John Malone hit the gym for years, doing planks and taking abdominal-workout classes without ever achieving his goal: a sculpted stomach. “I’m very vain,” the 40-year-old information-technology ...

There’s a lot of debate about weight machines in the fitness world. Some people gravitate towards them because they seem a heck of a lot easier than cranking out some reps with a pair of dumbbells or ...

CR Fitness Holdings, the leading and fastest-growing franchise group of Crunch Fitness, announced recently that it has ...

Whether you’re trying to tone up for beach season or simply to improve your core strength, a solid ab workout routine is essential. Although you can do core exercises with little more than a mat, many ...

Core strength testing has come a long way from the straight-legged, twisting sit-ups used before World War II. We've moved on to bent-knee sit-ups, to crunches and now to the plank pose or hanging ...

Gamification is nothing new on the exercise front, of course. It’s been a foundational element of fitness bands — and later smartwatches — essentially since the beginning. And for good reason — it’s ...

Few tech sectors had more to gain from the events of 2020 than home fitness. Interest in the category was swift, as gyms were declared one of the bigger problem areas amid the worldwide spread of ...