Growing up in JĂ©rĂ©mie, Haiti, Elsy Dinvil often spent Sunday mornings watching her mother prepare meatballs: first at the market, picking the most marbled fillets she could find, then at home, pulling out a manual grinder to prepare the meat. It was an education in cooking with care. Ms. Dinvil’s mother died in 2018, two…
It seems like every time I go to the gym, I see people doing rotator cuff exercises incorrectly. Given the importance of this quartet of stabilizers and decelerators, it is essential that they receive adequate and appropriate training to ensure effective and efficient movement. This is true of your everyday clients as well as your…
It’s much easier than you think. Samin Nosrat, the “Salt Fat Acid Heat” author, shows you how. Learn to make fresh pasta dough, and you can dress it up in countless ways.Karsten Moran for The New York Times Published Feb. 20, 2025Updated Feb. 20, 2025 [This article was originally published on April 9, 2017.] Making…
Yoga is great for improving flexibility, but it also builds a strong and calm mind. For these reasons, it’s no surprise that athletes are increasingly turning to yoga to round out their training. In fact, many professional athletes, including NBA stars LeBron James and Kevin Love and Seattle Seahawks Quarterback Russell Wilson, have publicly discussed…
Pancakes, hotcakes, flapjacks…whatever you call them, these tasty thin, flat cakes of cooked batter may be delicious for breakfast, but can ruin all your hard work in the gym. White flour, sugar, and a lack of protein make most pancake recipes less than ideal for your post-workout meal. But you don’t have to designate them…
I love socializing as much as the average bear — at least, a bear that goes out to dinner almost five nights a week — but there’s nothing I find as soul-filling as a solo day on the town. You know when you’re on vacation and you’re so excited to write the itinerary, bop between…
Neuromuscular training is crucial to helping increase awareness and decision-making on the field or court. It’s similar to agility, but includes the “reading the field” mindset. Think of it this way: Agility is the ability to move quickly and change direction with ease, which is just one of the outcomes of cognitive awareness drills. Here…
Spring is in full swing! Warmer temperatures and longer days signal a shift from the cold, dark winter to a quickly approaching summer. And summer means bathing-suit season. Does the thought of that make you panic? Is your head filled with thoughts of detox diets and juice cleanses? Starvation and deprivation is NOT the answer…
Two dairy workers in Michigan may have transmitted bird flu to their pet cats last May, suggests a new study published on Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In one household, infected cats may also have passed the virus to other people in the home, but limited evidence makes it difficult to…
FOR MUCH OF art history, figurative sculpture was steeped in a sense of the eternal. Ancient statues of leaders, heroes and gods tended to embody what their creators believed (or hoped) would endure forever. Now figurative sculpture reflects profound anxieties over permanence. Our bodies are bombarded by stuff — for example, the microplastic particles of…