"Working Out" the Beauty Within You
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Hi! Stevie from Fashiontribes.com here to share with you some great new workouts for fall. Why talk about fitness? Being fit is about being healthy. Being healthy is essential for being beautiful and the best of what you are! Whether you go to a gym to take a class, use equipment, run, bike, walk or do any of these workouts at home, it’s important for you to maintain a good fitness level during the fall and winter particularly because the weather makes it easy to be more sedentary. Sedentary = weight gain and clothes that might not fit after the holidays or —eeeeek!!– before the holidays! (horrors!!) By staying active, your mind and body function better and you overall health is better.
What to do? If you are part of a gym or so motivated that you run, cycle or walk on your own–KUDOS!! Keep it up! However if you are like a majority of us, you might find it hard to keep those habits going when the weather gets colder, the days get shorter and you come home more frazzled from busy days. Try working out at home instead. Now that doesn’t mean you need to have a ton of equipment at home–though some do (uh… raising hand here!) You can get by with a few things like a towel, a small ball, a stool and a video or dvd player along with some shoes and you are ready to go.
Where to start? Depends on what you want to do: do you want body-sculpting or do you want fun? Do you want both?
If it’s serious sculpting is what you are after, then turn to Leisa Hart’s Sexy Legs and Sexy Abs. These two workouts rock! The "legs" workout is amazing! It’s ballet inspired moves slim your legs and will work out the "trouble" spots of hamstrings and quads. You can trim down those saddlebags and your butt and make your legs look superb!
Sexy Abs features four routines that will carve out those obliques and get you the flat sexy six-pack you want. It’s a fun, easy-to-do work-out and really is different thanks to using a scarf/belt or small towel and sitting on a stool–so there’s no saying you can’t do this one! Leisa guides you through moves that carves your abs and improves your core strength.
Find Leisa Hart’s Sexy Abs and Sexy Legs workouts at Naturaljourneys.com and collagevideo.com available in VHS ($9.98 MSRP) and DVD ($14.98 MSRP)
Other workouts that would do the bodysculpting include The Bar Method, Lotte Berk and SmartBells ( saving that one for another blog!)
Now if you are looking for fun and a workout , now we are talking! That’s always what I am looking for. Yes I do the other workouts mentioned above and YES they really do work! But you need to have fun working out too! The fun factor keeps it all going! Typically you want something that makes you just "move" and groove. One of my fave places or people to workout to is MaDonna Grimes.
MaDonna Grimes is known for her great upbeat choreography and she does more than just hip-hop! Her work is fun and grooves to the best of the street beats. My current fave is her African Beat, Latin Heat workout which isn’t her newest but it sure is fun. You will workout while learning these relatively easy moves that feel like stuff you could use in the clubs.
Grimes latest workout has pure club potential and it’s called Street Heat –which is pure hip-hop. One of the great things about these workouts is that her dvds have extra chapters. Once you get the moves under control, you can do it to music sans voice-over and you get the full effect since you can watch these cool dancers do their thing. Also her standing ab workout will have you cookng!!
It’s hip-hop heaven in a box and you will be ready to hit the floor if you can master both these workouts. Plus your body will be looking "fine" too.
MaDonna Grimes workouts are available at Naturaljourneys.com
If it’s body sculpting and fun in your workouts that you want, then I have a great recommendation!
Yoga Booty Ballet is fairly well-known in LA and in certain fitness circles. Based on a workout from Teigh and Gillian, directors of the yoga studio SWERVE in West Hollywood. Yoga Booty Ballet came about as a blending of dance moves, yoga and booty/body sculpting in a life –and body– affirming workout that was just plain fun. According to Teigh and Gillian, it’s about loving the body you have and making the most of it–regardless of its size. It’s about being healthy and beautiful from the interior out. So in blending the dance with the yoga and some judicious body sculpting, they have created Yoga Booty Ballet. Available at Swerve and also through Beachbody.com, there is an entire workout of YBB . But wait!! There’s even MORE fun! So many people love the Yoga Booty Ballet workouts done at Swerve because they are more than just what you would see in that first set of workout tapes. Done with a fun attitude, Teigh and Gillian decided to mix it up and create themed workouts. Bodysculpting Bollywood Style features an Indian-inspired workout that ends with some very challenging body sculpting. Go-Go is the best of the "mod 60’s" in a fast, fun, easy workout. Hip Hop Abs brings some hot ab workout after a fast-paced hip hop workout that’s cranks up the heart rate. Cardio Cabaretb teaches you the basics of Fosse-like jazz blended with the best of burlesque for a great fun, body-awareness building workout. It hardly seems like a workout and the time flies by! Filmed LIVE at the Swerve studio, you see real students in all sizes and shapes along with Gllian and Teigh. It’s become one of my favorite ways to unwind and blow off steam at the end of the day as well as get my groove on first thing in the AM. Definitely worth checknig out! To get more info, contact Swerve Studio or Beachbody.com to order direct and get some great deals on package prices.
Ok.. now that’s enough from me today about working out. It’s time for me to get do some workout myself and my body needs a bit of stretching though I have been on the go a lot today.
If you have tried any of these workouts, I would love to know what you think.
See you at the beauty counter–or the gym!
Stevie from Fashiontribes.com
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