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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

10 Inner Thigh Workouts To Do at Home | If you want to tighten, tone, and strengthen your inner thighs, these are the best workouts for you! We've included no equipment workouts, as well as exercises that use basic equipment like ankle weights, an exercise ball, and resistance bands. From quick and easy 3-minute workouts, to standing exercises, to barre workouts, to advanced 10-minute routines, you can mix and match these based on your ability and schedule!

Tighten and Tone: 10 Inner Thigh Workouts To Do at Home

15 Home Gym Ideas | If you're looking for DIY tips and hacks to help you transform a small space in your bedroom, basement, or garage into a home gym, we're sharing 15 budget friendly ideas to inspire you! These cheap home gym essentials and simple home gym organization ideas will help you tighten and tone your body while also getting in a cardio workout without leaving your house! From tips for transforming small spaces into a gym, to gym equipment swaps, these hacks are a dream come true!

Home Gym Ideas: 15 Tips for Creating a Home Gym on a Budget

40 Low Carb Cocktails for Weight Loss | If you're trying to lose weight and don't want to give up alcohol, you're in luck! Whether you're organizing a girls night in or you're on the hunt for low carb drinks to order at the bar with your BFF, we've curated 40 of the best keto cocktails that are simple and easy to make, taste good, and are (relatively) guilt free! From vodka, to gin, to tequila, to rum, to whiskey, to bourbon, there's a drink here for everyone!

Weight Loss and Alcohol: 40 Low Carb Cocktails to Indulge In

9 Weight Loss Vision Board Tips and Ideas | If weight loss is on your mind and you're on the hunt for motivational tips and tools that will keep you accountable to your goals, we've got you covered! We're teaching you how to make a vision board for weight loss, including goal setting ideas, step by step tips for curating photos, words, and quotes to bring your vision to life, and tons of inspiration to make the law of attraction help you in your weight loss journey!

Goal Setting 101: 9 Weight Loss Vision Board Tips and Ideas

30-Day Insulin Resistance Diet Plan | If you're looking for food lists, recipes, and a menu plan to help you create meals for breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert, and snacks that help with insulin resistance, we've curated 30 days of recipes to keep your insulin and blood sugar in check. We've included a range of recipes from different dietary needs, including low carb, keto, paleo, vegetarian, and vegan options. If you want to lose weight, these recipes are a great place to start!

Weight Loss That Works: 30-Day Insulin Resistance Diet Plan

40 Healthy Avocado Recipes for Every Meal | If you're looking for new and exciting ways to incorporate avocado into your breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert, we're sharing 40 of the best ideas to inspire you! From a fruit and veggies smoothie, to guacamole and mango salsa, to a simple pasta with avocado and lime, to avocado keto brownies, these ideas are equal parts easy, filling, and delicious. And they're great for weight loss, too!

Nutritious and Filling: 40 Healthy Avocado Recipes for Every Meal

5 Powerful Plyometric Exercises for Beginners | Do you want to take your cardio to the next level? These fat burning plyometric workouts will help you boost your power, speed, and endurance while also burning calories. These exercises will also help you build muscle, which will boost your metabolism and help you lose weight. Great for runners who are looking for speed and strength training, these HIIT workouts require minimal equipment (a jump rope and box step at most!).

Strength and Speed: 5 Powerful Plyometric Exercises for Beginners

10 Full Body No Gym Workouts | Perfect for beginners as well as fitness gurus who are looking for at home workouts they can do when they can't make it to the gym, we've curated a full workout plan complete with videos you can stream anywhere to help you tighten and tone your arms, legs, core, abs, obliques, and glutes. If losing weight is your goal, strength training is key, and these workouts will help you target specific parts of your body while also getting in some cardio.

Get Fit at Home! 10 Full Body No Gym Workouts for Weight Loss

Weight Loss After Menopause | The hormone imbalance that occurs during the transition to menopause can lead to many uncomfortable symptoms, and is often to blame for a slower metabolism, insulin sensitivity, and weight gain. If you want to know how to lose weight during perimenopause and menopause, exercise alone won't help. We're sharing a list of the foods you should eat and avoid for weight loss - and to help manage the symptoms of menopause - for a healthier, happier you!

Weight Loss After Menopause: 14 Foods to Eat and Avoid