21 Ways To Lose Ten Pounds In A Week

Losing weight seems an uphill task to many, especially when you need to lose weight in a couple of days. And especially when you need to look good for an upcoming occasion or event. For achieving quick weight loss like ten pounds in a week, people often resort to crash dieting or spend hours sweating out in the gym. In fact, there are countless fad diets that enable you to shed pounds in a couple of days, but they have detrimental effects on your body and health, leaving you sick, hungry and nutrition deprived.

Of course, there are other painless ways to achieve this goal without dieting. All you need to do is maintain a healthy lifestyle comprising of nutrition, fitness, proper sleep and hydration. The best part is that these strategies not only enable you to lose ten pounds in a week’s time, but also help you to maintain a healthy weight in the long run.

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Resistance Bands Challenge: Week 2 Legs & Butt

Last week we challenged you with an intense arm workout. This week we’re focusing on tightening that butt and toning those legs. This legs and butt workout is Part II of our 4-Week Resistance Bands Challenge.

Equipment Needed: resistance band, interval timer, yoga mat or soft surface

Equipment Recommended: Interval Timer (Gymboss is a free app download), Black Mountain Resistance Band Set

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14-Day Kettlebell Challenge

Spice up your workout routine with kettlebells. Dumbbells are standard equipment, but kettlebells are a unique tool with more benefits than dumbbells. Kettlebells force you to use minor muscles to accurately perform each movement. That little bit of extra muscle utilization makes all the difference in fat burning.

Our 14-day kettlebell challenge is designed to help you tone, build muscle, and burn fat at an accelerated pace. Form is everything when using kettlebells. The more solid your form, the better your results. Catch your breath, grab a bell and get ready for a exhilarating challenge!

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Top 23 Women’s Exercises For Abs

Every woman dreams of having a slim and eye-catching figure. But, do all of our dreams come true? No! Not really. In today’s fast-paced life, when binge eating is an everyday affair, putting on weight seems inevitable. 

Adding to that is the total lack of exercise and sedentary lifestyle that lead to obesity and related diseases. Even if you are not really overweight, you are more than likely to have that small paunch on your stomach, which makes wearing those body hugging dresses a complete no-no! And this is not just an age related problem! Women of all ages from a young teen to those in their 40s, all face this ‘fatty’ issue. So, why do we get this extra layer of fat around our tummy?

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8 Yoga Mudras To Overcome Any Ailments

Yoga is not only an exercise but a form of spiritual practice to improve you physical, mental and spiritual well being. 

It doesn’t only refer to twisting and curling your body into different shapes and poses, but it also involves some specific mudras posed during meditations. Mudras mean gestures adopted during pranayams and meditations that directs flow of energy into our body. Yogic tantras say that these mudra yoga techniques stimulate different areas of the brain.

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10-Minute Leg Burn Challenge

Sexy and toned legs are 10 minutes away. This 10 minute legs challenge will give you a workout and burn that’ll leave your legs feeling weak, but will build them up stronger than ever. Hit all leg muscles front, back and side. Once you master this workout, try some our suggested leg workouts below.

Equipment Needed: Interval Timer (Gymboss is a free app download), yoga mat or soft surface

What to Do: Review the exercises and videos below. Perform each exercise for 1 minute and perform single leg exercises for 30 seconds each side. No rest in between workouts. Complete this workout twice a week. Looking for a bigger challenge? Complete more rounds.

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3-Step Flat Belly Challenge

Ready for positive change? Whether you want to tone that tummy for swimsuit season or slim down after having a baby, you can make the changes needed to see results. This 3-step flat belly challenge is the right place to start your journey.

Flat bellies don’t necessarily come from cranking out a bajillion crunches. Instead, they come from a commitment to making changes in how you eat and exercise. When you incorporate these flat belly tips into your lifestyle you’ll notice a difference you can see and feel.

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30-Day Muffin Top Challenge

Muffin tops go all the way around our midsections, and overshadow our waistlines. In order to tone and trim the entire abdominal area, it’s important to perform exercises that target all angles. Our 30-Day Muffin Top Challenge is designed to hit the obliques and ab muscles.

This challenge has 4 workout components to help transform your abs. It includes a fast paced tabata series to burn fat, a full target ab workout, and a plank and yoga series to tighten and strengthen the core muscle. In 30 days, you’ll burn excess fat and reveal more toned abs.

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Awesome Abs Challenge

The Awesome Abs Challenge has just seven moves and takes less than nine minutes to complete. It’s a good idea to switch up workouts every 4 to 6 weeks in order to continue seeing those awesome abs. SkinnyMs. is a perfect “go to” place for the latest fitness challenges.

While you’re building those abs, review our 8 Tips for Uncovering Awesome Abs to guarantee those abs stay.

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Kettlebell Bootcamp Challenge

Get ready to bring your workout to the next level! If you’ve been stuck in a rut or bored with regular dumbbells, then you need to try more challenging workouts. Trust us, try this Kettlebell Boot Camp Challenge if your goal is to get stronger and leaner faster.

This boot camp is designed to challenge your current level of fitness. You can’t keep doing the same exercises and cardio and expect to keep seeing rapid muscle changes.Kettlebells can be intimidating, but let’s face it, they make you feel pretty hard core. This Kettlebell Boot camp Challenge is designed to be a little harder than your usual workouts.

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Body Fat Burning Challenge

This challenge is all about getting rid of the excess fat you don’t want on your body. The problem with fat is that it’s difficult to specifically target where it will burn from your body. The more you work out, and the greater the intensity of your workout, the more calories you’ll burn and the better chance you’ll shed from those key areas!

Challenges make us stronger. Feeling strong makes us happier and more confident. The more confident you are, the more willing you’ll be to try new dynamic workouts that will bring you amazing results.

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Get Fit Home Workout Challenge

Get fit in the comfort of your own home. This workout challenge is designed to burn fat, tone, define, and increase endurance, so that you can conquer any fitness routine and get in phenomenal shape.  This home workout challenge is modified to work for all fitness levels.

Equipment Needed:  Interval timer; kitchen chair; flat bench or step; one set of light weight dumbbells (optional)

What to Do: Perform each exercise below for 45 seconds and rest 15 seconds after each one. The number of circuits completed will depend on your specific fitness level. Review the videos below for exercise demonstrations.

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12 Yoga Poses for Back Pain - Strengthen and Heal Your Lower Back

After making it to the big leagues – aka cubicle life – I noticed a major shift in my overall energy and health. The key driver behind this shift was – drumroll please sitting.

We all sit.

We sit in our cars.

We sit on our couches.

We sit at work.

We sit while eating.

We sit. We sit. And then we sit some more.

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What Comes First, Cardio or Weight Lifting

Mixing up your fitness routine is one of the best ways to target multiple muscles, burn fat, and improve your body’s cardiovascular system. From dumbbells, body weight, kettlebells, spinning, treadmills, or ellipticals, a common concern is over which type of exercise to perform first: cardio vs. weightlifting. Cardio after weightlifting has been the general rule for many fitness junkies, since weight lifting requires more exertion of energy from our bodies and most fat burning comes from the building of muscle, while performing cardio first may deplete our energy sources.

New research suggests that it makes no difference which routine you begin with. In a recent study, volunteers rode a stationary bicycle with only one leg initially. Once they were done they did resistance training using both legs. The results showed that both legs had grown equally stronger. A 2012 study showed that both riding a stationary bike and resistance training cause distinct muscle responses when done separately. However, when both were done together, both muscle responses were present regardless of which form of exercise was done first.

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7 Day Ab Challenge

Beautifully defined abs are possible for anyone and at any age. For the next 7 days, you will be doing workouts designed to challenge you and your midsection. There’s more to creating toned and defined abs than crunches…a lot more, read on. After completion of this 7-day challenge, continue doing an ab routine 3 times weekly on non-consecutive days.

For additional tips on uncovering those muscles and getting some gorgeous abs, follow these 7 recommendations:

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7-Minute Flat Belly Workout

We have the flat belly workout solution. This super awesome, uber-targeted 7-Minute Flat Belly Workout will leave you feeling slim and trim. And even better? The endorphins it generates will keep a smile on your face and spring in your step. What better way to show off your new trim midriff than with a sassy attitude and confident outlook, right? So what are you waiting for? Let’s do this!

Not only is our 7-Minute Flat Belly Workout super effective, it’s super simple too. It’s a flat belly workout and an anti-workout excuse-buster all rolled into one. Sound too good to be true? It’s not. Just scan below for proof. You can pretty much do this quick workout anytime, anywhere. And we’ve included easy-to-follow instructional videos to inspire and energize. 

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How To Tighten Skin After Weight Loss

We all feel a sense of pride and accomplishment as our healthy eating and our active lifestyles lead to fat burning and weight loss. Our clothing fits better, and our confidence soars. But some of us experience an unexpected side effect of weight loss in the form of loose, sagging skin.

Loose skin often presents itself on our bellies, in our underarm area, on our tricep area, and on our necks. If you’d like to firm and tighten skin after weight loss, our tips will allow you to gradually smooth your skin, getting you the look you’ve been working toward.

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6 Exercises that Target Upper & Lower Abs

There are few more stubborn areas for women than the abs, but luckily for you, we have a solution! This workout will target your upper and lower abs as well as your obliques, a total core workout. You’ll see results as you blast fat and expose that six-pack, and you’ll reap the added benefit of stabilizing your spine.

Your core is made up of three layers. The deep or innermost layer is made up of small muscles that span a single vertebrae, the middle layer consists of muscle that encompass the lower area of the spine, providing stabilization, and the outermost layer consists of powerful, large muscles that are primarily responsible for generating force, and thus movement.  This workout will challenge all layers of your core for a thorough and complete workout that prevents injury, creates the defined look you’re after, and enables you to have a strong mid-section to build the rest of your workouts upon!

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How to Run Faster

If you’ve been running for awhile, at some point the runner’s high starts to hit you. Once you get into that zone, you’ll want to run longer and faster. Without proper training, our bodies tend to stay stuck on a plateau. We’ve created this guide on how to run faster to help you take minutes away from your run time.

1. Hit Those Hills

Even if you’re running at a steady pace, running up hills will change your body’s conditioning. Try working on hill training 1 out of every 3 days you run. The harder you push up those hills, the stronger your legs will become. Once you start mastering those hills, you’ll scale minutes off your flat run.

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7-Minute Butt Lifting Workout

Butt been feelin’ a little bit down in the dumps? Maybe the droopy booty’s in need of a little lift? No problem! SkinnyMs. has the perfect 7-Minute Butt Lifting Workout to put your behind back up where it belongs. Many butt-lift workouts might seem too hard or overwhelmingly complex. Fear not. We have the princess of all glute workouts. She’s fierce and effective, yet gentle and kind. Ready to hear more? Read on below!

SkinnyMs. has cleverly set this 7-minute butt lifting workout up so that it leaves very little room for confusion and pretty much ZERO room for excuses. It’s short and sweet and requires very little equipment: just a set of dumbbells, a free interval timer app (try Gymboss), and your booty. Need a little extra convincing? Try taking a photo of your behind today. Then follow this workout for a week and take another photo at the end. Looking a little perkier? Even just a tad? Keep going! It only gets better from there.

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