megadose of vitamin C intravenously鈥攁ll while lucidly explaining his plans to hack everything from fitness and humanitarian aid to surfing and medical research
MOVNAT's Erwan LeCorre demonstrates the natural way to climb a tree. Read the full story here.
聽Co-Founder, Recovery Science and Technology | 聽Matthew Weatherley-White What do 3-time 24-hour World Champion Rebecca Rusch, 2-time 24-hour Single Speed World Champion Greg Martin, and聽Single Speed World Champion聽Heather Irminger…
By the end of the day, I often feel too tired to exercise. Is it better to skip my workout or trim it down? The Editors Santa Fe, NM
Serving as his own lab rat, an amateur bike racer spent a year taking supplemental testosterone—rumored to be a peloton favorite—to find out if it could transform an average Joe. His conclusion? No doubt about it.
In 2005, the author introduced us to the idea of childhood nature-deficit disorder. With The Nature Principle, he's back with a prescription for adults.
An exclusive look inside the cutting-edge Army lab that's pinching, prodding, dunking, bruising, and building the soldiers of tomorrow鈥攁nd revolutionizing adventure fitness along the way.
The fastest and most efficient way for multisport athletes to max their strength.
Think you don't have time for a fitness routine? If you can block out a couple of hours during the week and some longer periods on weekends, the results will amaze you.
Getting fit doesn't have to mean more time training. Just more sweat.
This travel-ready routine should take around 25 minutes. Power through these six exercises ten times with no rest between moves.
We know, there are a lot of gimmicks out there promising to effortlessly burn off the blubber, change your game, lead you to greatness, yada, yada. Stop wasting your time. Our crack research team (not to be confused with our research team on crack) has travelled the country, ferreting out…
We know, there are a lot of gimmicks out there promising to effortlessly burn off the blubber, change your game, lead you to greatness, yada, yada. Stop wasting your time. Our crack research team (not to be confused with our research team on crack) has travelled the country, ferreting out…
I've run three marathons in roughly four hours. What can I do to help lower my finish time? The Editors Santa Fe, NM
https://youtube.com/watch?v=t-Z2GtFaqV4%C2%A0 Lifting trains, saving Lois (and the rest of the world), taking automatic arms fire to the chest… Yeah, you definitely gotta be in shape to be Superman. So where does the latest “Super” star, Henry Cavill, turn to bust his ass into form? To…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=t-Z2GtFaqV4%C2%A0 Lifting trains, saving Lois (and the rest of the world), taking automatic arms fire to the chest… Yeah, you definitely gotta be in shape to be Superman. So where does the latest “Super” star, Henry Cavill, turn to bust his ass into form? To…
I'm planning to walk from Sandy, Oregon to Seattle, Washington. How should I train? The Editors Santa Fe, NM
I'll admit, we're way late in posting this. But just because we're halfway through March doesn't mean the top 10 blogs of February are irrelevent. Read on! Number 10: SIA: The Splitboard Revolution Number 9: Gear Junkie: Wenger Patagonian Expedition Race 2011 Number 8:…