New here? Like Athlean-XX for Women on Facebook to stay up to date with new posts, great fitness and nutrition articles, motivations and inspirations, fitness challenges, Q&As, giveaways and more! By now you’ve probably heard of fitness and life tracking devices like the Jawbone Up, the Fitbit Flex and the Nike+ Fuel Band. Unless you’re the early adopter type, you might have been thinking about getting one for a while, but just haven’t bit the bullet …
Love her or hate her, you’ve got to admit…it takes some serious guts AND a great bod to sport the outfits Lady Gaga wears. Not that I necessarily appreciate her fashion sense! But still, you can’t help but acknowledge that Gaga is a super fit celebrity. But, with her millions of young fans hanging on her every word and tweet, is Gaga being true to her signature message of self-acceptance? What does Gaga do to …
Did you catch last week’s blog post, “Best Upper Body Travel Hotel Room Workout?” This week we’re delivering Part 2 – the Lower Body Workout. Getting your workouts in when you’re traveling – whether it’s for work or fun – can really be a challenge! But doing these quick travel workouts will help to ensure you don’t get out of shape or out of the habit while you’re away from home! Why is it so …
First of all…sounds like an oxymoron doesn’t it? According to Gretchen Reynolds in her book “The First 20 Minutes: Surprising Science Reveals How We Can: Exercise Better, Train Smarter, Live Longer,” an active couch potato is a person who sits a lot because of job and lifestyle, and then gets active just for an hour or so per day before or after work. My guess is that this may describe many of us – particularly …
Getting your workouts in when you’re traveling – whether it’s for work or fun – is really a challenge! If we’re lucky we can get day access to a gym close by or maybe there’s a gym in our hotel. But if we’re staying with friends or family, there’s just no gym in sight or the hotel gym is poorly equipped what do we do? Keeping up with your workout routine even when you’re on …
South African actress Charlize Theron is known for her gorgeous figure, but she does have to work at it just like the rest of us. She gained and quickly lost 30 lbs for her 2003 role in Monster, and she admits that she has to watch her diet and work out a lot to stay in shape. As she told Easy Living magazine: ”I get fat. I need to work out. I have pimples and …
