A Fitness App Moonlights as a Men’s Support Group
Like other single guys his age, Mack Knight, 40, a software company executive in Los Angeles, has a crew of buddies who like [...]
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Do We Really Need to Take 10,000 Steps a Day for Our Health?
Fitness tracking devices often recommend we take 10,000 steps a day. But the goal of taking 10,000 steps, which many of us believe [...]
Opinion | The Failed Promise of the Aerobics Revolution
By Danielle Friedman Ms. Friedman is a journalist in New York City. Her first book, “Let’s Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and [...]
The Best Type of Exercise? A Blood Test Holds Clues
If we all begin the same exercise routine tomorrow, some of us will become much fitter, others will get a little more in [...]
It’s Time to Sweat It Out and Get Pumped With Alison Bechdel
When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Elizabeth Weil THE SECRET TO SUPERHUMAN STRENGTHBy [...]
Regular Exercise May Help Protect Against Severe Covid
People who tended to be sedentary were far more likely to be hospitalized, and to die, from Covid than those who exercised regularly. [...]
Child Dies in Accident Involving Peloton Treadmill
An accident involving a Peloton treadmill has left a child dead, the company’s chief executive announced on Thursday. In a letter posted on [...]
Getting to the Bottom of the Runner’s High
We can stop crediting endorphins, the natural opioid painkillers produced by our bodies, for the floaty euphoria we often feel during aerobic exercise, [...]
How Much Exercise Do You Need for Better Heart Health?
If you want a healthy heart, the more you exercise, the better, according to an encouraging new study of the links between physical [...]
The Secret to Longevity? 4-Minute Bursts of Intense Exercise May Help
If you increase your heart rate, will your life span follow? That possibility is at the heart of an ambitious new study of [...]