Sports & Fitness: Performance Training, Rules & Recovery

Elite athletic performance and general fitness are sustained through structured hypertrophy strategies, sport-specific conditioning, and rigorous adherence to injury prevention protocols.

5 Important Muscles Your Workout Misses

You have more than 600 skeletal muscles in your body. Can you name them all? Don’t sweat it. Most men focus on three: guns, pecs and abs. And women? Butt, arms and tummy.

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The 41 Hardest Ab Exercises

Think you’re hardcore -- or that you have a hard core? Prove it! These 41 midsection-mangling moves are some of the most advanced on the planet.

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8 Stocking Stuffers for Fitness Lovers

Shopping for a big gift for the gym rat, cyclist, runner or yogi in your life is a sweat-free snap. A new mat, a heavier kettlebell, shiny sandbag, new helmet or cool fuel belt can fit perfectly under the tree. But what about the gifts that hang from the mantle in a sock?

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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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