Ashley B. Greenblatt

Retrain your brain to safely lift or move heavy objects with these simple steps.

A strong back is essential for healthy posture, spinal stability, and the trunk support necessary for daily movements like twisting, bending, sitting, standing, and lifting objects.

Summer sports such as golf and tennis rely heavily on one of the most neglected movement patterns: rotation. Every time you swing a racquet or club, the stabilizer muscles, which are responsible for rotation, go to work.

Improve your total-body power by weaving unilateral non-dominant movements into your weekly workout routine.

Whether you’re a boardwalk taste-tester nibbling on storefront samples, or a backyard grill master serving up charbroiled chow, it’s hard to avoid weekend weight gain.

When visceral fat forms around vital organs located in the abdomen, the risk of developing deadly conditions like diabetes, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer’s, and cancer increases.

Rather than waste your money and time on expensive, ineffective products, fight lumpy-looking skin with this metabolism-boosting workout.

What you do in the minutes, hours, and even days following a long-distance run, will dictate how well overworked muscles and joints recuperate from pounding pavement. Soothe sore muscles with this post-race recovery plan.

By building your workout around a bench, you get back the top commodity that most can’t afford to sacrifice: time.

Your body needs fresh fitness ideas to ward off common health hurdles like weight loss plateaus, overuse injuries and boredom.