Fitness
Nordic Curls: The Best Lower Body Exercise You’re Not Doing Yet
The Nordic curl might be the single best thing you can do for your hamstrings. It cuts hamstring injury risk roughly in half, builds the kind of strength that protects you when you sprint, and needs nothing more than a way to anchor your feet. It's also genuinely hard. Most people, including trained athletes, can't do a full unassisted rep...
17 Plank Variations To Build a Bulletproof Core
The plank is one of the best core exercises you can do, because it trains your midsection to resist movement, the way your core actually works in real life, without loading your spine the way sit-ups do. Once the standard plank gets easy, you can progress by changing the angle, narrowing your base, adding movement, or adding weight. These variations...
REHIT: The 10-Minute Workout That Beats 30 Minutes of Cardio
I’ll admit it: I’m lazy. That’s why I was so excited to hear about about REHIT, and the possibility of building real cardiovascular fitness just by doing 10 or 20 second bursts of activity. REHIT, short for Reduced-Exertion High-Intensity Interval Training, is the most extreme version of the "less is more" cardio trend. But it’s not something dreamt up by...
Compound Exercises: 6 Core Movement Patterns to Build Your Workouts Around
Honestly, one of the biggest blockers to getting fit, for a lot of people, is confusion. The sheer number of exercises out there, along with the content and influencers peddling guides and giving advice on the best exercises to do, is overwhelming. I’ve felt this before. Confusion over what I should be doing at the gym, how my routine should...
Strength Training for Women: A Simple Guide to Getting Started
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The Strength Training Blueprint for Over 50s: Why It Matters More Than Ever
If you're 50 or older and not doing some form of strength training, the evidence says you should be. It’s not about aesthetics, or trying to relive your glory days. It’s about preserving a better quality of life for longer, and even keeping you alive. If someone’s telling you you can’t strength train as you get to this age range,...
Is Two Sets to Failure the Best Way to Train?
Opinions on the best way to train for hypertrophy are mixed. But in general, the traditional approach has been to grind away doing somewhere in the range of three to five sets for each exercise, anywhere between eight to fifteen reps per set. The idea is that volume = growth. Meticulously counting out reps, and clocking enough sets and enough...
Hybrid Training: All The Pros and Cons of Training Strength and Endurance at the Same Time
A lot of people will tell you to pick a lane if you want to get serious about fitness. You either want to be big, or lean. You want to be a lifter, or a runner. But there’s another way of looking at it. Hybrid training, the idea that you can pursue serious strength AND serious endurance in the same...
The Best Vanilla Whey Protein Powders of 2026
This guide is published by Naked Nutrition. Our Naked Vanilla Whey Powder is included in this comparison and is featured as the top option. What Is Vanilla Whey Protein Powder? Whey protein is the liquid portion of milk that remains after coagulating and straining during cheese production. It is a complete protein containing all essential amino acids and is rich...
Best Zone 2 Cardio Workouts: 10 Ways to Build Your Aerobic Base
As of 2025, zone 2 cardio has become a hot topic in the fitness and longevity space, for good reason. While HIIT gets attention for fast results, zone 2 cardio is where the real longevity work happens — building mitochondrial efficiency and fat oxidation capacity without the recovery cost or injury risk. Research shows significant benefits to getting a minimum...
Is Lifting Weights Cardio?
When you do a set of heavy squats, or hammer out two sets to failure on the bench, you might find yourself gasping for air. You look down at your smart watch, and see you’re in zone 3 territory. So that naturally begs the question: is lifting weights cardio? Are you getting even more benefits from your strength training than...
The Japanese Walking Method: Fitness Hack or Empty Hype?
If you've seen "Japanese walking method" trending on social media, hands up (mine is up, in case you can’t see). This one has been on TikTok, health blogs, and morning shows. But here's the thing: this isn't a brand-new discovery. No one just stumbled upon a completely new way to walk. As a fitness tool, though, it has legs (all...
The Pallof Press: How to Do It, Muscles Worked, and Why It Builds Real Core Strength
The core is the most overlooked part of the body. We jump to work out our biceps, chest, back, even push through leg day once a week. But too many people ignore the part of the body that keeps everything else stable and operational. And even for those who do core workouts regularly, the common mistake is to focus only...
