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Outdoor Snow Day Workout This Afternoon in Rittenhouse Square

If you’re feeling especially hard core today, Unite Fitness is hosting a pop-up snow day workout in Rittenhouse Square this afternoon at 4:30. My advice […]

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Be Well Workout of the Week: Kick-Butt Cardio Workout You’ll Love

It’s cardio time, people. But not just the phone-it-in, 30-minutes-on-the-elliptical kind of cardio. (Also, can you say, “Booooooring”?) This is the serious, butt-kicking, praying-for-it-to-be-over kind […]

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Get Half-Price Classes at Lithe Method’s New Rittenhouse Studio

If this doesn’t rid you of the Monday blues, I don’t know what will: Lithe Method is offering 10 classes for the price of five […]

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To Do: DJ Night at Unite Fitness

If you’re going to challenge yourself with a super hard workout, you might as well turn it into a party, right? Right. That’s the goal […]

City Life

NYT: South Philly Clinic Offers Help Immigrants Can’t Get Elsewhere

The New York Times today focuses on how illegal immigrants are left behind by Obamacare—they can’t get subsidies for insurance, and are not subject to […]

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HEADS UP: The Happy Healthy Lesbian Online Conference Starts Next Week

Your 2014 resolution to become the best lesbian you can be just became a little more attainable. Next week the Happy Healthy Lesbian Telesummit kicks […]

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Fitbit Users Complain of Painful Rashes from Bracelet Body Trackers

Would you like a red, splotchy, burning rash with your new Fitbit Force? Because according to the Huffington Post, that’s what you might get. Users […]

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The Checkup: YES! Strength Training Burns More Calories Than You Think

• Think lifting weights won’t give you a good calorie burn? Think again. New research reveals that strength-training activities burn twice as many calories as […]

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10 Ways to Score a Date at the Gym (Without Looking Like a Total Creep)

Getting hit on at the gym is perhaps the biggest cliche, like, ever. It’s happened to pretty much everyone I know—women and men alike—at some […]

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To Do: Pink Floyd “Dark Side of the Moon” Spin Class at Tone Zone

How cool is this? On Friday, Conshy fitness studio Tone Zone is hosting a Pink Floyd-themed Dark Ride of the Moon (get it?) indoor cycling […]

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Where to Find Free Workouts Every Day of the Week in Philly

Don’t want to pony up for a gym membership? No problem. There are free workouts happening around Philly every day of the week—you just have […]

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BeWOW: Sculpt Your Arms With This Killer Workout

If there’s one thing I can promise you about this week’s Be Well Workout, it’s this: Your arms will feel like Jell-O when you’re finished. […]

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The Checkup: 21 Exercises Trainers Swear By

• You could craft a pretty killer workout out of these 21 exercises trainers love. [Shape]

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Conquer Gymtimidation with These Six Pro Tricks

If the idea of working out in a gym sends you into a full-blown panic attack, you’re not alone. I mean, it’s a building crammed […]

City Life

Philly 7th Best City for…Losing Weight?

Philly, according to Trulia, is the seventh best city in the country for losing weight. Maybe because…we’re already packing the most weight? Perhaps. But really […]