With just five total body exercises and twenty minutes you can have an amazing, heart pumping workout! Remember it’s about the quality of what you do, not the quantity. If you spend 20 minutes working your butt off, it’s better then 30 or 45 kinda-sorta working. These exercises use every muscle in your body! Using [...]

Take the 100′s challenge! What is the 100′s challenge ? Last week we did 50 squat jumps a day, the week before we did 50 push ups a day for a week! This week we’re combining the two challenges for one week! If you’ve already been doing the challenge daily, this will only take an [...]

Take the 50′s challenge! What is the 50′s challenge ? Last week we did 50 push ups a day for a week! This week we’re aiming for 50 squat jumps a day for a week! This is another great total body exercise ! Let me just tell you, I totally give props to squats for [...]

Take the 50′s challenge! What is the 50′s challenge ? Preform a push up 50 times each day for a week! How do you do it ? Several times throughout the day (or just when you remember) drop to the ground and give me 10! There is no need to do them all at once – [...]

Your bodies number one choice of energy comes from carbohydrates and then from fat. Your body uses protein to help restore and rebuild your mussels. So it only seems fitting that before a workout you want to make sure you get a good amount of all three macro-nutrients. I think the best way to plan your pre-workout meal or [...]

People stop seeing results because they stop changing what they are doing. It’s always a good idea to switch up your workouts. Try something new! If you keep doing the same thing day after day, week after week, month after month your body catches on. It’s smart you know! It begins to predict how much energy you [...]

There are so many different ways to get your cardiovascular activity in! Here are my top ten ways I love to sweat ( in no particular order..kind’a). What are yours? 1. Spinning 2. Running Outside 3. Running intervals on a treadmill 4. Weight Training Circuit 5. Running up hills with my husband. (We live beside a big park. [...]

You may or may not know,  as well as a personal trainer and weight management coach I am a spinning instructor. Years ago my sister dragged me to a spinning class. I was terrified and intimidated – but I sucked it up and went anyway. What happened in the 45 minutes that followed was amazing and I immediately fell in love with spinning. The [...]

A while back I posted about good form on the Elliptical machine. I wanted to follow up with a little video. The first one is proper form. Notice how the movement is in my legs and not my upper body. Have a look at my feet – they are pressing down through the balls of my feet and then [...]

Don’t have a treadmill, bike or elliptical at home? No worries! You can still get your cardiovascular in! In fact, even if you do have one of these machines at home- why not switch it up and try this sequence instead! 1 minute Runners Start Pretend you’re about to take off in the 100 meter dash. Come into [...]