Workout apps are fine, but I’m a strong believer in an old fashioned training journal. Since last spring, I’ve logged my workouts in a hardback graph paper notebook, and I found that the blank pages gave me plenty of space for charts, reflections, reference material, and more. So here’s a peek at how I’m setting […]
Our quest to explain every weird thing at the gym has now landed on Fat Gripz, the heavy rubber handles, often blue, that you can wrap around barbells and dumbbells. Their main job is to make the bar harder to hold onto, which can be a good thing. Read more… Continue Reading at https://lifehacker.com
We’ve done a lot of different exercises in the Lifehacker Fitness Challenge, from barbell lifts to endurance sports to yoga and more. This month will be special, though: we’re going to take on some lifts that you’ve probably never tried. Read more… Continue Reading at https://lifehacker.com
There’s a common expression among fitness subreddits and lifting forums: The day you start lifting is the day you become forever small. In other words, you might not ever feel satisfied after years of hard work or when you reach your goals.Read more… Continue Reading at https://lifehacker.com
Running up and down stairs is great cardio, but for the next installment in our stairs-themed fitness challenge, we’re going to get some strength work in. Let’s do some push-ups. Read more… Continue Reading at https://lifehacker.com
In theory, the gym is supposed to supply the weights for you to lift while you’re there. But sometimes their collection doesn’t have exactly what you want. If their smallest weight plates are 5 or 10 pounds, be a rebel: bring smaller ones in your gym bag.Read more… Continue Reading at https://lifehacker.com
Clearly, some amount of fitness is genetic: you can’t expect everybody who follows the same workout to have identical results. It’s tempting to get tested to see whether you personally have the same genes as elite sprinters or weightlifters. But DNA tests can’t tell you much about your fitness, and it turns out that…Read more… […]
Clearly, some amount of fitness is genetic: you can’t expect everybody who follows the same workout to have identical results. It’s tempting to get tested to see whether you personally have the same genes as elite sprinters or weightlifters. But DNA tests can’t tell you much about your fitness, and it turns out that…Read more… […]
For this month’s fitness challenge, we’re going to take on a staple of travel and at-home workouts: the versatile resistance band. Read more… Continue Reading at https://lifehacker.com
How’s the yoga challenge going? Are you getting the hang of a home practice, or maybe dropping in on classes at the gym or yoga studio? We can only do so much in the course of a month, and you can really dedicate years to reaching some of the more ambitious asanas. So at this […]
Everybody at the gym has their own plan, their own path. In a perfect world, these paths all crisscross and interweave without any collisions. One person hops off the treadmill, another hops on. One person sets down a weight, another picks it up. Record scratch, here’s the real world: five different people across the…Read more… […]
Summer is a great time to get in shape—you can enjoy the non-freezing weather, the longer days, and depending on your line of work, you might have more free time. But then a vacation happens, and your fitness goals take a back seat for a little while. Here’s how to minimize the damage.Read more… Continue […]
We all hit a slump near the beginning of a fitness program. Not at the very start, when we’re excited to get going—more like a few weeks in. It may take six weeks to notice more muscle or better endurance, but how do you get through that time without losing hope?Read more… Continue Reading at […]
Squatting seems so complicated when somebody is telling you all the things that can go wrong—knees behind toes! Butt farther down! Head up! But not too up! If you’re following our challenge, you’re probably doing a lot more squats than you ever have before, so let’s talk about how we’re doing them.Read more… Continue Reading […]
Squats can be as hard or as easy as you want them to be. If you’re doing 100 a day, you may need to ease up to be able to get your quota in without making yourself too sore. And if you’re a total beginner, you may find the simplest squats to be more than […]
Get ready for strong legs and a poppin’ butt, because July’s fitness challenge is squats! This is the classic lower body exercise for a reason: squats build pretty much every muscle below the waist, and there are tons of variations for all fitness levels.Read more… Continue Reading at http://lifehacker.com
Get ready for strong legs and a poppin’ butt, because July’s fitness challenge is squats! This is the classic lower body exercise for a reason: squats build pretty much every muscle below the waist, and there are tons of variations for all fitness levels.Read more… Continue Reading at http://lifehacker.com
It’s a beautiful day and we’re going on an adventure! For the May installment of the Lifehacker Fitness Challenge, your mission is to find a fitness trail (sometimes called a parcourse) near you—they’re often hiding in plain sight. Read more… Continue Reading at http://lifehacker.com
Dear readers, I’m sorry. When I asked Lifehacker staffers what’s been missing from our monthly fitness challenges, the resounding answer was that we all need to spend a month working on our plank game.Read more… Continue Reading at http://lifehacker.com
If you want to beat your best race time, it seems to help to spend time in the gym. Alex Hutchinson at Outside reports on recent studies that confirm that runners who do strength training turn in faster times.Read more… Continue Reading at http://lifehacker.com
