Michael Easter
Michael Easter is a health and fitness writer, a visiting lecturer at UNLV, and the author of The Comfort Crisis.
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Stefi Cohen Explains Why 'Don't Round Your Back' Isn't Always Helpful Lifting Advice
The record-breaking powerlifter and PT explains the subtleties to safe lifts.
How One of the Most Advanced Fitness Trackers Monitors Your Health
Whoop, the performance device used by pro athletes and weekend warriors alike, uses these specific measures.

Chandler Smith Is Bringing the Change CrossFit Needs
The Army vet who placed sixth in the 2020 CrossFit Games joined the CompTrain team and is now gunning for the top spot and smashing barriers along the way.

These Two Men Are on a Mission to Save CrossFit
Can CrossFit’s techy new CEO, Eric Roza , and its controversial exercise Picasso, Dave Castro, transform the toxic fitness giant?

This Astronaut Relies on Two Exercises to Build Muscle to Survive in Space
Former Navy SEAL and Harvard med school grad Jonny Kim, M.D., forges total body strength the most efficient way possible.

How This Ecologist Starts His Day With Three Hundred Burpees up the Side of a Redwood
Anthony Ambrose PH.D. needs major leg strength to reach his office.

Here’s Why Breast Milk Isn’t a Good Workout Supplement for Bodybuilders
Netflix's newest series (Un)Well explores the fitness fad... but is it actually effective?

The Spec-Ops Guys Behind The App Transforming Military Fitness
SOFLETE is trying to fix the military’s busted fitness culture with an app that delivers strategic workouts and mindset tactics that are more Zen monk than drill sergeant.

This 9-Move Spec-Ops Workout Makes You Stronger, Faster, and Tougher.
Prepare your body for whatever life throws at it with this 30-minute workout, created by the team at SOFLETE.


Kyle Khaayák’w Worl, Star of the Eskimo-Indian Olympics, Does 400 Pushups a Day
How one man in Alaska is helping to keep Native sports—and ancient traditions that inspire all of us—alive.
