5 Moves To Butt Of Steel

Does your backside need a boost? If it does, this workout will strengthen, lift and shape the glutes while tightening up the tie-in, in plain words, the intersection of your butt and thigh.

This workout primarily features foundational movements modified slightly to better emphasize the backside. The moves are based on old school, solid effective exercises like squats but the effectiveness of this workout is that it ensures the body is put through several different variations of more or less the same exercises – the premise is that small change in angle, stance and range of motion hit the muscles a bit differently.

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Basics of Ayurveda- Science of Life

Ayurveda is a holistic and ancient medical system developed in India to help balance mind, body and spirit. The Sanskrit word of Ayurveda stands for: “ Science of Life ” Ayurveda is really extensive and beneficial knowledge of human conditions and well-being. While we are striving to improve material amenities, we often neglect the spiritual and holistic side of our lives. Ayurveda represents a prevent disease philosophy, with certain guidelines for lifestyle and practices for human health.

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20 Tough but Effective Butt Exercises of All Time

Our butt is the one part of the body we can’t see very often, at least not without some effort. Yet, it’s often the one part of the body we’re the most concerned with. Just because I can’t see it doesn’t mean other people aren’t looking, right? And most of us aren’t very happy with our butts.

We think they’re too small, too big, too saggy, too flabby – this list goes on. The right strength training exercises really can make a difference in your backside, depending on your body type and genetics.

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HIIT Fusion Purely Training Body Workout

Good morning purely fit friends! We hope you had a wonderful weekend. I (Lori) am back in town while Michelle is still down in Florida doing some extra work for our older sister. She will be back tomorrow!

Boy did I have an interesting flight home from Orlando yesterday. The flight was delayed 20 minutes – no big deal. Once in the air the flight was fine. It all started when I arrived in Charlotte’s airport. It was crazy packed. I continued to make my way to the baggage claim area and when I arrived it was slammed packed with people. I felt like I was in NYC or something. I’ve never seen it like this before – so many people in one little area. It was nuts! I was starting to get nervous about how I was going to find my bag in the sea of chaos. There was 6-7 other flights all on one carousel. Crazy!

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13 HIIT Cardio Workouts

How have your workouts been going lately? I’ve been focusing on strength training quite a bit and neglecting my cardio workouts. Time to incorporate more running, and quick, effective High Intensity Interval Training workouts. These workouts are performed in short bursts, with brief intervals of rest. The work is performed at a high rate of intensity. You’ll burn calories and fat at a higher level than steady state cardio workouts, and you’ll be finished sooner. That’s what I call winning.

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Use Your Own Body Weight Workout

Are you ready to burn fat and tone your entire body using only bodyweight?  We’ve designed a workout that tones every major muscle group, burns fat, boosts metabolism and does so in less than 20 minutes a day. It is recommended this workout be performed 3 x’s weekly for optimal results.

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Feel Confident in Your Skin With the Best Leg Exercises

Just because you're not strutting your bikini bod on the beach doesn't mean you should throw in the towel and forget about your legs! Keep those thighs strong and toned with these moves — they're the most effective exercises for targeting your lower half to make you feel confident in skintight pants and short skirts.

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The Ultimate Butt-Shaping Treadmill Workout

If you want to burn 100 calories in 10 minutes, and tone your tush and legs at the same time, go for a run. For even greater lower-body-sculpting power, you'll need to add hills to your workout.

I know. I know. Hills suck! And if running up hills is way too challenging, walking briskly will do the same magic. This interval workout combines walking hills and short sprints with just a bit of incline to reduce the chance of developing shin splints. Aside from a toned tush and thighs, intervals are also proven to target belly fat, so it's doubly effective. In about 40 minutes, you'll burn over 400 calories!

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A Quick and Intense 4-Minute Butt Burn

Grab a pair of dumbbells and get ready to work your tush and thighs in four minutes flat. All it takes is these four moves, and you'll feel the burn instantly. Feeling adventurous? Run through this circuit five times for a solid 20-minute workout!

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10 Moves to Master for a Beach Body

Are you spending time at the beach, pool, or lake this summer? Getting active as the temperatures rise? These 10 moves will tone every inch of your body, getting it ready for the summer season! By working the large and small muscle groups in your body, these beach body moves tighten, lift, and sculpt all-over. That leaves you with the ultimate beach body, fast! You can complete these moves as a circuit, performing one after the other, or add them to your own workout routine. Let’s burn some fat and sculpt that hot summer body!

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Pooch Buster Workout

Lower belly weakness can be tough to target, but Skinny Mom founder Brooke Griffin is about to show you how to isolate that pooch. Burn up the fat and tone the core with these moves developed for beginners. If you’re more advanced, look for Brooke’s power moves. To make the workout more challenging, you can use a body bar and a medicine ball, but all the moves can be performed without equipment. Make some space and break a sweat!

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How to Feel Less Bloated by the End of the Day

Slimming down takes time and dedication, but a few quick tricks can help you feel a little bit lighter in just one day. Read on to get our tips for feeling less bloated and puffy — and having a flatter belly — by the end of today!

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Strengthen and Stretch! The 12 Moves All Runners Need to Do

Whether you're training for your ninth marathon or just want to prevent nagging lower-back pain from your weekly runs, here are the moves missing from your life. Start with these six exercises to help you strengthen your body, run faster, and prevent injury. Then follow that up with these six essential yoga poses to target tight areas that often come from running. Start doing these 12 moves regularly, and you're sure to notice a difference.

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7-Minute Total Body Cardio Warm-Up

There are definitely days when the prospect of hitting the gym for an hour just doesn’t sound appealing. For those moments when you are struggling to kickstart your adrenaline and get your body moving, this 7-minute cardio warm-up offers the perfect solution. Before you have time to talk yourself out of a workout that you know you need, just give this warm-up a try.

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7 Best Bodyweight Exercises That Can Be Done Anywhere

Bodyweight exercises are great because you don’t need a gym membership to do them, and you can keep the equipment needed to minimal or non-existent. For times you just can’t make it to a gym or simply want to know some easy exercises to do at home, bodyweight training can be a super time efficient alternative to free weights.

These exercises can be modified to suit anyone from beginners to more advanced athletes, and can even be used at the end of a weighted work out as a metabolic finisher to burn extra calories and fat before you head home from a training session.

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28 Day Detox Tea Program

Detoxing helps your body get rid of toxins so that you'll not only feel great, but look great as well. A short natural detox process is simple: Step 1: Eat healthy non-processed foods. Step 2: Drink detox tea for a few weeks. Get rid of bloating and excess fat with an all-natural tea cleanse that will kick-start a new you.

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25 Motivating 30-Day Fitness Challenges

You can do anything for 30 days, right? I’ve talked a lot lately about how I eat, but not too much about what I do. I thought I’d share some of my favorite 30 Day fitness challenges with you. They’re easy and fun to do, and if you notice that one works particularly well for you, do it again!

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Fast and Fabulous Summer Workout

On a gorgeous summer day, it can be tempting to skip your trip to the gym in favor of beach time, dinner on the patio of your favorite restaurant, or backyard time with the kids. But you don’t need to sacrifice your workout, or your enjoyment of the beautiful summer weather. Our quick summer workout is designed to have you in and out of the gym in under 15 minutes.

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6 Minutes to a Better Butt

When a butt workout takes the same amount of time as, say, a run to the office vending machines, a snarky instant message conversation with a coworker, or a quick review of what’s on television tonight, there truly are no more excuses. This intense butt workout takes only six minutes of your time, and delivers optimum results.

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DIY Raspberry Body Scrub

Eating different types of fruit always works in favor of your health. Using a variety of fruit on your skin has a multitude of benefits. Raspberries are have numerous benefits for your skin. Using them in a scrub helps bring new life to your skin. Our raspberry body scrub is the perfect way to rejuvenate your skin for a more youthful and healthy look.

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Beach Butt Workout

Come summertime, you’ll be hard pressed to find someone who doesn’t love going to the beach. The combination of fresh ocean air, soft sand, warm sun, and rolling waves is all at once invigorating and calming. But each of these elements also puts the spotlight on your body. The reflection of the sun off the water and the sand, along with the scantily sized swimsuit that you’re dying to wear, is not so forgiving. All the more reason to grab a bottle of water and a set of dumbbells, and workout your butt, as you’ll want to look your best when you hit the sand and surf this season! Our beach butt workout will have you ready to hit the water in no time.

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How to Build Leg Muscle in 5 Moves

In shorts or bikinis, powerful legs always make a statement. Although some of us enjoy a lean and toned lower body, others enjoy having definition and growth in our legs. In order to achieve those results, you’re going to need to isolate your muscles. Our guide to building leg muscle is the perfect way to bulk up and make your legs a pair of powerhouses.

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27 Ways to Lose Weight Permanently

There is no magic pill when it comes to weight loss. Long-term success comes from a combination of healthy eating habits and regular exercise. Our tips for permanent weight loss will give you a great foundation for making positive changes in your life.

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Blueberry Muffin Energy Balls

I LOVE blueberry muffins. In university I consumed far too many Starbucks Buttermilk Blueberry Muffins. I’ve always eaten fairly healthy but these bad boys were my weakness. Through each bite I knew how much sugar and butter I was consuming but I literally could not stop myself. I almost convinced myself they were moderately healthy because blueberries are a fruit! With 390 calories, 28 grams of sugar and 20 grams of fat these muffins are by no means healthy…or nutritious. But even still I get intense cravings for one every time I step into Starbucks.

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4 Effective Yoga Asanas To Improve Mental Health

Yoga has many health benefits: from removing constipation to relieving neurological disorders. You probably knew that yoga can help you calm the mind, but did you know that yoga can also improve your mental health? Amazed? Well, you should be! Read this post and find out how yoga can help boost your mental well-being and help you overcome anxiety and stress.

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5 Best Yoga Asanas To Tighten Your Skin

Want a younger looking skin but you can’t afford all those expensive cosmetic treatments? Well, don’t fret! Read this post and find out how yoga (yes Yoga) can help you tighten the loose body skin. Listed here are some simple poses that will have you look younger with regular practice.

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7 Effective Ways To Use Aloe Vera For Weight Loss

Is your weight turning into a nightmare for you? Are you dying to shed off those additional pounds accumulated around your waist line? Do you really want to leave no stone unturned to get into your favorite little black dress? Relax!

I’m not going to advise you to exercise day and night or stay starved. All you need to do is learn about the effective weight-loss power of the ‘miracle plant’ aloe vera and make the most of it. As you already know, aloe vera is packed with numerous medicinal as well as beauty benefits. But you can actually include the gel or juice extracted from this plant in your daily weight loss diet for getting rid of excess body fat dramatically. The most interesting part is that it is an all-natural process with no adverse effects.

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10 Daily Habits That Help Blast Belly Fat

Americans, as research suggests, are getting more and more apple-shaped by the minute—adding inches to their bellies that pose an immediate threat to their health, happiness, and even financial futures.

Fifty-four percent of U.S. adults now have central obesity (colloquially referred to as “belly fat,” and clinically defined as a waistline of more than 35 inches in women and more than 40 inches in men), up from 46 percent in 1999-2000, according to a September 2014 study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The average U.S. waist circumference has also grown to an average 38.8 inches, up more than 1 inch in about a dozen years. It’s more than a fashion crisis.

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20 Motivational Fitness Pictures a la Pinterest

The motto of life — go hard or go home. Fitness requires all out effort. If you don’t challenge yourself your body will never change and/or grow.

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9 Science Backed, Human Tested Weight Loss Rules

When describing how you really feel about the latest miracle fix in the diet and fitness world, you’d probably be like What the f…? After all, how many times have you trusted logical sounding ideas, put all your faith in a diet strategy, only to find out that the time you invested was a waste—and you still haven’t dropped the weight?

Consider this your What the f… free zone. No fads, no faking, and no frustration. You see, when you really dig into the science and research, most of what you have correctly assumed about dieting is in fact actually wrong. No, really, trust me on this when I say that your assumptions are all wrong.

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8 Weight Loss Shortcuts That Actually Work

It is never wise to tell you to take weight-loss supplements or to try something super sketchy like the corset diet. In general, making small, sustainable lifestyle changes is the best route to weight loss. If we get that doing something quick-and-easy, then it becomes more appealing. We chatted with the top weight-loss experts to find out which get-fit-quick tricks will actually help you slim down and are also totally, 100 per cent safe. So, what are we waiting for? Let’s go conquer fat!

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Reps and Weight: How Much Should You Do?

Most women with this goal are expecting to isolate muscle groups with super high reps; however, you will get a lot more bang for your sweat when you increase the weights and perform fewer reps.

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79 Productive Things to Do in Front of the TV

Watching television may not seem like the most productive activity, but it easily can be! While grabbing a spot in front of the tube is a leisurely and relaxing time for many, there are plenty of opportunities to add some productivity to the mix. As your favorite TV show or movie is playing in the background, it's an optimal time to mark some much-needed items off your to-do list. Not only will you accomplish more, but you won't miss your favorite flicks or series in the process!

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Inner Thigh Fat Blasting Circuit

Time to target those thighs with a fat-torching strength circuit. You’ll move through seven exercises, doing a 30-second burst of cardio in between to ramp up your aerobic training and turn on the fat-burning system. Follow Real Mom Model Jean Sherfick through each move, listening for her cues on body alignment, breathing and modifications.

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The 12 Best Weight-Loss Tips You Can Try Today

You’ve cleaned up your diet and picked up your gym routine, but a stomach that’s churning and brain that’s begging for more are enough to make you go crazy. Dieting shouldn’t always leave you hungry, isolated, or pissed off. So we’ve rounded these 12 best weight-loss tricks you can try today that will help you tweak your daily habits, allowing you to trim your waistline, shrink your cravings, and make those extra pounds disappear.

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7 Sneaky Ways to Move More at Work

Unless you have a full-time gig as a tour guide or a mailman, the odds are you're not walking much during your work day. A pity, because a new study found that getting your move on during the workday improves both physical and mental health. Researchers at the Department of Psychology in the School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis found that walking work stations -- think a treadmill with a desk -- help employees burn calories, focus more, and feel more satisfied. 

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Workout I Did: Jump, Jump for Your Butt

Just wanted to start this Workout I Did off by getting this song stuck in your head immediately. Now that that’s done, we can get right into this jump-tastic workout. Remember how easy it was to jump rope when you were a kid? You would jump and jump and earn your Jump for Heart T-shirt and have fun doing it, all while barely breaking a sweat. It is not nearly that easy now that I’m an adult. The last time I wanted to jump rope, the gym staff didn’t have any available because they are apparently a hot item and stolen frequently. I took that as a sign that jumping rope wasn’t meant to be.

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The 3 Best Butt Exercises

As we’ve debunked, being a “Fit Bottomed Girl” doesn’t have a thing to do with the shape or the size of your booty—it’s all about your mindset and walking the walk! But if you’re looking to get your booty just a little fitter, tighter and rounder, we have three amazing moves to do just that from author of Thinner This Year, Jen Sacheck. An associate professor of nutrition at Tufts University (who did her post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard) she is also a national-level rower (who still competes!), an avid runner and all-around exercise nut, and a mother of two! So when she says that these three moves are the best butt exercises to do when you don’t have a lot of time, we believe her!

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7 Kinds of Squats You Haven’t Tried

Ah, the good 'ol squat. It's a total lower body workout that targets so much more than just your glutes. But while the traditional method does the trick to tone the booty, hips, and thighs, this powerful move can get a little boring. Boring and workout are two words you never want to hear together, so we talked to the dynamic duo of Tone It Up to, well, shake things up. 

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7 Quick Workouts for Every Day of the Week

If you lead a busy life, trying to squeeze a workout into your weekly calendar can feel like a game of Tetris. These quick workouts are perfect for any day of the week and will keep you on track to meeting your fitness goals.

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8 Exercises to Get Rid of Back Fat

The hardest reality about losing weight is that you can’t just circle a specific spot on your body and melt away the fat. It takes smart full-body training to really burn fat, and you’ll see the results all over. What you can do is focus your strengthening and toning exercises on one muscle area to isolate a trouble spot and really define those muscles—which, when combined with cardio (running, elliptical, whatever form you like best and will actually stick with), will give you the results you want.

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16 Things Your Skin Says About Your Health

An organ itself (your body’s largest in terms of both weight and surface area), skin protects against invasive bacteria, regulates body temperature, and picks up information from the stimulation of touch, pressure, pain, heat, and cold. Little wonder, then, that when there’s something wrong with you on the inside, your skin sometimes sends up the first warning flare. Here are 16 things your skin says about your health.

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25 Superb Home Remedies to Get Rid of Muscle Pain Fast

Muscular ache is extremely common and causes discomfort. As every part of the human body has muscle tissue; one can experience pain in muscles anywhere. When the blood doesn’t reach your muscles in the proper manner, they start paining. Low potassium is one of the chief causes that lead to muscle cramps. If you desperately want to get rid of muscle pain, try some easy home remedies. Here are some effective ideas from your kitchen that will make you feel better.

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10 Ways To Lose 5 Pounds In One Week

You don’t have to go on a crash diet in order to lose weight at a fast pace. There are plenty of healthy methods to losing weight, and employing any of the strategies below should yield you an impressive amount of weight loss.

There’s no need to do all ten at once, simply start with the one that resonates with you and implement those changes into your life until it seems effortless. It’s not about making the right choice, but making a choice and then making it right by sticking with it and not giving up if things don’t drastically change overnight. So pick one out and get started!

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How To Lose Pesky Back Fat

There’s the places on your body that are always the first to slim down. Maybe it’s your face, your forearms, or your legs. But why is it that the place we always want to lose weight the most is the last to budge?

​Scorching that stubborn back fat is seemingly impossible. Nothing ruins putting on a strapless dress like turning around to see unflattering bulges underneath your bra line.

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Workouts Across the World: Muay Thai

Boxing, kickboxing, and other forms of martial arts have become increasingly popular as both sport spectacles, and as a burgeoning style of everyday exercise. There is now a staggering amount of martial arts influence popping up in local fitness studios, in our favorite workout videos and even classes at our local gyms. One style in particular has been gaining ground in popularity throughout the United States.

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7 Fantastic Exercises That Don’t Require Equipment

If your busy schedule just isn’t going to let you get the the gym today, there’s still the option of dragging the coffee table out of the way and workin’ up a sweat in the living room! You can try using one of these great fitness DVDs or pull out some tried and true toning moves that you can do from home — equipment free!

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Jingle Bell Rock Workout: 10-Move Circuit

Here is your chance to get in a great Christmas Day workout. It’s time to crank up the Christmas music, grab your “rock” (or your weights, in this case) and get rolling!

For this workout, to complete one circuit you will do each exercise one after the other without rest. Rest for 60-90 seconds between circuits. Do as many circuits as you can, with a goal of completing at least three!

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7 New Compound Moves to Build Your Biceps

Chances are when someone asks you if you have been working out, you are tempted to throw your arm in the air and flex that bicep. And most of us probably flex our guns every once in a while in front of the mirror to check out the fruits of our labor. Well, to keep those biceps bulging and keep you proudly proclaiming, “the beach is that way,” here are some compound moves to build your biceps and beyond.

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10 Facts You Might Not Know About The Vagina

We refer to it by many names. The area that is more complicated than a Rubik’s cube and puts fear in the eyes of men. And why not? Vaginas are beautiful, diverse, life-giving parts of a woman’s body. We should feel powerful.

But how much do we know about these things that Georgia O’Keeffe thought so lovely to paint them as beautiful flowers? It’s time we get well acquainted with this important part of our body.

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