If you want to improve your lifting potential, prevent injury and tie together your physique, it’s time to accessorize.An accessory movement is a lift that targets muscles that provide vital assistance during the larger lifts that get you the most bang for your buck. For example, the lats are the primary movers in...
When life gets busy, you don’t have time to think, let alone train. This circuit takes the guesswork out of training and gets you in and out of the gym in no time.Work, family, household responsibilities — life can get busy. Most women find it difficult to focus on fitness with everything else happening around...
The jump rope is one of the simplest, most portable fitness tools at your disposal. Learn the basics and get shredded with these four unique programs.Jump ropes have been around forever, and you probably took a turn or two with them when you were a kid. But little did you know back then that jumping...
Body fat: Everyone has it, and everyone wants less of it. But how can you make that happen and still be healthy and perform well? The answer may surprise you.If you’re like many active women, your range of body-fat levels likely hovers between 14 and 24 percent. So what is the difference between Jane and...
This speedy workout promises a total-body workout with only five equipment-optional moves.The beauty of this workout is that you don't really need any tools at all: your squats and lunges can be done without a dumbbell, and if you don't have a step for the squat jump, just hop up and down on the floor!Do...
This no-excuse Tabata workout only requires a set of dumbbells — and some grit!Tabata. Just the mere mention of this four-minute workout can strike fear into the heart of the most formidable of athletes, and for good reason. “A Tabata is just as mental as it is physical,” says Vanessa Serio, NASM-CPT, ACSM, owner of The Top Strength Project...
Test your “grit” with this quick, do-anywhere workout that burns tons of calories in minimal time.We all have time for a quickie — workout that is. And this one, based on the Les Mills Grit programming, can be done anywhere, anytime. “This workout burns max calories in minimal time and is scalable for different fitness...
Turn these eight classic moves into eight unique workouts that align with nearly any fitness goal.Everywhere you turn, you're bombarded by options — cars in every make, model and color imaginable; toothpaste that fights tartar, bad breath and gingivitis; and Nikes that you can design yourself, right down to the placement of the Swoosh. It’s enough to drive...
These demanding exercises hit all your major muscle groups, training them to work in concert — improving performance in the gym or on the field.We get it. Ranking the “world’s best functional exercises” is an exercise in futility. Because really, what makes a thruster better than a jump squat or a handstand push-up? The actual...
Banish winter fat and get bikini-ready with this hard-HIITing four-week cardio and training plan.Not so long ago, “getting ready for summer” meant one thing — total boredom. In other words, those monotonous, long-winded 40- to 60-minute cardio sessions plodding along on a treadmill or pedaling away on a stationary bike to nowhere, in the hopes...