WorkOUT Wednesdays

The following 45-minute workout should be preformed three days a week. Developing confidence, coordination, strength, timing, and stamina is the athlete’s main focus throughout the workout.

Not sure how to vary your ab routine to get the best results? No worries: We’ve rounded up some of the best core moves you can use to create circuits that will have you feeling the burn in all the right places. Just pick five exercises from this list, switch them up every week, and your workouts will become more interesting and challenging.

No matter your age, the best exercise for you is the one you enjoy the most. After all, if you don’t like your workout, how long are you going to stick with it?

Still, when sampling any of the countless forms of exercise out there, it’s important to keep in mind exactly what you want and need to get out of your workout. And that’s bound to change throughout the years, says Barbara Bergin, M.D., an orthopedic surgeon in Austin, Texas. She explains that, for older adults, the top priority must be maintaining your quality of life outside the gym.

This February, during Black History Month, the American Heart Association is encouraging Black women to Reclaim Your Rhythm and take control of their mental and physical well-being. Like taking a familiar song and adding, removing or changing pieces of it, Black women have been empowered with greater knowledge and determination to heal and protect their physical and mental health and wellbeing.

Did you know you benefit from even small amounts of moderate activity throughout the day? Regular physical activity is easier to fit in than you realize and can lower your lifetime risk for cancer – and heart disease and diabetes, too.

Being physically active is a major step toward good heart health. It’s one of your most effective tools for strengthening the heart muscle, keeping your weight under control and warding off the artery damage from high cholesterol, high blood sugar and high blood pressure that can lead to heart attack or stroke.

When the weather outside turns frightful, we tend to want to curl up inside and hibernate until warmer temps return. But the last thing you want to do is sabotage all of the sweat and tears you put into your warm-weather workout routine by vegging out on the sofa simply because the mercury’s dropped below freezing.

It’s easy to get out for a run or other form of outdoor exercise when the sun is shining and it’s nice and warm. But what about during the cold, dark and gray days of winter, when you can feel those brisk, chilled winds deep in your bones? Whether you’ve been a regular outdoor runner for years or you’ve only recently started up a new exercise routine, the freezing temps and foul weather of winter pushes a lot of people indoors for the season.

“EveryBody Rides” is a program of Indiana Pacers Bikeshare that provides an opportunity for EveryBody, regardless of gender, age, race, income level, shape, and size to have access to the gold Pacers Bikeshare bikes in Indianapolis. ICT has partnered with Indiana Housing Authority, Volunteers of America, and other low-income based organizations and residences located in close proximity to the bike share stations to offer subsidized passes for Pacers Bikeshare.

The advent of the new year has once again brought us to the single grimmest stretch of the year for fitness enthusiasts everywhere: the Takeover of the New Year’s resolution crowd. And while we at GQ do not adhere to the school of thought that casts smug aspersions on people who have made the commitment to exercise more regularly, it becomes a numbers game at some point. The rapid influx of bodies into a confined space transforms an otherwise-pleasant weight room into a Black Friday-esque free-for-all, and suddenly, the period you spend waiting for a treadmill—silently seething at the fortunate souls who arrived only moments before you did—ends up lasting longer than whatever precious sliver of time you’re allotted to actually run on it.

With the holidays and new year around the corner, Americans have travel on their mind. Many people find that during holiday travel, their workout regimen seems to get thrown out of whack.

Fortunately, with a little proactive planning, you can maintain your fitness level, no matter where you are. According to IDEA, a membership organization for health and fitness professionals, the key is to be creative and remember that even short workouts are better than no workouts at all.

With 20 exercise stations and a total of 32 exercises, the Fitness Trail on the north end provides a unique opportunity for a vigorous hike as it brings the indoor gym outdoors. Signage at each station explains every exercise and how to monitor your heart rate.

If you’ve ever shivered your way through a frigid morning jog, or taken a snowy post-feast walk over the holidays, you may have burned off a few extra calories than you would on a warm day, research suggests.

Rainy weather doesn’t mean you have to take your runs inside. If you’re preparing for a race, running in the rain is good because most aren’t canceled due to rain.1 So, it helps you feel more mentally and physically prepared should this occur. Here are a few tips to make your rainy day runs safer and more comfortable.

It’s no secret that Thanksgiving centers around eating. Turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, pie – it’s enough to send even the most dedicated exerciser to the couch for a carb-induced nap. The good news is that you can still stay active this Thanksgiving. Just incorporate these 8 tips into your holiday gameplan!

If work keeps you frequently away from home, it can be challenging to maintain your fitness program. Travel time and meetings might leave little room in your schedule for exercise. But dedication and planning can help you stay in shape — and ease the stress that work travel can cause. Consider these travel workout tips.

Looking for a place to climb as a family? North Mass Boulder is a new boulder climbing facility in Indianapolis, and it’s also one of the most unique. This bouldering gym offers opportunities to climb, but it’s also a space to eat, meet up with friends, work out and hang out, all in one family-friend space.

When autumn rolls around, the sun is golden and bright, the leaves are crunchy, the air is crisp, and it’s the perfect time to take your sweat sesh outdoors. Summer workouts are basically a surefire way to sweat your ass off and dehydrate your body, and winter workouts? Forget about it; you can find me hibernating my life away until spring rolls around. That’s why there’s no better time than now to take advantage of this window of beautiful weather by making a list of outdoor workout ideas for the fall.