American men are much more likely to pursue strength training than women. CDC data published in May 2022 revealed that 35.2% of adult men and 26.9% of adult women met the federal guideline for ...

Splitting up your workouts can help you train harder while still recovering well. If you’re doing full-body workouts every day, your muscles may never get a real break. Alternating upper- and ...

Three new titles explore the power of women building muscle. By Danielle Friedman For most of modern history, women were warned that lifting heavy weights was unladylike and possibly dangerous. Even ...

Dispelling the myth that weightlifting makes women bulky, this article reveals that strength training actually builds lean ...

For years, we’ve been bombarded by the trope of aging gracefully—staying small, moving slowly, playing it safe in the gym and in life. But a growing number of women are rejecting that tired script and ...

For years, we’ve been bombarded by the trope of aging gracefully—staying small, moving slowly, playing it safe in the gym and in life. But a growing number of women are rejecting that tired script and ...

Home workouts are kind of the best: You can show up in your jammies, rock out to the Wicked soundtrack without shame, or simultaneously stream your Housewives city of choice to help get your heart ...

When Lindsay Quyle first started lifting weights, she felt super intimidated. "I didn't fit in with that gym bro culture," she says. At the time, she saw weight rooms as the domain of men, filled with ...

I’m not joking. When people ask what my favorite Olympic spectator sport is, I answer “women’s weight lifting.” There’s usually a pause, as people assume a punch line will follow. After all, this is a ...