Fitness
Vox’s coverage of fitness, helping you understand the latest news and debunking myths.
They offer so much more than a pleasant way to spend an afternoon.
Ozempic has become hugely popular. Researchers are racing to learn more about what it does to us.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced that the broken bike seat could cause injuries like lacerations and bruises.
To make sense of the ending of Trust Exercise, stop thinking of the characters as individuals.
The threat of being killed merely for existing can shape black men’s lives.
Social distancing put a stop to group fitness. Now it’s found a new start online.
Bodies do burn fuel to stay warm — but it’s complicated.
Diet and exercise are especially challenging for disabled people.
Christie Aschwanden investigated the sports recovery market and found you don’t need sports drinks, cupping, or ice baths.
The rich are getting fitter while the poor are falling behind.
Four in 10 Americans get no exercise each week.
Some classes have nine times the recommended noise exposure dose for an entire day.
The celebrity doctor is winning.
We should use “red team exercises” to respond to climate change, not deny it.
More flexibility isn’t necessarily a good thing.
Physical activity may have less to do with weight loss than we think.
Walking to work and cleaning your house both qualify.
You may be underestimating or overestimating the calories burned by as much as 20 percent.
Which doctors believed … in the Victorian era.
Two new studies explore the game’s impact on health.
The advice in their pages is too often insane, aimed at fearmongering, and totally science-free.
The science of yoga’s health benefits and harms, explained.
This is how rock climbers, Eisenhower, and Swiss kids forced you to do pullups.
Working out allows you to revel in your full humanity.
A lot has changed since the 1960s, but a lot has stayed the same.
Desk jobs don’t have to make us fatter, sicker, and duller. It’s possible to transform nearly any office into a place that leaves us fit and energized.
If anything, it seems to slightly sap your muscle strength
The history of presidential fitness campaigns begins 60 years ago, with the release of a hugely influential report on American health.