fitness

Over the years, I have been asked this question in many different ways. I chose this question first for “Ask Andy” because it allows for a solid introduction to a “fitness lifestyle.” I’ll answer this with a brief overview of this holistic mindset. In future articles, we’ll be able to dive...

Instagram is a great source for fitness motivation, but a quick scroll on the popular social media platform may also leave you green with envy. It’s easy to assume that the person behind the picture enjoys a hassle-free lifestyle, with all the time in the world to train. But you can be reassured...

The COVID-19 pandemic has certainly forced gymgoers worldwide to not only reimagine how they work out, it’s also forced many to reinvest long-term in their fitness lifestyle. One upstart fitness app—Flexit—hopes to take fitness enthusiasts’ investment in their health by helping people train at...

Bodybuilding’s biggest event is coming back to the Sunshine State. Organizers of the Joe Weider’s Olympia Fitness & Performance Weekend announced that the fitness industry’s most prestigious event is returning to Orlando, FL, for its 2021 world championship weekend to be held the weekend of...

By the end of February, most New Year’s fitness resolutions are abandoned. Gold’s Gym analyzed check-in data among its more than three million members over the past four years. Researchers found that gym attendance among new members begins dwindling 41 days after the New Year (Feb. 10), with...

Peter McGough, a legendary bodybuilding journalist and former Flex editor-in-chief who was admired by many in the industry, died on Dec. 30 following an eight year battle with cancer. “He was initially only given a few years to live by his doctors, but in typical stubborn Peter fashion, he took...

Timea Majorova is a fitness and figure champion, a fabulous fitness model, and personal trainer. She’s also a mother of two: Charlize, 8, and Maxwell, 4. When she was pregnant, people were amazed at how good Timea looked. After she gave birth, they were also amazed at how quickly she got back...

En route to globally expanding her fitness brand, FitFighter founder Sarah Apgar first needed to swim through a roomful of “sharks” —these sharks, though, had giant checkbooks in place of a hammerhead. Her product, the Steelhose, an “all-in-one” workout tool with the look and feel of a firehose...

When I was in college, I took a philosophy course in aesthetics – the nature of beauty. Now it is a fact that the perception of beauty is highly subjective. That is, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But it is obvious that human beings have a built-in aesthetic sense, something that is...

Every guy who’s into fitness has some methodology, piece of equipment, or program they like over anything else. Some like to circuit train every day, some follow bodybuilding protocols, and still others participate in any number of fitness trends and fads. There’s no “wrong” or “right” way to...

Making the decision to improve your fitness levels requires serious motivation. In fact, it’s often said that starting any new training regime is the hardest part of all, but in reality staying the course is more complicated than that. It’s true that you can’t make positive lifestyle changes...

A few months back, I had a long talk with a close buddy about how I planned for every obstacle in business—except for the one we were facing. We were talking over video chat, of course, because it was during the lockdown. He’s a small business owner, like me, and he understood my frustration...

At the start of 2020, the Miami Heat was one of the NBA’s surprise teams, in part due to Jimmy Butler’s high-caliber performance. Two months later on March 11, the league, following the announcement that Utah Jazz star Rudy Gobert tested positive for coronavirus, came to a halt. Since then all...

Working on getting Jessica set up to take over this area since she has a lot of experience in life and job wise dealing with fitness. Let's all support her when the time come that she takes over, hopefully this will add more women to the forum since they actually have a female to go to and will...

When you think of strong individuals, the first group that comes to mind is generally not teenage girls, even though nowadays they push the limits of their strength right along with the boys. But back in the day, girls in their teens were expected to excel in sports like gymnastics — not lifting...

Human beings are born with certain innate traits. For example, they have the capacity to learn a language. Not any specific language, but language in general. What language or languages we acquire as children depends on our environment. We are also born with the ability to recognize beauty...

I’ve known Adela Garcia since she first started competing for the NPC in fitness in 1995. So it’s amazing to realize that she’s been competing as an IFBB Pro League Fitness athlete for 20 years now! Time has flown by. Garcia has made great use of that time, winning, among other titles, the...

At the 2020 Olympia Weekend, taking place on Dec. 17-20 at Planet Hollywood, Las Vegas, the following three former Olympia champions are making comebacks. Firstly, Adela Garcia, who won eight Fitness Olympia titles, the last one being 2013. Also returning is Oksana Grishina, winner of four...

When it comes to bodybuilding, I find It fairly easy to determine who will or should win in a given lineup. The same is not true in the fitness division. The standards of judging a physique are different and less objective, and it’s impossible to predict how the judges are going to score the...

The fitness industry’s most prestigious event announces a deal with Northern Chill, a rapidly growing manufacturer of their premium and naturally alkaline bottled mineral spring water. As part of a 2-year agreement, the Northern Wisconsin-based company will serve as the official water of Joe...