It had been several years since I last ran the Run the Bridge 10K, the race anchored by crossing back and forth over the Benjamin Franklin Bridge. The COVID-19 pandemic scratched 2020’s in-person ...

Heard of SMART goals? While you can use them for just about anything, the method can really help your workouts. Here's how SMART goals translate to fitness. “I’m an Exercise Physiologist—Here’s Why ...

Spontaneity is freeing, and we could all use more unstructured time in our over-scheduled lives—just maybe not in the gym. When it comes to your health and fitness, if you really want to see results, ...

If you have big aspirations for 2025—a big deadlift, a marathon, a change in the size of your body—I sure hope you haven’t translated them into the limited, pass-fail box-checking of a SMART goal. But ...

The new year is here, and that means it's time think about the goals we want to achieve during 2026. Heck, maybe you'll even make a vision board. But if you create goals that are too lofty, you may be ...

Each component of a SMART goal is designed to ensure that you have the proper framework to accomplish an objective. Instead of making open-ended wishes for the future, you make a purposeful plan. For ...

Beth Skwarecki is Lifehacker’s Senior Health Editor and has been writing about health, fitness, and science here since 2015. Beth was the recipient of the 2017 Carnegie Science Award in science ...