5 Legitimate Reasons to Not Work Out
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10 Body-Sculpting Exercises You Can Do While Watching TV
Carving out time to drive to the gym and sweat for an hour is hard, especially when the choice is between that and your favorite TV show. With this workout, you don’t have to choose! The easiest way to sneak in your next bout of exercise is to try out these exercises during the commercial breaks.
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13 Exercises to Help You Recover From an Injury
Ouch! No one likes being sidelined by an injury. But you can cope with some by doing certain rehabilitative exercises (depending on your injury and if your doctor gives you the OK, of course). While these exercises won’t heal your injury, they can make you feel stronger.
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4 Workout Habits You Need to Change in Your 30s
If you’re in your 30s (or approaching them soon), your workout habits should undergo a few significant changes.
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Butt Exercises That Don't Involve the Knees
The gluteus maximus, which typically is referred to as the butt or glutes, is a large, powerful muscle exercised through squats and lunges -- compound exercises that engage the knee joint and hips.
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This Instagram Star's 10 Favorite Fat-Burning Moves
10 go-to moves for a full-body workout that torches a ton of calories in the process from Instagram star Jessica Franklin.
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10 Ways to Learn to Love Running
Running and walking are probably the easiest ways to start exercising. You can do them pretty much anywhere at anytime, and all you need is a good pair of shoes. Plus, there’s no learning curve — you’ve known how to run since you were a toddler.
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How to Trick Yourself Into Working Out Harder
Some days you can’t bring yourself to crank out set after set of the same exercise. You just want to tackle those burpees or box jumps and be done with them.
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Do You Pee a Little When You Work Out, Too?
It's time we talk about it: Up to 45 percent of women have some urine leakage during exercise from time to time. Try these solutions from pelvic floor experts.
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Why These Fitness Experts Hate Spinning
Experts explain why indoor cycling classes, or Spinning, could be bad for your body. Plus, tips to get the most out of your next Spin class.
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4 Things You Should Do Before Every Workout
There’s a natural tendency to want to leap right into a workout. After all, who isn’t pressed for time?
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The Ultimate Back Strength Workout
In life, the best things for us are usually things we don't like: eating broccoli, flossing your teeth, and perhaps everyone’s least-favorite exercise — pull-ups.
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The 8 Best Cardio Kickboxing Moves
Kickboxing is one of the most taxing workouts you can do -- both mentally and physically. It requires stamina, conditioning, balance, agility and athleticism. And if you include sparring in your workout, it takes your training to a whole new level. But the best part is that you’re actually learning a new skill.
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5 Hamstring Stretches From Football's Most Flexible Athletes
If you sit at a desk, watch a lot of TV or have an aggressive anterior pelvic tilt (aka “Donald Duck butt”), your hamstrings are probably tight. And tight, shortened hamstrings not only make you susceptible to injury, they can also contribute to back pain.
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7 Cross-Training Workouts to Shake Up Your Routine
On the color wheel, hues on the opposite side of the circle are called complementary colors -- although different, they go together beautifully. Apply the same philosophy to your workouts and you’ll see even greater results.
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The Ultimate Full-Body Resistance Band Workout
Meet your new, inexpensive workout buddy: the resistance band. These bands are a great way to strengthen every muscle in your body, especially those hard-to-target stabilizer muscles around the hips and shoulders.
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The Ultimate Summer Workout Playlist
It’s summertime! But while the living may be easy, your workouts probably aren’t. Sometimes you need some extra help to bang through that final mile or last round of a circuit routine. Enter these power songs.
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11 Body-Rocking BOSU Ball Exercises
Want the best body you’ve ever had? OK, yeah. Silly question. But if you want something you've never had, you have to do some things you've never done. It’s time to change up your boring old workout routine with a BOSU ball.
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9 Moves You Can Do Every Day for Better Joint Mobility
Stretching and strength training are good for your muscles and cardiovascular exercise is good for your heart, but what about your joints? Joints, along with bones, muscles, tendons, ligaments and cartilage, form the musculoskeletal system that allows us to walk, run, jump and move in whatever way we want.
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10 Steps to Becoming Your Own Personal Trainer
Information overload is a huge problem. Working out has been made to be more confusing than it actually is. But at the same time, it’s hard to know what really works, what doesn’t, what exercises you should be doing and how often you should train.
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