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The Checkup: 14 Sneaky Ways to Strengthen Your Abs

• We’ve got good news for you: You’re already doing more than you think to strengthen your ab muscles. Here, trainers dish on how pretty […]

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The Checkup: 21 Charts to Help You Finally (Finally!) See Your Abs 

• If you never seem to see any change in your abs — no matter how much you plank or how many salads you subject yourself […]

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The Checkup: The Abs Exercises You Should Probably Stop Wasting Time Doing

• We are all about efficiency around these parts (because why waste time doing one thing when you could spend it analyzing Lemonade yet again?). […]

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Be Well Workout of the Week: 9 Moves to Tone Your Arms and Abs

Short-sleeve weather will happen this year (eventually) — I’m convinced. So, let’s get those arms in tip-top shape! This workout mainly targets your upper body, with a […]

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The Checkup: How to Make a Loaf of Bread Last Forever

• Whenever I get bread at La Colombe’s Fishtown location (if you haven’t consumed an entire loaf of their fig bread in one sitting, I […]

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The Checkup: Ack! Doing This Makes Spring Allergies Feel Even Worse

• If you rely on over-the-counter nasal decongestant spray during spring allergy season like you usually rely on, say, water or air, you’re going to […]

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The Checkup: Tiny Workout Tweaks That Guarantee Enviable Abs

• If you’ve been going hard on abs day, only to look in the mirror and ask, “Um, where are my abs?” it’s time to […]

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Be Well Workout of the Week: Reimagine Your Core Workout

What is your core, exactly, you ask? Well, the core is made up of much more than just the abs on the front of your body. It […]

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The Checkup: How to Make the Perfect Omelet — Without Having to Wash ANY Dishes After

• I hate nothing more than scraping burnt egg bits off of a pan. Which is why I was flabbergasted to learn I never have […]

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The Checkup: The One Abs-Toning Move to Do Before Every Workout

• We love a good double-duty move around these parts: Working in standing toe touches before you get your sweat on serves as both a […]

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The Checkup: The Most Efficient Exercise to Strengthen Your Entire Core

• A recent study put folks to work, having them perform a slew of of abs-strengthening exercises while hooked up to electrodes to determine which […]

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The BeWOW Breakdown: This 30-Minute Workout Will Leave You Drenched in Sweat

This Week’s Workout: Tone Your Abs and Butt in 30 Minutes Flat  The Breakdown Total time commitment: 30 minutes Difficulty (out of five): 3.5 Soreness Factor: […]

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3 Tweaks to Make Your Ab Workouts Way More Effective

Getting strong, sculpted abs is often the number one item on everyone’s fitness wish list. As a longtime Pilates instructor, I’ve fielded hundreds of questions […]

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The Checkup: The Ultimate Arsenal of Yoga Poses for Killer Abs

• The nice thing about yoga poses is that, as long as you have a bit of wiggle room, you can do them just about anywhere. […]

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The Checkup: Trying to Slash Belly Fat? Work Out Like This, Science Says

• If you’re looking to get rid of stubborn belly fat just in time for beach season, a new study published in the Journal of […]