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1 3 Full-Body Moves That'll Work You From Head to Toe
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2 5 Ways to Tone Your Inner Thighs
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3 Get the Bod: Cameron Diaz’s Legs
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4 Full-Body Circuit Workout With Weights
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5 Get Fit For 2012: How to Start Strength Training
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6 Tone Your Middle With the Kettlebell Windmill
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7 Find Your Eye of the Tiger With The Biggest Loser
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8 More Kettlebell, Please! 4 Calorie-Torching Exercises
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9 Ab Exercise Must Do: Easy Knee-Tuck Crunches
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10 5 Low Weight Arm Exercises
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11 Get on the Ball: The Preacher Curl For Arms and Core
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12 Get Strapless-Dress Ready With These 5 Triceps Exercises
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13 Tone Your Entire Body With the Plank
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14 The Right Way to Strength Train
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15 Trim the Fat: 3 Moves to Slim the Obliques
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16 5 Moves to Make Running Hills a Breeze
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17 Maximize Workouts to Tone Your Booty
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18 Back to Basics: Tone Your Guns
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19 7 Ways to Work Your Lower Body With Squats
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20 A Full-Body Winter Workout to Do at Home
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21 Momma-to-Be Strength Training Routine
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22 Ab Extra Credit: BOSU Moves For Your Belly
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23 Is Shaking While Strength Training Normal?
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24 Learn to Love Squats: 5 Places to Squeeze 'Em
Swinging kettlebells around at the gym makes me feel like a super toughie. But I do love the sassy feeling I get doing slow and controlled windmills, a move I just learned from my Equinox trainer Lauren. Like most kettlebell moves, this is a full-body exercise, but the work is at your waist, toning the obliques and stretching the sides of the torso. The shoulders and arms are worked nicely, too. Read more
FitSugar reader JessicaSmithTV wanted to know: are all those claims about creating longer and leaner muscles through exercise true? She asked an expert and posted the answer in our Fit Community. You've probably heard it numerous times before — a workout that promises to give you longer, leaner muscles (we've often heard this said about PIlates or ballet-based training methods) . . . so can Read more
Kettlebell fans love the heavy round-shaped weights for a reason — kettlebell exercises combine cardio and strength training together for a time-saving calorie burn. The amount of calories you can burn using kettlebells can be amazingly high: a study by the American Council on Exercise found that the average person burns 272 calories in 20 minutes when doing kettlebell exercises. More research Read more
A solid warmup sets you up for a solid workout. When it comes to prepping for strength training, an active warmup primes the joints and muscles, prepping them for the heavy lifting. Lauren, my Equinox trainer, introduced me to these moves, and after a little light cardio — for me, it's five minutes running on a treadmill at a 6 mph pace, but the elliptical or a little jump rope would work — Read more
Award season is upon us, which means that all those celebs can show off all the hard work they've done at the gym or with their trainers. One such area stars love to show off on the red carpet? Toned arms, made perfect with exercises that define biceps and, maybe more importantly, get rid of that dreaded arm jiggle. Start prepping now for your own warmer-weather, strapless fashions with these Read more
We are excited to share one of our fave stories from Fitness Magazine here on FitSugar! It happens to the best of us. Your gym routine becomes just that — a routine. Bust out of your plateau and burn more fat with these strength-training tweaks from the pros. Make Every Day Your Best Burn Yet Supercharge your gym routine by ditching the moves that have stopped delivering results and replacing Read more
Want to start a strength-training routine but don't know where to begin? Some of the most effective moves are the simplest or are ones that build on the basics. Here are five beginner strength-training moves you should master, along with tips and variations to make your workout even better! Source: Thinkstock Read more
Imagine lying on your back and then getting off the floor to a standing position, over and over again. Imagine holding a weight over your head as you do it. This mental image should give you a basic sketch of the Turkish Get Up. This classic strength-training move is all about functional fitness involving every major muscle group as you make your way to being upright and return back to the Read more
The free weights section of the gym can be a bit daunting thanks to floor-to-ceiling mirrors, stacks of barbells and dumbbells, and a crowd of bodybuilding types. But the benefits of free weight exercises are great, so it's important to boost your dumbbell confidence. Here are five reasons you should take a break from the weight machines: Your know more than you think you know. There aren't any Read more
We are three days into 2012, but it feels like the year is finally just starting. If one of your goals for the year it to get stronger, we have strength training challenge to jump-start your January. It's simple: see how many push-ups you can do in minute, then share your number in the comments section. If you need to lower your knees to the floor at the start or at anytime during the minute Read more
