3 Fun CrossFit Goodies for Your Home Gym

While I love workouts of all kinds, I’ll be the first to admit that CrossFit gets amazing results. It’s incredibly challenging and pushes you—for better or for worse (usually for the better unless you stop listening to your body and push too hard too often)—to be fitter, more confident and stronger inside and out. But [...]

How to Prep for Your Best Ever Home Workout

Today’s post is written by core performance guru, Linda LaRue. Linda is the creator of Crunchless Abs and the constant resistance, 3-dimensional workout, The CORE TRANSFORMER, which burns nearly 1,000 calories per hour. Whether it is a newborn baby, feeling “too big” to want to step onto a gym floor or a 24/7 work-day/work-week schedule, sometimes making [...]

Getting Creative and Intuitive With My Workouts at Home

It’s funny, right as my love of CrossFit-inspired workouts was seemingly coming to a head—surviving this event, visiting Reebok CrossFit HQ and working out with Bob—my workout plans have since changed, kind of dramatically. I blogged over on Fit Bottomed Mamas about why, but since changing up my weekly workout routine to be a bit gentler on [...]

My Dedicated Workout Space

My husband and I moved into our house just over two years ago. Since then we’ve been busy with house projects, adding kiddos to the mix, and arranging and rearranging rooms to get them to work for us. Up until we moved into our house, my workout space has always been the living room. Typically [...]

Ditch the Gym: 10 Ways to Get Fit Without Any Fancy Equipment

It’s an excuse many of us have heard or even said ourselves: I want to get fit, but I can’t afford a membership to the gym or a personal trainer. While a health club can be a fantastic place to work out, it’s not the only way to get fit. In fact, you can enjoy a variety [...]

FitEquip: Mats to Make Your Home Workout a Little More Comfy

I have a mini home gym in my basement. It’s nothing elaborate—a few dumbbells here, a stability ball and kettlebell there. But when I don’t feel like getting out or am too rushed to make it to the Fit Pit, I hit the lowest level of my house to pop in a killer workout DVD or [...]

How Life Can Give You the Best Workout of All

Are you ever surprised when a boring everyday activity leaves you gasping for air? Or when you get sore from tackling a  home improvement project like painting your bedroom? So was Renee Bedford, who found that standard gym training wasn’t preparation for farm work. Here Renee shares how everyday chores can get you burning—and who of [...]

6 Tips to Stick That New Year’s Resolution

A few weeks ago, we met and fell in love with the FitKit. The FitKit is like a home gym that fits in your hands. The kit includes an exercise band, jump rope, resistance tube, pedometer, reflective arm band, access to tons of exercise moves and more. It pretty much rocks, and we now recommend [...]