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Major League Baseball鈥檚 long tradition of warming up for the season with oddball adventures
Get ready to maximize the endurance, strength, flexibility, speed, and power you never knew you had.
Matt Dixon of Purplepatch Fitness shares one of the best exercises for building strength in your glutes. For more triathlon fitness videos and interactive training plans, check out The 国产吃瓜黑料 Challenge.
Matt Dixon of Purplepatch Fitness demonstrates one of the best exercises for building strength in your hamstrings and glutes. For more triathlon fitness videos and interactive training plans, check out The 国产吃瓜黑料 Challenge.
The ultimate guide to weightlifting for endurance athletes
Have trail and gym work turned you into a stiff? You need some flex time with Ashtanga yoga.
Your foundation is built. It's time to tweak the beast.
We asked four top fitness coaches for their tape-it-to-the-fridge-door advice. Here's what they told us. (Bonus: We kick your excuses to the curb.)
Get a solid endurance base through heart-rate training.
Fine-tune your fitness with balance and agility exercises. Here's how.
To keep a workout program fresh, you need to make it your own, and some days you need to break the rules鈥攚ithin reason.
Heart-rate training is the key to gauging your aerobic intensity and building endurance. Here's how to get started.
I鈥檝e never done a triathlon. I don鈥檛 swim. I don鈥檛 run. And I bike mainly when our copy chief goads me into it. Yes, this is pathetic, especially since I edit 国产吃瓜黑料鈥檚 fitness coverage. Don鈥檛 get me wrong, I鈥檓 still active: I ski all winter, hike a 12,000-foot peak at…
In our obsession with minimizing exercise damage, we may have lost sight of the reason we exercise in the first place: to force our bodies to adapt and get stronger
Matt Dixon of Purplepatch Fitness demonstrates how to build swimming strength on days you don’t have time to visit the pool. For triathlon fitness videos and interactive training plans, check out The 国产吃瓜黑料 Challenge.
Matt Dixon of Purple Patch Fitness demonstrates the proper technique for a lunge. For more triathlon fitness videos and interactive training plans check out The 国产吃瓜黑料 Challenge.
Everything you need to run a personal best, including a 12-week training plan, a race-day nutrition plan, and advice from U.S. record holder Ryan Hall
California鈥檚 San Quentin State Prison is home to a ball field where you can take your cuts against convicted felons. This I had to try.
Training with a monitor can be daunting to master, but it鈥檚 the best way to make the most of your workouts.
A recent New York Times Magazine story titled "How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body" caused a stir last week, claiming that certain aspects of yoga were too risky for the general population. So should you avoid the fitness routine if you're not a serious athlete?
Triathlons aren鈥檛 just trendy. Multisport training develops balanced fitness and prevents injuries. Here鈥檚 why you should dump your ordinary routine and make the switch, too.
You鈥檝e got questions? Your new triathlon-training coach, Matt Dixon, has the answers. Throughout the course of the next few months, as you prepare for your triathlon through The 国产吃瓜黑料 Challenge, Dixon will answer a wide range…
Get ready for a sprint-distance triathlon with one of three custom plans created by coach Matt Dixon.
How fit do you really need to be to scale the highest peak in the world? An expert weighs in.
The science around strength training has changed in the last decade. You鈥檙e older, stronger, and hopefully, smarter now. Don鈥檛 make the same mistakes you made in your high school weight room.
Triathlon is booming, with hundreds of events being added to the calendar each year and thousands of goggle-eyed newbies lining up to swim, bike, and run for the first time. But only one race still really matters. Greetings from the Ironman World Championship in Kona, Hawaii, ground zero of America's multisport madness
Welcome to the frozen, on fire, wet, barb-wired world of Tough Mudder鈥攚here adventure racing starts to look a lot more like hazing
The masochistic sport of obstacle racing has exploded in popularity. Nick Heil tries to understand why so many are signing up for the misery.
Build strength for ski season with this CrossFit-inspired workout
An easy, dramatic performance boost based on an old science is catching on. It's about time.
With temperatures below zero, more than 4,500 feet of climbing, and 9,400 competitors, Wisconsin鈥檚 American Birkebeiner is the largest and one of the toughest cross-country ski races in the United States. Crossing the finish line is nothing short of a lifetime achievement. Here's our plan to get you there, even if the closest you've come to snow is the frost in
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…
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.
