Jacqueline Andriakos

No matter your fitness level, age, gym access, or crazy schedule...you deserve a workout plan that meets you where you’re at. That’s why Women’s Health teamed up with fitness icons Denise and Katie Austin to create the 2024 Strength Transformation Challenge—a 31-day plan that takes out the guesswork of planning workouts, offers physical wins, and lets you jumpstart the year with joy. Get this: The Strength Transformation Challenge is the first time the pair has joined forces for a workout progra…

Fitness entrepreneur Katie Austin is no stranger to the saturated world of fitfluencers and ever-changing conversation around food and fitness trends. But the 30-year-old former athlete doesn’t let the noise distract her from mission: to motivate people to lead a happy healthy life in whatever way best suits them and their lifestyle.And that’s exactly how Katie approaches her own fitness and food regimens—she gives herself grace and allows herself to be flexible with her routine and meet her bod…

The 2024 fitness awards are all about the cream of the crop apparel, footwear, equipment, and accessories that support your holistic fitness routine in the gym (or wherever you prefer to sweat).Making selections takes our entire family of editors, designers, and trusted trainers. We take into account personal sweat goals, lifestyles, body types, and backgrounds. Movement means something different to each of us—but we all agree that a good sweat changes our moods, productivity, muscles, and more—…

When Denise Austin started her fitness career, she was renting racquetball courts in order to have an open space to teach aerobics and bringing her own music to attract a crowd. Nowadays, the aerobics icon is a household name in fitness—known for her unmatchable energy, recognizable voice and smile, and her chiseled body.If you’re wondering how the 66-year-old mom-of-two maintains a consistent workout routine and a strong body at her age, you wouldn’t be alone. Denise has over 370,000 followers…

Deadlifts are arguably a nonnegotiable strength exercise. Why? The functional movement strengthens the entire posterior chain (the back of the body) and also helps make the glutes and core really pop.All that said, deadlifts are an easy movement pattern to do incorrectly, which can lead to back pain. In fact, this is a complaint that certified trainer Nellie Barnett hears all the time from clients, she tells WH. But don’t worry: Barnett has three simple form corrections that should help you elim…

There’s no feeling quite as satisfying as finishing a sweaty, spicy abs workout that leaves your core feeling strong. Even better? When all that work gets accomplished in—gasp!—only five minutes. That’s exactly what you’ll get with this quick five-minute abs workout that only requires a single dumbbell.Meet the expert: Claudette Sariya, CPT, is a trainer and group fitness instructor at New York City’s West Village Athletic. The workout consists of eight core-focused exercises, including sit-ups…

Did we mention the workouts are only 20 minutes?

Raise your hand if you’ve been schlepping around with the same worn-out duffel since college. Guilty! That means you’re long overdue for a new gym bag. According to our fashion director and fashion experts, the best gym bags for women can carry everything you need for a successful workout, but also have multi-functional usage, too. The best bags we’ve tested doubles as a carry-on travel bar, or even a work to use before and after the gym. Not all gym bags are made equally, so you really have to…

You’ve probably heard a personal trainer or group workout instructor say, “activate your glutes” at some point in a sweat session. But what does that phrase actually mean–and how do you even activate your glutes to begin with?This is a question that Sandy Brockman, CPT, the expert behind the Women’s Health Glute Gains Challenge, gets all the time and is super passionate about. Brockman calls glute activation the “number-one game changer” when it comes to glute growth. Let’s get into why.Meet the…

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