Fit fanatics, get excited! Spring is almost here, making it the perfect time for Self Magazine's "Workout in the Park" event, which encourages participants to get off of the treadmill and into the great outdoors of San Francisco, New York, and Chicago. It's almost like the pages of Self came to life and showed up in your own backyard! This year's festival will feature fitness classes and beauty Read more

Want muscles like Cameron Diaz and Jessica Biel? You may want to try CrossFit. The workout has many devoted fans, not just incredibly fit celebrities, who love it not only for its scalability — workouts are tailored to your current ability, and the difficulty increases as you get better — but also for the mental challenge that comes from pushing yourself further with each workout. So, what Read more

Playgrounds aren't just for the kiddos. Why not use the equipment to do a little strength training after you run or bike ride through the park, or while your children are playing (might as well tone your tush rather than just sitting on it)? Check out this five-minute circuit workout to target your entire body from head to toe. For a full workout, repeat the circuit six times through for a total Read more

We are pumped to share one of our fave stories from espnW here on FitSugar! By Adena Andrews April Holmes may have lost part of her leg, but the Paralympics star refuses to be seen as handicapped. She's on a quest to finish what she started in 2008 and come home with two medals in London. Follow more journeys to London on espnW.com. April Holmes was in first place during the 200-meter final at Read more

It's that time of the year to "spring ahead!" Although you'll set your clocks ahead and lose an hour at 2 a.m. on Sunday, March 11, you'll be gaining an extra hour of sunshine in the evening. That means if you couldn't pull yourself out of bed for morning workouts in the Fall and Winter (when the mornings were brightest), you can now shift your workouts to the early evening, when it'll still be Read more

Early-morning workouts aren't possible because you're far from a morning person, and evening workouts just seem too late. That leaves the good old noon workout, but that too can have its drawbacks. Here are four things that make midday workouts hard to swallow, and how to fix them. I've Got Food on the Brain Noontime is lunchtime, and many of us have been programmed to eat at 12 p.m. ever since Read more