The Checkup: The No-Excuses Ab Exercise You Can Do Anywhere

And more morning reads to help keep you in tip-top shape this week.

• If you are oh-so-tired of planks, try this no-equipment, standing ab exercise that will give you the burn of a plank, minus the sore forearms. Bonus: You can do it anywhere you are, so long as you don’t mind getting a few “Uhhhh, what the heck is that person doing?” stares. [POPSUGAR Fitness]

• What’s worse than peeling a hardboiled egg and getting a sharp piece of shell jammed under your fingernail? Nothing. Nothing. And that’s where this trick, which makes getting the shell off of hardboiled eggs way easier, comes in. [PureWOW]

3D-printed running shoes? They exist now. Let’s all give the folks at New Balance a nice big round of applause. [Women’s Health]

• Yikes: Yesterday, the principal deputy of the director of the CDC told reporters about Zika, “Everything we look at with this virus seems to be a bit scarier than we initially thought.” [TIME]

• If dreaming about a day when a nap bar — like this pop-up nap bar in Dubai — opens in Philly is wrong, I don’t want to be right. [Huffington Post]

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