Working Out

JaMarcus Russell Is Reportedly (Relatively) Svelte, and the NFL May Be Interested

As the trail of the NFL offseason winds through Organized Team Activities and training camp draws closer and closer, I am getting more and more nervous about my NFL quarterback-related bet that I have with my co-host John Granato. To refresh you memory, the bet goes like this: True or false: Out o ... More >>

Saint Patrick's Day Guide

Our lucky guide to a green world of pubs and parades

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 >>

Gothic Council on the Perfect Gothic Workout Music

I hate working out unless it involves back flips and body slams. I used to do all my exercise in a bingo hall with no A/C in a wrestling ring that was harder than Frank Zappa in a used-panty store. Since I have long since left my wrestling dreams behind, I'm forced to go to the gym unless I want t ... More >>

What To Eat After You Pump Some Iron: Best Post-Workout Foods

Summertime means swimsuits, which means many of us are realizing it is now time to dust off that gym membership and get ready to show a little more of ourselves than we usually do. Granted, in Houston, this season lasts about six months. But if anything, that is merely impetus to get into better s ... More >>

Chef Chat, Part 1: Ronnie Killen, A Shy, Silent and Determined Chef with Symphonic Food

Ronnie Killen Killen's Steakhouse 2804 South Main Street, Pearland 281-485-0844 www.killenssteakhouse.com This is the first part of a three-part chef chat series. Look for parts two and three in this space Thursday and Friday. Pearland, 20 miles south of Houston is a place many call the land of p ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

Taste Test Marathon: The Power Bar Challenge

Photos by Christina Uticone​With the Chevron Houston Marathon looming, running and fueling and hydrating are trending topics online and off. My preferred workout fuel is actual food, although I've been known to supplement with a bar or a shake along the way when short on time. Generally I save ... More >>

Energizer® Night Race for a Brighter World

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 >>

Hydrating Foods for Summer Workouts

Greg Riegler Photography​Houston summers certainly know how to bring the heat. That can be deadly to your workout routine and, in extreme conditions, your well-being. Every single cell in your body depends on water to function, and according to Runner's World, as little as 2 percent dehydratio ... 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 >>

The Truth About Lance Berkman's Work Ethic

Lance Berkman: Milo weighs in​Lance Berkman returns to Minute Maid Park tonight for the first time since the Astros traded him before the 2010 trade deadline. He will be wearing a St. Louis Cardinals uniform, which for an Astro fan is the equivalent of Luke Skywalker showing up at the Jedi Te ... 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 >>

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Cowboy Diaries: Yvan Jayne -- Gave Up His French Accent To Be A Cowboy

Mandy OaklanderYvan Jayne, bareback​True cowboys and cowgirls are hard to find, but not at the Houston Rodeo. Life on the road leads them here this time every year for the biggest rodeo in the world, where they'll ride and wrangle livestock for cash and glory. Each day, Hair Balls will spotlig ... 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 >>

Brian O’Neill’s 3rd Annual Shamrock Shuffle

Green Clover Fun Run

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 >>

Tracy McGrady And His Tired Legs

Tip: Don't play in "tired legs" mode​"I have been working hard all summer to get ready for the upcoming season an am thankful that I landed in Detroit. I'm doing my workouts with my trainer Ben, and I am now able to finish full workouts that I wasn't able to do for the past two years. I do feel tr ... 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

Goldfrapp Gets "Physical" In Hell

​So, Andy Warhol and Kenneth Anger were just chillin' in Hell (like they do), when suddenly they thought it would be pretty cool to come back and throw a party. So they contacted Olivia Newton-John, who is really a Satanic cult leader with laser-light manipulation abilities, and she raised the ... More >>

25th Annual Heights Fun Run

Ah, the sweet smell of sweat in the morning

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

Intuitive Painting class

Web exclusive

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

Web exclusive!

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

Web exclusive!

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

2007 Jingle Bell Run & Walk

The YMCA turns downtown into a North Pole race course

Drenched In Blog: Some Boys Are Bigger Than Others

Re: In the Line of Fire

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

Junction Jog

Fit or Fat, Houston?

2005 Resolutions Guide Listings

Triple H-town

Toyota Center gets "Raw" when WWE rumbles into town

Best Place to Hike

Brazos Bend State Park

Best Motivator

Fitness instructor John Dalton

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