SparkPeople Does It Again—Tone and Sculpt With Coach Nicole Workout DVD

Talk about a movement! SparkPeople.com has helped millions of people become active and healthy and their Total Body Sculpting with Coach Nicole DVD is no exception. This all-in-one DVD features three 20-minute workouts that focus on sculpting and toning a beautiful and fit body. With tons of bonus features, including sneaky leg toners you can [...]

7 Often Overlooked Signs of Overtraining

Healthy habits are awesome, but you actually can have too much of a good thing. Fiber is good for you, but too much fiber? Um, if you’ve done it, you know what I’m talking about. Even too much sleep can make you feel like poo. And exercise is no exception. Problem is, some of the more [...]

Work at Home? 10 Ways to Stay Healthy

Having a home office and working from your casa may seem like a perfect dream. You have no boss popping up behind you. No coworkers to interrupt you with the latest office gossip. No donuts to avoid. But, working from home—with all of its perks—also presents some unique challenges when it comes to maintaining a [...]

How to Burn 100 Calories in 50 Fun Ways

You may already know that everything you do burns calories—breathing, sleeping, standing, and all of the workouts you love. But what does it take to burn just 100 calories? You may be surprised by how little—or how much! To put it all in perspective for you, we’ve gathered 50 different ways how to burn 100 calories. (FYI: [...]

10 Tricks to Eat Healthy at Work

The office. It’s where most of us spend the majority of our weeks. While that realization can be downright sad pants, it also shows how your habits at work can have a big effect on your weight-loss and health goals. Sure, the workplace can be full of temptations—whether the vending machine calls your name at [...]

Do You Have Realistic Weight-Loss Goals?

We’ve all seen the celebrity weight-loss shows like The Biggest Loser where the contestants drop 10+ pounds a week by working out (like crazy) and eating (not a whole lot). While those shows can be highly motivational by showing what’s possible through healthy eats and exercise, they aren’t exactly realistic. To make matters worse, those expectations that we [...]

Can Workouts Cause Breakouts?

Yep, there’s just no disputing it: Exercise is good for the human body. So you’d think that exercise would also benefit the body’s largest organ, its skin, right? But does working up a sweat actually do anything good for your skin—or make you more prone to breakouts? Workouts and Breakouts: Is There a Connection? While [...]

What’s Your Exercise Personality?

Quiz time! It’s hard to put any one person in a box, but when it comes to exercise, there are some defining personality traits that can affect your workouts and your ability to stick to an exercise routine. Where you like to work out, what classes you like to take and what tunes you most [...]

How to Create the Perfect Workout Playlist

You know that scene in High Fidelity where John Cusack is touting the importance of the perfectly crafted mix tape? A tape that has to kick off with a killer track to grab attention, then take it up a notch, then cool it off a notch? Sure, that guy was creating a playlist to woo [...]

Workout in the City: Walking and Running Tips for City Dwellers

Living in a big city can be exciting. If you call New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago or San Francisco home, you have access to some of the hottest and trendiest health clubs and group exercise classes right in your own backyard. And even if you live in an urban part of Dallas, Seattle, Kansas City, Pittsburgh or [...]

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