Friday, July 10, 2015

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.

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. 

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.

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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