Most of us hate going to the gym. It's intimidating and, unless you're Hamilton Nolan, you don't even know how to use half the machines and weights. So when Planet Fitness showed up and started offering pizza nights and massage chairs, it all sounded great. But Planet Fitness doesn't really care about your fitness. In…

Unless you work out at Crunch (which as far as I can tell is a giant adult playground made of oversized foam gears), spending hours at the gym can be incredibly boredom-inducing. Not for this guy, who turned a vanilla elliptical sesh into serious realness.

New York has shuttered its entire public transportation system. The streets of the five boroughs are empty, save for the howling winds and a few lone rats, scuttling away from steadily rising waves of water.

On Sunday, Gabby Douglas sat down with Oprah and revealed some pretty harrowing anecdotes about some of the racial bullying she allegedly endured while training at Excalibur's gym in Virginia Beach, Virginia. She told Oprah that, as the only African American training at Excalibur, she sometimes felt bullied, which in…

Do you have a job? Then bad news: You are probably fat. Or if you are not fat already, you are going to get fat. At least that is the conclusion one reaches after looking at the results of a new CareerBuilder survey about which jobs are most likely to make people gain weight. Is your job on the list? Almost certainly…

A high speed workout is nothing this little athlete can't handle. Imagine how much more fun the gym would be if running on a treadmill was this effortlessly cute for all of us.

Just when you thought every single person in the world had learned the lesson that it is never, never, never a good idea to make light of the holocaust, this comes along: A gym called the Circuit Factory in Dubai put out an ad several days ago that features a picture of the Auschwitz concentration camp with the…

Wait, you can dance on a treadmill??? Why is this not a thing that is happening at gyms all of the time? Working out this way looks like so much more fun... Oh, right, this isn't a nationwide fitness craze because for most of us walking on a treadmill is difficult enough, and we'd fall to our death and then die…

We are informed by Spanx that it has moved into "active wear," meaning that you can soon shimmy and sweat into "bagel-busting, moisture-wicking Slim-X® waistband, a flared leg, and back seams to visually slim the silhouette" for $118. Yeah, that's pretty meta.

Gold's Gym has a "humorous" new ad campaign called "Say No To Cankles." Despite the fact that, as every health and fitness expert knows, spot reduction is a myth. Still, on the gym's microsite, there is text which reads:

Daily Mail reporter Ashley Pearson, who describes herself as a "normal size 14 girl" followed the workout recommended by the woman who trains Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow and her reaction was surprising.

Looking for a way to lose a few pounds and celebrate Women's Self Empowerment Week? Order your at-home exotic dancing workout DVD now and get a stripper pole for just a dollar!

As if it weren't hard enough to stick to an exercise regimen, now there's the news that in addition to sweaty spandex-clad thighs and the stench of B.O., the gym is a breeding ground for staph infections. As some people know, germs are everywhere. And if you're like me, you can't get a decent night's sleep at a hotel,…