Fitness

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The Checkup: 10 Healthier Beers to Drink This Thirsty Thursday

• Beer lovers, rejoice: Thanks to these 10 beer bottles, you can enjoy happy hour without drinking an entire dinner’s worth of calories. [Greatist]

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The Checkup: 21 Delicious DIY Trail Mix Recipes for the Best Snack Time Ever

• I have a love-hate relationship with packaged trail mix: I love 90 percent of what’s in it, and loathe other 10 percent. With these […]

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BeWOW: The Lean, Mean Leg Workout

Let’s do some legs, shall we? This week’s workout is all about toning and strengthening your lower half. You’ll start with 10 reps of one […]

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How to Feel Better in Your Clothes: Be Well Philly Boot Camp

Having a fantastic wardrobe is one thing, but it’s all for naught if you don’t actually feel great in your clothes. Enter: Our third annual Be […]

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The Checkup: The Two-Week Crunch Challenge That’ll Transform Your Abs

• If crunches are your sworn enemy, listen up: I’m about to share a challenge that’ll have you doing 100 reps in a row in […]

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Your Weekend Workout Playlist: Come On, Get Happy Edition

Friends, I come bearing good news: The gloomy, miserable weather we’re having today won’t last through the weekend. My never-wrong weather app is telling me […]

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VIDEO: It Took Jillian Michaels 10 Years to Master This Insane Squat

Don’t you love, in yoga class or CrossFit or running or whatever, when you’re finally able to do something you’ve been working your butt off […]

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The Checkup: The Most Covetable Abs Ever (And How to Get Them Yourself)

• First, get super jealous of fitness instructor Aida Palau ripped six-pack abs. Then click through to steal her moves. [Q by Equinox]

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BeWOW: The Total-Body Workout for Time-Crunched Gym Days

If you’re looking at the calendar, trying to figure out how to squeeze a workout in this week, we’ve got you covered. Today’s workout will hit […]

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The Checkup: 3 Easy Tricks for Making Good Habits Stick

• The key to sticking with good habits? Starting small. Like, really small. [Huffington Post]

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Free Rides at Flywheel Philly This Week

UPDATE 12:58 p.m.: An earlier version of this post mistakenly said the Friday class was in Bryn Mawr. It is in Center City. Apologies for […]

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BeWOW: Stride It Out Workout

If you caught the running bug with all the Broad Street Run madness this past week, I don’t blame you—this is an exciting time of year […]

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The Checkup: 45 Ways to Use a TRX Trainer to Shred Your Whole Body

• If you feel intimidated by your gym’s TRX trainer—you know, those yellow and black straps hanging from a bar or the ceiling—don’t: The system is simple to […]

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The Checkup: Get Toned Fast With This 30-Day Push-up Challenge

• Remember the squat challenge we tackled in February? Here’s your fitness objective for May: This arm-and-core-toning push-up challenge that’ll have you doing 50 reps […]

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BeWOW: The Countdown Challenge

This week, you are going to count your way down to flatter abs, toned shoulders and lean legs. Here’s the deal: First, you’ll do 20 […]