When Risako Kawai won gold in the women’s 63kg wrestling weight class, she won the fourth gold for Japan’s wrestling team in Rio. Kawai also won our hearts with her victory celebration: after the win, she faked giving a hug to her coach and after the psych-out, she flipped him! But that wasn’t even her…
If you love the feeling of being so painfully sore it hurts to lift your arms to brush your hair, to walk down the stairs, to get off the toilet, or to laugh, you’ll love these quotes.
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If you’re having a bad day or in a funky mood, then stop what you’re doing and take three minutes to get down to a Fitness Marshall video; you’ll be laughing (and sweating) within seconds. This one features the new song “Cold Water” from Major Lazer and Justin Bieber. So . . . if you’re…
Runners, bikers, skiers, and swimmers can all benefit from doing exercises that target muscles on the backs of the thighs, since strong hamstrings increase speed and endurance. And that’s not all: toned hamstrings also make for shapely legs. Here are five exercises that are dedicated to that area. Repeat all five moves for a total…
I don’t really want to share half-naked selfies of myself with the world, but I feel compelled to. Because after years and years of working out four to six days a week, running and training for half-marathons, sweating it out in yoga classes, and eating healthy, I have finally caught a glimpse of the kind…
Image Source: Getty / Laurence Griffiths / Staff Gabby Douglas has been training for years to prepare for her second Olympics, but nothing really could prepare her for the internet trolls who came after the gold medalist for everything from her hair to her hand placement during the national anthem. Related Stories:Gabby Douglas Is More…
Anyone who has ever taken a barre class knows that one of the defining characteristics of the exercise is muscle shaking, particularly in the legs. Whether you’re shaking or your neighbor is shaking, you’ll undoubtedly notice that borderline-violent trembling that happens in the thighs and calves. So what gives? What’s going on down there? Related…
When you’re an insanely, superhumanly talented athlete like Usain Bolt, a 200-meter Olympic qualifying race is like a casual jaunt at the track. Share a laugh with friends, maybe break a world record . . . it’s all just a bit of fun. Related Stories:Usain Bolt Wins 100-Meter Sprint, Simultaneously Wins the Internet Sharing said…
If the first time you saw an ab rollout was on an infomercial for one of those wheel gadgets, you may have written it off in the same way you should probably write off most exercise infomercials. This is one case where we think you should reconsider. You’ll be hard-pressed to find any other abdominal…
New York City has no shortage of boutique cycling studios, but while most of them focus on life-changing mantras, IMAX Shift hopes to leave a mark on the Spin class culture through its technology. In this episode of Hannahgram, Hannah stopped by IMAX Shift to experience what cycling in front of a 40-foot screen really…
