By targeting your ab muscles in an upright position, the workout becomes more functional as it relates to running.

Think the fitness tests you did in gym class were tough? The U.S. military has been putting its service members through the ...

Adding calisthenics between sets of speed and goal-pace running and swimming can be an effective way to combine muscle ...

Sit-ups may seem old-school, but they remain one of the most straightforward and revealing measures of real-world core strength. In just a single minute, you can test your endurance, mobility, and ...

A lot of people avoid doing sit-ups because they don’t feel like they have enough core strength to do the move without putting strain on their neck and back. It’s true it’s not the easiest exercise to ...

Introduction: Assessing and monitoring physical fitness in children and adolescents requires valid, reliable, and feasible tests. The digital motor performance test (DigiMot) was developed for remote ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Lie on the mat with your arms extended straight up.

When I was 13, an incoming freshman in high school, I realized that joining a fall sport would be a great way to make friends in a school where I knew only one other student. So, despite never having ...

Objective: This study analyzes university students’ physical fitness and, based on the results, applies cluster analysis to identify homogeneous groups with aim to optimize physical education programs ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday reestablished the Presidential Fitness Test for American children, a fixture of public schools for decades that gauged young people’s health and athleticism with ...