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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HIIT Workout Calendar

Why workout for an hour when you can accomplish your goals in less than half the time? If you’re not familiar with High Intensity Interval Training, you may have been missing out. HIIT routines combine the muscular benefits of weightlifting with the cardio benefits of endurance exercises such as running or spinning. The end result is a workout which makes you stronger but also leaves your metabolism on overdrive, allowing you to burn fat throughout the day.

This calendar focuses on HIIT workouts to give you fat blasting and body toning results in just 4 weeks. You’ll be sweating, sore, and out of breath, but most importantly, you’ll notice an amazing change once the 4 weeks are up. Each week has a variety of 6 HIIT workouts all meant to target various areas of your body. Some workouts focus on specific body parts which will give you an amazing burn, but the circuit exercises will be the real challenge!

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Best 3 Workouts to Melt Your Muffin Top

Muffin tops are resilient! No matter how clean we eat and how often we exercise, love handles refuse to shape up. No longer! The Best 3 Workouts to Melt Your Muffin Top are easy, short, and intense just what you need to get your body flushing fat. There’s no time wasted with these workouts. 

We know how precious your time is. Start with the routine you’re most comfortable with. Mix it up. You’ll feel amazing and keep your metabolism working to melt that fat away.

1. 8 Exercises to Blast Muffin Top Fat

Burn fat all over with this fast paced, muscle toning workout.

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