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Make Your Kitchen Your Favorite Restaurant
There is no denying that dining out has its perks - it’s fun, easy and takes the guess-work out of what’s for dinner but if you are on a mission to achieve and maintain a world class physique, you will soon learn that restaurants are your biggest “frenemies”. While most claim to have become more hea...
Lift Heavy, Get Strong(er) And Look Better
Want to Look Better? Want Results Faster? Want More Motivation? Here’s the Solution: Lift Heavy and Get Strong(er). Back in the day the primary focus and reason for weight training was to get stronger. Just think about that for a second. That is a much different reason than why people join gyms in t...
Leg Training for Women: The Complete Guide With Workouts
As a contest prep coach and someone passionate about fitness, it’s always great to see women willing to step off the treadmill and begin putting in consistent work in the weight room. Not falling victim to the old myth that weight training makes women “big and bulky,” these women understand the impo...
Jennifer Ronzitti's Complete Prep Overview for Olympia 2017
There’s often a great deal of pressure associated with high-level sporting competition. This pressure is vastly increased when the athlete is among the leading contenders for Olympia Gold. One such athlete is bikini standout Jennifer Ronzitti. For Jennifer, however, the pressure to excel is no barri...
How to Train with Your Menstrual Cycle
If you get your period, you might have noticed that you feel less motivated, that your workouts are less intense, or that recovery is worse at certain times of the month. This is because your menstrual cycle directly impacts a range of training-related factors, including metabolic rate and strength....
Have Fun And Workout During Your Vacation
During vacation you want to put your worries aside; you just want to relax and have fun. You don't even want to think about working out; and forget about diets! You want to try some of the local food places, desserts, drinks, and so on. Then you return home with some extra pounds, feeling guilty...
For Women: Getting Started With Lifting
Stepping on a lifting floor for the first time can be quite intimidating for most women. You look around and see huge dudes grunting and throwing around more weight than you possess in your entire body and you seriously consider turning around and b-lining to the cardio equipment. Stop! Don’t join...
Fit Mom's Fat Loss Jump Start Workout
Attention busy moms! Team FitMiss athlete Kate Horney knows your time is limited. That's why she's formulated the Fit Mom Jump Start to help you: Discover the #1 Secret to Losing Fat Learn the key to getting the results you want Get started eating clean Reduce the time in the gym...
Female Fat Loss: 3 Mistakes You Don't Know You're Making
When you hear the words “weight loss” or “fat loss,” what are the first images that come to mind? If you're like many women out there who don’t have a formal education in exercise physiology or nutrition, then you may imagine eating nothing but leafy greens and steamed, unseasoned chicken. That imag...
Breaking The Female Myth: "If I Lift Heavy I’ll Look Like A Man"
You hear it time and again from females in and out of the gym, when it is suggested to them that they either: a) Lift weights, or... b) Increase the weight that they are lifting. “I don’t want to do that, because I don’t want to look like a man.” Many people, males included, have come to b...
How To Build A Fitness Model Body
Written by Lindsay Cappotelli, Team MuscleTech. So you want that toned, lean physique you see on the covers of fitness magazines? Those round shoulders, tone arms, defined quads, and tight glutes? Whether your goal is to tone up or to lose fat, building muscle is the key to transforming your physiqu...
Build A Better Booty: A Complete Guide For Women
Every woman (and man – for different reasons) wants a head-turning backside. No, not a Kardashian-sized mass with its own weather system, but a nice round, attractive booty. When you have a shapely butt your clothes fit better therefore you gain more confidence. For those who compete on a stage, the...
Avoid These 22 Mistakes When Starting An Exercise And Diet Plan
I thought about doing a list for those who are interested in starting an active and healthy lifestyle. Research supports the 22 mistakes in this list. I've made some of these mistakes, like exercising almost every day, because I love it. I wasn’t giving my body the rest that it needed, and now I suf...
How To Put Yourself First: 8 Tips For Health And Happiness
Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it. --Hardy D. Jackson But you must also listen to yourself to know what it is your heart needs to be in, and then have the courage and commitment to move towards that. Every day, we are pulled in so many di...
8 Most Useful Muscle Building Supplements for Women
Muscle building supplements comprise one of the most misunderstood groups of supplements. When I first started to get serious about bodybuilding, my friend looked at me very concerned and said, “you don’t take protein powder, do you?” as if it were some type of drug. On another occasion, I saw someo...
8 Most Useful Fat Loss Supplements for Women
If you try to find the most effective fat loss supplements without having a solid understanding of which ingredients and doses are most effective, you will inevitably fall victim to one of the many marketing scams that are so prevalent today. Celebrity endorsements, impressive before and after pictu...
6 Most Frequently Asked Women's Health & Fitness Questions Answered
As a coach who has been involved with the fitness industry since 2012, I get asked questions about health and fitness every day. Clients, friends, acquaintances, and even strangers ask me questions online and in person about how to reach their goals. Questions vary depending on each individual’s sit...
6 Female Fitness Myths That Are Preventing You From Being Fit
The world of female fitness is completely cluttered with myths. So many that the chance of an article debunking them all is slim to none. With that said, I’ve done my best to put together a decent sized list of some of the top myths that are preventing you from being fit. In all honesty, when it com...
5 Intense Workouts To Develop Your Entire Body
Do you need some motivation or are you lacking direction when it comes to your workouts? Team FitMiss can help out in both areas. Below are five great workouts to give your training a jumpstart. You'll get a number of great ideas for training at home, building your legs, developing your shoulders, a...
5 Reasons Why Women Should Love Weight Training
In the time that I have spent as a personal trainer, over half of my clients have been women. Of those half, I have had to overcome apprehension about lifting weights with pretty much every single one of them. For some reason, people think that if women lift weights over 5lbs, they'll look like men....
5 Killer Instagram Women's Mini-Workouts By Jessie Delgado
These workouts and exercises from @jessiebabyfit can help keep training fun while you build the body you’ve always you wanted. Jessie proves that even when you're short on time and equipment, you can still do a fat-blasting, heart-pumping workout. The Beach Workout A video posted by Jessie Del...
38 Women Fitness Experts Share Tips on Fat Loss for Women
Mainstream media paints a pretty clear picture on how women’s fitness should be perceived and what the fat loss journey for a woman should look like. And to be honest, it’s not pretty - nor accurate in most cases. Whether it is specific dietary recommendations involving extreme calorie or macronutri...
3 Cold Hard Truths About Female Specific Training
When it comes to female specific training, there are more myths and misconceptions than in any other aspect of the health and fitness industries. But it’s about time we break down the mental and physical barriers leaving women victim of the female fitness industry complex. We are absolutely swimming...
25 Tips For A Tighter, Firmer Butt
Is your New Year’s resolution to have a tighter, firmer butt? Building a dream derriere is easier than most women think. If you are craving a better backside, these tips will tighten and firm you up in no time. You don’t have to wait until the New Year. Get started now. Follow these simple tips, and...