Is Coconut Oil Healthy or Not?
Coconut oil isn’t healthy — never was and never will be. That headline practically broke the internet last month, after the American Heart Association called out coconut oil specifically as a troubling source o...
The Perfect Gym Bag – Men’s Journal
Fourlaps, one of my favorite small-house athletic-wear companies, recently started selling publicly the only workout gear on which I’ve received compliments equally from stylish Manhattanites and Redwood-sized ...
An Ab Move That Also Works Your Shoulders, Legs, and Glutes
It can take a few sets to get the hang of it, but the kettlebell windmill is a super effective core-strengthening exercise. With the weight positioned overhead, your rectus abdominis and obliques have to work d...
Should Sex Be Prescribed Like Medicine? This Doctor Says Yes.
On a rainy January afternoon, Nicole Prause sits in a cozy apartment in Los Angeles’ Venice neighborhood with two laptops in front of her. The screens display graphs that constantly update a stream of informati...
3 Brilliant New High-Tech Toothbrushes
Today, we’re talking toothbrushes. While there are countless makes and models on the market, there are a handful of players dedicated to changing the game and making it easier than ever for us to stay on top of...
The World’s Hottest Chef Has An Even Hotter Workout
At Noma, we have guests coming from all over the world for a meal, and you want things to go perfectly. It means I work up to 90 hours a week. A few years into this, I started noticing that I was incredibly exh...
Is This the Hardest Race In the World?
Running 400 meters doesn’t seem so bad, right? It’s just one quick lap around a high school track. But if you take that 400-meter route, tilt it to a near-vertical angle, and ratchet it up to a 6,000-foot eleva...
How Strava Became the Only Fitness App That Matters
On September 21, 2014, in an Indian city just inland from Goa, Vishwanathan Jayaraman began his morning as he often did: with a barefoot marathon. He left his house by bicycle shortly after 4 a.m. “It was near ...
How to Fix Your Shoulders Without Physical Therapy
It’s not easy to make prehab sexy, but Crossover Symmetry has managed to convince us to be just as concerned with shoulder health as we are with strength and definition. Developed by a physical therapist and a ...
How Fitness Trackers Are Ruining Your Workout
Sales of fitness trackers have never been stronger. And that’s a bad thing, says Andy Galpin, a professor of kinesiology at the Center for Sport Performance at California State University. In fact, in his new b...