Fitness & Health

With school over for the summer, kids throughout the city and suburbs have an abundance of free time. As parents look for new ways...

Your nutrition plays as big a role as your training schedule when you are preparing for a marathon or half marathon. Here is the...

The month of May is, by no accident, a big one for anyone looking to get or stay in shape. Typically, May in Chicago...

There are a number of reasons why athletes are hesitant to change up their workout plans. Any variation can be detrimental not only to...

One of my favorite parts of writing these class reviews is it gives me an opportunity to be completely, and often painfully honest about...

Chicago Athletic Clubs opened their newest branch last week in the city's northwest side neighborhood of Bucktown. The latest addition is a two story...

Cross Fit was invented for guys like me, former team-sport athletes who now need a little more motivation to hit the gym as hard...

I'm not a dancer, we've gone over this. The closest I will ever come to anything remotely close to dancing is the occasional wedding...

Each year new fitness classes and training groups pop up all over the Chicagoland area. Whether it's cross training, yoga or a fat burning...

Taking a day off doesn't come easy to most athletes. Telling them they can't get a workout in, especially if they are in training,...