Exercise Of The Week: Triceps Kickback

When you have sculpted triceps — you can wear whatever sleeveless tops you want! Sounds good, right? Say goodbye to upper-arm jiggle by practicing this move.

Tip Of The WeeK: Staying Hydrated Helps You Lose Weight

source: Google image

Can drinking few extra glasses of water per day help you lose weight? Here’s how: According to several studies, drinking more water can help you shed those unwanted weight, especially when combined with a healthy balanced diet and exercise. But why is this?

Challenge Of The Week: Use The body You Have To Create The Body You Want

When you need a go-to routine that use zero equipment, delivers visible tightening and trimming results, this is a circuit you can stick with. You can build lean muscle and torch unwanted fat in less than 30 minutes

Tip Of The Week: Plan. Prepare. Perform

Plan your work and work your plan.  If you want to be efficient and successful, this is a good motto for all your activities, but it is particularly important when it comes to planning your weight loss journey or even lleading a healthy lifestyle.   

Motivation Monday: What A difference Switching To Healthy Lifestyle Makes!

I celebrate my 2 year lean-versary and 3 year 11 months fit-versary! If someone told me years back I can be fit (I don't have any sport background, I'm that lazy! LOL) and or change the way I look aesthetically, I would have laughed so hard and peed on myself.

Exercise Of The Week: Elliptical training

Elliptical training is using the elliptical trainer. Elliptical trainer or cross-trainer (also known as X-trainer) is a stationary exercise equipment used to simulate stair climbing, walking, or running without causing too much pressure to the joints, hence reducing the risk of impact injuries.

Tip Of The Week: Stretching

Stretch properly after every workout session

‎
At the end of a workout, the last thing to do is to properly stretch your whole body stretch and cool down. It promotes proper blood circulation, reduces muscle soreness, improves flexibility and prevents post-workout cramps.

Exercise Of The Week: Burpee

photo credit: Run like a Girl

Burpee is an awesome, calorie-burning, strength-building, total body exercise.

Fitness Crush Friday: Fitness Blender's Daniel and Kelli Segars

Photo credit: Fitness Blender

A Husband-and-wife certified Trainer team, Daniel and Kelli Segar’s Fitness Empire Silently Rising on YouTube

Tip Of The Week: Hacks To Achieve 30 minutes Exercise Daily

30 minutes exercise a day is possible and easy

Having a regular exercise schedule that is developed for your specific needs is a great way to improve your health. But sometimes we don't have time to make it to the gym. These days, it seems like everyone is working more hours and it’s practically difficult for one to take out 30-40 minutes at a stretch daily for walk or any exercise.

But do you know you can exercise in bits, as in exercising in breaks 10 minutes spread throughout the day.  You think it wouldn't help much, right? ...then please read this....

Exercise Of The Week: Biking

Photo credit: Coalition for Clean Air

Biking is a healthy, low-impact  aerobic or cardiovascular exercise. Biking sociable and provides a great workout. Suitable everyone, any age or level of fitness. It is also fun, cheap and good for the environment.

Tip Of The Week: Smart Ways to Lose Weight While Breastfeeding

Photo credit: Huffington post

Struggling to lose weight while breastfeeding? You are not alone! Here are best ways to lose weight while breastfeeding without affecting breast milk supply.

Exercise Of The Week: Alternate Heel Touch

Photo credit: workout labs

Alternate heel touch is a great obliques exercise you can do at home to tone up your side abs fast!

You want a strong, defined abdomen to power you through exercises and to look good in a snug-fit clothes? That is where the heel-touching exercise comes in.

The Dangers of Gaining Too Much Pregnancy Weight

 

 

When hormones begin to fluctuate, stress levels skyrocket, and appetite begins to do strange things, some people find it very hard to eat, and others find it very hard to stop eating. When you are ravenous all the time, or just stress-eating, it’s tempting to justify overeating. “I’m pregnant; I can eat what I want, right?”

Tip Of The Week: Making Healthy Choices in Your Daily Life

Photo credit: Printerest

It’s never too late to take the big leap! Start today. Baby steps, that’s all it takes to start taking healthier decisions. That means making healthier choices in your everyday life.

Exercise Of The Week: Walking

Photo credit: The Health Site

Walking is one of the simplest ways to get active and stay active.There's no fancy equipment is required but that doesn't stop walking from being a powerful form of exercise.

Fitness Crush Friday: World Records' Oldest female bodybuilder, Ernestine Shepherd

"Age is nothing but a number, and you can get fit." Those are a few of the many wise words of Ernestine Shepherd, the world's oldest female bodybuilder — she was born in June 1936, making her 80 this year.

 
At 74, Baltimore grandmother Ernestine Shepherd is the Guinness World Records' oldest female bodybuilder.

Tip Of The Week: Don't Starve Yourself To Lose Weight

Where does that leave you? Starving to lose weight (sometimes called crash diet) is one of those "quick-fix" remedies for weight loss that individuals think of first. You need to understand that starving is not the way lose weight.

Challenge Of The Week: Brutal Abs Tabata

Photo credit: Project Swole

This HIIT workout is guaranteed to leave your core tight and burn inter-muscular fat. Simply put, tabata workouts are short and extremely effective! You will have a fat burning total-body workout in a matter of minutes.

Tip Of The Week: Secrets To Losing Weight

Good advice is difficult to come by - especially when it comes to healthy eating and fitness tips. To be committed to living a healthier lifestyle is hard — and certainly you will meet challenges every single day. When times get difficult, consult this list of true -and- tried tips from ME, my mentors/motivators who have been there, done that, and succeeded — along with some I researched online during my weight loss journey.