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Hope you’re feeling strong and energized after your first day of this year’s New Year’s Challenge. Yesterday you focused more on your lower body, so today it’s all about those upper body and core moves with an upper body strength workout. The forearm plank with alternating knee taps might be a new move, so let’s […]
In the mood to work your butt? Jill Penfold, LA-based personal trainer and creator of the 12-week LA Bride Body program, has shared an efficient and effective butt workout that gets the job done—and the three moves involved don’t require any equipment. While there are plenty of aesthetic reasons why working your backside pays off […]
Welcome to the Team SELF 4-Week At-Home Workout Challenge! Below is the workout calendar that shows everything you’ll be doing. You can pin this, save it, make it your phone’s lock screen—just put it somewhere that you’ll see it often. If you want a printer-friendly version of this workout calendar, download our workout planner PDF. […]
If you’re new to lifting weights, this upper-body workout for beginners is a great way to start building strength in all the major muscle groups in your top half. In this workout, which was created by NYC-based personal trainer Alyssa Expósito, you’ll be cycling through just four moves. But each of these moves is foundational […]
Spending hours hunched over our phones or our laptops doesn’t do our posture any favors. But this shoulder-opening yoga flow can help you stand tall instead. The 40-minute video below, which is the sixth installment of Sweat With SELF’s Yoga for Beginners series, seeks to counteract all of that forward hunch that many of us […]
Air travel is a modern-day wonder that lets us do awesome things that before were unfathomable. Like wake up in NYC at 6 a.m. and be on the beach in Miami before noon. Yet despite all its glory, flying kind of sucks. I fly probably five or six times a year, and I’ve never once […]
If your go-to legs workout just isn’t making you feel the burn like it used to, this 10-minute challenge will bring new life to leg day. Developed for SELF by certified personal trainer Lisa Tanker, it hits all of the major muscle groups in your lower body for a well-rounded but tough-as-hell routine. “This workout […]
January can feel like a time of extremes: On one hand, the holiday rush is over, so perhaps your social calendar has been freed up a bit. On the other hand, there’s no shortage of pressure to suddenly fill every free second with new habits, resolutions, and annual goals. I’m not entirely opposed to resolutions. […]
It’s a Thursday at 8 P.M. and you really don’t want to drag yourself to the gym, so you decide to try one of the many cardio workouts you’ve bookmarked online. What you quickly realize is how much space some workouts require—whether it’s room to jump rope, shadowbox, or just simply move around without hitting […]
Welcome to day 1 of the SELF New Year’s Challenge! We can’t wait for you to see what we have in store, starting with this upper-body strength workout. Over the next four weeks, you’ll complete 20 transformational workouts designed by Christa Sgobba, C.P.T., an ACE-certified trainer and SELF’s associate director of fitness and food, along […]
