Training & Performance
ArchiveThe Human Performance Center's Kele McDaniel demonstrates an oblique crunch as part of a series of conditioning exercises for runners and cyclists.
Behind the scenes of 窪蹋勛圖厙's January 2011 cover shoot with soccer star, Landon Donovan.
Nick Heil shows you how to do the dumbbell bent over row. For more info check out our 10-Minute Fitness package.
Nick Heil and Chauncey Billups work out on the Power Plate.
Go behind the scenes with the Men's National Team and photographer Susanna Howe on an 窪蹋勛圖厙 shoot. Video courtesy of U.S. Soccer…
Nick Heil shows you how to do the hindu push up. For more info, check out our 10-Minute Fitness package.
Nick Heil and Chauncey Billups work out on the TRX Suspension Trainer.
Go behind the scenes with the Man Vs. Wild star as photographer Justin Stephens shoots him for our May cover.
Nick Heil shows you how to do the reverse crunch. For more info, check out our 10-Minute Fitness package.
The tennis champ talks about his career and honeymoon plans.
Nick Heil shows you how to do the squat press with dumbbells. For more info, check out our 10-Minute Fitness package.
Students of Dynamic Kettlebell Fitness in Santa Fe talk about the benefits of a good kettlebell workout.
Marathoner and accountant Alan Horton talks about the Boston Marathon.
Competitive cyclist Steve Yore demonstrates an easy 30-second exercise.
Ultramarathoner and Navy SEAL David Goggins talks about his training.
Competitive cyclist Steve Yore demonstrates an appropriately named exercise.
MOVNAT‘s Erwan LeCorre demonstrates how to jump onto rocks naturally. Read Nick Heil’s full story here.
The mountain biker and investment manager on balancing work and play.
Competitive cyclist Steve Yore demonstrates a variation of the plank.
Erwan Le Corre runs, climbs, and lifts logs barefoot. Will paleo fitness be the next big thing?…
It's an easy exercise to get wrong. Competitive cyclist Steve Yore shows you how to do it right.
The bestselling author power-hikes, powerlifts, and receives a megadose of vitamin C intravenouslyall while lucidly explaining his plans to hack everything from fitness and humanitarian aid to surfing and medical research
MOVNAT's Erwan LeCorre demonstrates the natural way to climb a tree. Read the full story here.
Co-Founder, Recovery Science and Technology | Matthew Weatherley-White What do 3-time 24-hour World Champion Rebecca Rusch, 2-time 24-hour Single Speed World Champion Greg Martin, andSingle Speed World ChampionHeather Irminger…
By the end of the day, I often feel too tired to exercise. Is it better to skip my workout or trim it down? The Editors Santa Fe, NM
Serving as his own lab rat, an amateur bike racer spent a year taking supplemental testosterone—rumored to be a peloton favorite—to find out if it could transform an average Joe. His conclusion? No doubt about it.
In 2005, the author introduced us to the idea of childhood nature-deficit disorder. With The Nature Principle, he's back with a prescription for adults.
An exclusive look inside the cutting-edge Army lab that's pinching, prodding, dunking, bruising, and building the soldiers of tomorrowand revolutionizing adventure fitness along the way.
The fastest and most efficient way for multisport athletes to max their strength.
Think you don't have time for a fitness routine? If you can block out a couple of hours during the week and some longer periods on weekends, the results will amaze you.
Getting fit doesn't have to mean more time training. Just more sweat.
This travel-ready routine should take around 25 minutes. Power through these six exercises ten times with no rest between moves.
We know, there are a lot of gimmicks out there promising to effortlessly burn off the blubber, change your game, lead you to greatness, yada, yada. Stop wasting your time. Our crack research team (not to be confused with our research team on crack) has travelled the country, ferreting out…
We know, there are a lot of gimmicks out there promising to effortlessly burn off the blubber, change your game, lead you to greatness, yada, yada. Stop wasting your time. Our crack research team (not to be confused with our research team on crack) has travelled the country, ferreting out…
I've run three marathons in roughly four hours. What can I do to help lower my finish time? The Editors Santa Fe, NM
https://youtube.com/watch?v=t-Z2GtFaqV4%C2%A0 Lifting trains, saving Lois (and the rest of the world), taking automatic arms fire to the chest… Yeah, you definitely gotta be in shape to be Superman. So where does the latest “Super” star, Henry Cavill, turn to bust his ass into form? To…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=t-Z2GtFaqV4%C2%A0 Lifting trains, saving Lois (and the rest of the world), taking automatic arms fire to the chest… Yeah, you definitely gotta be in shape to be Superman. So where does the latest “Super” star, Henry Cavill, turn to bust his ass into form? To…
I'm planning to walk from Sandy, Oregon to Seattle, Washington. How should I train? The Editors Santa Fe, NM
I'll admit, we're way late in posting this. But just because we're halfway through March doesn't mean the top 10 blogs of February are irrelevent. Read on! Number 10: SIA: The Splitboard Revolution Number 9: Gear Junkie: Wenger Patagonian Expedition Race 2011 Number 8:…
Mumbai Marathon by through my eyes only on flickr A study published recently by British researchers suggests that engaging in years of strenuous physical activitysuch as…
The U.S. military has always excelled at training soldiers, but they've had a tougher time helping them adjust to peace. The author joins 11 combat veterans in Nepal as they test the most promising new postwar therapy: adventure.
Tae kwon do students at Columbia University. Courtesy of Dennis Lam via Flickr The International Judo Association is criticizing the Court of Arbitration for Sport for overturning a doping charge against Olympic gold medalist and world champion Tong Wen of China,…
Courtesy of Flickr Want to live longer? Feel youthful? Look younger? Become an endurance athlete. Premature aging in most organs was completely prevented in mice that ran on a treadmill three times a week for five months,…
The biggest obstacle to reaching your fitness goals? That thing between your ears.
Photo from caseyyee on Flickr Taimuraz Bolloyev, construction chief for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, resigned Monday, according to the AP and ESPN. Bolloyev cited health…
Courtesy of Flickr Exercise can make or break a relationship, according to the Wall Street Journal. For every couple who meets sharing a lap lane and lives happily ever after, another duo struggles to stay together…
Dr. John Xerogeanes; courtesy of Emory Health Sciences Communications Good news for young athletes with ACL injuries: doctors at Emory University have developed a 3-D MRI technology that…
Photo courtesy of Flickr. Jack LaLanne, considered the founding father of the fitness movement, died Sunday at his home in Morro Bay, California, USA Today reports. LaLanne was known for promoting strength training and healthful eating…
Barefoot-inspired shoes are flying off the shelves, and they're poised to transform the way we run. Here's how to make the most of running with less.
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In 2007, molecular biologist Ron Evans flipped a genetic switch on test mice and turned them into super-athletes. Headlines ensued, as did nervous references to human applications and "exercise in a pill." Evans is still toiling away in the lab, and guess what? The day is coming.
Can being super flexible make runners more prone to injury? The Editors Santa Fe, NM
I tore my MCL playing football. Unfortunately, the only working out I can do is upper body strength training. Please help me out with some sort of aerobic workout not using my lower body. My whole life is outdoors and I want to get back to it as quick as possible. The Editors Santa Fe, NM
What are the best exercises to get in shape for backcountry skiing?
Soccer's hardest-working man has spent a lifetime developing the endurance, speed, and smarts needed to close the deal when it counts.
Will caveman calisthenics be the next big thing for adventure athletes?
A new study shows that exercising in the morning before eating keeps the pounds off more effectively than exercising after breakfast, the New York Times reports. Australian scientists put a group of 28 men on a high-fat, high-calorie diet. Then they…
This year's Ironman triathlon world champion, Chris “Macca” McCormack, is currently gracing Wheaties and Wheaties FUEL boxes across the country. The 37-year-old won his second Ironman world champion title this past October, covering the 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike and 26.2-mile…
Can a self-professed "closed-door person" become more gregarious?
What's the best exercise to increase my vertical? The Editors Santa Fe, NM
Introducing our 2011 READER OF THE YEAR, Ryan Levinson, an athlete who competes like a champ while fighting a savage form of muscular dystrophy. PLUS: SIX HONORABLE-MENTION HEROES
Are your workouts working against you? Why one addictive kind of training might be sabotaging your game.
Professional triathlete Aaron Scheidies was born with a hereditary condition has left the 28-year old with only 10 percent of his vision. In 2007, he became the only disabled athlete to break two hours in an international distance triathlon (1.5K swim, 40K bike,…
Photo courtesy of Flickr. Engineers have developed a microchip muscle stimulator that can be implanted into the spinal canal, allowing paraplegics to exercise paralyzed muscles, ScienceDaily reports. The implant, which is the size of a child's…
Tony Hawk went from skateboarder to mogul. How did that happen?
Tchicaya Missamou, once a child soldier in the Republic of Congo, is now helping hundreds of Americans shape up in his Warrior Fitness Camp in California, CNN reports. As a child in the Republic of Congo, Missamou was taught brutality and forced to participate in…
Chrissie Wellington unexpectedly withdrew from Ironman Kona this year, citing an illness she couldn't shake on race day. It broke a winning streak that had lasted three consecutive years for the Brit.