Exercise and Fitness

Is Beer the New Chocolate Milk After Working Out?

Several years ago, studies proved that drinking low-fat chocolate milk after working out replenished the body and muscles with its combination of carbs and protein. This combo works together to build muscles and replenish your muscles with carbohydrates and protein that water lacks. However, resear ... More >>

The Hot-Yoga Wars

Two yogis battle over the fate of a tradition (and a very large pile of money).

App of the Week: Get in Shape with Nike Training Club

App: Nike Training Club Platform: iPhone Web site: App Store Cost: Free "My doctor said I swallowed a lot of aggression...along with a lot of pizzas." -- Dewey Oxburger, Stripes I'll be honest, I don't like working out. I see people who just love "feeling the burn" and I'm perplexed, a little jea ... More >>

Sweating To The Beat: 5 EDM Artists To Help You Get In Shape

If you're looking to drop ten pounds for summer, now seems like a great time to start hitting the gym. If you're one of the many that doesn't do well left to their own devices, then you'll probably want to be part of a workout group. If you've never been before, though, you're about to learn one of ... More >>

Shanti: Music's Top 10 Yoga Enthusiasts

This weekend, the Texas Yoga Conference hits town at the University of Houston Recreation and Wellness Center. It's like a big party where everyone practices yoga and learns or improves yoga techniques. At the end of the weekend, there will be musical performances by the Desert Dwellers, Tyagaraja, ... More >>

Taste Test Marathon: The Nutrition Shake Challenge

If there is anything scarier than a nutrition bar supplement, it's a nutritional shake supplement. It really is almost impossible to squeeze actual, delicious flavor into a supplement when the point is to squeeze in as much protein and squeeze out sugar and carbohydrates. Still, some shakes and drin ... More >>

Questions and Comments We Have for Fellow Gym Goers

It's January, and the gyms are full of folks making good on their resolutions to get fit, get tight and get perfect for a spouse, a bathing suit or that nude modeling gig at the community college. Good for you, you are better than a percentage of people in Houston who only sweat from May until Octob ... More >>

Yoga Fuel: Kenny & Ziggy's Potato Pirogen

Finding something light enough for a pre-yoga meal at Kenny & Ziggy's Delicatessen is quite a challenge--it's a huge menu, and the portions themselves are also huge. Even the salads are impressive in size, and so delicious that it's hard to stop eating even when full. I recently found myself tight o ... More >>

Energizer® Night Race for a Brighter World

Chef Chat, Part 1: Nicole Hudson of Conscious Cafe

Photo by Mandy OaklanderNicole Hudson of Conscious Cafe​A hand-painted sign delineates the entrance of Conscious Cafe, a Nation of Islam-run vegetarian hangout in the Third Ward. It's only been open for about a year, but the cafe already has devoted regulars. Nicole Hudson is the co-owner and ... More >>

Hayes Carll's KMAG Catches On With Jazzercise Set

Jim BrickerHayes Carll at Free Press Summer Fest 2011​Woodlands native and Lost Highway recording artist Hayes Carll, whose latest album KMAG YOYO (& Other American Stories) will certainly make many year-end best-of lists, may just have another career alternative if he ever gets tired of the r ... More >>

Pumping 1983 Iron With Arnold Schwarzenegger's Total Body Workout

​It's no secret that Arnold Schwarzenegger, the onetime Mr. Universe, former California governor, and action hero has found himself in the ultimate life pickle. A failed marriage and 10-year-old love child with a family maid are straining at the image that we all had of the gentle actor and (s ... More >>

Eating for Your Workout

gocarts​When you're trying to lose weight, tone up or get ripped, it may seem like food is the enemy. However, not eating before or after your workout can actually sabotage your efforts, which is good news if, like me, you treat any invitation to eat like an invite to the royal wedding. Thoug ... More >>

15 Awesome Things About This 1987 Phil Simms Workout Video

With the ongoing studies of head trauma and player safety, we're always talking about how NFL players are "bigger, stronger and faster" in this day and age. A lot of this has to do with advancements in nutrition and training. While the league will likely spend millions paying doctors to conduct al ... More >>

Green Clover Fun Run

2011 Texas Yoga Conference

How Cherries Can Improve Your Workout

mrbendy​Whether you're looking to run the Houston Marathon next January or just get back to the gym before swimsuit season, new research suggests that incorporating a tiny, little, red fruit into your workout routine could prove highly beneficial. Aside from being associated with lowering ur ... More >>

Green-Clad Dress-Wearing Horde Descends On Rice Village

Taylor Turner​Men and women running down Rice Boulevard in green dresses and purses in hand, what's up with that? If you happened to be driving along Rice Boulevard this past Saturday you would have had to stop for hundreds of runners, both men and women, donning their green dresses, purses, ... More >>

Battle of the Bands

Kids march towards a better future.Fighting declining interest and funding woes, two HISD high schools offer kids an oom pah pah way to better futures

25th Annual Heights Fun Run

Ah, the sweet smell of sweat in the morning

Run Lola Run

Looking to get in shape and get hammered? Do both at Brian O'Neill's.

2nd Annual Earth Day Houston Festival, 5K & Green Expo

From A (AIA Gulf Coast) to Z (Norma Zenteno), there's lots of fun at this festival

5 Worst Foods to Eat Right Before Doing Bikram Yoga

mattsinopoli​We've recently taken up the ancient practice of Bikram Yoga to supplement our neo-hippie health kick. For those of you who aren't familiar with this type of yoga, it's the torturous one that is done for exactly 90 minutes in a 105 degree humid room. So it's basically like doing r ... More >>

Intuitive Painting class

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He Said She Said: Hot, Sweaty, Angry Workout Songs

​When it comes to exercise, men and women don't have many different reasons for doing it. Mainly, both genders want to look better naked if perchance they find themselves without clothes on around a stranger they want to sleep with. Life expectancy, general health, and mental well-being are all se ... More >>

He Said, She Said: Get Your Ass In Shape Workout Songs

Unlike our male counterpart, we aren't seeking to purge our inner demons when we work out (and some of us - shudder - purge something else before working out anyway). Instead, we're looking for something fun, upbeat and beat-heavy. Something that makes you want to shake your ass while you're w ... More >>

24th Annual Heights Fun Run

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28th Annual Houston Humane Society K-9 Fun Run & Walk

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No Excuses Now -- The Downtown Y Is Working Again

Bayousphere

Pumping Iron

Before Ahnold was a movie star, he was a, uh, movie star

Bayousphere

Super Cardio Bros. with Wii Fit

Helping the world forget we once loved Thigh Masters, too

Re: In the Line of Fire

Okay, That's It. We're Calling Bullshit.

Rock-Hard Abs

Fit or Fat, Houston?

2005 Resolutions Guide Listings

Best Green Beans

Kam's Chinese garlic beans

The Healthy Choice

Aerobics competition merges physical, mental challenges

To Every Man a Donkey Kong

Travel back in time to a real arcade

Best Yoga Studio

Sundance Yoga Studio

Best Motivator

Fitness instructor John Dalton

The Good Ol' Days

The Allen Oldies Band is taking a different route to fame

Best Yoga Studio

The Yoga Institute & Bookshop

Best Place to Work Out and Not Be Intimidated

The Memorial-Hermann HBU Wellness Center

Best Place to Play Racquetball

Memorial Athletic Club

Survival of the Strongest

Pasadena's Anthony Clark is the world's strongest man. You'd think that would make him famous. You'd be wrong.

Post Office Push-ups

In Cypress-Fairbanks, students find a way to stamp out extra PE