Workout I Did: A Run-Happy-Is Earth-Day HIIT Session

Just a reminder that this is our new feature called Workout I Did. Today’s is extra special and sponsored by Brooks Running. Read them all and feel the workout love here! Happy, happy Earth Day! To celebrate this holiday, I just had to get out for a run. But not just any ol’ run—a HIIT run! [...]

Pushing Myself to the Edge With Amy Dixon’s Breathless Body: Volume 2

Like every year when the busy holiday season is upon us, I have found my life getting pretty hectic. Between traveling to Georgia for my boyfriend’s Ranger School graduation to visiting my brother in Japan for Thanksgiving, it has been really hard to get an awesome workout in that lives up to my high Fit [...]

The Hot Two-For-One Deal: Jessica Smith’s 10 Pounds Down Cardio Abs

If someone looked at my workout routine recently they’d probably notice that cardio isn’t a high priority, let alone the treadmill or elliptical. I find that my mental stability breaks down before my body does, and that’s saying something! For me, I’d rather be outside hiking a ridge or paddling a canoe than getting stuck [...]

3 Biggest Workout Mistakes and How to Fix Them

I may be slightly biased because I do these kinds of workouts regularly, but over the last year or so, it seems that the new workout trend is to go hard. Whether it’s plyometrics, kettlebell training or high-intensity interval training, the point is to take your fitness to another level by pushing your body perhaps [...]

Our Favorite Four-Minute Workouts

This “four”-themed post is part of our FBG Birthday Week celebration! Check out all of the special four-year birthday posts and huge giveaways here! We know how busy life is. Heck, we write about fitness all day long and even we sometimes have trouble fitting in a good workout. But guess what? You don’t need an [...]

The Tabata Protocol: The Workout You’re Not Doing, But Should

The Tabata Protocol has been said to be the best extreme aerobic cardio workout ever to be created. Developed in 1996, the Tabata Protocol was born when Izumi Tabata, with the National Institute of Health and Nutrition in Tokyo, Japan, sought to find out how moderate- and high-intensity exercise impacted cardiovascular (endurance) and aerobic (sprint) [...]

Tish’s Weekly Workout Routine

You’ve seen our gym bags, fridges and pantries. So for this round of Question of the Week, we’re talking about what our weekly workout routine is like! My weekly workout routines involve the unthinkable. I actually allow my boyfriend to train me. Everyone warned us this was a bad idea. Folks said we’d fight and kettlebells [...]

Interval Training and Endurance Training: What’s the Difference?

This guest post on interval training and endurance training from the fitness experts at Life Fitness is a part of our second-annual New Year, New Rear Week to help you to be fitter, healthier and a touch (okay, a lot!) more awesome in 2012. Read all New Year, New Rear posts here! Many exercisers—both newbies and [...]

Review: 10 Minute Rapid Results Fat Burner

Warning! This DVD isn’t for those blessed with two left feet (and a knack for getting lefts and rights mixed up). I sincerely wanted to love this DVD. I did! The girl wasn’t too perky, too waifish, too anything that would have led to my butt twitching. She was the perfect instructor: A total Spice Girl [...]

Kristen’s Tri Training Progress Report: Major Improvement

I’ve put in close to 80 hours of training for my race. I’ve done long, steady workouts, and I’ve done shorter, faster, interval-based workouts. I’ve started doing short bricks, which means I go straight from a bike workout to a run, or from a swim to the bike. Basically, I’ve logged more loops around my [...]

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