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Forget the Hotshot Trainer with the Six-Pack, Boomers Want Mature Fitness Coaches

By HILARY POTKEWITZ After dieting and losing more than 30 pounds, Lynne Ranieri hired a personal trainer to help her exercise properly...

What starts as a remedy for heartbreak can help people reach athletic heights they’d never thought possible By HILARY POTKEWITZ Paige...

A pair of apps preach relaxation to millions of customers—but still badly want to beat each other By HILARY POTKEWITZ The two smartphone...

Swimming instruction, long the purview of the YMCA, has witnessed a rise in schools offering smaller classes and warmer pools for much...

Fundraisers have gotten more extreme as studies show that donors give more money as challenges get harder Alicia O’Neill, far left,...

Fighting declining numbers, the swimming governing body offers more flexible options for children who want to do other sports By HILARY...

By HILARY POTKEWITZ The video opens with medical student Jamie Lee at her desk, working on a computer and writing in a notebook. In the...

By HILARY POTKEWITZ Jerusalem Melke has spent more sleepless nights at John F. Kennedy International Airport than even the most...

By HILARY POTKEWITZ Oona Tempest didn’t set out to break gender barriers in the sushi world. When she started learning sushi techniques...

By HILARY POTKEWITZ Divya Anantharaman knows there are dead mice in the basement of her workshop—because she put them there, in neatly...