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 […]
Strange as it may sound, in some ways I actually kind of enjoy muscle soreness. It gives me more body awareness – a temporary insight into the ways I use specific muscles in everyday life that I’m usually unaware of. The soreness informs me which of my muscles are weak, and even better, the pain […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
