exercise

Your Gym Sucks

Hamilton Nolan · 01/27/11 01:16PM

Oh gosh, something to be concerned about: people now are just going to cheap gyms and working out and leaving, rather than indulging in the "community" of group classes and flirting and juice bars. Will gyms ever be annoying again?

Michelle Obama Gets Blamed for Pedestrian Deaths

Jim Newell · 01/20/11 04:51PM

Pedestrian deaths increased in 2010, and it was Michelle Obama's fault. This is what we're learning today! Specifically: Maybe if Michelle Obama's anti-obesity campaign wasn't urging people to exercise regularly, cars would hit them less often?

This Is Why You Shouldn't Bring Your Cat with You to Yoga

Matt Cherette · 01/20/11 12:01AM

If you like to do yoga to stay fit, or sane, or whatever, then you might want to take a lesson from this video: don't bring your cat with you, because—if you do—it just may scratch your crotch.

The More People Drink the More They Exercise

Richard Lawson · 01/07/11 02:37PM

A new study published in the American Journal of Health Promotion found that people who drink heavily tend to exercise more than people who drink moderately. Our own studies have proven this completely false. Unless using SeamlessWeb counts as exercise.

Every Pound You Gain Brings You Closer to Death (Not Even Kidding)

Hamilton Nolan · 12/02/10 04:05PM

Obesity surgery! Overweight death! Diabetic exercise! Medvedev pull ups! McDonald's health care! DC water! Prostate drugs! Fish oil eyes! Miscarriage hearts! And deaf smoke! It's your Thursday Health Watch, where we watch your health—in stereo-o-oh!

New AIDS Pill Is Like, 'Goodbye, AIDS'

Hamilton Nolan · 11/23/10 03:11PM

Baby radiation! Benadryl doom! AIDS pill! Boomer sex! Large 'n lovely! Birth defects! Attitude gratitude! Youth strength! Salt intake! It's your Tuesday Health Watch, where we watch your health—with unrestrained glee, and that's not a teevee show!

Farewell, Sweet Darvon

Hamilton Nolan · 11/19/10 02:39PM

No Darvon! Airport smoking! Lou Gehrig's disease! Gym grunting! Flu shots! Racewalking! Nigerian curses! And mental illness is a call to arms! It's your Friday Health Watch, where we watch your health—while hallucinating and self-medicating in a nonstop cycle!

First-Person Time Lapse of Woman Running NYC Marathon

Christopher Han · 11/08/10 06:45PM

With a camera attached to her head, runner Gwen Schroeder decided to showcase what it's like to run a marathon. Staten Island. Brooklyn. Queens. the Bronx. Manhattan. It's a great tour of the city, some stretches lined with Gatorade cups.

Walrus Exercises With Trainer

nightintern · 10/26/10 11:24AM

Watch a walrus do crunches, leg flexes, arm stretches, and really get a superb all-round body workout. After watching this you have no excuse but to.. find a walrus of your own to train.

Slim and Celibate or Stout but Turned Out?

Hamilton Nolan · 08/12/10 02:33PM

Sex vs. dieting! Childhood obesity debates! Bamboo bikes! Genius t-shirts! Swimming while criminal! And an easy way to beat anger, for stupid jerks! It's your Thursday Fitness Watch, where we watch your fitness—while ignoring our own!

This is How Your Mom Exercised in 1982

Whitney Jefferson · 08/05/10 02:30PM

Here's a lost VHS that Jazzercise founder Judi Sheppard Missett probably wishes never made it to YouTube. The three ladies trim their waistlines while they sing "Move your Boogie Body" by the Bar-Kays completely a cappella. That's some interesting cardio!