If you take a stroll around your local gym, you’ll see plenty of fitness machines that seem intuitive and approachable. Judging the VersaClimber by its appearance, it likely isn’t one of them. This ...

Guys are always on the hunt for the fastest way to torch fat and get lean, preferably without living in the gym. When your calendar’s slammed, nobody’s itching to grind out an hour on the treadmill.

Just when I thought I had tried every unusual workout imaginable — from barbell HIIT to kickboxing-and-treadmill intervals, paddleboard yoga, and pool cycling — the VersaClimber entered the scene. I ...

Vertical climbers are cardio machines that mimic a climbing movement, creating a full-body workout. Jake Gyllenhaal used them a lot when getting in MMA-fighter-shape for "Road House," his trainer said ...

The machines look so innocuous, tucked away in the corner of the weight room at Marquette's Al McGuire Center. Long and skinny, they wouldn't appear out of place in a training montage from a 1980s ...

Race Thompson got off the VersaClimber machine and wasn’t able to hold in his exhaustion. It was early in Thompson’s career at IU, his first workout on the VersaClimber in front of Director of ...