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Exercise & Fitness

New high-energy workouts that work!

If you’re looking to get into super awesome shape just in time for summer, you’re in luck. Several recently launched workouts...

Wellness

Exhausted? Easy ways to get energized

Without question, life is a whirl of a million little details that you do your best to keep in check. If you’re like most women,...

Exercise & Fitness

Get fit faster: Train like an athlete

Are traditional workouts boring you? Is it taking you forever to see real progress? Try exercising like a top athlete; it may be the...

Exercise & Fitness

Quick-fixes for your summer fitness disasters

Has your summer fitness program hit the skids? You aren’t alone. Even the most motivated exercisers abandon their quests for a...

Children's Health

5 Simple rules for raising healthy kids

Lack of activity, combined with unwise food choices, has led to a national childhood obesity epidemic, where nearly one third of...

Exercise & Fitness

8 Fitness must-haves for summer

From the confidence-boosting book Look Better Naked! by Women’s Health editor-in-chief Michele Promaulayko to Jack Black’s...

Exercise & Fitness

How to save money on yoga classes

Sting and Madonna do it. Doctors recommend it. With celebrity endorsements, the promise of "yoga butt," and $850 Gucci mats, it's...

Exercise & Fitness

Regional fitness trends in the US

Tired of your fitness routine and looking for something different? American Council on Exercise (ACE) spokespeople report the...

Exercise & Fitness

How to keep fit in the city

Though you may not live in rural America where you can leave your house and run for miles down a dirt road, being a city gal...

Wellness

Get back on the healthy-living track

Whether you’ve been thrown off because of your work schedule or because of a bad breakup, falling off the healthy-living train can...

Children's Health

Easy ways to exercise without the kids even knowing it

Do you remember marveling at the energy your kids had when they were toddlers and seemingly always in motion? Years later, are you...

Exercise & Fitness

How to keep your beach body all year round

There is something about the warm weather that makes us want to be in enviable shape. Maybe it’s the thought of hitting the sand...

Exercise & Fitness

Boxing gets women confidently fit

Boxing is one of the best full-body workouts you can sweat through, and more women are boxing their way into enviable shape. If...

Losing Weight

Building a healthier America

Today more young adults ages 20 to 45 are suffering disabling strokes. Almost six million hospitalizations each year are due to...

Exercise & Fitness

Why you need morning exercise

You jump out of bed after your alarm goes off and stumble to the shower for a quick wake up. Then you figure out what you’re going...

Aging

Following an exercise prescription

Even before you walk in your doctor’s office, you know the merits of exercise. Yet, whether you have made excuses to not exercise...

Exercise & Fitness

Three beach body fitness tips that work

Have you checked the calendar lately? Bikini season is right around the corner. If you’re looking to hit the beach this summer,...

Exercise & Fitness

What you need to know about Pilates

Fitness trends come and go, but Pilates guru Brooke Siler says Pilates transcends trends and really depends on your commitment to...

Exercise & Fitness

Get a celebrity body on a budget

It’s true: Many of those red carpet celebs with enviable tight abs and toned limbs have an expensive entourage of personal...

Exercise & Fitness

The ultimate water workout

Though the days are still too cool to jump in your backyard pool, you can hit your health club for a springtime swim or, for a...