3 Keys to a Better Bum: A Guide to a Shapelier Lower Body
If you’re looking to fill out your favorite pair of jeans in all the right places, or simply trim your hips in proportion with the rest of your physique,we have a routine that will work for you.
How to Eat to Lose Weight
The program outlined below is not a diet. It is a way of life that will support you in weight loss and maintenance, and in building a foundation for living the life of your dreams.
Body Fix-Ups That Work: Belly, Thigh and Butt Shapers
FIRM instructor-trainer Kirsten Palmer shares 5 techniques that will help fix your most problematic body parts. In other words, she explains how to make your body bathing suit-friendly.
Top 5 Ways to Lose More Weight with Your Existing Workout
You’ve established a healthy workout schedule, working up a sweat three to five times a week—but why aren’t you losing weight?
Making Sense of Food Labels
These days, labels, not to be confused with Nutrition Facts, are everywhere. Here’s a rundown of how to translate the most popular eco-labels.
5 Workout Techniques to Burn Major Calories in Less Time
Want noticeable results in less time? Get the fastest results by combining cardio and sculpting into a single workout (and even a single move). Here are 5 techniques that will help you get fit and look good—fast!
Best Cross-Training for Your Core Sport
Personal training, physiology, and biomechanics experts share their top tips to help you cross-train for the specific sports and activities you love most, from cycling and running to swimming, golf, yoga, racquet sports, volleyball ...
How I Stay So Happy: Q&A with Patricia Moreno
What keeps this powerhouse personal trainer so darned joyful — and how the rest of us can get our hands on whatever she eats for breakfast.
8 Insider Tips for Tighter Abs
Here are 8 tips I share with anyone who asks me about having tighter abs. They work for me so I know they will work for you, too!
Proof that Eating Slowly Curbs Appetite
For more than 30 years, dieters have been told to eat slowly to reduce their intake of food. Until now, there has been no scientific evidence to support the theory. But a new laboratory study confirmed that eating more slowly helps people eat less.
How to Lose Weight with Yoga
Experts weigh in on the best ways to put specific yoga styles, poses and side-effects to work helping you lose weight and get healthier.
Lose Weight Permanently with Ayurveda
Is simply being an American making you fat? This plan for what, when and how to eat to lose weight and keep it off for life is based on Ayurveda and European ideas about food.
How to Make Tofu Tantalizing
Give tofu a chance; it’s all in the prep! Expert tips and recipes for preparing all manner of tofu like nobody’s business — marinated, grilled, stir-fried … even in a creamy dip.
Gyrotonic: Exercise Outside the Lines
Working out can be so linear: Treadmill, stair climber, bike path …Break out of “front-facing” workouts. Gyrotonic is an fusion of circular movements combining elements of dance, yoga, swimming, t’ai chi and gymnastics.
Hot off the Grill
Grilling tips and marinade recipes to create a memorable outdoor grilling experience for meat-lovers and vegetarians alike. Includes tips on grilling tofu, veggies, meats, seafood and poultry.
15 Easy Ways to Be Healthier
A doctor, nutritionist and fitness trainer each recommend their top five changes they recommend in diet, exercise and stress management to improve your health without a big lifestyle change.
Top Fruits and Veggies to Buy Organic
Keep this Dirty Dozen list handy when food shopping. Lower your pesticide exposure by almost 90 percent by avoiding conventional versions of the top 12 most contaminated fruits and vegetables and buying them in organic form instead.
Top 10 Superfoods
Too busy to eat as healthfully as you’d like every day? Dr. James Rouse shows you how to get maximum nutritional punch from a few uber-foods that can help fill the gaps.
Hoop Your Way to Weight Loss: Top 5 Tips from a Hoop Workout Expert
Hooping expert Betty 'Hoops' Shurin shares her best advice on how to get serious fitness results at home -- and have some serious fun -- with her Dance Hoop Workout for grownups.
Getting Burned by Your Metabolism?
Naturopathic physician, chef and TV health-news host Dr. James Rouse sheds light on what, when and how to eat to keep your metabolism burning strong -- and the surprising all-day energy you can get in addition to that calorie burn.
Mariel Hemingway's Secrets to Healthy Living
In her new book, actress, yogi and survivor Mariel Hemingway shows you a 30-day plan to help you derive "more health, more peace and more pleasure" from the life you already have.
Why Conscious Fitness Is the Key to Losing Weight
We've all heard the phrase "No pain, no gain." But, as it turns out, huffing and puffing your way through a workout may not be the best way to burn off excess weight. Yoga and Pilates instructor Suzanne Deason gives her take on why mind-body fitness is more likely to help you take off pounds for good.
9 Ways to Build a Healthier Relationship with Food
Your overeating triggers may be chemical and/or emotional, and by avoiding them, you can improve the state of your body, mind and spirit.
Can Yoga Help You Lose Weight?
Diets are often about limiting your experience. Yoga is about celebrating the experience of life. Which would you find easier to commit to? This excerpt from the book Yoga Conditioning for Weight Loss explains why, by teaching you to turn your focus inward, yoga works on an emotional level to strengthen a nurturing relationship with yourself and with food -- and identify your overeating triggers.
The "Other" Martial Arts: 7 trends & facts to take you beyond kickboxing
... plus a quick run-down of definitions for martial arts methods you might be less familiar with and are gaining a foothold in America.
Making Peace with Your Age: Patricia Walden's words of widsom
Yogi Patricia Walden shares how yoga supports a woman's body, mind and spirit through all the stages of her life, from puberty to child-bearing years to menopause. An excerpt from The Woman's Book of Yoga & Health.
"Yoga was the key to the puzzle!"
After trying seemingly everything, Natasha lost 75 lbs. -- from 189 lbs. to 114 lbs., and from a size 20 to a size 4 -- by doing yoga and meditation at home. Here is her story in her own words.
Mariel Hemingway: Front and Centered
Finding peace wasn't always easy for Mariel Hemingway. In her book Finding My Balance, Mariel narrates a life story filled with painful memories compounded by a career that puts incredible pressure on women to look a certain way. But through yoga, Mariel was able to firmly plant her feet.
Stress = Belly Fat: Dr. Peeke says calm down to slim down
Could it be stress to blame for midsection expansion? Pam Peeke, M.D., weighs in on research she discusses in her book Fight Fat After Forty: The Stress-Fat Connection, and offers strategies that beat stress and battle the bulge.
Off the Scale, Into a Better Body
"It's not about aesthetics -- I'm trying to save your life," says Pam Peeke, M.D. "You can actually drop 10 pounds and gain body fat," She implores that fat increases the risks of cancers, heart disease and diabetes -- and maintains that getting rid of your scale is imperative.
Fueling the Fire Within: Heat Up with Ashtanga Yoga
Expert instructor Nicki Doane on the Asthanga "burn," the roots of the method, how it differs from other power yoga methods, and how to stoke your Ashtanga flames slowly.
The Hybrid Workout: Results Get More Satisfying
You don't have to be a yogi or abandon your Stairmaster and Bowflex to reap the benefits of mind-body fitness. We talked with fitness trainers and yoga and Pilates experts on how mind-body fitness with traditional workouts can give even the results-obsessed something to believe in.
Fresh, Hot Pilates Stays True to the Core
Pilates expert Ana Caban says Pilates is a-changin'. Her take on why change (but not too much) is good, and how you can use the newest tools, equipment and "hybrid" workouts to make Pilates more interesting, accessible and effective.
Beyond Hummus & Feta: Diversity is key in Mediterranean diet's benefits
Mediterranean eateries and explore more of the region's traditional foods of these cultures whose diets reflect a time-tested cultural model of healthful eating.
