Sweat streamed down my face as I dropped to the floor, ditching the medicine ball from the last round of woodchops to move on to mountain climbers. The high-octane routine wasn't what pushed me to the ...

Beth Skwarecki is Lifehacker’s Senior Health Editor, and holds certifications as a personal trainer and weightlifting coach. She has been writing about health for over 10 years. I’ve tried a lot of ...

If you’re one of the millions of people who follow Liz Hurley, Heidi Klum or Madonna on IG, you may have spotted them working out while hooked up to a bunch of wires and wondered WTH was going on.

In today’s busy EMS systems, practicing human sympathy and compassion seems to have become a dying, or even lost, art. As call volume increases, EMS provider human interaction and empathy seem to ...

Electrical Muscle Stimulation (EMS), also known as neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) or electromyostimulation, is a protocol that elicits a muscle contraction using electrical impulses that ...

Much like a nagging health condition — gasping while climbing flights of train stairs that didn’t used to feel like a challenge at all — can one day become an urgent problem, the Emergency Medical ...

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Nathaniel Frasier lay on the sidewalk for eight minutes waiting for help, pain squeezing his chest. First came a police officer, flagged by bystanders in downtown Charleston's East Side neighborhood.