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5 Fitness Trackers That Don’t Look like Fitness Trackers
“How do you like your tracker?” asks the cashier at the grocery store. Ugh. You so wanted to talk to random people about your fitness tracker over-and-over… except, no. Thankfully, you don’t have to look like an early adopter to be one. Here are five fitness trackers, from the... Read more
Foods That are Slowing Your Fat Loss Results
Everything you eat is wrong. That seems to be the message with most nutrition advice. Let’s agree not to do that. Let’s not polarize food the way children see the world as bad or good. This is the route of fad diets. Avoid. Instead, let’s consider food choices as... Read more
5 Ways To Burn Fat Without Leaving Your Desk
One the biggest hurdles people face for not making good on new year’s resolutions is time. People work too many hours. Finding time to go to a gym or play dodgeball is impossible. If there were just some way we could burn body fat while we worked, then we... Read more
8 Completely Wireless Earbuds to Revolutionize Workouts
There comes a time in every adult’s life when she has to face the important facts about life: most headphones will not stay in your ears during a good workout. What’s worse, they will probably rip out of your ears right in the middle of your final rep, lap, max... Read more
5 New Habits for Meditation: A Guide
Confession time; I meditate. Confession number two: despite three dedicated years of quiet time, I can cite exactly ZERO visions. There have been no shining lights, no sages on the mountain top. It’s a daily investment of about 20-30 minutes of my time with not one cool story to... Read more
Warning: Shame and Pride Don’t Belong in Your Diet
When you make dietary choices that you know aren’t your strongest ones, you feel guilt. Guilt relates to your perceptions of self. There’s a degree of healthiness to guilt in this case. If you didn’t feel some guilt, you may never govern your intake, which could be dangerous. I... Read more
Track the movement of each muscle, down to the fiber, without wires and lab technicians. Sound impossible? Expensive? Athos Connected Apparel is neither. While most conversations about wearables are focused on making them disappear, there is one product, which has gone the other direction. If Athos is the product for your... Read more
3 Fitness Trackers That Will Improve Your Punches
Combat may be the oldest form of fitness, predating sport. Since the dawn of humanity, fighting has been a part of our existence; the fight against other humans for power, animals for food, nature for survival. It’s no wonder so many people today find a practice of the fighting... Read more
As a confessed sugarholic (joking) I’ve been around the sweetness horn. When I was a kid, my mother wouldn’t buy artificially sweetened cereals because they were not healthy. She did, however, allow my older brother and me to sugar-coat our Wheat Chex. I would coat that stuff like snowfall, sometimes... Read more
Rolled out this year, the Under Armour (UA) Speedform Gemini 2 RE will track your activity similar to a wristband, but without the added weight bouncing on your arm. RE stands for Record Equipped, but it means so much more. These are the first standalone shoes for tracking fitness.... Read more
It’s hard to imagine that anything you do to your diet could be worse than what you’re doing currently. You’ve been talking about finally dropping the weight for as long as you can remember. Where to start? Unfortunately, the lion’s share of trendy advice is full of recommendations which could... Read more
The End of Wearables? The Naked 3D Fitness Tracker
The brainchild of two fitness-minded engineers, The Naked 3D Fitness Tracker scans and weighs your whole body in 20 seconds, eliminating your brain’s biases, presenting you with raw data instead of perceptions. It will replace every tool you’ve been using to measure your body fat or mass, including the water... Read more
People who wear fitness trackers are still considered early adopters. Many of the best are still in their first or second versions. When fitness trackers become invisible, when everyone from the aging adult population to little kids wear them, then we’ll be there. By then, wearables may not actually be worn.... Read more
As reported in Science Advances Tomoyuki Yokota and his colleagues from the Someya Group at the University of Tokyo have created the next generation of cybernetic skin, solving a major challenge previously holding them up. They’re calling their creation e-skin. E-skin flexes even crumples and works well in water and air.... Read more
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