Easy Fitness Tips for Travelers

How To Stay In Shape While On the Road

Staying in shape while traveling is important.  Recently we have been traveling quite a bit with more trips in the works and I like to stay active while on the road if at all possible.  Whether it be working out at a hotel, walking around a fun city or water sports in the Caribbean, it all counts as fitness to me.

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Non-negotiable: Strength Training for Women Over 40

Please help me welcome my friend, Satu as a guest blogger today.  Satu is going to share how important strength training for women is and I can definitely attest to it.  If you want to look and feel different, definitely start strength training.

Welcome Satu!

Non-negotiable: Strength Training for Women Over 40

If you’re a 40+ woman and do 4-5 weekly cardio workouts, you may think you already have it figured out fitness-wise. You certainly have no reason to worry about strength training.

For women over forty that’s a dangerous assumption to make. Let me explain why.

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Tips for Staying Fit When You Have Active Children

Staying fit and healthy is important and something you should also try to do. Whether you’re working on losing weight or you want to keep it off and maintain a healthy weight exercise is a must. Having active children can cause you to not exercise as often as you would like, but when you schedule it into your day and include the entire family it will happen.

When your children are athletic or enjoy participating in extracurricular activities you may find exercising is almost impossible at times. Our boys enjoy playing football, basketball, and track which means we’re busy from August to June each year. That only gives us two months a year to truly do what we want. To deal with that problem we’ve incorporated a family workout plan.

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More Youthful Looking Arms? Why Yes Please!

Do You Want More Youthful Looking Arms?  Try these isolation exercises to reduce underarm flab!

Guest Post by Kelli Smithgall of Fit & Sexy Lifestyle

I used to think because I was on the slender side that I would never have a problem with fat. So when the underneath of my arms started to lose what I thought was just muscle tone, I began trying to “target” that area with exercise.

Boy was I wrong.

When I didn’t see any results, I began to research. What I found was that the cause wasn’t loss of muscle tone, but it was from aging and excess body fat.

Fat? Please. How could *I* have had excess fat?

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HIIT Training: Get the Scoop

Ever heard of HIIT training?

It stands for High Intensity Interval Training and from what I have read it’s the best type of workout to burn the most fat. Sweet, count me in!

 

I have made up my own fast workout before and it was a good workout but I like to have a plan to follow so I’m excited to be able to share with you some various HIIT workouts today.

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A Real Quick Office Workout

Mike is back with a great chair workout video.  This would definitely make a great office workout when you are short on time.  The moves are not easy but  it looks like a nice quick workout.

What did you think of that workout! Crazy good…

A lot of my work at home friends have an exercise ball as their chair so it would work just as well, I think.

Thanks Mike!

Make it a great day,