April 2013
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6 Hip and Hamstring Stretches for Female Fitness
We’re all familiar with the necessity of stretching and warming up before working out, but many people tend to think that applies only to the muscles targeted in the workout - those that will be most severely taxed.
Unfortunately, the targeted muscles aren’t necessarily those that take the most beating. In many routines, it’s the hamstrings and hips that suffer the most abuse....
March 2013
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The Term Organic Explained
There is a lot of confusion out there about the term organic. In this context we are discussing organic food but there are now organic beauty products and health products as well in the marketplace. Organic seems to be a very loaded word these days. Some people like the label because to them it guarantees food are healthier. Some people feel it is just an expensive version of what is already...
February 2013
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Electrolytes Explained
What does Sweat do for you?
Sweating is the best natural way to reduce weight. During exercise, your body sweats to burn down fats and release toxins. Therefore, sweating can give you a smoother skin and a shaped body.
Sweating can also relieve stress and help you relax. During sweating the muscles warmed up and help to overcome muscle tension, thus releasing stress and fatigue.
Sweating helps...
Important Whole Grains Explained
Without a doubt, whole grains are far superior to their refined counterparts with respect to disease prevention and weight management. Complete grains contain many vitamins, minerals and antioxidants than processed grains like white rice and bread that have had their bran and germ removed. This removes the nutrition from it! You need the extra nutrients to help support your training and...
January 2013
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Challenging Body Weight Exercises
Circuit training is always a great way to get in shape and challenge yourself. This series of exercises focuses on three main areas: upper body, lower body and core. It is always nice to mix up your workout routine every 12 weeks in more to see progression! It challenges new muscles and helps all around to keep you motivated by seeing new results from new routines.
Try the following routine for...
December 2012
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Kitchen Tools that Help You Cook Healthy
Since nutrition is such a big part of weight loss success it is important to have the right tools in your kitchen. Some of these tools help to flavor dishes, cook items properly, reduce fat from cooking, retain essential vitamins and minerals in the food or help to prepare healthy food faster. Anything that makes eating healthy easier is always a bonus!
Muffin Tins – You can make small...
November 2012
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Vegetarian Diets For Women
When a vegetarian diet is well planned, it can meet your nutrient needs for training and fitness. The key to this is to get enough energy from other sources then meat and to replace key nutrients found in animal products. If planned and executed properly a vegetarian diet has many potential health benefits. They include lower rates of obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes...
October 2012
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Common Gym Injuries for Women
Whatever your current physical shape and your fitness goals, getting injured sure is not one of them! No one starts a new fitness routine or is part of one with the intention of getting hurt. This article will highlight some common injuries that females can get if not training properly. In recent years there has been an increase in gym related injuries so this is important information to...
September 2012
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Circuit Training Explained
When you combine multiple exercises in to a single workout program you get great workouts just for women. When you combine my targeted exercises you get the results you are looking for in the fastest way possible. This is known as circuit training and for females it can produce really great results!
What is Circuit Training?
Circuit training involves performing a series of strength training...
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Shoulder and Triceps Exercises For Women
Any women fitness program should have aspects of muscle building as well as stretching to properly work any muscle group. Focusing on shoulders and triceps will ensure that the upper body is being developed properly.
The shoulder is one of the most sophisticated and complicated joints of the body:
It has the greatest range of motion of any joint in the body with complete global movement allowing...
Lake George Triathlon!
freshpickedfitness:
I’ll write a full race recap tomorrow but right now will just say…
3:23:38—I finished and am officially a triathlete!
Congratulations!
August 2012
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Equipment in a Home Gym Explained for Workout...
Knowing your way around home gym equipment and knowing what you need for a women home gym is very important to success in any fitness program. If you don’t use the proper tools, you can work out for hours without seeing any results. Ideally understanding how to perform exercise on correct equipment should be mastered for total women workout success.
Barbells - A barbell is a straight metal bar...
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Top 3 Female Fitness Supplements Guide
Here are the top 3 female fitness supplements that any woman, beginner or advanced, should be adding to her fitness nutrition program in order to ramp up her results! If you’ve never added anything into your program – this is a great place to start. If you’re a seasoned pro – this information should be incorporated to give you the boost you need for better results.
1. KRILL OIL
Krill oil...
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July 2012
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How To Build A Meal Plan That Works For Women
Most people know how to eat healthy, and know that they should — it’s just that when it comes down to implementing this knowledge, there’s a bridge that needs to be crossed from knowledge and understand to putting it into action. The very first step is realizing that along with a solid female fitness plan goes a solid female meal plan.
How do you actually eat healthy, instead of just knowing...
June 2012
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Choosing the Right Women Fitness Exercise Program...
Exercises for women are not the same exercises that men do. My women fitness exercise program targets the special needs of a woman’s body with special focus on building strength to help reduce the potential for injury and building a lean, trim, body.
Why Exercise?
According to Heath Canada, scientists suggest we accumulate 60 minutes of physical activity every day to stay healthy.
Here are...
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Fitness Tips for Traveling and Key Exercises
There will always be times in your women fitness routine that you can’t make it to the gym or even your home. It is important to be prepared ahead of time so that it does not disrupt your progress and your fitness goals.
Here are my tips from a recent trip my husband and I took:
1. We pre-packaged and pre-cooked our meals before we left. Vince and I bought packaged salads and nuts for the...
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3 Components in Fitness Nutrition for Post Workout
There is so much confusion about what to and what not to eat post-workout. The important thing to remember is that women fitness nutrition in general needs some clear and factual intelligence to make overall health better. If the other meals of the day are not executed properly, you will not achieve your goals from your workout. Women have different nutrition needs than men. Learning what to eat...
May 2012
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Why Low-Calorie Diets for Women Fitness Will Make...
Science shows that diets that restrict calories women fitness diets can actually make it harder to lose fat and keep it off. Learn how to stop the never-ending struggle with stubborn fat in your womens fitness routine.
Being a woman is tougher than ever with all the hype and “1 strange weight loss tip” on the market. Celebrity diets have populated the magazines; even gaining favor in television...
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The Importance of Stretching
A good female fitness exercise program should always include half of your exercise time in stretching. It is an important aspect of female fitness that many people overlook and then there are very negative consequences to ignoring stretching in your workouts. Why You Should Stretch Stretching has numerous other benefits. It should be a foundation in your female fitness routine. It reduces the...
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Detoxing Strategies and Immunity Tips for Women
In a solid woman fitness program, consideration needs to be taken into many key components. Workouts are only one area. Another would be diet. Along with diet is the idea of introducing detoxifying your body. After detoxing it is important to have a plan in place to protect your body from down time in your women fitness program.
Toxicity is a major problem in our society today. In the year...
April 2012
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5 Key Woman Workout Exercises For Beautiful...
Ever look at a man and wonder how he can have nice toned arms but still have a huge fat belly while you’re a lot leaner? Do you work out your arms on a regular basis and still have hardly any definition in your arms? There are five key woman workout exercises that will define and tone your arms to get the results that you are looking for.
There is a huge difference between man and women workout...
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5 Key Exercises For Women To Build A Beautiful...
In order to build a beautiful backside, 5 key exercises for women need to be used on a regular basis.
When first training a part of your body it is important to understand exactly how that part works and functions. The hamstrings cross and move around two joints - the hip and the knee. The hamstrings muscle group is composed of three separate muscles: the semimembranosus, the semitendinosus and...
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Build a Strong Back with Exercises For Women
A strong back is needed to in order to prevent problems in other areas of the body such as the neck, hips, arms, legs, and the respiratory system. A strong back is a key factor in healthy posture. It is essential to incorporate healthy fitness exercises for women that target your back for a fit and flawless figure.
Benefits of a Strong Back
Having a strong back has many benefits. When your back is...
March 2012
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8 Fit Foods for Weight Loss for Women
When want to lose weight, you need to watch what you eat. No surprise there, but what’s good for you and what isn’t good for you can get pretty confusing. Some say you should eat certain things, while other experts tell you to avoid them. Carbohydrates are a good example.
Should you consume carbohydrates? Can they help with weight loss for women? Absolutely. In fact, your body needs...
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7 Essential Stretches for a Woman's Workout
For a healthy workout, you can’t just lift weights. You need to include stretches for a woman’s workout. In fact, you should stretch half the amount of time you lift weights. So, if you lift weights five hours a week, you should stretch 2.5 hours a week. Why?
The Repercussions of Not Stretching
Muscles naturally tighten up. And not stretching and loosening them up can have some serious...
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10 Foods Women Should Add To Thier Weight Loss...
With so many different foods and diets to choose from, it can be hard to know what you should and shouldn’t eat with a weight loss diet for women. But, there are some foods that are great for you and help you lose weight at the same time.
What Makes a Food the ‘Healthiest’
The healthiest foods should meet 6 important criteria:
Dense Nutrients — They should have a high...
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7 Best Exercises for Women for a Firm Butt
If you really want a hot body, you’re going to need a firm, curvy bottom and you’ll need exercises for women that get you those results.
Believe it or not, your butt is one of your body’s biggest calorie burners, and therefore, working and toning those muscles (your glutes) can really boost your overall fat loss. Tight glutes will help maintain your body’s muscular...
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10 Top Lessons For Fat Loss For Women
Far too many fad diets claim to be the most effective female fat loss method. Unfortunately, the latest and greatest aren’t always as healthy or effective as you may think. They can even be downright dangerous.
Many women who start dieting don’t understand female fat loss. The result is a lot of women wandering around, starving themselves, instead of losing weight in a healthy way....
February 2012
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How to Prevent Muscle Soreness Following Your...
You’ve been enjoying your new workout for women. You’re starting to see some great results and you feel great. That is, except for your sore muscles. This leaves you with two important questions: Why are they sore? And more importantly: how can you prevent it from happening again? Simple.
Lactic Acid Build Up
If your pain comes immediately after racking the weights, it’s likely...
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Post-Workout Nutrition for a Women's Fitness Diet
The foods we choose to refuel our body with post-exercise are vital to meeting our body’s needs. Unfortunately, there is a lot of confusion surrounding women’s fitness diet plans, leaving most of us unsure of what to eat and not eat post-workout.
The important thing to remember is that nutrition needs clear, factual information, common sense, and diligence if you want to make your overall...
January 2012
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Should Women's Exercise Programs Include...
We all perform regular activities and make repetitive movements in our daily lives. These movements can be fun activities like tennis, or a basic daily chore like squatting to pick up a book off the floor. Wouldn’t it be fantastic if we could improve these movements and increase your performance? This leads us to an important question: Should women’s exercise programs include...
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Effective Weight Loss for Women
Everyone seems to have a special diet or tip when it comes to weight loss for women. Unfortunately, most of the ones we hear about on TV, in the store, or from various ‘experts’, are nothing more than gimmicks.
Sure, you might lose some weight, at first. But, before you know it, you’ll gain all those pounds back again. These diet trends and ‘tricks’ can be dangerous...
Review of my Full-Body-Licious Workout Program →
Another great review of my DVD series.
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Why Female Fitness Workouts Need to Include Muscle...
While many women work hard to avoid it, female fitness workouts should include muscle building. I love how muscle definition looks on a female. It’s a great way for others to instantly see that you’ve been working out. And it happens naturally, once you’ve melted away enough of the body fat to see muscle definition.
The Benefits of Building Muscle and Why You Need to Do...
December 2011
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Women's Need for Recovery After Exercise
There’s nothing better than a good workout to make you feel alive, energized, and content. But what you do after your workout can be just as important as the workout itself, particularly if you’ve been pushing yourself harder than normal and have been overtraining. You need to give your body time to recover, and this involves more than just a quick nap. Women’s need for recovery...
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5 Great Exercises For A Hot Lower Body
Include these 5 exercises for a hot lower body in your weekly fitness routine, and you’ll see a drastic change in your legs in a relatively short amount of time. Just make sure that you save some money in your budget for new clothing because you’ll have to replace those ugly mom jeans you’ve been hiding behind.
Whether we like it or not, women are genetically designed to be a bit...
7 Best At Home Exercises For Women
Don’t have time to go to the gym? The busy lives of women just became easier with these 7 best at home exercises for women. Who says you need all the fancy equipment in the gym?
What you do need is the foundation behind weight loss and muscle building so you will begin to see inches falling off in record speeds. There is a right and wrong way to exercise. You can spend hours doing the wrong form...
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5 Exercises for a Hot Upper Body
Why Women Store Fat
If you’ve been grabbing the extra fat in your thighs and triceps and wondering where it came from, your hormones could hold the answer.
Yup, that’s right. Hormones. Estrogen could be responsible for packing the fat cells in the back of your arms and thighs.
Estrogen also plays an important role in building muscle mass, preventing heart disease, bone breakdown, and...
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5 Must Try Exercises For A Stunning Hourglass...
Women will spend hours working their core, thighs, and even their arms to achieve a slim, toned, sexy look. But what about the shoulders?
Shoulders are the start of the stunning hourglass figure every woman desires to achieve. They balance out the hips and make our waists look smaller. In fact, the most noticeable part of a woman’s arm is the lateral part of the deltoid, hence the need for...
