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Build stronger legs in 6 minutes a day, try this chair routine from a certified trainer. After 55, leg strength becomes a daily-life skill as it shows up when you stand from a chair, climb stairs, carry groceries, or stay steady on uneven ground. Strong legs support balance, joint health, and confidence, and they do it without demanding long workouts or heavy equipment. When training feels approachable, consistency follows, and that’s where real muscle-building momentum starts. Chair-based training fits perfectly into that equation. A chair gives you support, feedback, and a clear range of motion, helping you load your legs…
Devotion has a way of sounding virtuous by default. If something matters, we’re told, we should give ourselves to it fully. No hedging. No hesitation. Just focus, discipline, and resolve. But devotion isn’t automatically wise. Held too tightly, devotion closes us off. It turns care into control. Attention narrows, feedback fades, and the very thing we’re devoted to begins to crowd out everything else that once gave it meaning. The danger isn’t distraction—it’s devotion that stops being examined. At the same time, attention without devotion doesn’t remain neutral. When we don’t choose what deserves our care, something else does. Urgency…
When he’s not living the suburban life—marketing job, wife, toddler, dog—Zach Fowle is strapped into his ergometer, the rhythmic whirring ticking off the hundreds of miles he travels every year without leaving his basement. Fowle, 38, has been a competitive indoor rower for five years. However, he didn’t transition from water to machine like many rowers. “My CrossFit coach noticed I always crushed the workout’s rowing segment and suggested I try competing,” he says. Fowle began with virtual competitions, racing against other rowers worldwide via online platforms and specialized apps. He soon qualified for his first major in-person event, the…
These exercises will help tone the neck muscles. “Turkey neck” is a common part of natural aging. It’s that saggy, loose skin that accumulates under the chin, caused mainly by the loss of elastin and collagen. There are other contributors, including exposure to too much sun, genetics, and significant weight loss. We all agree that aging isn’t always fair, but that doesn’t mean you can’t take action to improve the situation. If you’re ready to take control, we’re ready with five chair exercises to smooth turkey neck faster than gym machines after 60. “Chair exercises can be a better alternative…
The Year of the Fire Horse carries bold, expressive energy. It is fast moving and instinct driven, the kind of year that nudges you to stop circling your ideas and actually act on them. You may feel more decisive, more creative, and more willing to take risks. That spark is powerful. But without intention, it can also feel scattered or overstimulating. Fire is not something to suppress. It is something to tend. When it is grounded, it becomes magnetism and momentum. When it runs unchecked, it can leave you feeling depleted even while you are accomplishing more. The goal this…
Alistair Black (real name: Tom Büdgen) may have left his home in Amsterdam to pursue a love of pro wrestling, but he’s taken his European influence into every ring that he’s ever grappled in. Together with a vast background in martial arts, Black’s WWE performances offer an exciting mix of striking and chain wrestling, a rapidly waning skill that is being lost in the current era of “sports entertainment.” M&F sat down with the detail-oriented Dutchman, to find out how his training has evolved during his career so far, and how he’s passing this wisdom down to the next generation…
Machines don’t address the need for “real-life control.” If you’re training your legs at the gym, the leg press machine is likely part of your routine. This tool offers a low-impact way to strengthen major lower-body muscle groups—including the hamstrings, quads, and glutes—without placing undue stress on the lower back. That said, machines often “isolate effort” and eliminate the essential need for “real-life control,” explains Matt Bandelier, personal trainer and director of business development at Eden Health Club. So, Bandelier outlines a speedy eight-minute routine that helps restore thigh strength quicker than using the leg press machine. “The leg press…
If a random yap session or do-nothing hangout has left you feeling warm and glowy, you know how even everyday interactions can lift your spirits. “But social connection isn’t just mood-boosting,” Kasley Killam, MPH, a social scientist and author of The Art and Science of Connection, tells SELF. “It’s core to how your body is working and a driver of physical health and longevity.”That’s the idea behind the concept of social health, which Killam defines as “the dimension of your overall well-being that comes from your relationships.” In 2025, the World Health Organization released a report designating social health as…
Unilateral exercises like the single-leg Romanian Deadlift—aka the RDL— reduce muscle imbalances, strengthen stabilizer muscles, and enhance muscle development. But there are some drawbacks to these types of moves—the biggest possibly being the inevitable wobbles. Once you go heavy, fighting to stay upright oftentimes become a bigger challenge than building muscle. The fix, however, is simple: By holding a secure anchor, you’ll take the awkwardness out the exercise. Adding stability will drive more action to the working muscle. That’s the thinking behind the assisted single-leg RDL. By holding onto a rack or wall for light support, you remove balance as…
A personal fitness trainer shares a 15-minute daily circuit to shrink belly overhang, start today. As a personal trainer and fitness educator, I’ve worked with thousands of older adults, and one of their biggest concerns is the fat on their stomach and more specifically, fat that has started to hang down. Too many of them have given up and believe there’s nothing they can do about it, often making the problem worse by not exercising in any meaningful way and eating badly. Fortunately, it’s more than possible to fix this issue with some clever workout and diet choices. Here are…