Gabrielle Kassel

The best CrossFit exercises for beginners include air squats, deadlifts, and burpees.
You don't need a specific gym to do them, either, as many can be done wherever there's equipment.
CrossFit offers plenty of health and fitness benefits, including improved strength and flexibility.
Even though CrossFit may bring to mind images of tire flips, rope climbs, and sled pushes, most CrossFit exercises are far less intense and dangerous. There are basic CrossFit exercises that anyone, regardless of ...

When you think about the spots on your body you want to be poked and prodded, licked and loved, sucked and slurped, bitten and blown, odds are chest, crotch, and ass are the body parts that come to mind. Three areas jam-packed with nerve-endings, these hot spots deserve all the tender, love, and care you give them. But there are a number of other erogenous zones throughout the body that can also respond pleasurably (even orgasmically) to a little tongue, hand, or toy action.
Ahead, sex educat...

Check out these tips, potential benefits, and pitfalls from health professionals to take into consideration.
For many folks with breasts, the question of if it’s healthy to sleep in a bra may have percolated. After all, some people claim wearing a bra to bed feels like a hug, while others can’t think of anything more uncomfortable.
Below, health specialists settle the debate of whether sleeping in a bra is supportive or detrimental to breast health.
Is It Bad To Sleep in a Bra?
The short answ...

Check out these tips, potential benefits, and pitfalls from health professionals to take into consideration.
For many folks with breasts, the question of if it’s healthy to sleep in a bra may have percolated. After all, some people claim wearing a bra to bed feels like a hug, while others can’t think of anything more uncomfortable.
Below, health specialists settle the debate of whether sleeping in a bra is supportive or detrimental to breast health.
Is It Bad To Sleep in a Bra?
The short answ...

Check out these tips, potential benefits, and pitfalls from health professionals to take into consideration.
For many folks with breasts, the question of if it’s healthy to sleep in a bra may have percolated. After all, some people claim wearing a bra to bed feels like a hug, while others can’t think of anything more uncomfortable.
Below, health specialists settle the debate of whether sleeping in a bra is supportive or detrimental to breast health.
Is It Bad To Sleep in a Bra?
The short answ...

Not sure which lower-body move to choose? Here, experts break down the benefits of deadlifts vs. squats.
When you want to strengthen your lower-body muscles, you've probably got questions about whether the squat or deadlift is best. Without a doubt, both compound exercises can effectively and efficiently work your leg muscles. However, the squat and deadlift target your lower body muscles to a different degree, and therefore which one you use should depend on your specific health and fitness ...

While it's not the end-all-be-all factor, your diet can impact your fertility. Here, fertility experts share six tips for optimizing your diet to promote fertility.
From using an ovulation tracking app to cutting back on caffeine, people who want to get pregnant will do a variety of things to boost their chances of conceiving. But something as simple as altering your food intake might also make a difference, according to fertility specialists.
"Maintaining optimal daily nutrition and food cho...

It’s highly unlikely for someone to develop cervical cancer if they have never had sex.
That’s because nearly all cases of cervical cancer result from an individual having a high risk strain of human papilloma virus (HPV), which is a sexually transmitted infection (STI).
“At the end of the day, we never say never in medicine,” says Greg Marchand, MD, OB-GYN. “But it would be virtually impossible for someone to get cervical cancer unless they have had some sexual activity that could present th...

It’s highly unlikely for someone to develop cervical cancer if they have never had sex.
That’s because nearly all cases of cervical cancer result from an individual having a high risk strain of human papilloma virus (HPV), which is a sexually transmitted infection (STI).
“At the end of the day, we never say never in medicine,” says Greg Marchand, MD, OB-GYN. “But it would be virtually impossible for someone to get cervical cancer unless they have had some sexual activity that could present th...

With TikTok elevating jump rope tricksters to influencer status and CrossFit primarily programming double unders and crossovers, many exercisers are forgetting just how fun and beneficial old school jump roping — also known as single unders — can be ​in​ or ​as​ a workout.
Here, learn how to jump rope with good form, plus five tips for graduating from junior jumper to single-under senior.
"Jumping rope offers many of the same health benefits as running," says CrossFit Level 1 coach David Newm...

The ski machine is well known and beloved by CrossFit athletes and cross-country skiers. But less popular in gyms than other cardiovascular machines, the ski erg is underutilized by most of the general population — likely because most people don't know how to use the machine, or the many (many!) benefits of using it regularly.
Ahead, fitness trainers breakdown the benefits of the ski erg — no, you don't have to be a CrossFitter or skier to use one! — plus offer tips on using it with good form...

Now that we’re more than 2 years into the coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) pandemic, you might be curious how the pandemic has impacted intrauterine device (IUD) use over time.
Read on to learn how the COVID-19 pandemic can and can’t impact IUD effectiveness, appointments, removal, and more.
If you use an IUD as your primary or only form of birth control, you can breathe easy knowing that neither a COVID-19 diagnosis nor vaccine will impact the effectiveness of your IUD.
No matter your vacci...

Look around your local CrossFit affiliate or your fav athletes’ social feeds (hey, Rich Froning!) and you’ll see a pretty consistent representation of the same brand head-to-toe. Or, more accurately, teeth-to-toe.
Many CrossFit athletes (and other endurance athletes) are regularly repping the Airwaav mouthpiece.
Word on the street is Airwaav is supposed to improve your breathing and ultimately your sports performance in endurance and strength workouts alike.
But is it worth the investment? Ke...

he overlap of mushrooms and wellness is not new: People are sipping creamed cordyceps and calling it coffee, taking it in supplement form, and snacking on it in the name of brain health. So, perhaps it should come as no surprise that mushrooms are making their way into the sexual wellness sphere, too. Just last month, sexual wellness company Runi released a CBD sex serum infused with a mix of adaptogenic cordyceps and shiitake mushrooms called Play Primer ($44).
As a pleasure-product reviewer...

aybe you’re a marathoner who’s been trying to boost their VO2 max to no avail. Or, perhaps you’re a weight lifter struggling to build muscle. Possibly, you’re a CrossFit enthusiast who's been stuck at the same total score despite doing everything you can to see gains. Regardless, if you’re toiling away at training and still not seeing results, there could be a surprising culprit undermining your efforts: your hormonal birth control pill.
That’s right, the estimated 14 percent of people on the...