Michael Easter

It all begins with the story of Navy SEAL Lieutenant Michael P. Murphy's personal workout.

Use this three-number formula to make yourself stronger and happier

Americans spend 92 percent of their time indoors, and their physical and mental health are suffering. This three-number formula for how much time to spend in nature fixes that.

It all begins with the story of Navy SEAL Lieutenant Michael P. Murphy's personal workout.

Have you been feeling negative? Checked out? Just blergh? A little stanning might fix all that.

Jump to Guy’s Recipes From This StoryGUY FIERI IS preparing a sensible salad.It’s nearing lunchtime at Fieri’s 42-acre compound in California’s wine country, a stretch of rolling Steinbeckian earth that is the 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue of Flavortown, U.S.A.Fieri is dressed in a black tee and dripping silver bling as he commands the outdoor kitchen in his backyard. Wood in a Santa Maria grill is kicking up flames. A bulbous brick oven is at full tilt. And Fieri, knife in hand, is hot on this salad…

What Lumen can—and can’t—tell you about what you should be eating.

All your athleticism is nothing without the aerobic capacity to sustain it—and Diaz serves as proof.

Training can’t prep you for the unknown—unless you get comfortable training in the unknown, like Laura Zerra.

You don’t have to be a climber to benefit from his mobility-focused training.

You don’t have to haul 200-pound Atlas stones to use his technique.

This is the remarkable true story of the largest order of fitness equipment ever placed.

The story of how bodybuilders, bio-hackers and hucksters rebranded the ketogenic diet

The story of how bodybuilders, bio-hackers and hucksters rebranded the ketogenic diet

I recently spent a month in the Alaskan backcountry. I came home in the best shape of my life, but I hadn’t “exercised” the entire month. Life took effort. Getting warm required hauling firewood. Satiating my hunger and slaking my thirst meant hunting across tens of miles of rough land while wearing a heavy pack or hiking down to a stream and hoofing heavy water bags back to camp. Returning to camp each day required rucking across untamed, hilly land. Even rest wasn’t inactive—I had no chair, so…

The herd of 400-pound caribou was running 50 miles an hour and directly at me. The 30 animals had been eating lichen in the Arctic tundra in Alaska when something spooked them. I was sitting in their escape route. The ground began to vibrate once they cracked 100 yards. At 50 yards, I could see their hooves smashing the ground and kicking up moss and moisture. Then they were at 40 yards, then 35. I could hear their breathing, smell their coats, and see all the details of their ornate antlers. Ju…

Scientists are still struggling to agree on whether meat and dairy are unfairly maligned whole foods. With the release of new research, the dispute is heating up

Adapted from the book The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self, by Michael Easter, out May 11 from Rodale Books. Copyright © 2021 by Michael EasterI recently found myself standing in the Arctic tundra, about 120 miles from civilization, in Kotzebue, Alaska, with half a year’s worth of dinner—100-plus pounds of caribou—strapped to my back. Gnarled four-foot antlers burst from the top of my pack, and my shoulder straps felt so weighty that I thought they mig…

MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND, 2007. Joshua Appel, M.D., now chief of emergency medicine for the Southern Arizona Veterans Administration Health Care System, was a medical resident in Albany, New York, when he had an idea. The holiday had become a thing of beers and barbecues and bargains on mattresses and refrigerators. All of which are great, no doubt. But Dr. Appel wanted to do something to remind himself and a few willing others of the day’s purpose. A way to contemplate with mind and body those who…

The prototypical standard of what makes an elite athlete might be morphing. Conventional thinking will have you believe that success in sports will come when one side is bigger and stronger than the competition—but there’s more to winning games, matches, and races than overwhelming force.Since today’s high-level sports stars are starting to target more nuanced forms of training and perfecting the subtler tools of their athletic arsenals more than their predecessors, their paths to success might…