Fit Tip Friday: How to Run With Your Dog

For Fit Bottomed Pets’ Week, we’ve talked a lot about getting active with your pet. And, obviously, running is a fabulous way for both you and your four-legged one to get some exercise. But how much can—and should—your dog run? Is there anything you should do to warm them up? Or make sure that running [...]

Friday Fit Tip: A Nutrition Tip From Our New Teen Girls’ Fitness Book!

For today’s Friday Fit Tip, we thought it might be fun to do something from our new teen fitness book: The Girl’s Guide to Fitting in Fitness. We’re super proud to have created a resource for teen girls that has sane, liveable and fun advice in it—and we want to keep sharing the love! So today’s [...]

Fit Tip Friday: An Easy Way to Keep Those Workout Headbands On

We’ve been chatting a lot about workout headbands lately. First, we reviewed these hair ties and headbands for workouts. And then we put things to a poll to see if you had trouble with keeping workout headbands on your head, too. Where, I learned that I am by no means the only one who has [...]

Fit Tip Friday: Make a Healthy Living Dream Board

Every year around my birthday, I make a healthy living dream board. A mix of fitness goals, personal dreams and just overall being-my-best kind of stuff, it’s a fun and creative endeavor that helps me focus and visualize my best possible life. Since FBG is all about you doing pretty much that—especially this week with Love Yo’Self [...]

Fit Tip Friday: A Good Way to Dodge the Flu Bug

It seems like everyone and their sick dog is talking about this year’s dreadful flu season. Even Ellen Degeneres won’t hug you unless you’ve gotten your shot or confirmed you’re germ free! It’s dreadful, contagious as a mother trucker, and it makes working out almost next to impossible. That’s a no-go in this Fit Bottomed Girl’s [...]

Fit Tip Friday: Stand Up

By now, you’ve probably heard about how bad sitting is for your health. Study after study has shown that sitting on your duff for hours at a time can increase the risk of all kinds of not-so-fun things like weight gain, diabetes, heart attack and even a shortened life span. Um, boo on that. So [...]

Fit Tip Friday: Consider the Weather

Remember how a few weeks back Kristen showed us how to properly warm-up for a winter run? Well, while we were freezing our tushes off running the Rock ‘n’ Roll Brooklyn 10K together, Kristen  didn’t just record the one tip. Oh, no, girlfriend was inspired enough by the frigid weather (or driven mad, see photo at [...]

Fit Tip Friday: Keep Your Water Bottle Clean With This Cool (Literally) Trick!

You probably carry your water bottle with you here, there and everywhere. Which means that it gets a lot of use. (And that you probably pee a lot!) But does it get a good scrub down? What about in those hard to reach areas like the straw and the lid? Well, self-admitted germaphobe FBG Tish [...]

Fit Tip Friday: Take an “Active Recovery Day”

Who’s ready for the first Fit Tip Friday of the New Year? We are! And today’s tip is all about what you do when you’re not working out. Or, more appropriately, how you can still take an off day without sitting on your rear all day. That’s right—in today’s video we’re talking about the joys [...]

Can’t Stop Mindless Snacking? This Friday Fit Tip Is for You!

It happens to the best of us—especially this time of year when there are so many yummy things around and so much pressure at parties and gatherings to splurge—but do you have a habit of overeating? Eating when you’re not hungry? Consider yourself an emotional eater? Or simply seem to eat too much without even [...]

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