Super Blocks Calendar | BODi

Super Blocks Calendar | BODi

By now you’ve probably heard of BODi Blocks — new programs that are released throughout the year and start on the first Monday of every month. Each Block features 5…

Too Hot To Get Your Run or Walk In? Here Are 7 Cardio Workouts You Can Do Inside

Too Hot To Get Your Run or Walk In? Here Are 7 Cardio Workouts You Can Do Inside

From coast to coast, record high temps are sweeping the country this summer. Heat waves are posing serious health risks to many, and are a consequence of climate change, taking normally…

Beginner Workouts to Help You Get Fit

Beginner Workouts to Help You Get Fit

So you’ve decided to get fit. Whether that means losing 100 pounds (like these people did) or gaining more muscle strength and definition, it can be tough knowing where to…

This New 10-Minute Dance Workout Will Make You Crack a ‘Big, Sweaty Smile’

This New 10-Minute Dance Workout Will Make You Crack a ‘Big, Sweaty Smile’

If the sunshine and milder temps of spring aren’t lifting your mood, we’ve got something that might do the trick: Dancing. Aside from getting your blood flowing and your heart…

Shred Your Core With The Ski Abs Exercise

Shred Your Core With The Ski Abs Exercise

You don’t need to hit the slopes regularly to add some ski-inspired exercises to your workout routine. Ski abs is an abdominal exercise that will have you moving like a…

Use This Machine For Your Best High-Cardio, Low-Impact Workout Yet 

Use This Machine For Your Best High-Cardio, Low-Impact Workout Yet 

Growing up, I loved riding my bike. Right after school, I’d pedal up and down the street, dodging cars and speeding down empty driveways. Nowadays, most of the bikes I…

6 Best Low-Impact Cardio Workouts and Exercises

6 Best Low-Impact Cardio Workouts and Exercises

To many people, cardio is synonymous with running. While running is a convenient, inexpensive, and effective cardio workout, it can also be hard on your body. Luckily, there are plenty of low-impact cardio…

A Single Russian Push-Up Is Like a Full Core Workout

A Single Russian Push-Up Is Like a Full Core Workout

Certain variations of the standard push-up accomplish a few fitness goals at once. In addition to strengthening your shoulder and chest, the Russian push-up, for example, is a move that…

72 Weightlifting Terms You Need to Know

72 Weightlifting Terms You Need to Know

To the neophyte, strength training is straightforward: pick up a weight, put it down, get strong. Spend a few weeks or months on the internet or chatting up your new…

This 20-Minute Barre Workout Challenges You To the Hardest Cardio Plank Series of Your Life

This 20-Minute Barre Workout Challenges You To the Hardest Cardio Plank Series of Your Life

Barre workouts are better known for their muscle-shaking movements than their ability to spike your heart rate, but with the right format, they can leave you seriously sweaty. In this…

Romanian Deadlift: How to Do the Hardest Simple Exercise

Romanian Deadlift: How to Do the Hardest Simple Exercise

The Romanian deadlift may be the hardest simple exercise you can do in the gym. Like the squat, the Romanian deadlift (or RDL) looks fairly straightforward, but doing it well…

Here’s How To Do a HIIT Workout With an Elliptical Machine

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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 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: 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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’

‘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?

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

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

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’

‘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

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

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…