For the final county meet of her stellar high school track and field career, Urbana’s Divine Bamgboye faced a physical and mental challenge that she really hadn’t before. For starters, she didn’t get ...

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Women are often told not to focus on weight loss if they go to the gym. There is a preconceived notion that lifting weights can turn them into a bodybuilder. They will become too muscular and lose out ...

Women often get trapped in endless cardio cycles, spending hours on treadmills and ellipticals while their leg muscles gradually weaken with age, setting them up for mobility problems, bone loss, and ...

When Olympic heptathlete Chari Hawkins was competing in college she says she constantly judged the way her body looked. “What’s so crazy is how much it got in the way of my performance,” she told the ...

When we’re trying to lose weight or improve our fitness, most of us focus our attention on diet and cardio exercise. We go for runs; we swim, we work out in a way that gets our heart racing and the ...

Sometimes it meant dinner at 10 p.m., but football was just the start of Kansas City Chiefs rookie Ashton Gillotte’s training as a teenager. Working alongside his trainer, Gillotte competed in Spartan ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Starre Vartan is the author of “The Stronger Sex: What Science Tells Us About the Power of the Female Body,” which will be published on July 15. People who lived through the Irish ...