One of my favorite pieces of workout equipment for training the core is a weighted medicine ball. You'll add just enough weighted resistance to really challenge and fatigue the muscles recruited during exercises like the Russian twist, any variation of crunches on the floor or a stability ball, and will give your lower abs extra work by gripping one between your ankles and feet during leg drops. Strengthen your core, targeting the lower abs by using a medicine ball to pass fr

Next time you’re working out, or even when you’re just sitting/standing around with nothing to do at home, do a few variations of stability work to strengthen your ankles, core and supporting joints and muscles. Here are a few simple moves to try that can be held for as little as 5 seconds to 20 depending on how strong your stabilizers currently are. Even alternating just a few seconds from one side to another will help develop strength to build on over consistent time. 1. As

When you hear of, or accuse someone of doing something “like a girl”, you’re likely to translate that into a negative accusation- associating the phrase with weakness or an inability to successfully do something. Fortunately, that kind of stone age thinking is being buried by females who choose to excel in whatever it is they do, with hearts full of courage and mindsets that are far from weak. You’re bound to know someone, at least one- who, just so happens to be a girl that

We covered some very foundational, but pertinent, points in "PART 1" (regarding health and fitness goal setting), so as long as you’ve earnestly addressed those, let’s get into the nitty-gritty of one of the most common stumbling blocks people encounter on the road to results. People. We’ve all had (or, have) those people who somehow linger in our life (or possibly just our Facebook) who criticize and cast doubt at every chance they get. These people are either in dire need

We all want to excel and become better (beit in our health and fitness, relationships, education, career or hobby), but sometimes being able to do so gets blocked by always rushing to the rescue of other people for the sake of ignoring what really needs attention in us. I'm talking to the people-pleasers (I was once one of them), and the intentionally aloof (I was also once one of those, too). Do you constantly become readily available to rescue people when their times get to