strength/fitness

Strength

Fascia-Focused Workout

When the body’s fascia, a cobweblike tissue that weaves through muscle and wraps around organs and bones, is healthy, your body works better. Here's how to do it.

Strong Arms

Gain confidence with three quick exercises that tone and balance where it counts most.
Firming Your Core

Firm your foundation with ab strengtheners and easy stretches that improve mind and body.
Heart-Smart Workout: Get Fit

No heart-healthy regimen would be complete without a cardio component. How much cardio you do,...
Quiet Your Mind: Solar Plexus Meditation

What It DoesQuiets your mind and hones your focus so...
Wrist Stretches

Keep your wrists supple, strong, and free from pain with these three simple stretches.
Standing Pilates Saw

What It DoesAligns the body and helps with posture;...
Fatigue Fix: Exercise

We're bipedal creatures, designed to walk, run, and dance, yet we spend much of our lives...
Build a Ballet Body

Releves and Plies with...
Stability Ball Exercise: Abs Scissor

"Balance accentuates beauty and poise. When you are balanced, you walk with greater confidence and...
Eagle Pose with Fly and Triceps Extension

Iron yoga benefits: builds strength, increases flexibility, enhances focus, improves core stability...
Stability Ball Exercise: Upper Body Strength

Strength: Modified Push-Up...
Stability Ball Exercise: Accordion Crunch

Strength: Accordion Crunch...
Ab Workout: Cross-Legged Reverse Plank

What It DoesThis easy stretch reverses the plank...
Confidence Workout

Getting in shape for summer has as much to do with your outlook as it does your body. Our well-...
Flat Abs -- Without Crunches

You'd love a toned belly. But the thought of performing crunch after crunch doesn't exactly inspire...
New Fitness Craze: Resistance Stretching

Everyone from Olympic swimmer Dara Torres to former NBA star Allan Houston is hailing resistance...
Ab Workout: Toe Reach

What It DoesWorks the upper portion of the abdominal...
Heart-Smart Workout

Fight off cardiovascular disease with our complete fitness plan for your heart. You'll reduce...
Inversions 101: How I Learned to Do a Handstand

Sometimes a little shift in perspective is all you need to build confidence -- and to see yourself...
Ab Workout: Fish Pose

What It DoesReleases and opens the solar plexus; also...