Dead Hangs After Desk Work: Real Benefits, Limits, and a Safer Progression
Dead hangs can train grip and overhead tolerance, but they are not a spinal reset. Learn a conservative progression and the symptoms that mean stop.
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.
Do Rest Days Build Muscle? What Recovery Science Actually Says
Rest days support muscle growth by protecting recovery and future training quality. Use this evidence-based traffic light to decide when to train, scale, or rest.
Cocoa Flavanols and Blood Flow: What the Trials Actually Show
Cocoa flavanols can modestly improve vascular markers in short-term trials, but ordinary chocolate is not a standardized dose or cardiovascular treatment.
Mark Wahlberg’s Breakfast Routine Changed. Here Are the 5 Myths to Drop.
Mark Wahlberg has publicly described both pre-workout breakfast and later fasting routines. Here is what the evidence says about breakfast and fasted lifting.
Merle Dandridge Checked a Lifelong Goal Off Her List at the NYC Marathon
Merle Dandridge spends most of her working nights under stage lights or in front of a camera. This fall she chased a goal that had nothing to do with acting at all. Dandridge ran the 2025 TCS New York City…
Adam Woodyatt Traded Walford for 26.2 Miles to Fund Dementia Research
Adam Woodyatt has played Ian Beale on EastEnders since the show began in 1985. He is the longest serving cast member in the show’s history, with more than 3,800 episodes to his name. This year he traded Albert Square for…
Vince Gironda’s Anti-Drug Stance, Fact-Checked
Vince Gironda remains one of bodybuilding’s most quotable characters, which also makes him easy to misquote. A WorkoutHealthy Facebook post featured a line about refusing to attend bodybuilding “drug festivals” and presented it as Gironda’s explanation for avoiding contests. The…
Pilates for Older Adults: What Research Really Found
A WorkoutHealthy Facebook post said a 2021 study found that Pilates could improve strength, balance, mobility, depression, and pain in older adults. That summary points toward a promising body of research, but it compresses several reviews, outcomes, and levels of…
Mike Mentzer Heavy Duty Training: What Holds Up
Mike Mentzer’s Heavy Duty system keeps returning to fitness feeds because it offers an irresistible promise: train very hard, keep the workout brief, recover fully, and stop treating more gym time as proof of better training. A WorkoutHealthy Facebook post…
Social Media Stress and Immunity: What Research Shows
A viral WorkoutHealthy Facebook post warned that social media multitasking can raise stress hormones and weaken immunity. The first half of that claim reflects a real research concern. The second half reaches beyond what the social media evidence has actually…