How is your core strength? It's an essential part of staying healthy, so health and fitness expert Beth Oliver joined us to take us through a short test and show us how to improve it. Building a ...

Try these tests to evaluate your strength and cardiovascular fitness. Credit... Supported by By Hilary Achauer Photographs by Ashley Barker How do you know if you are fit? Or, at least, fit enough?

If you’ve ever tried them, you know side planks are challenging­—even more than regular planks. But they’re a critical move, says Keli Roberts, an exercise physiologist with the American College of ...

Can you go nonstop? Take this 5-drill strength test from a CPT after 55, and find out.

There are many ways to gauge how strong and healthy you are. Here are some of our favorites. Credit...Clockwise from top left: Sarah Karlan, Ashley Barker, Gritchelle Fallesgon, and Adria Malcolm for ...

A strong core serves as the foundation of essentially everything you do, from bending down to pick up a package to playing pickleball. When your core muscles are weak, this can negatively impact how ...

Core training has always been part of military PT and fitness testing. From crunches to sit-ups, flutter kicks, leg tucks and plank poses, the U.S. military uses many exercises to test core strength.

You can have the healthiest diet in the world, but if you want to age well and remain independent the key things you’ll need are balance, strength and flexibility. As a fitness coach specialising in ...