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Gym junkies, this is the research you’ve been waiting for: Weight training whittles down stomach fat (and keeps it off) better than aerobic exercise. So keep clanking those weights, and let beer bellies be bygones. According to a 2014 Harvard School of Public Health study, published in the journal Obesity, lifting is more effective for maintaining a flat stomach than running or cycling, especially for middle-aged men, the Huffington Post reports....

We’ve seen the future of running shoes, and it looks a lot like Nike’s heavily hyped Vaporfly 4% — or, at least, the white foam part used in the much-hyped road racer. The shoe is packed with a ton of performance technology, like a carbon-fiber plate, but its new midsole made from a thermoplastic called Pebax, which yields cushioning that is not only lightweight and extremely soft but also exceptionally springy....

Ten years ago Timberland, the outdoor company that’s been outfitting everyone from hikers to construction workers to hip hop artists for decades, brought eco-consciousness to the footwear industry by introducing its Earthkeepers line. Now, the company’s taking that same commitment to sustainability and dressing it up in a sleeker streetwise boot that’s still rugged enough for the actual outdoors. The Eagle Bay ($160), a seasonal exclusive, is officially dropping today. So here’s the rundown on the sustainability part: The boots’ leather uppers are made with leather (at least 50 percent, anyway) that’s sourced from tanneries that are third-party certified as environmentally responsible....

Nitro’s Griffin Siebert sifted through some POV footage from time spent in his backyard last winter for this collection of clips entitled Backyard Boogie. A powder-filled short film from the great Wasatch range that will put a smile on your face once the majority of the jealousy subsides. The Best Snowboarding Gear to Own the Slopes This Winter Read article “Backyard Boogie in its simplest form is just all my GoPro footage from 2019, all of which is filmed just a stone’s throw away from my home in Salt Lake City, UT....

This story originally appeared on SURFER. Words by Keala Kennelly as told to Ashtyn Douglas. Sometimes girls feel like they have to prove themselves. Growing up on Kauai, I felt like the guys were especially hard on me because I was a girl. Even when I would do something awesome, they wouldn’t give me a lot of credit for it. But when we got a little older, that all changed....

Satisfying everyone from diehard outdoorspeople to high-maintenance glampers, yurt camping may be the perfect middle ground for keeping everyone stoked on sleeping in the wild. I had a hunch, but put this theory to the test during a recent girls’ weekend. I knew we all liked to play outside, but not all of us, including myself, ever seem to get a proper night’s rest in a tent. Yurt camping gives you the outdoor experience you need with the convenience you desire....

Whether it’s cool clothes or great gear, Huckberry has a knack for sniffing out sweet deals on amazing products we want. And it’s no secret: We love bourbon—particularly Pappy Van Winkle. So when two of our favorite things come together, we kinda feel the need to shout about it. RELATED: Meet the Chef Who Cooks With Pappy Van Winkle Starting this Sunday and for five days straight, every purchase at Huckberry enters you in a drawing to win a bottle of—wait for it—Pappy Van Winkle....

This article was originally published by SUP Magazine. Words by Mike Misselwitz Your paddle is your third leg, your throttle and your E-break. Whether standup paddle surfing, running whitewater, gliding downwind or just knocking around off the end of your dock on a sunny Saturday, your paddle is your best friend and your lifeline. Rule number one in SUP safety: Never let go of your paddle. To guarantee safe and stoked SUP sessions for endless outings to come, we put together a few tips for keeping your paddle in grip at all times....

I recently heard a statistic that 80,000 people moved to Colorado last season. To be honest, it made me really not want to go to Colorado, even though I have loved every trip I’ve ever taken there. Seeing the lines of cars on the highway from Denver going to the ski areas in the winter or those gondola lines also made me cringe. Yet, there was a reason why people lined up: Colorado is awesome....

While COVID-19 has people across the country staying home under self-quarantine, escaping into the wilderness seems like the perfect way to get some fresh air and stay away from other people. But with bars, movie theaters, and restaurants shutting down in many cities, the wilderness has become an even more popular escape than usual. The National Parks Service has been taking steps to keep staff and visitors safe from the virus, but some parks are going even further by restricting access or shutting down altogether....

Planks are a mainstay because they’re so effective: They tax your core and the smaller stabilizing muscles in your hips and shoulders. That there are so many variations on the move is, in large part, because planks are so tedious. 4 Seriously Underrated Ab Exercises Read article Enter the alligator crawl. It’s unusual in that it’s an active—rather than stationary— plank variation, so there’s no watching the seconds tick by on the wall clock....

Everything You Need to Know About Michael B. Jordan’s New Tom Clancy Movie ‘Without Remorse’ Read article The series is based on Roberto Saviano’s acclaimed book of the same name; Saviano also wrote Gomorrah, the bestselling in-depth look at the Italian mafia. ZeroZeroZero is directed by Stefano Sollima, who directed Sicario 2 and who will next be behind the camera for Without Remorse, the movie adaption of the Tom Clancy book, which stars Michael B....

On Saturday, BASE jumping legend Valery Rozov was killed in a wingsuit accident in the Himalayas. The Washington Post reports that Rozov, 52, “died in a base-jumping accident while leaping from the 22,349-foot-high mountain Ama Dablam in the Himalayas of eastern Nepal.” The Russian Rozov was a legend in the sport of free-falling. He was the first to skydive into a volcano crater, the first to jump off Mount Kilimanjaro and he even completed the highest BASE jump ever when he jumped from a height of 23,688 feet off Mount Everest....

A chairlift at a mountain resort in Gudauri, Georgia malfunctioned today and injured eight people. In video footage of the incident, the ski lift can be seen operating at high speed, flinging riders off and trapping some. According to Georgia Today, the ski lift malfunctioned and was running at twice the normal speed. Pravda Report says that chairlift operators caused the lift to malfunction, but this is not confirmed or known how....

You do not want to get on Yasuhiro Suzuki’s bad side. The Japanese kayaker has been banned from the sport for eight years after lacing his rival Seiji Komatsu’s drink with an anabolic steroid at last year’s national championships, according to ESPN. Komatsu subsequently failed a drug test and his records were stripped. Kayaker Ben Stookesberry On His Four Days As a Hostage in FARC-Held Colombia Read article They have since been restored after an investigation by The Japan Canoe Federation....

TRUE. Yes, men can get urinary tract infections, but they’re very unusual, especially when you think about how often women get them. UTIs occur when bacteria travel from outside the body and up the urethra, possibly reaching the bladder (and in serious cases, the kidneys). In a healthy urinary tract, peeing flushes out any bacteria that’s trying to get in. Bathroom Breaks all Night? Lower Your Sodium Read article The reason women get UTIs more often comes down to biology....

Ever seen a blue-footed booby? Snorkeled through a tunnel of lava? Paddled a coastline so raw and untouched that its natural state remains almost identical to what it was at the birth of evolution? Neither have we. That’s why SUP Magazine has arranged the Galapagos SUP Adventure, a nine-day luxury standup paddle vacation in the Galapagos Islands coming up November 30 through December 8. Guests of this one-of-a-kind SUP expedition will retrace Darwin’s footsteps, paddle with marine life existing nowhere else in the world and otherwise escape into a land where time, by all appearances, stands virtually still....

Posted on December 23, 2011 By Conor Mihell Josh Tart’s 6,000-mile kayak journey on the so-called “Great Loop” cruising route almost ended before it began. For Tart, five weeks on the Ohio River were a precursor to the Loop—a classic circumnavigation of eastern North America that links the Tennessee River to the Mississippi, traces the Gulf of Mexico coastline to the tip of Florida, follows the Intracoastal Waterway to the Hudson River and rejoins the Mississippi via the Great Lakes and the Illinois River....

The benefits of drinking alcohol seem to swing from “there are none” to “maybe in moderation,” depending upon the study that has garnered the most attention that month. (One thing they all can agree on is that alcohol will definitely affect your body, with over-consumption leading to all sorts of bad outcomes from higher likelihood of injury to increased risk of cancer.) But today’s one of those days when beer drinkers can rejoice: A few bottles of beer may be just the lubricant our brain needs to open up new avenues of creativity, according to new research from the University of Graz in Austria....

Before 1964, a man did not wear a big lug of a steel watch with a suit. Americans, like Europeans, had always followed the tradition of a slim gold watch worn on dressy occasions. A bigger, rugged-style watch existed, sure, and had an appeal thanks to the men who’d worn it for some pretty specific reasons: Edmund Hillary donned a Rolex Oyster Perpetual for his climb to the top of Mount Everest; Buzz Aldrin took an Omega Speedmaster on the Apollo 11 mission; Italian navy divers used Panerais during World War II....