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With Exercise, Start Where You Are

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The other day, I was at the gym and I saw one of those boot camp-style classes going on. I watched a group of people, many of them 50 pounds or more overweight, doing burpies. They did this, and other crazy things they weren’t conditioned for, because the trainer was telling them to.

And all I kept thinking was, “Go for a walk. Get outside. Put in 20 minutes this week. Maybe bump it up to 30 minutes next week. Then build on your progress!”

Recently, one of our Half Size Me™ Community members shared she was starting a boot camp-style class. She said she hated looking at herself in the mirror while working out. She was in pain and she just wants to get the weight off.

I also have a coaching client who’s been sedentary for awhile. She asked me, “Should I go back to my boot camp class?” My answer: [Read more…] about With Exercise, Start Where You Are

18 Free Workout Videos You Can Use At Home

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Miami-Fitnessby Heather Robertson

Don’t have the money, or time, to go to the gym?

No problem!

To help you out, I’ve put together a list of 18 Free online workout videos where you can get a great work out without leaving your home.

Most of these workouts do not require any equipment other than your body. And the ones I use the most often have the (**) in front of them.

As I find more helpful, at-home workouts, I’ll update this post.

In no particular order, here are your 18 free workout resources:

General

**Fitness Blender-Nice mixture of cardio, HITT, intervals, kettle bell, stretching

** Bender Fitness-Nice blend of HITT, Strength, Interval, Yoga

YouTube-Be Fit-Denise Austin, Jillian Michaels, other full length workouts

Surf Gym-Hitt, Tabata, Yoga, Pilate, cardio

Has Fit-Home work out, gym workout, body weight, cardio, MMA, HITT, kick boxing, low impact

YouTube-Jessica Smith-Barre workout, Yoga, cardio, dance, Total body, walking workout, lower body workout

YouTube-Charlie James-HITT training

Yoga

**DoYoga With Me

YouTube-Yoga for Relaxation with Ashley Sky Litecky 

YouTube-Yoga for Energy with Ashley Litecky

YouTube-Yoga Today

YouTube-Rock the Mat Yoga

YouTube-Yoga for Strength and Fitness Tara Stiles

Yoga Journal

My Free Yoga

Ekhart Yoga

Kettle Bells

**MyOMy TV– Body weight, barbell, kettle bell

**YouTube-Mark Rif– Kettle bell workouts

 

Audio Blog 011: How Eating More Helped Me LOSE Weight!

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OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERAby Heather Robertson

In this audio blog, I share with you the results of my experiment to increase my calories and reset my metabolism.

In case you don’t know about my experiment, after doing a metabolic reset from April until the end of July, I decided to take a deficit on my calories to lose fat.

For the month of August, I reduced my caloric intake by 15-20% of my total energy expenditure, which was based on data collected from my Body Media Armband*.

Once you hear what happened, I think you’ll be really blown away… I know I was! [Read more…] about Audio Blog 011: How Eating More Helped Me LOSE Weight!

Wednesday Workouts: Week 8

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by Magnezja - on Flickr - Creative Commons Licenseby Heather Robertson

Here is week seven of our Wednesday Workout series. I’m giving you two different days worth of workouts. These are workouts you can do in about 30 minutes or less.

(Click here for last week’s workout.)

And don’t worry if you don’t have equipment like kettle bells or weights. I’ve provided “optional” exercises you can use.

There are also example videos linked to each exercise to help you see how they are performed correctly. If these exercises are new to you, or it’s been awhile since you’ve tried them, please watch the videos and practice before doing the workout.

You don’t need a lot of time to get a great work out. Remember to take your time, stay safe, and keep your body moving!

[Read more…] about Wednesday Workouts: Week 8

Wednesday Workouts: Week 7

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PlankPositionby Heather Robertson

Here is week seven of our Wednesday Workout series. I’m giving you two different days worth of workouts. These are workouts you can do in about 30 minutes or less.

(Click here for last week’s workout.)

And don’t worry if you don’t have equipment like kettle bells or weights. I’ve provided “optional” exercises you can use.

There are also example videos linked to each exercise to help you see how they are performed correctly. If these exercises are new to you, or it’s been awhile since you’ve tried them, please watch the videos and practice before doing the workout.

You don’t need a lot of time to get a great work out. Remember to take your time, stay safe, and keep your body moving!

[Read more…] about Wednesday Workouts: Week 7