Fitness
Vox’s coverage of fitness, helping you understand the latest news and debunking myths.
Have we finally unlocked exercise’s biggest secret? Or is this yet another lie perpetrated Big Treadmill?
And why fitness culture is a quintessentially American invention.
Today’s trend goes back way further than the modern influencer.
Athletics for kids have gotten seriously intense.
How 20,000 steps became a new sign of wellness.
Obsessing over your fitness tracker might make you feel awful.
Are gadgets like Apple Watches and Oura Rings making us any healthier?
Muscles are a symbol of strength. So who’s allowed to be strong?
Getting hot for the summer isn’t cutting it anymore.
Men’s beauty standards are getting increasingly bizarre.
Yes, protein builds muscle. No, you don’t need as much as lifting influencers say.
For 20-somethings like me, it can bring order, and friendship, into our lives when we need it most.
The wearable device looks great but, unfortunately, it won’t solve all of your health problems.
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.