Growing up in Johannesburg, a young Brett Starkowitz set his sights on competitive road cycling, dreaming of leading the peloton up Alpe d'Huez and down the Champs-Élysées. But every minute in the ...
While you may not end up with seam-bursting biceps or washboard abs, your functional strength can be dramatically improved by performing simple bodyweight exercises, like the ones below. With ...
“There are over 30 muscles in the front, side and back of the body that make up your core,” she explains. “Pilates exercises are designed to activate many of these muscles in various ways to build ...
Get on your hands and knees with your hands shoulder-width apart and knees hip-width apart. Step your feet back one at a time so your legs are extended and your body is in a straight line from head to ...
One of my goals this year is to improve my balance, and standing on one leg doing hip openers every day has really helped. Exercises like single-leg deadlifts, lunges, and even basic movements like ...
Strength Workouts I swapped cardio for strength training for a month, and here’s what actually happened Walking I did this 21-minute walking workout on my lunch break for a week—here’s what surprised ...
De Monte demonstrates the beginner-friendly hip stretches while yoga teacher Mara Cimatoribus does the advanced ones. He recommends doing each move for one minute, but if that feels too challenging, ...
Keeping the kettlebell close to your body throughout, guide the kettlebell from under your hips to the overhead lockout position in one smooth motion. The kettlebell should finish resting on your ...
Spinal immobility is the type of thing that creeps up on you, but once it appears, you can find yourself feeling stiff all the time. Long periods of sitting are usually to blame, and when the spine ...
You might think that someone who owns a Pilates studio would dedicate all their time to Pilates workouts, but that’s ...
To help prepare you for a walking workout, Lewis recommended three warm-up exercises and shared a 30-minute walking workout once you’re ready to go. “Starting with 30 minutes a day and steadily ...
The shower is also a great place to think, and the action of washing is a wonderful way to symbolically (and physically) slough off the cares of the day before bed, or refresh myself, ready to face a ...