Best Leg Exercises

Best Leg Exercises

Diet & Fitness / Fitness

The strong muscles of your legs help you walk, run, jump, skip, dance and hop your way through life every day. Finding the best leg exercises to shape and tone the legs can be a challenge. Maintaining your leg shape can be just as difficult. Variety is the key to…

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Workout Strategies to Stay Motivated

Workout Strategies to Stay Motivated

Diet & Fitness / Fitness

by Kayla Moffett Although it may seem working out is harder than it looks, the biggest challenge in getting fit is staying motivated. In reality, the easiest task of all is coming up with excuses NOT to exercise. You’ve got a full schedule … You’ll feel more motivated tomorrow…You haven’t…

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Why Women Should Lift Weights

Why Women Should Lift Weights

Diet & Fitness / Fitness

Weight lifting can be a woman’s best friend. While men have long enjoyed the benefits of strength training, women have tended to shy away from the activity, fearing the body builder look. Fear no more, ladies. Incorporating weight lifting into your workout routine provides important benefits necessary to a woman’s…

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Monitoring Heart Rate When Exercising

Monitoring Heart Rate When Exercising

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One of the benefits of exercise is that it improves cardiovascular fitness. Your heart rate, or pulse, is the number of times your heart beats in a minute and is an indicator of how hard your heart is working during exercise. Learning to monitor your heart rate will help ensure…

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What Should Your Heart Rate Be?

What Should Your Heart Rate Be?

Diet & Fitness / Fitness

You’re ready to jump into that heart-pumping activity and intensive cardiovascular exercise session, but are you doing more harm than good? Most people don’t realize how important it is to keep your heart rate at a certain level while exercising, and you need to maintain a specific heart rate when…

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Cool New Workout Classes

Cool New Workout Classes

Diet & Fitness / Fitness

If you’re a certain age, you remember doing endless leg lifts in your best Jane Fonda costume to terrible 80s pop music. Fast forward a bit, and it’s sweaty spinning classes that attract the masses. Whatever the year, there has always been one hot workout trend that everyone is offering…

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Best Butt Exercises

Best Butt Exercises

Diet & Fitness / Fitness

We all want a shapely behind. What we don’t want is the massive effort it takes to get a curvy derriere. We can attack this typical trouble spot with target exercises to tone and define the muscles of the butt. We spend so much of our days parked in a…

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Exercising With a Dog

Exercising With a Dog

Diet & Fitness / Fitness

By Muscle Trainer Does this scenario sound familiar? It’s 6:15am and you feel a tad nudge on your hand courtesy of a cold wet nose. You turn over, only to hold that nudge coupled with a whine and then a elevated pitched bark. Yes, it is time to walk the…

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Stripping for Fitness: Try a Racy Workout!

Stripping for Fitness: Try a Racy Workout!

Diet & Fitness / Fitness

It’s fun, it’s sexy and it’s one of the hottest crazes in the world of working out. It’s called strip aerobics (or sometimes striptease aerobics), and ladies are doing it in gyms and living rooms across the country. Though inspired by striptease and burlesque dancing, most of these workouts are…

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Change Your Workout

Change Your Workout

Diet & Fitness / Fitness

Have you spent hours on the treadmill and elliptical machine each week but still aren’t getting results? You’re probably stuck in a fitness rut where your body has adapted to your workout routine and just doesn’t respond to the activity like it used to. The best way to get over…

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