Forget the Hotshot Trainer with the Six-Pack, Boomers Want Mature Fitness Coaches
By HILARY POTKEWITZ After dieting and losing more than 30 pounds, Lynne Ranieri hired a personal trainer to help her exercise properly...
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Hilary Potkewitz
FREELANCE WRITER
How a Breakup Can Lead to a Fitness Breakthrough
What starts as a remedy for heartbreak can help people reach athletic heights they’d never thought possible By HILARY POTKEWITZ Paige...
Headspace vs. Calm: The Meditation Battle That's Anything But Zen
A pair of apps preach relaxation to millions of customers—but still badly want to beat each other By HILARY POTKEWITZ The two smartphone...
The New Wave of Supercharged Swim Classes
Swimming instruction, long the purview of the YMCA, has witnessed a rise in schools offering smaller classes and warmer pools for much...
They'll Donate More to Charity if You Try to Climb Everest
Fundraisers have gotten more extreme as studies show that donors give more money as challenges get harder Alicia O’Neill, far left,...
USA Swimming Flips for Multisport Youth Athletes
Fighting declining numbers, the swimming governing body offers more flexible options for children who want to do other sports By HILARY...
A-Hed: Quiet! I'm Cramming for Finals—By Watching Someone Else Study
By HILARY POTKEWITZ The video opens with medical student Jamie Lee at her desk, working on a computer and writing in a notebook. In the...
Gotham Gigs: An Aspiring Pilot Veers into a Career as a JetBlue Aircraft Mechanic
By HILARY POTKEWITZ Jerusalem Melke has spent more sleepless nights at John F. Kennedy International Airport than even the most...
Gotham Gigs: Fish Illustrator Finds Her Calling as Hip Sushi Chef
By HILARY POTKEWITZ Oona Tempest didn’t set out to break gender barriers in the sushi world. When she started learning sushi techniques...
Gotham Gigs: A fashion designer becomes an award-winning taxidermist
By HILARY POTKEWITZ Divya Anantharaman knows there are dead mice in the basement of her workshop—because she put them there, in neatly...
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