Fitness
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Do 10-Minute Workouts Count? An Expert Breaks It Down
When I first started working out, I’d huff and puff through 10 minute workouts on the elliptical before collapsing onto the nearest mat. Then, a trainer told me that any effort that lasts fewer than 30 minutes is all for naught. Ugh! Deflated, I lengthened my cardio sessions—but still wondered whether there was any truth…
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How to Cycle Sync Strength Training: What to Do for All 4 Phases
There’s no denying that cycle syncing—aka the practice of planning workout, nutrition, or lifestyle choices around the menstrual cycle—is having its big moment. (What hasn’t someone tried to cycle sync?) A hot topic in women’s health, it continues to soar in popularity as a more sustainable, personalized way to approach wellness. But as with any…
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Good Posture Matters—Here’s How Working Out Helps, Big Time
So many of us live chronically-hunched over lives—and our (collective) posture is proof. Whether you work a desk job or have a nighttime scrolling habit, it’s too easy to spend hours of each day straining towards screens. Bad news: Just straining your head towards your phone at a 45 degree angle is equivalent to lifting…
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Preconception Workouts: Expert Tips for Natural Pregnancy, IVF, Egg Freezing
Let’s be real: the journey to motherhood is deeply personal—and often complex. For most of our lives, so much focus rests on how *not* to get pregnant, that most of us don’t know how to prepare our bodies for preconception. Should you start taking prenatal vitamins? Is wine a no-go? And is working out off…
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Feeling Joint Pain? A Mobility Expert Explains What to Do
The inventor of Pilates, Joseph Pilates, famously said: “You’re only as old as your spine.” If you’re like most people, this sends a shiver from your tailbone to the top of your head. When speaking about joint health and joint pain, we tend to get a little defeatist. Most people begin by qualifying their body…
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How to Work Out with Endometriosis
Endometriosis can be physically and mentally debilitating—just ask the many endo-warriors who have to fight the chronic pain that comes with the condition. It’s estimated that around 2 to 10 percent of American women between the ages of 25 and 40 suffer from endometriosis, a condition where extra tissue grows outside the uterus on different…
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obé Weekly Class Drop Schedule
Love to plan out your weekly schedule? We got you! Find all the upcoming on-demand class drops for each day of the week below. 🔎 This page will be updated weekly, at 11 am on Friday mornings (ET). Daily classes will be uploaded in the order listed to the on-demand library between 5 – 5:05…
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Postnatal Ab Workouts: How to Rebuild Your Core After Pregnancy
There’s nothing more badass than making a human(!) from scratch(!!!). However, core changes during pregnancy can make us all feel a little, well, weak. Cue: the search for the best postnatal ab workouts. But first, let’s back up. While these core strength sacrifices can sneak up on us postpartum, they make sense from a physiological…
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WTF Is Hypertrophy in Fitness? An Expert Explains Why It Matters
There are lots of jargon-y words in the fitness industry. From “delayed onset muscle soreness” to describe post-workout strain to “excess post-exercise oxygen consumption” to describe the afterburn effect. “Hypertrophy” is no different. Simply: it describes muscle building. Building muscle is a fantastic fitness goal to strive towards. It makes you feel strong and confident,…
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4 Big Exercise Myths Every Woman Needs to Ditch
Being a fitness beginner—especially as a woman—can sure get exhausting. Every week, there seems to be a new workout hack or tip on social media. Maybe it’s a 28-day Wall Pilates challenge (our take on that, here) or a fitness influencer telling you walking doesn’t count as exercise (um, it definitely does). With unrealistic beauty…
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Overcome PCOS Symptoms: Workout Routine for Your Hormones
Ugh, the struggle for the girlies with PCOS (aka Polycystic Ovary Syndrome) is real. A hormonal disorder that affects women of reproductive age, it’s fairly common but has no cure, making it difficult to manage. PCOS symptoms manifest differently in everyone but can include an irregular menstrual cycle, unexpected weight gain, unwanted hair growth, and…
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3 Types of obé Yoga Workouts: Your Ultimate Guide
Oh, yoga—where do we begin to count all the ways we love you so? A nurturing practice for body and mind, yoga workouts are often our go-to for days when we feel we want to slow things down, connect to our breath, and challenge our balance, stability, and mobility in new and creative ways. But…
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Perimenopause, Menopause, and Working Out: What’s the Deal?
There comes a time in every woman’s life when the body seems to rewrite its own rules. Hot flashes randomly turn up the heat, nights are spent tossing and turning, and clothes don’t seem to fit how they used to. Welcome to perimenopause and menopause transition—a journey that often feels like navigating unchartered territory with…
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The Expert Approved Wedding Workout Plan: What to Do—and Ditch
In this article: Hear expert obé fitness trainer and bride-to-be Kat B.’s top tips for forming a wedding workout plan to make you feel your best for the big day (without the toxic diet culture). Looking for a wedding workout plan now? Try obé’s Wedding Program. As a little girl, I always dreamed about my wedding.…
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Exercise for Women vs. Men: A Guide to Unique Gender Differences in Fitness
We’ve all seen the videos. Endearing scenes of boyfriends or husbands struggling through Sculpt or Barre sequences—what most of us typically think of as “exercise for women.” At the same time, we know most men would outlast us lifting heavy. This begs the question: do women and men respond differently to the same workouts, and…
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What’s the Best Exercise for Hormones? You May Be Surprised
Ugh, hormones. When they’re balanced and doing their thing, our bodies and minds are in flow. But throw in just a little disturbance—like some good old stress or the luteal phase of your menstrual cycle—and suddenly, everything’s bananas. When you’re feeling moody or insecure from an acne flair-up, working out may be the last thing…
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Forget About Weight—These Body Composition Metrics Are More Accurate
There’s no point in sugarcoating it: tracking weight alone sets women up for failure. Decades of diet advertising and unrealistic beauty standards have indoctrinated the idea that weighing less will make you feel better. Healthier, prettier, more feminine, even happier. But—surprise, surprise—looking exclusively at weight or BMI (body mass index) as a measure of body…
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Progressive Training on obé: Workout Programs by Fitness Goal
You’ve set your fitness goals, signed up for obé, and have a workout space ready on deck. With a library of 10,000+ on-demand classes for every style and level, you have plenty of classes to choose from to start your workout journey. The only question is: Which workouts are right for you? Cue progressive training…
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No, You Can’t Tone Muscles—the Surprising Myth, Revealed
How many of us secretly (or not so secretly!) wish for our workout routines to deliver those picture-perfect ‘toned’ arms, ‘toned’ abs, and ‘toned’ legs? We gawk over fitness influencers and Pilates girlies with long, lean lines, searching for fitness classes that promise to tone muscles and ‘tighten’ our physiques. The only problem is that…
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5 Crazy Facts You Didn’t Know About Women’s Fitness History
Head to any group fitness class (extra points if it’s Pilates), unroll your mat in any Yoga studio, go for a walk in any park, and one thing is certain: you’re going to see women. And lots of them. For many of them, working out is an essential pillar of self-care. And if not, it’s…
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