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5 Ways to Burn Calories Outside the Gym

Learn the 5 ways to burn calories outside the gym with these tips and tricks. Spending time in the gym to get healthy and to lose weight is extremely effective, that’s an undeniable fact. Provided you are using the right program and the right exercises, you should be able to utilize working out in the gym to keep your weight under ...

How To Stoke Your Metabolism for Effective Weight Loss

When your metabolism is functioning as it should, your body is efficiently burning calories to help you maintain your activities of daily living.  If you want to lose weight then you will want to be burning calories at a slight deficit meaning your body is burning more calories from activity than what you’re consuming. However, with time and ...

5 Tips On How To Eat For Successful Weight Loss

Check out these 5 tips on how you can eat for successful weight loss.     Everyone has heard the saying that 80% of weight loss is due to diet.  For a large part that is true because for the majority of us, our workouts take up about 4% of our day and the other 96% is typically not spent being as active. That means the ...

How HIIT Will Transform Your Body

Keep reading to learn how HIIT can help transform your body. Fitness fads come and go, but this technique called High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) is here to stay. What is HIIT? HIIT uses a combination of quick intervals of intense exercise and short recovery periods to increase your heart rate, burn fat and work muscles in a short ...

To Eat or Not To Eat – That’s The Question

One of our illustrious Femme Fitale Fit Club members posted this question to the group "Do you eat before your workouts?"  Now I must admit I do not.  Not because I think I will burn more fat or anything, but because I either get sidestitches or nauseas and queasy.  Sounds like good reasons to not eat before an intense workout right?  Well she ...

Product Review: Polar FT4 HRM

If you have followed this blog for some time, then you know I am hard on heart rate monitors.  I burned through 2 in a single year and realized they just weren’t the quality I needed.  I was scouring some other fitness blogs and Instagrams and kept seeing the Polar FT4 pop up so you I just had to check it out.  Polar already had a good ...

In The Gym with Shawn Chevalier of Hardbody Outdoor Fitness, LLC

  FFFC:  Please introduce yourself to our readers. SC:  My name is Shawn M. Chevalier. I’m a husband, father and owner of Hardbody Outdoor Fitness, LLC. in Columbia, Maryland. I moved from Queens, New York in 2005 prior to getting married to my high school sweetheart and made Maryland our home. As I mentioned above, I have 2 ...

Noon Fitness Flash Challenge – Eat Heart Healthy Lunch

  Noon Fitness Flash:  Eat a heart healthy lunch for all that shopping you doing today     Motivating you to Fierce, Fit and Fabulous! Follow us on Instagram @Femmefitalefitclub Have fun with us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/FemmeFitaleFitness

Noon Fitness Flash Challenge – Happy Thanksgiving

  Noon Fitness Flash:  Enjoy Thanksgiving and your family       Motivating you to Fierce, Fit and Fabulous! Follow us on Instagram @Femmefitalefitclub Have fun with us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/FemmeFitaleFitness

Noon Fitness Flash Challenge – Drink 2 Green Smoothies Today

  Noon Fitness Flash:  Have fun with those 2 green smoothies     Motivating you to Fierce, Fit and Fabulous! Follow us on Instagram @Femmefitalefitclub Have fun with us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/FemmeFitaleFitness

Noon Fitness Flash Challenge – No processed foods

  Noon Fitness Flash:  Refrain from eating any processed foods.   Amazing how many foods touted to be good for us fit in this category huh?  Was anyone surprised by seeing SLIM FAST on the list?   Motivating you to Fierce, Fit and Fabulous! Follow us on Instagram @Femmefitalefitclub Have fun with us on Facebook at ...

Noon Fitness Flash Challenge – Roast veggies

  Noon Fitness Flash:  Roast some cruciferous vegetables and enjoy!     Motivating you to Fierce, Fit and Fabulous! Follow us on Instagram @Femmefitalefitclub Have fun with us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/FemmeFitaleFitness

Noon Fitness Flash Challenge – Eat salad

  Noon Fitness Flash:  Eat at least 2 salads today (light on the dressing)      Motivating you to Fierce, Fit and Fabulous! Follow us on Instagram @Femmefitalefitclub Have fun with us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/FemmeFitaleFitness

Noon Fitness Flash Challenge – Foam roller

  Noon Fitness Flash:  Foam roller time - roll out those knots and kinks today from your legs     Motivating you to Fierce, Fit and Fabulous! Follow us on Instagram @Femmefitalefitclub Have fun with us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/FemmeFitaleFitness

Noon Fitness Flash Challenge – Jump rope

  Noon Fitness Flash:  Jump rope   Tips 1.  Try to jump rope for 20 minutes 2.  Use fancy footwork if you feel comfortable to increase the cardio challenge   Motivating you to Fierce, Fit and Fabulous! Follow us on Instagram @Femmefitalefitclub Have fun with us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/FemmeFitaleF...

Noon Fitness Flash Challenge – Complete 20 push ups

  Noon Fitness Flash:  Complete 20 push ups   Tips 1.  Back straight 2.  Don't drop your hips 3.  Try and bring your chest 1 inch from the floor Motivating you to Fierce, Fit and Fabulous! Follow us on Instagram @Femmefitalefitclub Have fun with us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/FemmeFitaleFitness

Noon Fitness Flash Challenge – No bread

  Noon Fitness Flash:  Refrain from eating any bread (even whole wheat)     Motivating you to Fierce, Fit and Fabulous! Follow us on Instagram @Femmefitalefitclub Have fun with us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/FemmeFitaleFitness

Noon Fitness Flash Challenge – Get some sleep

  Noon Fitness Flash:  Record television show "Scandal" on the DVR and go to bed to get 7 to 8 hours of sleep   Motivating you to Fierce, Fit and Fabulous! Follow us on Instagram @Femmefitalefitclub Have fun with us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/FemmeFitaleFitness

Noon Fitness Flash Challenge – Stretch

  Noon Fitness Flash:  Stand up and stretch at your desk for 5 minutes     Motivating you to Fierce, Fit and Fabulous! Follow us on Instagram @Femmefitalefitclub Have fun with us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/FemmeFitaleFitness

Noon Fitness Flash Challenge – Do jumping jacks

  Noon Fitness Flash:  Complete 20 jumping jacks before bedtime    Tips: 1.  Keep arms straight at the top 2.  Jump up high off the floor 3.  If you are feeling good complete 100 jumping jacks Motivating you to Fierce, Fit and Fabulous! Follow us on Instagram @Femmefitalefitclub Have fun with us on Facebook at ...