Did You Pull a Muscle or Are You Just Sore?
Sore muscles are common after a tough workout, but when you’re really feeling the burn, you may wonder if you’re dealing with the usual muscle soreness — or if you actually have a pulled muscle or muscle strain. Here’
How to Have Your Best Active Rest Day
Many of us have a hard time taking days completely off from exercise. We (wrongly) assume that working out nonstop will help us reach our fitness goals faster. “As a trainer, I hear a lot of clients humble-brag about never
How to Relieve Sore Arm Muscles
It’s arm day at the gym, but your arms are still sore from the last time you worked out. Is this soreness typical? Or is it an injury? Read on to learn why your arms get sore, when you can work through the pain, and when th
Are You Actually Using Your Glutes? Here's How to Tell — and How to Activate ’Em
Stronger, bigger butts are in, which may be why you’ve been hitting the squats or trying to master the bridge exercise. But if you’re doing the right exercises and still not feeling the burn in your bum, it could mean yo
Maximize Your Progress and Results by Tracking Your Heart Rate
It’s easy to be overwhelmed by health and fitness metrics. Between sleep goals and step counts, there’s a score for seemingly everything. So, which ones actually matter? The answer can vary based on your goals and priorit
How to Prevent Wrist Pain During Push-Ups, Planks, and Burpees
You have strength to bang out a plenitude of push-ups, a bunch of burpees, and planks in perpetuity. But you have one limiting factor: wrist pain. So, it’s your joints — not your muscles — giving out that sends you coll
7 Ways Your Weekend May Be Sabotaging Your Goals
Between seeing to work, health, family, and a cure for cancer (or at least it can feel that way), you deserve an occasional break. And Friday through Sunday is supposed to be your window for relaxation and stress-free fun. Bu
Prevent “Exercise-Induced Asthma” With These 6 Tips
For most of the approximately 262 million sufferers of asthma worldwide, one particularly vexing manifestation of the disease is exercise-induced asthma, also known as exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB) — asthma