Outside Magazine

1 day ago | outsideonline.com | Alyssa Ages

If your typical gym session warm-up begins and ends with a casual five-minute jog on the treadmill, you may be short-changing the impact of your workout. To enhance your performance and prepare your body for the movements ahead, add dynamic upper body stretching to your warm-up routine.

2 days ago | outsideonline.com | Calin Van Paris

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2 days ago | outsideonline.com | Grayson Currin

When Teresa Martinez was a mountain-bike racer, she suffered a recurring anxiety dream. Days before any competition, Martinez would envision herself woefully unprepared, five minutes before the start. First, her shoes would go missing, then her bike, then her water bottle, then her gloves. With her gear finally gathered, she still had to find the starting line. "And then, you wake up in a cold sweat," she told me recently.

5 days ago | outsideonline.com | Sierra Vandervort

Neal Francis makes the kind of music that feels both timeless and intensely personal. Weaving in his own hard-won perspective following addiction and upheaval, the singer, songwriter, and pianist draws on the grooves of New Orleans funk and '70s soul in a solo career that's earned him a growing national audience and a much-anticipated recent album release, Return to Zero.

5 days ago | outsideonline.com | Owen Clarke

On Sunday, May 4, American climber Alex Pancoe died on the slopes of Nepal's 27,838-foot Makalu, the world's fifth-highest mountain. Pancoe was completing an acclimatization hike in preparation for a Makalu summit bid, and had recently returned to Camp II at 22,310 feet when he died, sources told Outside. His guide, Terray Sylvester of American climbing company Madison Mountaineering, told Outside that Pancoe died suddenly. "We don't yet know exactly what happened," Sylvester said.