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As with states, gyms’ own policies will vary. , with 152 fitness clubs across the United States, created a 400-plus page safety manual under the guidance of a physician who has served as a state epidemiologist, according to Life Time spokesperson Jason Thunstrom. Although Pennsylvania hasn’t yet allowed gyms to open, Dana Auriemma, the owner of in Philadelphia, is taking cues on how to proceed wherever they’re available — watching guidelines coming from the Centers for Disease Control and Pre...

If you have questions about what to expect during your back surgery recovery, you’re not alone. As back pain affects more Americans every year, people are increasingly turning to surgery for relief. From 2000 to 2007 the number of adults in the United States experiencing chronic back pain increased by 64 percent.
Meanwhile, between 1998 and 2008, the number of annual hospital discharges for lumbar fusions increased by 170.9 percent while the rate of laminectomies increased by 11.3 percent. Wh...

Forget about mimosas and flowers. This Mother’s Day, Olympic medalist and six-time U.S. outdoor track champion Alysia Montaño will be supporting mothers in a much bigger way. She and co-founder Molly Dickens announced the launch of &Mother on Wednesday, a non-profit helping mothers thrive at home and at work.
After calling out former sponsor Nike for their lack of maternity protections just one year ago in a New York Times op-ed, the 800-meters specialist expanded her role from athlete to inc...

To mask or not to mask while getting fresh air is the question many of us are asking ourselves. According to the CDC, we should wear masks in “areas of significant community-based transmission”, such as grocery stores and pharmacies. While the CDC doesn’t list the outdoors as a high-density space, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s OK to exercise outdoors mask-free.
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Squats also make you more stable. “The more strong you are in your core, your hips [and] your quads, the more stable you’re going to be walking around on your feet,” says , an Atlanta-based nurse practitioner and certified personal trainer.

Like a traditional massage, the gun aims to reduce inflammation by flushing extracellular fluids such as lymph fluid and venous blood out of the muscle tissue and into the circulatory system. It can help relax tight muscles, break up scar tissue and adhesions, and minimize muscle soreness and tension. A small published in the Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research found percussive therapy to be as effective as massage in preventing DOMS (delayed onset muscle soreness).

And if you’re missing the activities that punctuated your typical day before the pandemic, intermittent workouts can — and should — fill those gaps, regardless of whether you perform a traditional 20- to 60-minute workout. has established the health risks of sitting, but Holland says non-exercise activity thermogenesis () can help counteract them. NEAT includes such as strolling the aisles at Target, waiting in line at the bank and walking from your desk to the cafeteria.

If you’ve never experienced chronic neck pain and radiculopathy (pain radiating down the arms) you probably know someone who has. More than 30 percent of Americans per year experience neck pain.
Anterior cervical discectomy and fusion (ACDF) is a procedure that treats these neck conditions, and it’s the most common spinal surgery performed in the U.S. It’s a great procedure, but not perfect; data suggests as many as two-thirds of patients continue to manage neck pain and dysfunction after ACD...

Until recently, unless you worked in healthcare, you’d probably never heard of a pulse oximeter. But on Sunday, emergency physician Richard Levitan made a compelling case for owning one in a New York Times op-ed, writing that “all persons with cough, fatigue and fevers should also have pulse oximeter monitoring even if they have not had virus testing”. An article in Quartz, meanwhile, reported that most of us would be fine without one. We spoke to experts to get to the bottom of it all.
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For most of us, the idea of completing a 2.4-mile ocean swim, followed by a 112-mile bike ride through blazing-hot lava fields, then finally running a full marathon, sounds grueling.

But for 73-year-old Bobbe Greenberg, participating in the Ironman World Championship triathlon in Hawaii is a celebration.

“I am very, very, very lucky in my life,” said Greenberg, who lives in Highland Park, Ill., with her husband of 50 years.

While she’s arguably one of the fittest septuagenarians in the world,...

To practice yoga in your home, Erickson suggests finding out whether the studio you normally attend is offering online classes. “This way, you get to see your favorite teachers and have some familiarity in your practice in a time of change.” If your studio isn’t operating remotely, check on other local studios; this is a way to continue to support your community. If this isn’t an option, either, Erickson recommends Gaia and Glo, which offer subscription-based paid plans, and DoYogaWithMe, whi...

In September 1997, Vicki Hunter wasn’t sure she’d ever walk again. At the time, she’d narrowly survived a car accident that shattered nearly all the bones on her right side, leaving her with a traumatic brain injury, a collapsed lung, a punctured liver, and no promise she’d fully recover. On top of that, she was 14 weeks pregnant with her first child.
Hunter, a 2:49 marathoner, told Runner’s World that at the time, she couldn’t separate her identity from her performance. After two and a half ...

Janine Newman crossed the finish line at Ironman Florida this November with tired legs and a huge smile. Though it was her fifth time taking on the grueling event, it was the first time she’d done it pain-free.
When Newman, now 47, was training for her first Ironman in 2010, the Pilates instructor and triathlon coach from Wauconda, Illinois, tried to ignore the occasional pain she experienced in her right leg while biking or running. “Am I dehydrated? Did I not eat well?” she’d wonder. “It fe...

Last Thursday, Altra Running announced its sponsorship of two pregnant runners, Alysia Montaño and Tina Muir. Montaño is a U.S. national champion and an Olympian in the 800 meters, and Muir is a 2:36 British marathoner and host of the podcast Running for Real. In an industry that has historically penalized women for having children, this new move by Altra is setting a new standard.
“Altra signing two pregnant women is a huge step for recognizing the strength, perseverance, and determination o...

If you didn’t know better, you might think Sara Vaughn was just another uber-fit Boulder mom—but you’d be wrong. Standing just five foot one, the 1,500-meter specialist is nothing if not extraordinary. In 2017, the mother of four and full-time real estate agent made the US team and competed in the World Championships when her third child was a year old. Now, at 33, she’s trying to do it again.
Over coffee, while her baby David—who was born August 31, 2019—snoozed in his stroller, Vaughn descr...