Gabrielle Kassel

There's no "right" way for your pubic hair to look — it's a personal choice that's totally up to you. But if you decide to trim it up, there is a right tool to get your desired down-there. End up with something other than one of the best bikini trimmers on the market and you’re one swipe or slash away from a lacerated labia, fupa fo-hawk, and splotchy pubis. Pass!
A bikini trimmer is a tool that is designed to help you craft your designer bush, without leaving nicks or painful razor burn behi...

Spoiler alert: Barefoot shoes help with functional strength and mobility.
The rage around minimalism doesn't just start and stop with makeup and tiny house living. The less is more ethos is bleeding over into people’s shoe choices, too. Minimalist shoes—sometimes known as barefoot shoes—are having a moment among runners, hikers, and other people passionate about holistic health.
But this shoe trend is one that most (if not all) shoe-wearers should consider. After all, there are more benefits ...

Because sometimes, you just don't want to.
Scroll through any social media platform, and within seconds you’ll be face-to-face with a "fitfluencer" claiming to have the thing you need to find your workout motivation. From “habit stacking” to “sweating with your besties," advice can leave you scratching your head, and no closer to working out.
Here's the thing—finding and keeping motivation to work out can be achieved with the help of just three simple steps. Ahead, exercise psychologists and ...

Fitness pros explain the pros and cons of each method.
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What Is Cutting?
What Is Bulking?
Gymshark, Ghost, greens, and creatine. Among bodybuilders there are no shortage of companies, concepts, and products designed to help them meet their goals. But there is one bodybuilding methodology that cannot be ordered online or snagged for a deal—cutting and bulking.
Bulking and cutting involve strategically editing your exercise, nutrition, and other lifestyle factors to gain muscle a...

Committing to this challenge will build your core, upper, and lower body strength — and improve your balance and range of motion, too.
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Challenge Benefits
How to Complete The Challenge
Yoga Challenge: Week One
Yoga Challenge: Week Three
Yoga Challenge: Week Four
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If you aspire to be chiller than an iced chai tea latte, more mobile than the inflatable air-dancer, or want to live a life of greater ease, then yoga has your back (and breath and brain). As a practice that...

From the basic sequence and modifications to the health benefits, here's what to know about the asanas that make up this yoga flow.
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Sequence of Sun Salutations
Benefits
Variations and Modifications
Breathing Techniques
Common Mistakes to Avoid
If TikTok has had any influence, you already have a robust morning routine replete with tongue scrapers, eye-brightening patches, green powders, and skin serums. But if you want to promote low-stress levels all day long, improve your mob...

Because no, you shouldn’t be lifting heavy in your running shoes.
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When you first begin adding strength training into your workout routine, you probably didn't think too deeply about the shoes you wore — whatever sneakers you owned were fine for dumbbell or kettlebell workouts...

If you’ve ever fallen down a #SkinTok rabbit hole (guilty), you’ve probably heard of atopic dermatitis (AD). But even if your feeds tend to be of the fitness or OOTD variety, odds are you or someone you know has the condition.
More commonly known as eczema, atopic dermatitis is a common inflammatory skin condition that causes dry, itchy skin, explains board-certified dermatologist Mariano Busso, M.D., F.A.A.D., who practices in Beverly Hill, California and Miami, Florida. “This widespread, ch...

Your feet have never been so pampered.
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When most people think of post-workout recovery, they think of plopping on the couch and kicking their feet up — not wearing special shoes. But that’s the idea behind recovery shoes.
“Recovery shoes [are] meant to be put on after some physical activity,” says Dr...

Plus, alternative moves you should try instead.
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Smith Machine Squats
Leg Extensions
Conventional Barbell Deadlift
Crunches
The Elliptical Machine
Running
Olympic Lifts
There are some things — season finales, first dates, fake eyelashes — that can be easily separated into categories of ‘good’ and ‘bad’. Exercises, however, cannot.
“There is a time and place for almost every exercise,” according to strength and conditioning specialist Alena Luciani, M.S., C.S.C.S., founder of Tr...

If your treadmill workout is as entertaining as being on hold, waiting for a computer update, or listening to former prom royalty blather on about the glory days, you’re doing it wrong! Sure, your workouts might not always be quite as captivating as a post-game-analysis call with your BFF or people-watching at your local first-date spot. But, your time on the treadmill — or any exercise machine for that matter — should not be boring.
Thankfully, if your treadmill jaunts are starting to feel a...

The low-impact, low-intensity exercise taking over TikTok may have some benefits.
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A fitness trend taking over social media, cozy cardio is an at-home fitness trend that prioritizes comfort over intensity, vibes over weights, and self-care over buckets of sweat. Essentially, it’s exercise that’s been hygge-ified.
Does a group fitness class, run race route, or CrossFit metcon sound about as appealing to you as, say, a colonoscopy? You could be a good candidate for cozy ...

Knock out the competition with these boxing pro-approved gloves.
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Your first boxing workout is an eye-opening experience. The high-impact sport challenges your coordination, balance, and agility. Even correctly throwing a punch is way more complicated than it seems. But the world of jabs and uppercuts comes with majo...

It may look like the date from the future, but 12-3-30 is a specific walking workout beloved by exercise-minded scrollers. Coined by lifestyle influencer and YouTuber Lauren Giraldo, the routine involves manipulating certain settings on the treadmill in order to ramp up intensity. More specifically, it involves walking on a treadmill at a 12 percent incline, at a 3-mile-per-hour speed, for 30 minutes. Seems simple enough, right?
While the internet celeb first posted about the protocol in 2019...

Ah, planks. Carpenters may think they’re planks of wood and pirates may think they’re balance beams. But anyone who's ever taken a group fitness class knows that they are a deceptively difficult exercise.
A plank is an isometric exercise that involves getting into a push-up position, and then staying put, explains physical therapist Grayson Wickham, D.P.T., C.S.C.S., founder of digital movement platform Movement Vault. “When done correctly, a plank is a full-body exercise that works nearly ev...