BMI: What It Is & Why You Should Not Use It

- - Weight Loss

The Body Mass Index is more commonly referred to as BMI and is used as a popular way to determine if you are underweight, normal weight, overweight or obese. Even though it may be popular and you have probably seen it or heard it mentioned in various places, that does...

3 Top Tips To Stick To Your Fitness Plan

- - Fitness

A fitness routine takes time and commitment, you know that if you want to see results you need to stick with it but that's not always easy. You have spent time thinking about what you want to achieve and have either put together your own training program or maybe a...

Time to Jump Start Your Cardio Workout

- - Workouts

Cardio, we all know we should be including this into our fitness program but not everyone enjoys it, and when an exercise component isn't enjoyable it tends to get slightly neglected, either by sessions being shortened or missed entirely. Cardio workouts don't always have to be all about running or...

18 Simple Ways To Relax

- - Lifestyle

Life can whiz by at great speed and before you know it, the days, weeks or months have flown by and you barely had time to notice. We are always so busy rushing from one thing to the next just trying to keep up with what life throws at us...

Are Your Fitness Goals Attainable?

- - Motivation

Time does go quickly these days, how much time has passed since you started those New Year's Resolutions? Or maybe you have labeled them as goals, improvements or something similar, maybe you have only just set your goals - after all there is no rule about when goals should be...

common workout mistakes

Are You Making These Common Workout Mistakes?

- - Fitness

Everybody makes mistakes from time to time, including us. These are some of the most common workout mistakes we've seen, and believe us, we've made some of them too. Still, here they are for you to check off your checklist - are you making any of these? 1. Trying to spot-reduce...

5 Coconut Oil Pulling Benefits & Step-by-Step Guide

- - Lifestyle

Coconut Oil pulling has recently grown in popularity but the tradition has been around for thousands of years. It’s an ancient Ayurvedic (natural healing/medicine) practice that originated in India. Now, this cleansing ritual has been spreading throughout the West – and with good reason! What does it do? Oil pulling draws out...

Do-Anywhere Everyday Blast Workout

- - Workouts

This energy-boosting, fat-blasting workout is short enough to do every morning to kick-start your metabolism and motivation to make healthy choices all day long!   The main workout has only 5 exercises, listed below, which are all straight forward and no equipment is necessary, so this could also be a great workout...

7 Health Benefits of Hot Yoga

- - Yoga

There’s a “hot” new trend in the Yoga world: Hot Yoga. It includes various styles and types of Yoga such as Hatha, Vinyasa or even Yin. To me, Hot Yoga simply means Yoga practiced in a heated room. The temperatures in these rooms can range anywhere from 30°C (85°F) to...

Tips and Tricks to Healthy & Happy Holidays

- - Fitness

The most wonderful time of year; the holiday season. What isn’t there to love about family gatherings, decorations, cozy clothes, delicious food and sparkling drinks? It’s easy to get caught up in the holiday spirit the moment the pumpkins start showing up outside our favorite stores, but before we know...

Christmas Gift Guide for Fitness Fantatics

- - Lifestyle

With the Christmas season right around the corner it’s time to start buying gifts. Not sure what to get the fitness junkies in your life? Maybe you’re more of a gift card person. Here is a Christmas gift guide with a range of suggestions for the active people, or fitness...

The Guide To Treat Cellulite Naturally

- - Weight Loss

Cottage cheese skin, orange peel skin, whatever you want to call it. Cellulite. Such a cringe-worthy word, is it not? Though the majority of us have to deal with it, nobody wants to have cellulite on their body. Effecting 80% of women, cellulite is a one of the most common...

Coconut Oil – 10 Miraculous Uses

- - Lifestyle

When coconut oil first became popular a few years ago, I didn’t really understand the hype, nor did I see how I could use it. After so many legitimate sources swearing up and down by it, I decided to give it a try. Fast forward a few years later, and...

The Low Down on Vitamins

- - Nutrition

There was a time in my life when you could open up one of my kitchen cabinets and find all sorts of vitamins and supplements in a bottle. I would take Vitamin B-12 for this, Vitamin C for that, Vitamin E for something else, the list went on. I spent...

Breakfast Buns Workout

- - Workouts

Whenever I walk by a pastry shop, I begin to think of the delectable cinnamon sticky buns my Aunt would bake from scratch on Thanksgiving and how we would eat them for breakfast, lunch or dinner. They were so yummy it was difficult to stop at one. Thanksgiving is a...

Full Body Workouts with Just Dumbbells!

- - Strength Training

Chances are you have a set of dumbbells laying around the house or collecting spider webs in the garage. Where did those even come from? We don’t remember buying them, but there they are – waiting patiently for us. Now’s the time to dust them off and get in a...

Oil Pulling Guide

- - Lifestyle

If you can handle the taste and the jaw workout, oil pulling is gaining popularity as a natural dental hygiene and health boosting practice. Though it’s becoming more and more popular, oil pulling is no new trend. Claimed by ancient Indian medicine to cure over 30 diseases, oil pulling has...

Cardio or Weights, Which is Best?

- - Fitness

The debate between whether to hit the treadmill or hit the weights has flip-flopped back and forth for years. Different studies conclude different results, which ultimately cancel each other out and leave readers confused. Does cardio or weight training tone and tighten faster? Is one workout really better than another?...

Pool Running Workouts

- - Workouts

Now that my kiddos are at an age where, apparently, their energy is never ending, I am thankful they can swim about with their floaties (by my side, of course) on the deep end of the pool. I take advantage of this time to do some pool running and have...

There’s Always Time for Breakfast!

- - Nutrition

We know eating breakfast is vital to starting the day off right and the key role it plays in weight loss, yet we rarely take the time to eat it. There are countless reasons we skip the most important meal of the day, but no matter how good the excuse...