When transforming your body, the common advice from fitness experts is to find a workout style that works best for you. Biking, running, weight lifting, yoga--the moment a workout style clicks, it sticks--and soon it’s an easy weekly go-to routine that you enjoy doing. But let's not forget that routines can become, well, routine, and while upping the intensity and … [Read more...]
Got Gym Anxiety? How to Find Personal Comfort in a Public Workout Space
When you’re looking to burn fat, for many the gym is where it’s at. However, if you’re like the 65 percent of females surveyed by Fitrated, gym anxiety may mean public workout spaces are off limits. While it’s possible to make your workout at home or in less traditional gym environments effective, it often requires a bigger dose of creativity. After all, the gym is a place … [Read more...]
10 Ways Strength Training will Enhance Your Life
Lifting weights has the ability to enhance your life in so many ways aside from the obvious benefits of getting fit, strong, and losing fat. Many join the gym, start lifting weights and feel good with the muscle pump. But then something magical happens, the more you get into the strength sessions, the more you notice there is so much more to strength training than just … [Read more...]
Gained Weight? Get Over It.
Once the scale moves in the wrong direction or a bit of bulge makes a comeback, it’s easy to feel like all hope is lost. Here you’ve worked so hard to make such big gains--or in the case of fat burning, losses--and all of a sudden the new smaller-sized wardrobe that was making you smile is now feeling a little snug and sad. You have two choices: Throw in the proverbial towel … [Read more...]
Carrie’s Motto: Baby Steps
I’ve been writing for SlendHer for a little more than a year now--and love it! As a freelance writer, I’ve been tackling the topic of health and fitness for years. Providing tips and tricks that make fat loss goals easier for women like you gives me purpose. However, I must confess, sometimes I’m definitely guilty of “do as I say, not as I do.” When I was in my teens, I could … [Read more...]