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20 Full Body Stair Workouts for Weight Loss | If you're trying to lose weight and build muscle and stamina, climbing a set of stairs is a great way to get a full body workout! Whether you're using outdoor stairs, or have a staircase at home, we've curated 20 staircase workouts you can do anytime, anywhere! Choose between HIIT workouts for cardio, leg or glute workouts to target problem areas, or a full body workout to torch fat and calories. Better yet, combine 2 or more into your own routine!

Get Fit At Home: 20 Full Body Stair Workouts for Weight Loss

10 TRX Workouts for Beginners | Cardio meets strength training with this collection of full body TRX workouts! Perfect for women and for men, we've included a mix of arms, abs, legs, glutes, back, and full-body workouts so you can plan ahead and create your own TRX workout routine to target your upper body, lower body, and core on alternating days. There are so many benefits of TRX suspension training, and it's a great way to burn fat, build muscle, and provides a serious core workout!

Full Body Cardio and Strength: 10 TRX Workouts for Beginners

20 Upper Body Workouts for Women | If you're trying to get into a strength training routine and want to know how to tighten and tone your arms, shoulders, and back at home, we're sharing the best exercises to help! Whether you have a set of dumbbells, kettlebells, or resistance bands - or no equipment whatsoever - we've curated the best home workouts to help you burn fat and build muscle. Say goodbye to flabby arms and bat wings and commit to the challenge!

Strength Training At Home: 20 Upper Body Workouts for Women

44 Baked Salmon Recipes for Weight Loss | Salmon offers so many health benefits. It's rich in omega-3 fatty acids and vitamin B, high in protein, and it's a great anti-inflammatory food. If you're looking for a collection of the best healthy salmon recipes to add to your weekly meal plan, we've curated tons of ideas to inspire you. From simple lemon honey garlic, to brown sugar teriyaki, to dill, to pesto and more, you can cook these recipes in the oven, in foil packs, or on the barbeque!

Healthy and Filling: 44 Baked Salmon Recipes for Weight Loss

40 Sandwiches Under 300 Calories | From make ahead breakfast sandwiches, to the best cold and hot sandwiches, to vegetarian sandwiches that satisfy, we've curated the best sandwich recipes for weight loss! Each recipe is 300 calories or less, with tons of make ahead recipes you can meal prep for work or school. There are so many ideas here, including upgrades of your faves, like philly cheesesteak, egg salad, tuna, grilled cheese, meatball, and traditional club sandwiches!

Simple and Filling: 40 Sandwiches Under 300 Calories

60 Pasta Recipes Under 500 Calories | If you're looking for healthy lunch and dinner recipes under 500 calories to help with your weight loss goals, we've curated tons of easy ideas to inspire you! From vegan to vegetarian, chicken to ground beef to shrimp, simple tomato sauce to creamy Alfredo, this post has it all. And as an added bonus, many of these are make ahead recipes that are also freezable, making meal prep a breeze!

Satisfy Your Hunger: 60 Pasta Recipes Under 500 Calories

How to Lose Face Fat | Whether you have chubby cheeks, a double chin, loose skin due to quick weight loss, or you just feel self-conscious about your round face shape, we're sharing 13 face slimming tips and exercises to teach you how to get rid of face fat. While these tips and facial exercises won't slim your face in a day or even in a week, we've included makeup hacks and fashion tips that will make your face look thinner overnight!

How to Lose Face Fat: 13 Tips and Exercises for a Slimmer Face

33 Baked Oatmeal Recipes | If you're looking for healthy breakfast ideas that will make you feel full, support your weight loss goals, and that you can make ahead of time as part of your weekly meal prep routine, this post is for you! Whether you like to eat a low carb or low calorie diet, we've curated tons of ideas that are easy to make, high in protein, and taste delicious. From banana, strawberry, peach, and blueberry, to peanut butter and chocolate, these are delicious!

Rise and Grind! 33 Baked Oatmeal Recipes to Fuel Your Day

30 Salads Under 300 Calories for Weight Loss | If you're looking for easy and healthy salads for lunch or for dinner that will satisfy your hunger without causing you to gain weight, these salad recipes are the best! Whether you like your salads with chicken, tuna, steak, or salmon or prefer vegan or vegetarian options like taco salad and pasta salad, these low calorie recipes are super quick, high in protein, and downright delicious! Clean eating meal prep has never been so simple or delish!

Clean Eating At Home: 30 Make Ahead Salads Under 300 Calories

15 Leg and Glute Workouts | Whether you workout at home or at the gym, prefer to use weights (dumbbells, barbells, or kettlebells) or resistance bands, or need no equipment workouts you can stream from anywhere, this post has the best exercises to help you tighten and tone your legs, butt, and thighs. We've included 10 exercises, including squat and lunge variations, glute bridges, and dead lifts, as well as the best videos you can stream for free so you can workout anywhere!

Tighten and Tone: 15 Leg and Glute Workouts for Women

How to Get an Hourglass Figure | If you want to know the secret to a small waist with curvy hips and a bigger butt, this post is full of diet and nutrition tips, as well as 5 hour glass workout ideas to help you see results fast. While you probably won't achieve an hourglass figure in a week or even in a month, cleaning eating coupled with the right exercise moves is key! If you're up for the challenge, use the tips and ideas in this post to create a routine to get you to your goals!

How to Get an Hourglass Figure: 11 Tips and Workouts for a Sexy Body

60 Healthy Make Ahead Breakfast Ideas for Weight Loss | From breakfast bowls, sandwiches, and breakfast casserole ideas to freeze, to overnight oats, smoothies, and muffins, these meal prep breakfast recipes are easy, healthy and delicious! Whether you follow a high protein, low carb keto diet, eat only low calories foods, or you follow a more specific diet (paleo, Whole30, vegetarian, or vegan), there's a recipe here for you! Enjoy these at home or on-the-go!

60 Healthy Make Ahead Breakfast Ideas for Weight Loss

5 Best At Home CrossFit Workouts for Beginners | Whether you're looking for no equipment workouts, or workouts with dumbbells, kettlebells, barbells, and a medicine ball, these fat-burning, full body WOD workouts have it all. We've included an EMOM, HIIT, and AMRAP workout, with options to help you squeeze in a quick upper body workout with abs when you're short on time. Perfect for men and for women, these CrossFit workouts at home will help you lose weight and build muscle!

5 Best At Home CrossFit Workouts for Beginners and Beyond

7 Full Body Medicine Ball Workouts | Working out with a medicine ball is a great core workout for those who want a flat stomach, but it can also work other muscle groups, including your abs, arms, glutes, and legs. If you're looking for beginner medicine ball workouts for men and for women, you can stream these fat burning videos at home! They include a mix of strength training, cardio, and HIIT, helping you burn calories while also tightening and toning your muscles!

Strength Training at Home: 7 Full Body Medicine Ball Workouts

21 Desserts Under 100 Calories | If you're looking for quick, easy, and healthy desserts that won't ruin your weight loss goals, we've curated the best of the best! This collection includes recipes for people who follow a vegan, keto, and/or gluten-free diet, with tons of guilt free, sugar free, low calorie desserts to choose from. Whether you prefer chocolate, peanut butter, strawberry, or banana desserts, cookies, muffins, brownies, cheesecake, or ice cream, we've got something for everyone!

Guilt Free and Delicious: 21 Desserts Under 100 Calories

5 Core Strength Workouts You Can Do At Home | Perfect for women, for men, for beginners, and beyond, these core strengthening exercises will improve your balance, stability, and posture, tighten and tone your abs, and they are perfect for back pain! If you want flat abs, you can do these core exercises at the gym or at home with little to no equipment, and if you're looking to strengthen your core after baby, we've included a 10-minute workout you can start after pregnancy.

How to Strengthen Your Core: 5 At Home Core Strength Workouts

5 Fat-Burning Low Impact Workouts for Beginners | If you're looking for workouts you can do at home that aren't high intensity, but will still allow you to break a sweat, burn calories, and burn fat, these full body low impact exercises are for you! Whether you're new to fitness, recovering from an injury, have bad knees, bad hips, or a bad back, or you're looking for workouts you can do after surgery, these are the best of the best!

No Excuses! 5 Fat-Burning Low Impact Workouts for Beginners

7 Shoulder and Back Workouts for Women | Whether you're training at home with no equipment, or lifting weights at the gym, working your shoulders and back helps increase range of motion, prevent injury, improve posture, and enhance strength and performance. And sculpted shoulders are sexy, too! If you're looking for shoulder workouts and/or back workouts for women to tighten, tone, and get rid of back fat, grab your dumbbells and give these a try! We've included no equipment options too!

Sexy and Sculpted: 7 Shoulder and Back Workouts for Women

10 Morning Workout Motivation Tips | If you're looking for a little inspiration to help you get up early and get in a good sweat sesh to kickstart your day, we're sharing our best morning motivation tips to help! Whether it's a gloomy Monday or a lazy Saturday, these morning motivation tips will help you create daily routines to increase your energy, boost your metabolism, feel happier, sleep better, and lose weight fast! If you want to know how to get up early and workout, these ideas work!

No Excuses! 10 Morning Workout Motivation Tips to Get You Out of Bed

10 Trampoline Workouts For Weight Loss | Whether you have a mini indoor trampoline in your basement or a big full size trampoline in your backyard, there are tons of ways you can use it to lose weight. Jumping is such a great form of exercise, and we're excited to share our favorite trampoline exercise tips and routine ideas for beginners and beyond! The benefits of having a trampoline aren't just for kids - the offer a great way for adults to squeeze HIIT and cardio in at home too!

Get Fit at Home: 10 Trampoline Workouts For Weight Loss

How to Look Better on Zoom and FaceTime | If you're looking for tips and tricks to make you look camera ready on video calls on even your most disheveled days, we've got you covered! From makeup tips and hairstyles to make your face look slimmer, to clothes that compliment your best features and outfits that flatter, to figuring out what colors make your best features pop instead of washing you out, to knowing the best poses and camera angles, these ideas work!

How to Look Better on Zoom and FaceTime: 17 Tips