Michael Easter
Michael Easter is a health and fitness writer, a visiting lecturer at UNLV, and the author of The Comfort Crisis.
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How Guy Fieri Found HIIT, Got Fit, and Dropped More Than 30 Pounds
The Mayor of Flavortown talks moderation, rucking, and cold plunge tubs.
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Is Scarcity Brain the Reason You're Miserable?
In this excerpt from Michael Easter's new book, Scarcity Brain, the author details how our caveman wiring can push us to want more than we need and to make—and repeat—bad choices.
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A Beginner's Guide to Battling Ropes
When you want to pack on lean mass, pick up a rugged rope.
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5 Awesome Adventures to Have in Vegas Right Now
From bouldering to barber shops.
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Can the Lumen Really Help You 'Hack' Your Metabolism? We Tried It to Find Out.
How to know whether you need a product like Lumen to help you eat better.
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Learn Functional Fitness From UFC Legend Nate Diaz
All your athleticism is nothing without the aerobic capacity to sustain it—and one UFC legend serves as proof.
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Learn Functional Fitness for Core Strength From Da Rulk
Situps and planks? Yawn. This elite trainer’s favorite move, the bear crawl, will unlock your core’s true potential.
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Learn Functional Fitness From Backcountry Survivalist Laura Zerra
Training can’t prep you for the unknown—unless you get comfortable training in the unknown, like this extreme survivalist.
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Learn Functional Fitness From Ice Climber Manoah Ainuu
How this climber with his eyes on Everest finally blended total-body mobility with his mountain-ready muscle.
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Learn Functional Fitness From World's Strongest Man Tom Stoltman
Think you’re strong enough to lift unbalanced loads and bigass rocks with the 2021 world’s strongest man? think again.
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What Happens When the Army Needs 36,000 Kettlebells, Fast
This is the remarkable true story of the largest order of fitness equipment ever placed.
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Take the Stairs to Be Fitter and Healthier
Only 2 percent of Americans will pass up a ride on an escalator and take the harder way up. What do they know that we don't?
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The '20-5-3' Rule Prescribes How Much Time to Spend Outside
Americans today spend 92 percent of their time indoors, and their physical and mental health are suffering. Use this three-number formula to make yourself stronger and happier.
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My Toughest Fitness Challenge Involved 100 Pounds of Caribou Meat
Part cardio test, part strength drill, carrying heavy loads long distances made me stronger and leaner than ever, says Michael Easter, the author of The Comfort Crisis.
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How Murph Became the Most Legendary Fitness Challenge Ever
It all begins with the story of Navy SEAL Lieutenant Michael P. Murphy's personal workout.
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How Tom Brady, LeBron James, and Other GOAT Athletes Stay in Game Shape
Use these moves to maintain explosive athleticism at any age.
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These 4 Athletes Are the Future of Their Sports
From Eliud Kipchoge to Giannis Antetokounmpo, these stars are changing the game.
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This Mobility Coach Is Using Social Media to Change the Way You Move
Mike Wasilisin of MoveU wants to help you fix. Yo. Sh*t.
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The Future of the Post-Pandemic Gym
Seven fitness futurists describe what gyms will look like after Covid-19.
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An Elite NBA Trainer Explains Why Quarter Squats Build Jumping Power
Paul Fabritz, C.S.C.S., founder of PJF Performance in Anaheim, is changing how elite athletes and regular Joes build leg power.
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Stefi Cohen Explains Why 'Don't Round Your Back' Isn't Always Helpful Lifting Advice
The record-breaking powerlifter and PT explains the subtleties to safe lifts.
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How One of the Most Advanced Fitness Trackers Monitors Your Health
Whoop, the performance device used by pro athletes and weekend warriors alike, uses these specific measures.
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Chandler Smith Is Bringing the Change CrossFit Needs
The Army vet who placed sixth in the 2020 CrossFit Games joined the CompTrain team and is now gunning for the top spot and smashing barriers along the way.
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These Two Men Are on a Mission to Save CrossFit
Can CrossFit’s techy new CEO, Eric Roza , and its controversial exercise Picasso, Dave Castro, transform the toxic fitness giant?
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Inside the Knockdown, Drag-Out War on Saturated Fat
Healthy or heart attack? Here's the latest on the fight over eating fat.
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This Astronaut Relies on Two Exercises to Build Muscle to Survive in Space
Former Navy SEAL and Harvard med school grad Jonny Kim, M.D., forges total body strength the most efficient way possible.
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How This Ecologist Starts His Day With Three Hundred Burpees up the Side of a Redwood
Anthony Ambrose PH.D. needs major leg strength to reach his office.
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Here’s Why Breast Milk Isn’t a Good Workout Supplement for Bodybuilders
Netflix's newest series (Un)Well explores the fitness fad... but is it actually effective?
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The Spec-Ops Guys Behind The App Transforming Military Fitness
SOFLETE is trying to fix the military’s busted fitness culture with an app that delivers strategic workouts and mindset tactics that are more Zen monk than drill sergeant.
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This 9-Move Spec-Ops Workout Makes You Stronger, Faster, and Tougher.
Prepare your body for whatever life throws at it with this 30-minute workout, created by the team at SOFLETE.
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The 37 Best Fitness Gifts
Gym junkies, runners, and more will go nuts for these gifts.
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Kyle Khaayák’w Worl, Star of the Eskimo-Indian Olympics, Does 400 Pushups a Day
How one man in Alaska is helping to keep Native sports—and ancient traditions that inspire all of us—alive.