Get Fit For 2011: Bonus Challenge, Make Your Kitchen a Dieting Safe Zone


Updated 02/17/11 11:21 PM · Posted by FitSugar · 0 comments

Enter to Win the Get Fit For 2011 Giveaway Bonus Challenge

We've reached the midway point into our health and fitness giveaway challenge — how's it going? This week you're invited to complete any of the previous challenges you may have missed. Remember, the more you participate, the more chances you have to win! And if you are all caught up with our first five challenges, we have a bonus one for you. Week Six Bonus Challenge: Clean up your kitchen to Read more

Get Fit For 2011 Giveaway: Bonus Challenge, Give Up a Vice For a Day


Updated 03/11/11 1:57 PM · Posted by FitSugar · 1 comment

Enter to Win the Get Fit For 2011 Giveaway Challenge: Food Journaling Bonus Challenge

We are two weeks into our health and fitness giveaway challenge — how's it going? This week's challenge is to keep a food journal in our Get Fit For 2011 group. Simply writing the blog posts enters you into our giveaway with weekly prizes ($100 gift card from Nike) and a fabulous grand prize (trip to LA for a fitness boot camp). Well, we have a bonus challenge for you (remember, the more you Read more

Yoga Sequence For Balance and Strong, Sculpted Legs


Updated 04/11/12 1:42 PM · Posted by · 0 comments

Yoga Sequence to Improve Balance

Just as you can build your upper body strength in order to hold Forearm Stand, or increase your flexibility so you can do Wheel Pose, you can also improve your balance in order to master poses like Tree. The best way to feel confident is to practice poses that challenge your sense of balance: here's a yoga sequence that involves mostly one-legged standing poses. Bonus — this yoga sequence will Read more

10 Boredom Busters For Indoor Workouts


Updated 03/22/12 3:15 PM · Posted by · 0 comments

Avoid Being Bored at the Gym

If you tend to feel bored at the gym and spend more time watching the clock, these easy tricks are sure to boost your motivation. Whether you're just beginning a bikini-ready plan for the Summer or consider yourself a seasoned gym rat, here are 11 simple ways to fire up your indoor workouts: Vary your machines: If the treadmill is your best (and only) friend, it's time to switch things up. Try Read more

9 Signs You’ve Got a Bad Boss


Updated 03/02/12 12:20 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

How to Deal With Bad Managers

We're thrilled to present this smart LearnVest story here on Savvy! We wish we could mandate that all bosses go to boss school. Or that the ones who did get management training absorbed everything they were taught. Fact is, there are a lot of bad bosses running amok out there, and most don’t even know that they’re the bane of your existence. But the good news is, if you’re stuck under the Read more

10 Tone-Up Tweaks to Get a Better Burn


Updated 01/18/12 2:16 AM · Posted by · 1 comment

How to Get a Better Burn When Strength Training

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

Play Our Video Game Faceoff and Win Big!


Updated 01/07/12 10:35 AM · Posted by GeekSugar · 0 comments

Addictive Video Game Contest

When it comes to video games, we all have our favorites titles, which have sucked hours of our time, so picking the most addictive game can be a real challenge. But heck, there are much worse addictions. Give your video game controllers a break and try your hand at our Which Game Is More Addictive? game, which pits the names against one another to see how your picks stack up. Bonus — you could Read more

Ask Savvy: Like Job, But Dislike Work Environment


Updated 11/22/11 10:45 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

How to Deal With an Unpleasant Manager

This reader posted in our Ask Savvy group — she wants to know how to deal with an unpleasant manager. I've been in the workforce (financial services industry) for about three years now but have only been in my current job for a few months. I like my role as it is challenging, interesting, and diverse. I get along with my supervisor and my colleague (there are three of us in the small team). Read more

6 Financial Milestones For Twentysomethings


Updated 06/20/11 2:43 PM · Posted by · 0 comments

Financial Tips For Generation Y

We're thrilled to present this smart Kiplinger story here on Savvy! Editor's note: Our regular Kip Tips columnist Cameron Huddleston is taking a deserved vacation but has solicited the help of her favorite personal-finance bloggers to guide Kip Tip readers in her absence. The twenties. At no other point in time in your life will you be better able to set yourself up for financial success than in Read more

DVD Review: Shiva Rea A.M. Energy


Updated 06/16/11 2:40 PM · Posted by · 0 comments

Review of Shiva Rea's A.M. Energy Yoga Video

I've tried hundreds of yoga DVDs, and many of them I've only used once. Videos created by Shiva Rea are different though. Her calming energy, dynamic yoga sequences, creativity, and strength are inspirational. Her Creative Core + Upper Body video is my absolute favorite, but I also keep Fluid Power — Vinyasa Flow Yoga near my DVD player. I have another DVD to add to my pile of faves: Shiva's Read more