"Body Issues" is an ongoing personal essay series about obsessions with our own shape. I knew Ariel seemed too good to be true. He was a muscular Israeli who lived a couple subway stops from me, and ...

I used to be skinny. Really skinny. In high school and up to my first year of college, I was a complete stick -- until I made the decision in my freshman year that I needed to put some muscle on.

I hate to break it you, ladies, but that pose you're doing in pictures is making you all look a bunch of sh*t heads. You know the one I'm talking about. It's the pose you make when you get together ...

Your arms are constantly in use throughout the day, so make sure you’re keeping them strong with these simple exercises.

This summer, toned arms became the new status symbol—and a near-impossible to achieve beauty standard. Between Hollywood’s decades-long obsession with thinness and the recent swings of the ...