You've heard it a million times, but making time for fitness can be difficult when you're busy with work, family, and life in general. For those who consider themselves to be "too busy" for fitness, it can be a constant struggle just to find a little time for yourself. Sometimes it's hard enough just getting up at 5:00 am before your kids wake up! The first step [...]
Best Fitness Habits for Busy Women
Being a woman used to mean taking care of your family and making yourself look as pretty as possible, but being a woman now means you have to take good care of yourself. Not only do you have to treat your body right, but you need to make sure that you aren't missing out on any opportunities in life. And who's got time for that? When it comes to staying in shape, you [...]
Why is Fitness Important at Midlife
It's hard to believe that we can be in our 40s and 50s. It seems like just yesterday we were graduating from college, getting married, and starting careers. But time has marched on. We've had children of our own now--and maybe even grandchildren! And somehow the years have flown by faster than ever before. It's no wonder then that many people feel this is their "second [...]
How to Make Fitness Goals
Now is the time of year when more and more people are getting up and getting more active. The weather is decent, and the parks are starting to open. Whether you opt to walk the trails or hit the gym, we are sharing some tips to help you make fitness goals with ease this year. Focus on One Goal at a Time Do not set too many goals at once. Try to set one goal at a time [...]
Ways to Use Social Media to Boost Workout Motivation
Social media can be a powerful tool to help you gain motivation for a daily workout. Your online friends can provide much needed inspiration and motivation when you’re slacking. That’s why we wanted to feature a few ways you can use social media to boost workout motivation. Post a Daily Selfie Get that workout in and then post a sweaty selfie. Research has shown that [...]
Using Gardening as Exercise
Gardening totally counts as a form of exercise. You’re out there in the yard tending to the food you’re growing to feed your family while bending and lifting stuff. As you kneel down to weed the garden or flowers out in your yard, your body is moving. This movement is called physical activity and it’s one of the lower forms of physical activity that is called exercise. As [...]
The Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Dumbbells
Using dumbbells is one of the easier ways to get a little workout in. This is a great article to help people out there who may be interested in working out but don’t want to hit the gym just yet. Dumbbells are relatively inexpensive and can be purchased in most online shops with ease. The prices for dumbbells range from little money to more money, depending on how much money [...]
Active Date Night Ideas for Couples
It’s fun to be created in your relationship and that’s why we wanted to feature the best active date night ideas for couples today. These ideas are something that any couple can enjoy for a special evening away from the responsibilities of life. Whether you’re looking to do something active at home or hit the gym or local park, trail, or other location where you can enjoy an [...]
Benefits of Weight Lifting
Weight lifting is often used when someone is looking to build muscle mass, but there are far more benefits of weight lifting than just building muscle. Today we’re going to dive into the subject of weight lifting and the benefits of this activity. The list of benefits of weight lifting below will help you see why this type of strength training provides more for you than just [...]
Anxiety Reducing Hacks for Better Health
Anxiety can take you down for a full day, week, and sometimes a month if you don’t find ways to reduce the symptoms of anxiety. Today we’re featuring some tips to help you reduce anxiety so that you’re less likely to be taken down by the incessant fears that consume you when anxiety is at its peak. Start Deep Breathing Now, this technique may not work during a huge [...]
Virtual Fitness Challenges for Everyone
With so many people stuck at home, it’s easy to think that you can’t complete fitness challenges but the reality is that the times have changed. There are plenty of virtual fitness challenges that anyone can partake in from the comfort of their own home. Today we’re featuring a list of virtual fitness challenges for everyone. These challenges will help you achieve your [...]
Mind Blowing Benefits of Walking in Nature
Walking down a forest-filled path in the backwoods or down a trail in your local community with birds, trees, and other wildlife around you can be so easing on the soul. Being out in nature is a helpful way to bring your soul back to a peaceful place, not to mention it can help balance your mind. Nature has many mind blowing benefits, and today we’re going to share the mind [...]
The Best Forms of Exercise to Improve Your Mood
With everyone being stuck at home and the cold weather season upon us, so many are suffering from cabin fever. You probably feel less motivated and are having a difficult time focusing on things you once enjoyed. This is completely normal given the current state of the world, but it doesn’t have to be your normal. Exercise helps increase serotonin, the hormone in your brain [...]
Exercises For People Who Sit All Day
With more people working from home and sitting more frequently throughout the day, it’s no wonder more of us need some tips to help keep our body strong while we sit all day. For people who aren’t used to sitting all day long, these exercises will help guide you forward in maintaining good physical shape and proper physical health during your remote working days. These [...]
The Amazing Benefits of Daily Exercise
There are so many benefits of daily exercise that we just had to feature the most important benefits today. Exercising refers to any physical activity you include in your daily routine. This could be a simple brisk walk, a cardio workout, or yoga. We’re not here to tell you which daily exercise routines you should include in your life, rather feature some of the amazing [...]
The Benefits of Taking a Daily Walk
Taking one walk every day is a beneficial way to lose some weight and feel good. Just a short, 30-minute brisk walk every day will help reduce anxiety and stress all the while helping reduce belly fat. With so many people being cooped up for months on end, the concept of taking a walk can help provide more benefits than not. Today we’re going to dive into the topic of [...]
The Pros & Cons of Running with a Face Mask On
Many regions are requiring a face mask regardless of what you’re doing. This face mask must be worn outside, inside, and wherever you go. Some regions do say that you don’t have to wear a face mask while running but other regions of the world say that it doesn’t matter what you’re doing, the face mask must be worn. This has brought up much discussion as to whether one should [...]
Tips to Improve Your Posture
Many of you are working remotely or sitting at a desk for hours upon hours. This type of work can be trying on your back and other muscles. When you sit at a desk for long hours, you’ll start to slouch. This isn’t done on purpose most times. Slouching seems to slowly creep in as we sit tirelessly typing away at the computer for 8-10 hour days. You’ve probably noticed that [...]
Why You Should Embrace a Fitness Lifestyle
Increasing your physical activity has been proven to help lower anxiety and depression. Including a fitness routine in your daily life will help you lose or maintain weight, and just feel overall great! Today we’re going to share a few reasons why you should embrace a fitness lifestyle. Why do we need to adapt a healthy lifestyle? Creating a healthy lifestyle, such as [...]
Clever Ways to Sneak Fitness Into Your Busy Day
Between trying to get the kids to school, dinner on the table, bills paid, and everything else we have to handle as a responsible adult, it’s no wonder more people are not getting enough exercise into their daily life. You might think that you have to develop some crazy fitness routine where you invest in a treadmill, weights, and other exercise equipment to get a work out [...]
Strange Ways to Stay Fit
There are many strange habits that fit people have that other people don’t. Today we’re sharing some of the strangest things that people do and swear by as a means to stay fit. Keeping up with physical health is something that every person should place as a priority in their life. Perhaps these strange ways to stay fit will inspire you to put a focus on fitness in your life. [...]
Best Strength Training Workouts for Beginners
There are many strength training workouts that beginners can enjoy. If you’re looking to tone up and lose weight then you’re going to love our tips today for the best strength training workouts for beginners. These workouts are created to help beginners attain their fitness goals, regardless of their experience with strength training. The basics of strength training include [...]
Top Online Workout Classes
While many gyms are starting to open for people to enter and workout, many people are staying home to workout instead. Since the at-home workout option has become increasingly popular over the last six months, we wanted to feature some of the top online workout classes to get you moving and achieving your weight loss goals! Each of these workout classes offers a different [...]
Best Yoga Apps for Beginners
Are you thinking about adding yoga to your daily life? Yoga is a simple way to get daily exercise all the while maintaining proper balance in life. Many use yoga to reduce stress and anxiety as it’s a calming activity that helps relax your mind while stretching your muscles. Today we’re featuring the best yoga apps for beginners to help guide you forward in your decision to [...]
Best YouTube Workout Channels try Try
There are many different reasons that more and more people are flocking towards free at-home options for workouts such as YouTube channels and online programs. YouTube gives many creators and fitness trainers an opportunity to share their programs and routines through a platform that allows a broad reach, and to share these from home as well. If you’re trying to find a source [...]
The Many Health Benefits Of Yoga
Yoga has become and continues to become increasingly popular and marketed as a form of exercise that works well for all ages and comes with many benefits, but what are those benefits really? This form of activity can be perfect for taking time to unwind and reduce your stress providing health improvements or benefits of all kind, both mental and physical. I’m here to let you in [...]
Easy Ways to Make Exercise Fun
You’ve probably heard this before; it’s highly recommended that every individual gets at least 30 minutes of daily physical activity. This can be in any shape or form, such as a daily walk for thirty minutes, or a cardio workout for thirty minutes. The type of physical activity doesn’t matter as much as the fact that you’re getting doing something to be active for a minimum [...]
Common Fitness Myths Debunked
There are endless fitness myths that have been going around for years now which aren't necessarily true. Yet, it's easy to believe anything we hear, especially when it's a subject we're not too familiar with and we have no reason to doubt it. While some of these myths are harmless, others might be the reason why we don't exercise as often as we should (or at all) and others yet [...]
Essential Items for a Successful Home Workout
Although gyms are slowly reopening, many of us still feel uncomfortable to hang our at crowded spaces and be around strangers, and that's okay; there's no reason why you should put your health at risk when you can have a perfectly good, efficient workout at home. All you need for a professional home workout are some basic items you can easily order online and have delivered to [...]
4 of the Most Inspiring Fitness Accounts on Instagram
If there are two things Instagram is good for those are food bloggers and fitness accounts. When you're bored, there's nothing like looking at photos of appetizing dishes and desserts you're never going to make, followed by a long session of scrolling through fitness accounts. These days, you can find thousands of fitness accounts on Instagram, and if you're looking for some [...]
Why Are People Exercising More During This Time?
There's been one positive outcome to this pandemic, and it's that people are exercising more during this time. For the past several months, we've been spending most of our time at home, and despite that, or perhaps thanks to that, we've become a lot more active. During these uncertain times, when people experience fear and anxiety, it seems as if many of us found a refuge in [...]
Pilates Tips to Help You Perfect Your Home Workout
During the past couple of months, home workouts have become more popular than ever, and people discovered they don't really need the gym to stay in shape. Personal trainers adapted to this new reality and are streaming their workouts via social media, and our biggest challenge is finding the right plan for us, because the options are endless. Pilates has gained [...]
The Best Foods to Eat Before a Workout
If we want to get in shape, most of the time training isn't enough, but it's also important to watch what we eat. If you want to get the maximum results of a workout, there are several options of pre-workout snacks you should keep in mind. The right food can help make the best out of your workout, while not eating the right foods (or even worse, not eating anything) might make [...]
How to Stay Germ-Free at the Gym
Slowly but surely, gyms around the country are starting to re-open, and if we want to keep this trend going, we have a heavy responsibility to follow the health regulations, maintain personal hygiene and keep our distance from people. Throughout this time, some people adopted the home-workouts and fell in love with them, while others couldn't wait to get back to the [...]
This Is How Our Favorite Celebrities Stay in Great Shape
It seems unfair sometimes that celebrities seem to be in such great shape without sweating, but this is a bubble we're going to burst: sure, being a celebrity is all fun and games sometimes, but it also comes with a lot of responsibility, such as setting good example, which means maintaining a healthy lifestyle. True, they have private gyms and swimming pools in their houses, [...]
How to Stay in Shape During Lockdown
Now that we're all stuck at home with almost nothing to do and no reason to look our best, we have very little motivation to maintain a healthy lifestyle and stay in shape. It gets even harder when we don't have to work (or can't work), and we spend most of our time wondering around the house or binge-watching Netflix. Staying in shape seems to be one of the hardest [...]
First Steps to Getting in Shape Or: How to Keep This Year’s Resolution
Every year you resolve to get in shape, and every year you end up disappointed that yet another year went by without changing your bad habits? Don't stress about it, it's perfectly normal, and we've all been there. But the New Year is right around the corner (in two days, to be precise!) and so we made this guide to help you achieve this year's resolution! If your New Year [...]
The Best Workout Equipment of the Decade
With the new year right around the corner, there’s no better time to look back on all the equipment that made our workouts that much better. Every year new gadgets emerge to the market, and while they all look shiny and exciting, some of them turn out to be complete disappointments. We’re here to examine the workout equipment that made 2019 what it is – a year full of progress [...]
Hottest Fitness Trends of 2019
2020 is approaching in giant steps, and this seems like the right time to examine all the hot trends that governed the fitness world in 2019. The fitness world is always evolving, new products are released to the market, and we’re always on the lookout for new, exciting ways to get in shape. Some of these trends are momentary, while others are here to stay, and we predict we’re [...]
Look out: Signs you’re becoming a fitness freak
Being in shape is a blessed thing, but you don’t want to become one of those people who obsess about fitness, do you? The hardest part about training and getting in shape is – you guessed it – the beginning. So often after people push past that barrier, that’s all they can talk about. They get too obsessed with working out, for better and for worse. It’s okay to be proud of [...]