Traveling alone overseas can be a much-needed break from day-to-day social obligations, a chance to explore independently and engage in local communities on no one’s time frame but your own. “One of the huge benefits of traveling alone is that you do have the opportunity to get more in touch with yourself and have a…
Agility training isn’t just for athletes—it’s important for anyone who wants to move quickly and easily, and to improve their reflexes, focus, balance, coordination and/or neuromuscular awareness. Plus, it’s a really fun way to add some intensity to your workouts. To get the most out of agility drills, you want to push yourself, but also…
Health-conscious individuals can spend a lot of time planning and scheduling their workouts to get the greatest possible benefit. But an intense workout also requires focusing on your post-training nutritional needs, which includes when and what to eat to replenish your body’s energy stores, while also supplying the nutrients to rebuild and repair damaged tissue….
It’s pretty hard to shock an emergency physician. “We see the worst of the worst, and the silliest of the silliest,” Abdullah Pratt, an emergency medicine physician at the University of Chicago Medicine, told me recently. I was chatting with him about the situations he’d witnessed in the E.R., specifically the ones that made him…
We know that performing crunches, which involves flexion of the spine, is one way to fire the rectus abdominis, but when designing abdominal sequences it is important to consider all segments of the abdominals and how they move or stabilize the spine. Here are five exercises that target all of the abdominal muscles by flexing,…
Vegetarian diets can take on a number of forms, depending on the type of animal-based products one chooses to consume. Ovo-lacto Vegetarians: Plant-based Diet + Eggs and Dairy Lacto-vegetarians: Plant-based Diet + Dairy Pescatarians: Plant-based Diet + Fish Flexitarians: Plant-based Diet + Occasional Animal Flesh Vegans: Plant-based Diet Only The commonality among the various vegetarian…
Good morning. Eggs, milk, flour. Combine them with butter, salt, sugar and vanilla and you’ve got the makings for a German pancake (above), puffy and crisp, with a puddinglike interior. It’s the perfect canvas for a compote of berries, for maple syrup and powdered sugar — a Saturday breakfast of distinction. Except, says the house…
You make your health and fitness a priority. You schedule your week around your workouts or favorite fitness classes, and rarely does a day goes by that you don’t walk through the doors of a fitness facility. But here’s something you may not realize: The time you spend working out is only one part of…
Patsy Grimaldi, a restaurateur whose coal-oven pizzeria in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge won new fans for New York City’s oldest pizza style with carefully made pies that helped start a national movement toward artisan pizza, died on Feb. 13 in Queens. He was 93. His nephew Frederick Grimaldi confirmed the death, at NewYork-Presbyterian…