Here’s How To Do a HIIT Workout With an Elliptical Machine
When you think of HIIT workouts, you likely imagine bootcamp classes like Barry’s, Orangetheory, or Tone House, aka the hardest workout in America. These intense boutique fitness classes, while modifiable,…
How to Do the Pilates Teaser
In a well-rounded Pilates program like XB Pilates, most moves will work your entire body, especially your core. However, there are a couple of standout exercises that have become classics for…
Taking 10 Minutes for Some Heart-Pumping, Joy-Inducing Dance Can Come With Major Brain Health Benefits
It’s astonishing how quickly just bopping around to a song that comes on your Spotify playlist can get you out of breath. That’s because dancing is one form of cardio…
10 Tips for Off-Season Triathlon Training
There’s a popular saying among triathletes: Winter miles equal summer smiles. It’s a nod to the power of off-season triathlon training, which is the period between one race season and…
What Cycling Fans Need To Know About Peloton’s Downhill Shift
It’s the tail-end of 2020 and Peloton is on a tear: The nation’s foremost at-home cycling brand has reported a 172 percent year-over-year growth in total revenue and ended its…
Bodyweight vs Weight Training: Which Is Better?
In the battle of bodyweight vs. weight training, which form of resistance training comes out on top? It’s not an unreasonable question; our time is precious, and we want to choose…
The Benefits of a CrossFit Wall Walk—And How To Perform It Properly
CrossFit is a modality known for so many statement movements, it’s hard to pick just one with great benefits. But if you have to start somewhere, the CrossFit wall walk…
What Is a BODi Block? | Block Periodization
BODi Blocks are simple, sustainable, and the most effective way to reach your goals. You can select from any of our existing Blocks, plus any of our all-new Blocks launched…
10 Squat Alternatives To Hit Every Lower-Body Muscle at Once
The squat is one of the most ubiquitous and beneficial moves in fitness. Even if you have just a passing interest in exercise, you’ve likely encountered it at some point…
Working Out During Pregnancy & Exercises to Avoid
Staying active throughout pregnancy is hugely beneficial for both mom and baby. For example, studies have found that regular exercise may help control blood pressure — a major concern during pregnancy —…
Working Up to a Burpee Is Its Own Complete Workout—This Beginner-Friendly Routine Shows You How
Love them or hate them, burpees are a staple of HIIT, strength, bootcamp, and even some Pilates-style mat classes. Which means when you encounter them in the wild and are…
How Do You Activate Your Abs During a Workout?
You’re doing ab workouts at home, but your lower back feels the burn more than your abs. What gives? Turns out, you might just have to learn how to activate…
I Started Doing Jazzercise Instead of My Daily Walks, and It’s the Strengthening, Therapeutic Fun I Didn’t Know I Needed
I’ve been taking daily four-mile strolls since long before any TikTokker dubbed them “Hot Girl Walks.” Then I hit my 50s, and severe heel pain made them nearly impossible. A…
HIIT vs. LISS: Which Is the More Effective Form of Cardio?
HIIT vs. LISS sounds like an upcoming Marvel summer blockbuster, but it’s actually one of the more interesting — and still-evolving — fitness debates in recent years. It hinges on…
The 6 Best Bikes for City Riding That Make For a Fun (and Cost-Effective) Commute
Let’s be honest: public transportation has never made for a compelling commute. Whether it’s an hour-long train ride or a quick ride on a crowded bus, it’s just never as…
How to Work Out With Light Weights
No heavy weights at home? No problem. You can still gain muscle, strength and endurance even without heavy resistance or hefty dumbbells like you’d normally use in the gym. We…
The ‘3-6-9 Workout’ Is a Low-Impact Way To Build Strength and Get Your Heart Rate Up
When scrolling through lists of at-home workouts to do, the endless exercise acronyms (EMOM, HIIT, BWT, METCON, etc.) can sometimes make me feel like hardcore fitness enthusiasts speak a language…
How to Do the Hip Thrust Exercise to Reboot Your Glutes
Although this exercise may be called the hip thrust, you’re really going to appreciate what it does for your butt. In fact, hip thrusts can fire up your entire posterior…
How Practicing Barre Helped Me Find Strength and Community After My Transition
When I made the decision to transition at 46 years old, I thought I was too old, too masculine, and too far gone. But I started taking a low dose…
How to Do the Farmer’s Walk Exercise
Ever seen someone at the gym grab a pair of dumbbells off the rack and just… take them for a walk? They’re doing a move called the farmer’s walk exercise…
Dumbbells Sneakily Work More of Your Muscles Than You Realize
I don’t know about you, but sometimes doing bodyweight exercises like squats or lunges, it feels like I can go on forever. This is decidedly not actually the case, as…
6 Weeks of THE WORK | Amoila Cesar
The ultimate total-body transformation in six weeks? It’s possible, but you have to do THE WORK. BODi Super Trainer Amoila Cesar is famous for getting celebrities in crazy-good shape and…
‘I’m a Cardiologist and a Bollywood Dance Fitness Instructor, and This Is Why Dancing Is One of the Best Things for Heart Health’
You could say that Amar Shere, MD, is used to practicing the heart-health advice he preaches—and then some. The multitalented physician, who’s wrapping up a cardiology fellowship at the St….
Do Barre Arm Exercises Count as Strength Training?
If strong, sculpted arms are one of your fitness goals, you might assume the only way to get them is to perform endless biceps curls and triceps kickbacks. But if…
I’ve Always Been Afraid That I Didn’t Have the “Right” Body for Cycling. So I Talked to a Peloton Instructor, and This Is What She Said
My relationship with exercise is a complicated one. But nothing’s intimidated me quite as much as cycling. Whenever I’d pass by an indoor cycling class at the gym, I’d only…
9 Seated Exercises to Work Around an Injury
So much fitness advice boils down to one simple command: Get off your butt and move. But what happens when you’re dealing with muscle soreness or a lower-body injury? Can you still do…
‘I’m an Olympic Gymnast, and These Are the 3 Exercises for Core Strength I Do Every Week’
Who doesn’t love watching gymnasts flip, swing, and leap their way through the Olympics? They make it look easy, but it requires some serious power to achieve such awe-inspiring feats….
Indoor Cycling: A Beginner’s Guide
You know those mornings when you can’t find your motivation to work out? You check behind the door, maybe take a look in last night’s pizza box, or in the…
Target Your Heart Health With This 20-Minute Cardio Barre Workout That Brings the Heat
When we think of what makes a top-notch cardio workout, running, swimming, or cycling might jump to mind. But don’t sleep on cardio barre routines for your aerobic fitness. Barre…
How to Do Leg Lifts With Perfect Form
If you’re tired of trying to crunch your way to a solid core or shredded midsection, there’s another foundational ab exercise that should be in your routine: leg lifts. Lifting…
How To Make Power Exercises an Explosively Awesome Part of Your Fitness Routine
If you’ve ever taken a physics class, certain formulas, like force equals mass times acceleration, might be ingrained in your memory. It turns out these formulas are useful way beyond…
How to Do the Toe Taps Exercise
Watch a warm-up for any soccer team — from your local junior varsity squad to the World Cup champs — and you’re bound to see the toe taps exercise. A lot like…
I Tried the Barbie Dance Workout From the ’90s, and It Turned Out To Be the Ultimate Dopamine Hit
As we count down to the July 21 release of Greta Gerwig’s live-action Barbie film, something wild has happened. Many of us have gotten swept up in a giddy flurry….
Reach New Athletic Heights With Box Jumps
Box jumps have reached a tipping point in the fitness world. Walk into any gym, HIIT studio, or CrossFit box, and you’ll inevitably find someone repeatedly hopping on and off…
Prepare To Audibly Gasp: SoulCycle Has Come to ClassPass
If it was still 2015, hell might literally be freezing over, because something a lot of us once thought was absolutely unthinkable just became a reality: SoulCycle has come to ClassPass. That’s right….
Debunking 6 Bodyweight Exercise Myths
Think that bodyweight exercises are “easy” or “beginner” level because they don’t require heavy lifting? Think again! Using your body to train not only saves money and space, but it’s also…
‘I’m a Personal Trainer, and These Are the Very Best Battle Ropes You Should Buy for Your Home Gym’
Is there anything that screams “badass” more than wrangling battle ropes for fun, I mean, fitness? Sure you can lift heavy weights, push a tire, do a pull-up, but there’s…
7 Pilates Leg Exercises For Lean, Beautiful Legs
No doubt about it: Pilates exercises offer incredible benefits for the core. But when it comes to the best leg exercises, Pilates can also provide a major boost, according to Andrea Rogers, founder…
Trainers Say the Viral ‘3-2-8’ Workout Trend Is One They Can Wholeheartedly Get Behind
There was 12-3-30 on the treadmill, then 25-7-10 on a StairMaster, and now, the latest three-part, numerically-based, TikTok-borne fitness trend: the 3-2-8 workout plan. Despite the gimmicky nature of trends,…
How to Do the Crab Walk Exercise
If you were the MVP of your “crab soccer” team in elementary school, you’re in luck — the crab walk exercise is back. Dust off those crab-walking skills and see…