There are lots of sites online that tell you how to beat procrastination in your jobs, how to focus on that essay you really have to write, that report the boss wants by Friday, and so on — they’re pretty great for blasting you out of a last-minute rut, or at least giving you some [...]

We’ve been reading some studies about how unconscious gender roles have big real-world effects:  one study had mothers discussing their daughters’ school results, and saying things like “I was never good in math, either.” OK — sounds like standard empathy from a parent to a child. But the study found that these kind of statements [...]

GET FIT, AND HAVE BETTER SEX — HOW EXERCISE HELPS IN THE BEDROOM We talk a lot about fitness on BodyRock, and lifestyle is a huge part of that. The better you live, the better you exercise — it’s all connected. And there’s no reason to exclude what goes on in the bedroom (or elsewhere) [...]

DOES WORKING OUT REALLY PROLONG YOUR LIFE? It seems so obvious as to be clichéd — staying in shape and keeping active will help us live longer. And it’s usually phrased in such a way to seem incredible: exercise will literally add years to your life, as though things are already mapped out — just [...]

A FEW WAYS TO STOP WORRYING ABOUT BEING ‘SKINNY’ People are always trying to get more skinny. It’s the main reason a lot of people start exercising — to lose weight, lose weight, and lose more weight. And no matter how much we lose, there’s always a little bit more to go. Especially for people [...]

5 Amazing Reasons Why Measuring Yourself Will Super-Charge Your Fitness Like Crazy. Picture this — you strap a device to your arm, and do your workout. When you’re done, it automatically transmits all your workout data to your computer, where you can look over every little piece of information on how you did. You get [...]

This is one of the most frequently asked fitness questions that I get. Of course we all want to know how fast we can get in shape and how quickly we can transform our bodies. The most realistic answer that I can give you without actually having evaluated your individual fitness level and starting point [...]

DIET VS. EXERCISE — WHAT SHOULD WE FOCUS ON THE MOST? Here’s an interesting story: a recent study found that it’s far better to be fit and overweight than to be simply thin. The study found that women who didn’t do any exercise — including the slim ones — were far more at risk for [...]

Let’s talk about gyms. Despite many great efforts, they are places that can still be ridiculously gender-specific, and the expectations that get created in gyms can spill out into all forms of exercise in general. This is a bad thing for many reasons, one of which is that these dated expectations limit women from doing [...]

There’s one of those simple questions, one that gets harder the more you think about it. “To feel better,” we might say. “To get in shape” is another common reply. But we can keep asking further questions that stem from those ones: “why do you want to feel better?” or “why do you need to [...]