CATEGORY: Fitness Culture

You’re amazing. You really are. The odds that you ended up being exactly you are staggering, and yet, within a level of individual variability that would leave the stoutest statistician weeping in the …

Fitness professionals have an uncomfortable truth to face: if the goal of our industry is to improve consumers’ lives through better physical health, we are largely failing. Diseases related to sedentary …

There must be something wrong with the majority of Americans who don’t meet the recommended levels of daily physical activity, calorie limits, and fruit and vegetable consumption . . . or, …

I begin each of my training sessions by posing a simple question to my clients:  “Is there anything special you would like to work on today?” With new clients, their answers …

Here’s a quick reminder for journalists, authors and bloggers: if your article title is a question that can be answered in a single word, you might want to double-check whether it’s …

If you want to watch the world go crazy, just become a specialist in something. Specialists arguing amongst themselves can reach a frenzied pitch of nonsense faster than the U.S. congressional …

If you’re looking for pregnancy advice, it’s out there for you. If you’re not looking for pregnancy advice, it’s coming to find you. Somebody else can bombard you with tips on swaddling. I don’t …

The Reembody blog, up to this point, has been a thoughtful exploration of human movement, a subject about which I am extremely passionate. Today, however, I’m mad and I’m going to tell …

“What makes a car move?,” my high school physics teacher once asked us, through her usual quirky grin. It was a trick, and we knew it. “The engine?” a few of us mumbled …

Modern fitness is bizarre, when you think about it. The cultural consensus is that your body is an external object: a tool that can be improved upon with exercise—like you would …