Basketball is the sport I grew up playing the most back in the 1970s. But these days, whenever I play with a 40-and-older group (what I call the “belly-bumper” crowd) the game becomes far less ...

VERY FEW EXERCISES have names that evoke anything more than describing the action taking place when you perform them. Think squats, curls, lunges—all helpfully explanatory, but not exciting. When ...

Core stability is a foundational marker of overall fitness. While difficult to quantify, the overall strength and endurance of the muscles surrounding the waistline has a huge impact on activities of ...

Are you looking to build your core and take your plank to the next level? Consider trying the renegade row. One of the best ...

Spice it up and send your abs and your mid-back into serious overdrive with the plank row hellset, a deadly workout finisher from Men's Health fitness director Ebenezer Samuel, C.S.C.S. Here, you're ...

NOT ALL FAST-MOVING, short-period workouts are created equal. You might think that the only thing you can do in a condensed amount of time—like, say, five minutes—would be to ramp up your heart rate ...

Retail Services Specialist 2nd Class Danielle Young performs a plank during a new physical readiness test as part of Navy Physical Readiness Test Evaluation Phase II in Pearl Harbor in October.

Because there are so many other fun things you could be doing during summer days (and nights) than working out, an emphasis on “efficiency workouts” — which are exactly as you’d imagine — is crucial.

The weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day can be treacherous from a health and wellness perspective. Holiday gatherings inevitably include higher consumption of salt, sugar, fat and alcohol.

Core stability is a foundational marker of overall fitness. While difficult to quantify, the overall strength and endurance of the muscles surrounding the waistline has a huge impact on activities of ...

The weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day can be treacherous from a health and wellness perspective. Holiday gatherings inevitably include higher consumption of salt, sugar, fat and alcohol.