Tuesday, 30 December 2014

Straddle Crunch + Midline Crunch

In this video, Jennifer Widerstrom, trainer on The Biggest Loser, shows you how to do two amazing core-building exercises. The first move, the straddle crunch, works your upper abs, and the second, the midline crunch, builds your lower abs and strengthens your pelvic floor.


Dirty Dog

This exercise targets the key trouble spots that most women want to tone—the core, hips, and thighs. In this video, Jennifer Widerstrom, trainer on The Biggest Loser, shows you how to do the move correctly, for maximum booty-burning power.


Squatted Lateral Side Step With Isolated Curl

Can one exercise tone your inner and outer thighs, and your biceps? Yes! In this video, Jennifer Widerstrom, trainer on The Biggest Loser, shows you how to do this move correctly, so that you can tone your legs and arms at the same time.


Stationary Lunge With Pulse

Want to shape your thighs and butt? Of course you do! In this video, Jennifer Widerstrom, trainer on The Biggest Loser, shows you how to do a move that can help sculpt your lower half in just minutes a day.


Lying Leg Extension

In this video, Jennifer Widerstrom, trainer on The Biggest Loser, shows you how to do a move that can tone your legs and core, as well as improve your balance. Grab a resistance band and a bench to give your legs an amazing workout.


Banded Triceps Extension + Rhomboid Pulse

Get killer triceps and strengthen your upper back with this combination move that works the smaller muscle groups in the shoulders and arms. In the video, Jennifer Widerstrom, trainer on The Biggest Loser, shows you how to do this simple, yet challenging move.


Thursday, 25 December 2014

High fitness levels reduce hypertension risk

Past studies have suggested that physical activity may reduce the risk of ... benefits of physical activity to include prostate cancer-specific survival.

Tuesday, 23 December 2014

6 Workout Moves with Jennifer Widerstrom

Sculpt your butt and legs, and strengthen your core with this six-move circuit from Jennifer Widerstrom, trainer on The Biggest Loser. Watch this video and do the moves two to three times a week (just 35 minutes or less per session!) for a tighter, leaner body in just two weeks.


14 Ways to Cut Portions Without Feeling Hungry

The best portion control tips for easy and fast weight loss.


13 Weight Loss Resolutions You Shouldn't Make

Swap sure-to-fail New Year's resolutions with goals you'll actually stick to.


How to Become an Exercise Addict

Twenty tips and tricks to make your workout a healthy (and fun!) everyday habit.


20 Little Ways to Drop the Pounds and Keep Them Off

Ways to eliminate unwanted calories, sneak in exercise, and get your mind and body in great shape.


Monday, 22 December 2014

5 Fresh Ways to Do a Plank

Tired of that same old ab move? Mix up your routine with these plank variations that burn so good.


10 New Ways to Start the Year Off Light

Longing for a diet refresh? Here’s how to trim calories, overcome cravings and pretty much transform your life.


Friday, 19 December 2014

Sports groups share in Games legacy cash

... enterprises and enable them to become sustainable and deliver benefits to their communities for years to come. ... These grassroots organisations make sport and physical activity possible for thousands of people across Scotland.".

Wednesday, 17 December 2014

Swap Your Way Slim at Every Meal

Scale not budging? Your diet could be out of whack. Shed some pounds (without much effort!) by switching up your go-to foods.


Fastest Fat Burners Ever!

Whether you're working out at the gym or at home, burn calories and erase flab with these 20 fast fat-burners.


Light Lunches You'll Love

Skinny up your midday meal with these delish and satisfying eats from our CarbLovers Diet.


Tuesday, 16 December 2014

Madrid's citizens do not perform enough physical activity

Researchers from the Faculty of Physical Activity and Sports Sciences ... to achieve the minimum amount recommended to obtain health benefits.

Yoga just as good as aerobics for cutting heart disease risk

The team reviewed 37 trials which included 2768 people which measured the benefits of yoga compared with exercise and no physical activity.

Yoga is as healthy for your heart as cycling, says Harvard scientist

The researchers analysed 37 studies into the health benefits of yoga, which involved more than 2,700 people. They found yoga ... The analysis concluded yoga was as good as conventional physical activity in improving heart health.

Monday, 8 December 2014

Calls for schools to promote "low-level" activity

Schools should "redefine" physical activity, focussing on low-level effort ... says encouraging low-level activity would deliver life-long health benefits.