The weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day can be treacherous from a health and wellness perspective. Holiday gatherings inevitably include higher consumption of salt, sugar, fat and alcohol.

Box jumps: Pick a stable surface that you can jump onto and land safely (use a step, bench in the gym, low wall outside, etc). Start in a squat and jump from both feet to land on both feet in a squat ...

What you need for this week’s workout: one bench and one weight — that’s it! Well, a sturdy bench, I should say. Each exercise will incorporate the bench in some way, so you want to make sure it’s a ...

Elevated Plank Row Why: Add a core training component to the basic row by holding a plank position throughout the set. You'll work your back muscles as you would with a standard dumbbell row, but ...

Why: “This is a nice way to add lower back action to your back workout,” Samuel says. By rowing in a static bent-over position, your lower back muscles will work overtime to hold your torso at a ...

Basketball is the sport I grew up playing the most back in the 1970s. But these days, whenever I play with a 40-and-older group (what I call the “belly-bumper” crowd) the game becomes far less ...

NOT ALL FAST-MOVING, short-period workouts are created equal. You might think that the only thing you can do in a condensed amount of time—like, say, five minutes—would be to ramp up your heart rate ...

Start with your hands on a raised surface, such as a bench or a chair, with a dumbbell on the floor beneath you. Separate your feet into a wide stance. Drop your hips so you are in a wide stance and ...

Spice it up and send your abs and your mid-back into serious overdrive with the plank row hellset, a deadly workout finisher from Men's Health fitness director Ebenezer Samuel, C.S.C.S. Here, you're ...

The weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day can be treacherous from a health and wellness perspective. Holiday gatherings inevitably include higher consumption of salt, sugar, fat and alcohol.