All About Exercise

The squat is a basic human movement. Performing it makes you better at athletics, fitness, and life in general. Here’s how.

To keep healthy knees, you need mobile joints above and below the knee; a strong knee joint; and proper mechanics during physical movement.

We are “use it or lose it” organisms. By practicing joint mobility with intent, we re-educate and rehabilitate our movement towards a healthier range of motion.

Got enough room to swing a cat? Got opposable thumbs? Then you can swing a kettlebell! Learn about this popular and effective training tool that can help you get strong, fast, and lean. (Oh yeah, and give you a pleasing posterior chain — aka a nice butt.)

Many muscles coordinate shoulder movement. If they don’t work together — or more likely, if some muscles are strong and some are weak or inhibited, they can’t work together effectively. The result: imbalance and eventually, injury.

Recipe for muscle growth: Lift heavy thing. Eat protein. Sleep. Repeat.

Yoga: It can relax you, enlighten you, help keep you from falling down, protect your heart, put the brakes on overeating, and just maybe give you a yoga booty. Om.

If your idea of a warm-up involves a few pec flexes, ogling gym hotties as you lean on the treadmill, or just leaping right into that 300 lb bench press, you might want to rethink. A good warm-up can make you stronger, faster, and more mobile; and help prevent injury too.

Strength training is using muscular force against resistance. And it’s for everyone, regardless of goals.

Searching for the most efficient way to get lean, get conditioned, and get tough? Look no further than HIIT. We can’t promise it’s easy… but it sure gets results.

No, it’s not a new superhero: G-Flux is a new way to think about how your body uses energy — and how to harness that power to get lean while eating abundantly.

What you eat is important. However, when you eat it can be just as critical.

You’ve probably heard of overtraining. In fact, it makes more sense to think about this phenomenon as “under-recovering”. Why you should make recovery protocols part of your overall training plan.

Now that we’ve been through the aerobics craze, Jazzercised and Jane Fonda’d, and sweated to the oldies, what’s the best way to do cardio training?