Workout Supplements for Beginners: 10 Buy or Skip Decisions
A first-purchase guide to ten workout supplement categories, with a no-purchase example, a copyable decision card and evidence and label checks for beginners.
Chris Pruitt
Chris Pruitt is a certified ASFA personal trainer and the founder of WorkoutHealthy, a fitness equipment retailer serving customers since 2007. He has more than 16 years in the fitness business, and he writes and fact checks everything published on Insider.
Pickleball Injury Prevention: Practical Steps and Evidence
A five-minute court-side preparation sequence, player-specific precautions, and a clear explanation of what pickleball injury studies count and what they cannot prove.
Halle Berry on Putting Health and Wellness First
Halle Berry describes a perspective that places health and wellness at the center of her choices. Her words are personal, but they can offer a useful alternative to appearance-driven pressure by inviting readers to define what feeling supported and well…
Theo James on Building Muscle That Doesn’t Come Naturally
Theo James built a career on physically demanding roles, from the Divergent film series to recent turns in The White Lotus, The Gentlemen, and The Monkey. He performed his own stunts across the Divergent trilogy, playing Tobias Eaton, also known…
Exercise After Stopping Ozempic: What Research Supports
Compare general exercise guidance with what medication-withdrawal and supervised-exercise studies actually tested, including the limits of the liraglutide follow-up.
Anatolii Novopismennyi’s 331 kg Squat: A Junior Lifter Who Beat the Open Field
In November 2019, Ukraine's Anatolii Novopismennyi squatted 331 kg as a young lifter, setting an Open world record in the 93 kg class rather than a junior-only one. Here's what the verified competition record shows, and how the mark was eventually broken.
Thomas More’s Utopia: What the Training Passage Says
Read Burnet's English translation of Utopia's fictional military-training custom, with limits on comparisons to modern fitness.
Gabrielle Union on Why She Makes Time to Work Out
Gabrielle Union shares a personal perspective about movement and wellbeing. The quote comes from her own experience, but it can invite a useful reflection on the choices that make activity feel relevant in your life. “I work out not because…
Prostate Cancer Exercise: What Different Trials Test
Compare prostate cancer exercise trials on heart-risk scores, fatigue, fitness and tumor biomarkers, including what each study can and cannot establish.
685 Pounds and Still Climbing: Sonita Muluh’s Raw Squat World Record
Sonita Muluh squatted 311 kg for an IPF world record in 2024, then broke her own record three more times. Here is the verified progression, governing body, and what nearly changed the number in 2026.