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Crossing from the weight room into the board room can prove problematic if you don’t want to hide your wrist. Most fitness trackers and watches look silly in a suit, especially if you work in a dress-to-impress environment. To help you, we pulled out the best smart watches on... Read more
It’s the third time you’ve toured the local family fitness facility. This time, they’re on to you. The sales manager, Steve, keeps asking you silly questions like, “seems you like it here, what would it take for you to join today?” Um, cash? Jerk. Face it, gyms simply aren’t... Read more
The conflict plaguing most folks’ bench press technique is balancing strength with longevity. Is it possible to lift the way you want today as well as when you’re older? Strength and longevity aren’t necessarily foes. In fact, quite the opposite. Consider this: what if your body was meant to... Read more
The Caveman Diet usually refers to what is more often called The Paleo Diet, but could include The Primal Blueprint. In any case, these diets are predicated on the philosophy that our current obesity epidemic is due to modern food options. Caveman dieters lobby that if we were to eat and... Read more
“I want to workout. When I try to get in the habit of working out it doesn’t last. I feel like I’m constantly in a state of getting back into it.” – You To hack your body, you have to first hack your brain. The simple solution to your... Read more
People will only work towards the goal of losing weight for so long, especially if they aren’t seeing results. It’s the Sisyphus myth, pushing the stone to the apex of the mountain only to have it roll back down over and over. Push it again? Heck no. That feels... Read more
Wearable Technology and The Future of Fitness
The immediate future of wearables has started to reveal itself in the form of smarter clothing, smaller accessories, and possibly gesture-based interactions. The big question that remains to be answered is how these technologies will affect our relationships with fitness? We’re gonna jump ahead to the test answers to... Read more
9 Wireless Headphones For Pumping Up Your Workout
If you’ve ever been the victim of cord snagging — where your headphone cord hangs on anything in the gym ripping said headphones from your ears — then you know true anguish. It’s not only physically painful, it’s distracting and sometimes embarrassing. Your gym-time doesn’t have to be like... Read more
From the darkest trenches of war, the red carpet, America’s royalty, A.K.A. celebrities clock more time maintaining an enviable physique than any other profession. How else could they grace events with such Peter Pan elasticity? The secret to staying young? Body Hacks. Yes, our site, but the namesake activity... Read more
17 Gym Fails You Want No Part Of
Gyms can be scary places for uninitiated. The prospect of muscle-bound exercisers sweating and making funny noises is the last place someone who’s never been there wants to go. Not to mention, concerns like, what if I do something dumb? come to mind. To make matters worse, pictures online... Read more
7 New Wearables That Could Change Your Life
“Google Glass will help fight the antisocial and “emasculating” habit of compulsive smartphone checking.” – Sergey Brin Sadly, for the company now called Alphabet, Google’s mad dash into wearables was not life-changing. Maybe that’s because there was no health or fitness trackers in Glass. Perhaps if Glass’ focal point were... Read more
Avoid These Mistakes at the 2018 BDYHAX Convention in Texas Next Month
  Anyone who has an interest in hacking the human experience should drop everything to register for the 3-day BDYHAX convention Feb 2-4, 2018 in Austin, Texas. This will be the third installment of the now-annual convention in Austin, which seems to grow every year. This year’s lineup has... Read more
The Year 2017 in Review With 2018 Predictions
When we came to the end of 2016, Body Hacks was more about wearable technology so we penned a piece on what would come in 2017. This writer looked through that blog recently. We were pretty close on a number of predictions. In the year that followed that blog,... Read more
The Future of Body Hacking Through Your Mouth
  In 2018, expect to hear more about hacking the human body through the easiest port of entry, the mouth. It makes so much sense, it’s a cliche, almost a meme. How many times has someone said something to the effect of, “If I could simply take a pill... Read more
Explosive Indiegogo Campaign; VylyV Has Upgraded Their Love Muscle Wearable for Men
Finally, there’s a better solution for men which matches the countless Kegal tools out there for women. (I know right, Men?) It’s yet only a dream, a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo based on the original version, but the VylyV (pronounced Vé-liv) 2.0 version, called Swift, is crushing its crowdfunding... Read more
Zoltan Istvan; Libertarian, Transhumanist, and Governor of California?
On the 2018 California ballot, the good people of California will have a chance to vote not only for a candidate who stands for a unique political agenda but one who stands for an equally unique non-political ideology. Zoltan Istvan  will run on the Libertarian party’s platform, but... Read more
Gifting Fitness Wearables to Kids
  Child obesity rates are as high as they have ever been—about one in five children is obese according to the CDC—with no sign of that number going down soon. The data gets worse as the children approach childhood, worse in some demographic populations. Childhood obesity is alarming, not... Read more
Ready or Not Legit Human Gene Editing is Here
A group of scientists have used gene editing to cure humans of disease. The patient in question suffers from Hunter syndrome, a disorder affecting humans from childhood, where the body fails to produce an enzyme. The symptoms are many, but the treatment is weekly intravenous therapy. It’s a pain.... Read more
The State of Wearables and Integration
  As Under Armour (UA) recently canceled production their HealthBox suite of wearables it begs the question: What is the future for wearable tech integration? At one time, integration was all the future rage. It deserves to be said, there was also a time when we spent more time... Read more
Wearables Effect on Diabetic Lives Informs Us About the Future of Transhumanism
The Fitbit company recently announced their new partnership with One Drop. The partnership will add diabetes management to their premium wearable, the Ionic. As companies like Fitbit and Apple chase more and more health metrics, we learn something about the state of transhumanism. Hacking the human experience for performance enhancement... Read more