Exercise and Fitness

Yoga-Inspired Cookie Cutters: Strike, Then Eat, a Pose

What does your collection of cookie cutters say about you? Or, to put this another way, are your cookie cutters shaped like Stormtroopers and X-Wings, or did you leave your yoga class this morning wishing you could bake some cookies that accurately captured your Crescent Lunge pose? If it's the la ... More >>

Grasping At The Past Through Pandora's Blackstreet Station

I sent shirtless cell phone shots of myself to, like, I'd guess 300 people in 2010. I was 29, and in the best shape I'd ever been in. In the morning, I would literally roll out of bed and onto the floor into push-up position. I could do more than 100 without stopping. I installed a pull-up bar in ... More >>

Pitbull and Lil Jon Lead a Zumba Class! (Yikes)

Pitbull and Lil Jon Convention Center 2/15/2013 Better than...the fitness DJ in your spin class. Hip-hop and fitness might not seem immediately compatible, and Pitbull and Lil Jon aren't quite LL chiseled. But that didn't stop them from performing before 3000 freaking Zumba fitness buffs at the C ... More >>

10 Best Yoga Studios in L.A.

When it comes to yoga, L.A's reputation precedes it. Ask any east coaster, and they'll tell you that we're a bunch of Lululemon-wearing, namaste-saying hippies who have jobs that allow us to practice Iyengar at 11:30 on Tuesday mornings. And in some cases -- like that of the freelance writer -- th ... More >>

California Tax for Mentally Ill Is Going Toward Massage Chairs, Zumba Classes in SoCal

California Governor Jerry Brown is asking for another tax hike this November: He hopes the dead-broke people of this dead-broke state will have the heart to toss a few coins at our crumbling education system. But how do we know our money won't end up paying for some bedazzled charter-school megagym ... More >>

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Bikram Choudhury Battles for Control of the Hot Yoga Tradition He Invented

Huntington Park Has the Fattest Kids in California; Manhattan Beach Has the Skinniest

As we're sure you've heard, childhood obesity levels are not doing so good in America. Though they've leveled off overall, low-income cities are still stuffing over 50 percent of their young with enough French fries to earn them an "obese" Post-It on their forehead. Fattest city in California? That ... More >>

Top 10 Gyms in Los Angeles

If there's anything we are not lacking in Los Angeles, it's places to work out. But finding the perfect gym to tone, slim down or -- dare we even say it -- find a date is a highly subjective decision. Then there's that old real estate rule of location, location, location; you want something close t ... More >>

VIDEO: Hundreds of Fitness Dorks Turn Out for Massive 'Zumba' Flash Mob at L.A. Live

What appeared to be hundreds, if not thousands, of Zumba® fans in their finest Latin-flavored workout getups crowded the Nokia Plaza yesterday afternoon, forming the most chaotic mob at L.A. Live since the Lakers riots. If you haven't heard of Zumba yet, here's what you're missing: It describes it ... More >>

4:20 Yoga Class in Atwater Village: Getting Bendy While Baked

Elizabeth McDonaldLiz McDonald practices yoga on a beach in Brazil while smoking a fat cartoon joint. ​ Take a nice deep inhale, press the feet, elongate the neck and allow any sort of tension to just drop out of the head, but don't think about food. We'll be needing to relax the booty muscles ... More >>

L.A. Food Bloggers Workout: How They Can Eat Without Guilt

Matthew KangFood bloggers H.C. So (green shirt) and Cathy Chaplin (red shorts) combining their two passions -- food and running -- during a "food marathon."​ When you're as passionate about food as food bloggers are, dieting and counting calories just don't make sense in your world. And thanks ... More >>

Jock Out With Your Abs Out

L.A. Marathon: Don't Drop Dead, Because Running a Lot Could be Bad For Your Heart

Mike BairdRun in moderation.​Have fun at the L.A. Marathon Sunday but don't drop dead. Seriously. Turns out those ironic tales about hardcore athletes and fitness fanatics taking their last steps during grueling runs might not be so rare. Running could actually be bad for your health. Seriou ... More >>

What Kind of Homeland Security Is That?

Amazing Rants Overheard in LA: "What kind of homeland security is that?"

​Ranter: Thirtyish man in running shoes and green suit Location: Bank of America ATM machines, Jefferson & McClintock Time: 6 p.m. on a Thursday Topics Covered: Suspicious security guards, the fact that ranter doesn't drink at lunch; the presumption of innocence; why ranter might be moved t ... More >>

Hey Steve Cooley: Time To Take A Closer Look At Former Bell Police Randy Adams And His Shady Pension

Oh, my back! That's Adams on the right, with D.A. Steve Cooley, looking like a small town Rotarian, on the left. ​The L.A. Times reports that former Bell police chief Randy Adams, who quit in July when it was revealed he was making nearly $500,000 per year, is quite the physical fitness buff, ... More >>

RV Dealer Wants To Settle Lawsuit with 'Twilight' Star Taylor Lautner With Push-Up Contest

​"Twilight" star Taylor Lautner could once again flex his muscles, though not in a movie, but, rather, in a push-up contest. Brian McMahon, owner of an RV dealership, has challenged actor Taylor Lautner to a push-up challenge in an attempt to settle a lawsuit by the action star, the Los Angel ... More >>

Church Near Koreatown Pulses With Dance Music Beats

Steve La​ Every Tuesday and Thursday night intense trance-like music pulsates from the auditorium at First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles near Koreatown. The space that is usually reserved for quiet prayer and reflection turns into an aerobics class bursting with dance beats. In an economy ... More >>

HONOR THY THIGHMASTER

Over the Weekend: Active Child and Rocco DeLuca at the Bootleg Theater

Michael CamachoActive Child​ The two men billed at the Bootleg Theater last night could not be more different. Rocco DeLuca's blues set contrasted sharply to Active Child's harp-filled synth pop. It was almost as if a psych grad student was revealing the results of a test that he had being con ... More >>

Kid's Festival

Personal Trainer To The Stars Investigated For Sexual Assault

gregisaacsfitness.com​Los Angeles police this week were investigating whether a personal trainer to the stars who has been charged with sexually assaulting a 27-year-old possibly has other victims in the region. Greg Isaacs' website contains testimonials in support of his gym skills from the ... More >>

FREAK OF THE WEEK

THERE’S A SKIPPER BORN EVERY MINUTE

IS JUNIOR FLIPPING ME OFF, OR DOES THAT HAND GESTURE MEAN "PEACE"?

FUNNY VALENTINE

Questionable Idea #341: Shwayze and Cisco Adler Team Up for Cheesy Workout Recording, Get Paid

Some things speak for themselves. My only question, are you supposed to do the gravity bongs before or after this Malibu Schwayze/Cisco Beach Body Workout? News is out that Shwayze, Cisco Adler and DJ Skeet Skeet have a 24-minute workout routine available, sponsored by Nike. Was everyone involved in ... More >>

Dodgers Win Big in Chicago

Before the Lakers took over the minds and hearts of sports fans in Los Angeles, there were the Dodgers. Players such as Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax, Maury Wills, Ron Cey, Steve Garvey, Tommy John, and Fernando Valenzuela, among many others, were gods, and then things didn't go so well for the team in ... More >>

Best Yogi Rock: Vinnie Marino

Best Yogi for All: Bryan Kest's Santa Monica Power Yoga

Best Compassionate Yogi: Julian Walker

Serena Brooke's Surf Stronger Fitness Video Gets to the Core

The surfer's workout

Happy Reels

America's Next American Gladiators

Rome, by way of Venice (Gold's Gym)

Shit List

Grammy week... Fashion week (in NYC)...the writers strike... Britney... There so much to do and watch and bitch, uh write, about.... Our new year's resolution was to blog more and go to the gym more, but February's already half way through and we haven't jumped on the treadmill yet. Sigh... We may ... More >>

Hidden Yoga

Best savasanas off the beaten track

Best Place for Pre-Baby Bliss

Streets of Intervention

William “Blinky” Rodriguez

Downward Dog! Bang!

Former pro wrestler “Diamond” Dallas Page has an answer for regular guys: yoga

Everything’s Not Zen

As yoga’s popularity explodes, a battle rages for its heart and soul

Yogis for Kerry

Heart Less

Community health advocates fight closure of cardiac programs at Daniel Freeman

Goldberg and the Guv

Body Work

Bikram Choudhury wants to restore the chassis of the Western world

Atwater Rising

How Do People Live in This World?

Koren Paalman, the Yoga Principle

BEK

Next Big Thing: Looking for That Song

L.A.Transcendental

Bodywork for the new millennium