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Workouts for People Who’d Rather Be Reading

Reading is my favorite hobby — and if it were an Olympic sport, I’m pretty sure I’d be a gold medalist. Sadly, reading is a sedentary sport. While books nourish the mind, our bodies often pay the price for all that sitting and page-turning. Movement, at its core, is about…
Eliza Knight
December 30, 2025
Miscellany

Why I Gave My Fitbit Away: A Cautionary Tale

Look, it’s no secret that I’m prone to bouts of unbelievable idiocy. There was the time I decided rock climbing was, “totally the exercise I’ve always been looking for” and wound up on display, stricken with vertigo half-way up a rock wall in a crowded shopping mall. I’d known I…
Joel Higgins
July 6, 2015
Nonfiction

Avital Zeisler on turning women into Weapons of Fitness

In the wake of her darkest moment, Avital Zeisler became a living weapon. Through the study of self-defense, she transformed her body and herself, while at the same time conquering fear and reclaiming her life. Now, Zeisler is sharing her methods in her book, Weapons of Fitness: The Woman’s Ultimate…
Michael Ruscoe
June 15, 2015