The Great World Race & the Remarkable 7-Day Journey of Ellen Hunter Gans
The waiver for Antarctica was not especially comforting. In fact, according to Ellen Hunter Gans, it essentially boiled down to a simple message: if something goes wrong on the frozen continent, you're on your own. For many people, such a warning would serve as a compelling reason to stay home. For Gans, a lifelong traveler, writer, mother, and increasingly ambitious…
Why This Exercise Deserves a Spot in Your Workout
The Dumbbell Lateral Lunge Most people train in straight lines. We squat up and down, lunge forward, walk forward, run forward, and for a lot of us, lean forward at a desk during our work day. But everyday life—and most sports—require us to move through multiple planes of movement. That’s why I’m a big fan of the dumbbell lateral lunge.…
Tech Life with Taino: Why You Need to Stop Multitasking
The Hype of Multitasking Going to my first job interviews 15 years ago, I often got the question “Can you juggle multiple tasks at once?” I enthusiastically answered “Yes!” Hiring my first employees 10 years ago, I often asked the question “Can you juggle multiple tasks at once?” I enthusiastically got the answer “Yes!” Multitasking has been a trait to…
Top 10 Tips for Triathletes
Terri Schneider, author of The Triathlon Training Handbook, provides these 10 tips for those doing triathlons. 1. Swim each session in organized, coached workouts. Add the most value to your time in the pool by working with a coach on your stroke each time you hit the water. A group swim session will motivate you to get the most out…
5 Tips to Make the Most of Your Treadmill Workouts
As tantalizing as all those fancy elliptical, stair climbing, rowing, and stationary biking machines are, the treadmill remains the best piece of exercise equipment in terms of efficiency. The treadmill, compared to other forms of indoor exercise equipment (stationary bike, rowing machine, etc.), is the most efficient form of aerobic exercise for burning calories. That is, at the same level…
Workout Secrets for Your Best Body Ever
Want the best results from your workouts? Follow these powerful suggestions from legendary fitness trainer Hollis Liebman, author of Complete Physique. Have a plan. If you go into a store not knowing what you came for, you may leave with more than your budget allows. You want to increase your bench press. You want to decrease the circumference of your…
It’s Time to Tabata
Tabata lets individuals push their body to their physical limits—getting the results they want while avoiding stress-based injuries and unwanted setbacks. Requiring little to no equipment, Tabata is as affordable as it is effective. The Tabata Workout Handbook lets anyone tailor the intensity of the workouts to their starting ability. And since each movement only takes 4 minutes to complete,…
Exercises for Perfect Posture
Exercises for Perfect Posture is the complete guide to achieving healthy posture, providing everything from fitness programs and exercises designed to realign the spine and strengthen shoulders, neck and back as well as guidance on how to redesign one's work space to be more ergonomic. Good posture is foundational to good health. Poor posture can lead to shoulder discomfort, neck…
8 Simple Steps to Feeling Great After the Holidays
The holidays are a time when a lot of us show our love through food. From grandma’s loaded mashed potatoes, to dad’s delicious desserts, these comfort foods evoke nostalgic feelings. Unfortunately, many of these traditional holiday favorites are packed with processed ingredients no one can pronounce and can do more harm than good. Olivia Wagner MS, RDN, LDN partnered together…
Complete Physique: Your Ultimate Body Transformation
Complete Physique is the all-in-one 12-week guide to obtaining and maintaining the body you always wanted, from transformation specialist and author, Hollis Lance Liebman. Complete Physique redefines the body sculpting process, providing the answers you need to get the best body possible while maintaining gains. Progressive workouts create safe, effective and innovative ways to energize your workout and improve your…
Warrior Workouts: 100 of the Most Challenging Workouts
From legendary Navy SEAL Stewart Smith comes Warrior Workouts, a collection of the most challenging fitness routines ever developed. Drawn from the same essential training and workout plans used for military special forces, police, firefighters and other tactical professionals to keep them fit and in optimal physical condition, Warrior Workouts is designed to get you into the best shape of…
