Fitbit’s Charge series has long been the Goldilocks of the brand’s fitness trackers — not quite a smartwatch, but far more capable than a basic step counter. With the Charge 6 (released in 2023), Fitbit brings basic smarts into a just-big-enough package, offering features like GPS, Google Wallet, and on-wrist music control alongside its best-in-class
The latest special-edition of Google’s Fitbit Air is inspired by the Pokémon Sleep game, with a “Sleepy Blue” band emblazoned with a snoozing Pikachu. It’s not exactly Snorlax blue, but matches the classic blue and gold of a Pokémon card pretty closely. The special-edition is available to preorder now for $129 and starts shipping September
What do the terms Zone 2 and VO2 max have in common? According to the celebrity personal trainer Harley Pasternak, they are irrelevant to the majority of people, the health-conscious among us included. If your goal is to be healthy physically and mentally, you are far better off focusing on a simple metric, such as
This story is based on an interview with Mary Roberts, 33, from Miami. She is about to launch a consultancy. The interview has been edited for length and clarity. I was on the chubbier side growing up. However, as soon as I started competitive sports like basketball in high school, I got into good shape.
Watching Charlotte Lim at work in the gym, it’s easy to forget that she’s 80. She does a pull-up, chin clearing the bar with ease. She drops to the ground and powers through a set of feet-elevated push-ups. Then, she grabs a dumbbell off the rack, holds it close to her chest, and drops into
It was the era of heroin chic. When iconic supermodel Kate Moss was at the peak of her modeling career in the 1990s, she was often photographed in clubs with a cigarette, a far cry from today’s trends of Pilates and matcha lattes. So when actress Ellie Bamber came to play Moss in the recently
