Is Your Workout in Balance?
Training is a lot like nutrition. Healthy foods never taste as good as fattening ones, and exercise is the same way: The best exercises for your body are the least popular—and they seem to hurt the...
View Article5 Tips for Perfect Posture
Perfect posture will dramatically decrease your potential for injury in the lower back, knees, ankles, shoulders and elbows. Use these tips to make sure that you're sitting up straight: Keep your...
View Article7 Ways to Ease Pain and Avoid Injury
Everything you do in the gym, at work, and at home either makes you more susceptible to injury or helps reduce your risk for pain. Tip the scales in your favor with these seven simple tips. 1....
View ArticleIs Your Workout Ruining Your Posture?
Gym-goers have fallen in love with all the wrong exercises. Particularly if you work a desk job, the three worst exercises you can do are bench presses, arm curls, and stationary cycling. You might be...
View ArticleYoga Yourself Thin
Just because a workout doesn't burn a ton of calories doesn't mean it can't ultimately help shrink your gut. Being mindful and aware of your body are clear benefits of practicing yoga, and they’re...
View ArticleOne Small Change to Look Leaner, Stronger, Taller
For Christmas this year, how would you like Santa to help you look leaner, get stronger, have more energy, live pain-free, appear more confident, get a raise at work, look younger, breathe easier,...
View ArticleThe Better Posture Workout
Of all the things we could be training for—strength, power, speed, muscle, weight loss, the Olympics—why should we waste our valuable time training for better posture? Simple. Because it’s...
View ArticleBetter Posture with…Duct Tape?
Here’s an enlightening way to kill some time over the holidays and make even those interminable gatherings with the in-laws more tolerable and productive. Find a roll of duct tape and take off your...
View ArticleThe Perfect Posture Experiment
The idea was simple: Spend one month doing everything possible to perfect my posture. Granted, it wasn’t as sexy a goal as getting washboard abs or bigger biceps, but poor posture is often the...
View ArticleThe New Rules of Lifting for Abs: An Interview with Co-Author Lou Schuler
Lou Schuler will be the first to stress that nobody lifts for abs. They lift for core strength. Schuler, who edited the first Core Performance book while working for Rodale Books in 2003, is now...
View ArticleImprove Your Posture for a Better Workout
Q: What's the most common technique flaw you see in the gym? A: Most people struggle to hold the appropriate posture, or what we refer to as pillar strength. Pillar strength is the complete...
View Article5 Ways to Make Your Daily Commute Healthier
A long commute can wreak havoc on your body and mind. The stress of dealing with traffic combined with being hunched over a steering wheel can spell trouble even for those dedicated to maintaining the...
View ArticleHow to Create an Ergonomic Workspace
Keeping your body balanced and in proper alignment will always be a challenge in our modern technological society. Sitting at a desk hunched over a computer for much of the day can cause the shoulders...
View Article24 Hours of Perfect Posture
Living in a high-tech world that involves a lot of sitting, it can be difficult to maintain perfect posture for even a few hours. But with a little effort and some simple strategies, it’s possible to...
View ArticleHow to Sit in a Chair
While sitting may seem like common sense (after all, you’ve been sitting your whole life), if you experience back pain or shoulder pain or headaches after a day at the office, your style of sitting...
View Article10 Simple Resolutions
How long did you stick with your resolution this year? If you’re like most people, not long. While resolutions can be tough to keep when life gets busy, research shows that setting small, manageable...
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