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Active Recovery for Extreme Athletes To perform at your peak, don’t write off rest days. By Christine Yu Amelia Boone is known as the “Queen of Pain.” After all, the ultra-endurance athlete and obstacle racer has won four consecutive obstacle course world championships, in addition to multiple podium finishes. And she was firmly Team #NoDaysOff. “I…

Fitness The Bench Press, Demystified Photo Illustration/Getty Images BY  EMILY ABBATE July 20, 2018 Dumbbells? Barbells? Flat? Incline? Decline? Here’s everything you need to know about getting the “throne of the weight room” right every time. Whether you splurge for an eucalyptus towel-laden Equinox membership or are lucky enough to work out for free at the…

Try These 6 Moves If Your Lower Back Is Freaking Killing You Sweet, sweet relief. By Ashley Mateo Feb 15, 2018 GETTY IMAGES Okay, this statistic just straight-up sucks: Eighty percent of adults will probably suffer through back pain at least once in their lives, according to the National Institutes of Health. While that might seem like…

4 Simple Ways to Prevent Lower Back Pain from Ruining Your Life BY  EMILY ABBATE March 29, 2018 Follow this five-minute circuit to make your next cross-country flight a little more tolerable. Roughly 80 percent of American adults experience lower back pain at some point in their lives. This is not just a private, ugh-this-sucks type of inconvenience, either—this…

The 30-Day Squat Challenge Isn’t As Great for You As Instagram Makes It Seem—Here’s Why PIN IT     BY JAMEY POWELL Lately, so many people have told me that they’re in the middle of a 30-day squat challenge, I’ve started wondering if Queen Bey herself might have leaked some top-secret training plan. I have as intimate a…

5 Exercises to Activate Your Glutes Before Your Next Run Often a forgotten muscle group for runners, glutes are worth warming up to get more out of your miles. June 13, 2018 By Amy Schlinger   If you’re a runner, there’s no question about it: You have strong legs. That’s because you need and use them in…

What’s Really Causing Your Side Stitches Nothing is more annoying than side stitches on a long run. Here’s how to fix them.     Written by Caitlin Miller  Featuring Meg Takacs  There are a few things that can bring you down from that runner’s high faster than you can say “fartlek.” We’re talking unexpected weather, a playlist dud,…

How Often Do You Really Need to Change Your Workout to Keep From Plateauing? PIN IT     BY SHAUN DREISBACH People like to say that around the six- to eight-week mark, your body adapts to whatever workout you’ve been doing and stops getting the same results. At that point, the rumor goes, you have to up your…