Working Out

STRIKE A POSE

Roll out the mat and get physical

SPEED RACER

Tour the city’s bridges in a hurry

Sadat X's New Workout Plan (Or How To Work Off 9th Wonder's Mom's Famous Pie)

Editor's note: In Tweets is Watching, Phillip Mlynar asks local artists questions based solely on the contents of their Twitter timeline. Sadat X notched his place in hip-hop history as part of the Brand Nubian crew who coined the tail-end golden-era classic One For All. Since then he's also droppe ... More >>

Joy Orbison+Boddika

WALK THIS WAY

Shape up in Central Park

Anonymous Sex In Steam Rooms: An Inside Report

This just came in from reader Jason Wise. Stretch. That's what 9 out of 10 personal trainers will tell you to do after a good workout. And somewhere warm. I'm a dancer, which means aside from stretching AFTER a work out, I have been scarred into stretching BEFORE a work out, in fear of getting in ... More >>

Paul Ryan's Bicep Writes Funny Tweets

Someone with a wry sense of humor--and an impressive knowledge of body building regimens--has started a twitter account called @PaulRyansBicep. And reading the tweets is a pretty good workout. Among the best mini-missives from Ryan's non-bipartisan, non-bisexual bicep:

Panera Bread's CEO Has Intense Workout Routine

If the CEO of a million-dollar bakery business can find the time to exercise and lose weight while constantly having to think, talk, and breathe food, anyone can. The Wall Street Journal has an article out featuring Panera Bread CEO Ron Shaich. It's tough running a restaurant chain with more than ... More >>

Paul Ryan's Workout Routine Is More Important Than Syria

Since Mitt Romney tapped Paul Ryan's Workout Routine as his running mate Aug. 11, details have emerged that the vice presidential candidate has a grueling workout routine. "Fresh from a workout at a hotel gym in Iowa" and wearing "exercise shorts and a University of Wisconsin baseball cap pulled d ... More >>

Paul Ryan Has Amazing Biceps!

As many had guessed by the ripples under his shirt, Paul Ryan--Mittens' choice for Vice President--has bulging biceps and looks great with his limbs out. He's a devotee of a certain fitness regimen that keeps your body fat low and your muscle tone high.

LET'S GET PHYSICAL

Neon Lycra and headbands 
never looked this good

LET'S ZUMBA

Exercise with a view of the Manhattan skyline

Kanye And Kim Kardashian Are a Real Couple! I Have Proof!

When I heard that Kanye and Kim Kardashian were dating, I was certain that the world's two biggest press grubbers had concocted this alleged relationship in the bowels of hell to reignite some interest in them camera-hogging careers. But a friend of mine just ran into them in the gym of his Chelsea ... More >>

SMACKDOWN

Go ringside with Japanese female wrestlers

'Modified Presents' w/ Klute

2011: The Year Skrillex Got Mentioned In A Lot Of Facebook Status Updates

​The increasingly tentacle-extending social-networking site Facebook has released Memology 2011, a quantification of popular topics discussed on the service. Amy Winehouse's death in August was the seventh-most-discussed news topic of 2011, right behind the royal wedding and ahead of the new C ... More >>

John Pizzarelli & Jessica Molaskey

WALK THIS WAY

See the fall colors and get in shape

Lance Armstrong Invites You To Go On a Run With Him Today

​What are you up to this afternoon? If you're anything like us, you'll be watching an illegally downloaded copy of The Smurfs 3D while eating the party sub you've been saving since Bastille Day. If you're feeling a little more active, Lance Armstrong has cordially asked you to run through New ... More >>

Young Male Model Is Extremely Shy

Oh, look at this strapping young fellow! His name is Clark Cord, and he is very handsome -- handsome enough to be a model (in fact, he is a model, having just won the VMAN model search). In order to keep his model-esque physique, Cord must work out in public, in the city, which means he must also t ... More >>

A Thousand Zumba Fanatics Converged on Midtown Today. We Were There.

Esther Zuckerman​A little after 7:30 a.m. this morning, women and men in neon workout gear were lined up in front 35 West 48th Street. Fifteen minutes later, a car pulled up in front of the building, and out stepped actor Ryan Reynolds, who kept his tanned head down and walked into the buildin ... More >>

BARE IT ALL

From the ankles down, that is

Get Fit For The Summer

Jonny Corndawg+Michael Hurley

Femi Kuti & the Positive Force

Naked Pictures Surface of A List: New York Star!

And they were provided by the guy himself! I'm hearing that promoter/editor Daniel Nardicio has been the recipient of nude shots of one of Logo's A List: New York hunks, the guy sending them over in hopes of getting his ass into Playgirl magazine. And it looks like it might happen. My source says ... More >>

PUMP IT UP

Get fit the Russian way (vodka not included)

"Bodies: The Exhibition": Anybody See it?

​The "Bodies" exhibit down at the South Street Seaport Exhibition Centre has been running longer than Jersey Boys, but I still haven't made it down here, for a variety of reasons. Firstly, I detest the pretentious spelling of "Centre." Secondly, if I want to see naked body organs, I can just ... More >>

Jersey Shore's The Situation Now Has a Workout Video "Situation"

​Here's a good one to file under Things You Knew Were Bound To Happen But When They Do The Only Proper Response Is "This Is Actually Happening," as Mike "The Situation" Sorrentino of Jersey Shore fame has finally released his workout video.

Rupert Murdoch Is Watching: The Greatest Media Prank of All Time

​What do Rupert Murdoch, a former Page Six gossip columnist, a guy who works at the News Corp commissary, and the founder of College Humor have in common? They were all part of what might be the greatest media prank of all time.

Can You Exercise to Sleigh Bells? An Interview With An Actual Fitness Instructor

I mean, it looks like exercise, right? Sleigh Bells photo by Rebecca Smeyne​Since the apocalyptically cheery Brooklyn duo Sleigh Bells first emerged in the fall of last year, critics have been drawn inexorably to sports metaphors (ahem) as a way to describe the band's signature brand of bombas ... More >>

Leslie Uggams

Hey Jay-Z, It's Cool, No, Really, I'm Sure 'DJ Hero' or Whatever It Is You're Promoting Right Now Will Sell Itself

​So cool, yeah, you're doing your best to hex the Phillies. You're going to become a bar mitzvah DJ. Bono is your rock & roll role model. You have a workout routine, it involves Fergie. "Big Girls Don't Cry," and all that, you told the Huffington Post: "I really like that song. I would sing it ... More >>

Daily Mail: Madonna's Scary Sinew Fault of Gwyneth Paltrow's Trainer

​Madonna's arms spurred headlines today when news outlets got a load of a photo that appears to reveal the star's once healthy looking guns have taken on reptilian sinew. The Daily Mail thinks they might be the fault of fitness guru Tracy Anderson. "Perhaps she [Madonna] needs to rethink ... More >>

Nintendo’s Wii Fit Ignites Yet Another Fitness Fad

Helping the world forget we once loved ThighMasters too

Baby Got Back—Thanks To Sizzling New Undies

Want to Die for Your Country?

Marine Corps recruiters need young, healthy New Yorkers to fight George Bush's war

Hips of Steel

How kids too cool for exercise keep the winter pounds off

The True Shape of Curves

Introducing a newer way to work out

Getting To Abs

Skilled chef moonlights in the gym

The City as Spa

Surviving New York in summer—and fall, winter, and spring— without blowing your budget

On the Waterfront, a Movement Choir and the City's Ordinary Wonders

Five-Room Apartment in Brownstone

The Real Cost of Keeping Fit

Efficient or Deficient?

Tenant Cases Snagged on Court's Calendar

The Spy in the Gym

Club Members Ripped About Electronic Surveillance

Dress Blues, Discipline, and Demerits

Hempstead: A vast waistland

The Body Electric

Home-Gym Gadgets and the Shape of Things To Come

Growth Spurt

Sutton gym's most popular workout is for tots