So everyone you know is sick, and you can’t afford the time off work if you come down with something. It helps to eat and sleep well and wash your hands often, but now maybe…
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Get Free Science Illustrations From the Biodiversity Heritage Library
If you’re looking for a new wallpaper, a tattoo idea, or just an amazing time scrolling through illustrations from the past, the Biodiversity Heritage Library holds a treat for you. Its thousands of public domain…
Let’s Train Our Open Hand Grip
In our month-long quest to get stronger hands and forearms, we’ve trained our crush grip, support grip, and pinch grip. Now it’s time for a different challenge: open hand grip, the kind of grip that…
How to Train Consistently Without Losing Motivation
I lift. A lot. I’m at the gym usually six days a week, and I find an excuse to compete every couple of months. While it’s fine (and maybe even healthier) for exercise to be…
How to Quit Using a Barbell Pad for Squats
At most gyms, there’s a cylindrical pad on the floor somewhere near the squat rack. (If it’s not there, check the Smith machine.) When I first started squatting, I needed that pad on the bar—or…
How Much Recovery Do You Need Between Workouts?
If you work out hard on a Monday, you’ll be a bit fatigued on Tuesday. You can still go to the gym, but your performance may suffer a little. That prospect may leave you wondering…
How to Keep People From Talking to You at the Gym
The social aspect of exercise can be fun and all, but not all of us are up for chitchat when it’s time to get a workout in. Here’s how you can exude the right keep-away…
Spermicidal Condoms Are No Good
A condom that can actually kill sperm sounds like a pretty good deal when it comes to birth control, right? But it turns out they aren’t any more effective than regular condoms, and they can…
How to Strengthen Your Pinch Grip
We’ve worked our crush grip with grippers and our support grip with hangs and deadlift holds. Now it’s time for another type of grip strength: the pinch grip. Read more…
Get a Group Fitness Experience on Your Own With These Apps
Fitness classes can be motivating in a way that exercising by yourself is not. Somebody’s pushing you to go the distance, to do that next rep, and with luck they’ll drown out the part of…
The Best Workout Videos to Do Alone
There’s nothing like a YouTube video when you want to do a workout but just want everybody to leave you the heck alone. No classmates, no passers-by on the sidewalk, and you can even ignore…
Better Nutrition Labels Are Finally Here
Nearly four years after we first told you about it, nutrition labels are finally changing. Calories are more prominent, “added sugars” is in while “calories from fat” is out, and the serving size is, in…
What Travelers Should Know About the Coronavirus
The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 (as we’re calling it now) is still mainly circulating in China, with only about 2 percent of its cases in other countries. Still, if you’re traveling you may be nervous…
Your Racist Coronavirus Jokes Aren’t Funny
There’s something harmful and horrific spreading across this country, and it’s not a biological illness. It’s the idea that calling coronavirus “kung flu” is funny. Read more…
How Did Lysol ‘Know’ About the Coronavirus Before it Happened?
The coronavirus that’s been making headlines was not known to science before late 2019. And yet, people are posting photos of old bottles of Lysol and Clorox wipes that claim their contents can kill coronavirus.…
How to Get a Stronger Support Grip for Deadlifts and Hangs
When you first start doing deadlifts, you’re probably thinking about how hard they are for your back, your butt, your legs. But once the motion is second nature, another body part comes into play: your…