MOVE OF THE WEEK: Single leg chair squat. This challenging exercise is a must for any workout routine. It not only works the obvious larger muscles like the gluteus maxims, quads and hamstrings, but also the smaller muscles like the abductors, gluteus medius, and quadratus lumborum in ways we can't duplicate when training two legs at a time. That’s why I’m always talking up single-leg moves!!!
You really can’t cheat on this exercise, so it’s even more effective! This move takes the best glute activation a squat can offer and the best hip and thigh activation that a lunge can offer and rolls it all into one amazingly effective and efficient exercise.  I like to add a little extra challenge by including a weighted static arm extension. 
Technique:

1) Begin standing within sitting distance to the edge of a chair with your arms outstretched, and 10lb weight in hands, left food solidly on the floor and right leg elevated in front of you, off the ground about 8-12 inches.
2) Engage your abs and SLOWLY shift your glutes backwards (as you do in a regular squat) and touch down briefly on the chair.
3) Engage your glutes and abs and push back up off the heel of your left foot to back to the starting position. You'll be using a TON of core work for stability that will keep you from falling over. Make sure you fully stand all the way up and then slightly press your hip forward to give your glutes an extra squeeze. That’s one rep.

Do 3 sets of 12 reps.

Tips: 
1) Make sure you are not leading with your knee when sitting back down. Always lead with your hips first. 
2) To help keep your balance, find a spot in front of you and stay focused on it throughout this exercise. Tall straight back and abs engaged the entire time.

This is an awesomely effective exercise! Have fun!

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MOVE OF THE WEEK: Single leg chair squat.

MOVE OF THE WEEK: Single leg chair squat. This challenging exercise is a must for any workout routine. It not only works the obvious larger muscles like the gluteus maxims, quads and hamstrings, but also the smaller muscles like the abductors, gluteus medius, and quadratus lumborum in ways we can’t duplicate when training two legs at a time. That’s why I’m always talking up single-leg moves!!!
You really can’t cheat on this exercise, so it’s even more effective! This move takes the best glute activation a squat can offer and the best hip and thigh activation that a lunge can offer and rolls it all into one amazingly effective and efficient exercise. I like to add a little extra challenge by including a weighted static arm extension.
Technique:

1) Begin standing within sitting distance to the edge of a chair with your arms outstretched, and 10lb weight in hands, left food solidly on the floor and right leg elevated in front of you, off the ground about 8-12 inches.
2) Engage your abs and SLOWLY shift your glutes backwards (as you do in a regular squat) and touch down briefly on the chair.
3) Engage your glutes and abs and push back up off the heel of your left foot to back to the starting position. You’ll be using a TON of core work for stability that will keep you from falling over. Make sure you fully stand all the way up and then slightly press your hip forward to give your glutes an extra squeeze. That’s one rep.

Do 3 sets of 12 reps.

Tips:
1) Make sure you are not leading with your knee when sitting back down. Always lead with your hips first.
2) To help keep your balance, find a spot in front of you and stay focused on it throughout this exercise. Tall straight back and abs engaged the entire time.

This is an awesomely effective exercise! Have fun!

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MOVE OF THE WEEK: Squat Jump Toe Tap your way to sexy defied legs and booty. Squat jumps are a plyometric exercise that burn a high number of calories and tone the glutes and thighs fast. Add in the toe-tap, and well…wowza!

Instructions:

1) Begin with your feet shoulder width apart, with your head and chest up and your back straight.
2) Keeping your back straight and your chest up, squat down as you inhale.
3) From the squat position, pressing through the balls of your feet, jump straight up in the air as high as possible, using the thighs like springs. Exhale
4) At the top of your jump, tap your toes together mid-air.
5) When you touch the floor again, immediately squat down and jump again.

Do 3 rounds of 15 or do this as a Tabata (20 seconds on max reps and 10 seconds of rest x8). For full workouts, fitness & health tips, motivation, & healthy recipes, find me on YouTube and Facebook.

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MOVE OF THE WEEK: Squat Jump Toe Tap

MOVE OF THE WEEK: Squat Jump Toe Tap your way to sexy defied legs and booty. Squat jumps are a plyometric exercise that burn a high number of calories and tone the glutes and thighs fast. Add in the toe-tap, and well…wowza!

Instructions:

1) Begin with your feet shoulder width apart, with your head and chest up and your back straight.
2) Keeping your back straight and your chest up, squat down as you inhale.
3) From the squat position, pressing through the balls of your feet, jump straight up in the air as high as possible, using the thighs like springs. Exhale
4) At the top of your jump, tap your toes together mid-air.
5) When you touch the floor again, immediately squat down and jump again.

Do 3 rounds of 15 or do this as a Tabata (20 seconds on max reps and 10 seconds of rest x8). For full workouts, fitness & health tips, motivation, & healthy recipes, find me on YouTube and Facebook.

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Double tap if you love push ups! MOVE OF THE WEEK: Decline pike push ups (a.k.a. decline military press push ups; a.k.a. raised pike push ups)

Aka… Shoulder Killer. These are awesome and I love these. However if you have shoulder issues, please do not do this push up variation. This is taking the pike push up to the next level and is the last progression towards a handstand push up. It’s intense. Raised pike push ups are an excellent bodyweight workout for the shoulders. They primarily work your anterior and lateral deltoids and your triceps. They also engage the muscles of the upper back (the trapezius). Instructions:

1) Begin in downward dog position with your feet elevated on a chair, bench, or the wall. Your hips should be bent close to 90 degrees.
2) Keep your head in a neutral position and slowly lower down between the hands before pushing back to the starting position.

Tips:

1) Like regular push ups, you don’t want your head coming down behind your hands.

Have fun! Note: video is sped up.

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MOVE OF THE WEEK: Decline pike push ups

Double tap if you love push ups! MOVE OF THE WEEK: Decline pike push ups (a.k.a. decline military press push ups; a.k.a. raised pike push ups)

Aka… Shoulder Killer. These are awesome and I love these. However if you have shoulder issues, please do not do this push up variation. This is taking the pike push up to the next level and is the last progression towards a handstand push up. It’s intense. Raised pike push ups are an excellent bodyweight workout for the shoulders. They primarily work your anterior and lateral deltoids and your triceps. They also engage the muscles of the upper back (the trapezius). Instructions:

1) Begin in downward dog position with your feet elevated on a chair, bench, or the wall. Your hips should be bent close to 90 degrees.
2) Keep your head in a neutral position and slowly lower down between the hands before pushing back to the starting position.

Tips:

1) Like regular push ups, you don’t want your head coming down behind your hands.

Have fun! Note: video is sped up.

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MOVE OF THE WEEK: Curtsey Lunge Bicep Curl! This variation of lunge is great because well, you get to curtsy, AND it gives you an awesome butt and great legs! The trifecta of a great move! The curtsy lunge works your glutes, tones your inner and outer thighs, and strengthens your calve muscles. It also challenges balance, and therefore your core. Put your curtsey lunge into double-duty by adding a bicep curl. I also like adding a kick but that’s a MOTW for another time! ;-) This is a great move - have fun with it! 💪

Technique:

1) Begin standing with your feet hip width apart, arms at your sides.
2) Keeping your weight in your left food, take a big step back with your right leg, crossing it behind your left leg (as if about to curtsey).
3) Bend your knees and lower your body straight down until your front thigh is parallel to the floor, and both knees are bent at 90 degrees.
4) Perform your bicep curl at this bottom position and be sure not to use momentum by swinging your arms. Up for 1 count down for 3 counts (use that negative force)!
5) Be sure to keep your abs tight and your back straight, chest up.
6) Holding your abs drawn in, return to the starting position. That’s one rep. Perform 12-15 reps before switching to the other side.

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MOVE OF THE WEEK: Curtsey Lunge Bicep Curl

MOVE OF THE WEEK: Curtsey Lunge Bicep Curl! This variation of lunge is great because well, you get to curtsy, AND it gives you an awesome butt and great legs! The trifecta of a great move! The curtsy lunge works your glutes, tones your inner and outer thighs, and strengthens your calve muscles. It also challenges balance, and therefore your core. Put your curtsey lunge into double-duty by adding a bicep curl. I also like adding a kick but that’s a MOTW for another time! 😉 This is a great move – have fun with it! 💪

Technique:

1) Begin standing with your feet hip width apart, arms at your sides.
2) Keeping your weight in your left food, take a big step back with your right leg, crossing it behind your left leg (as if about to curtsey).
3) Bend your knees and lower your body straight down until your front thigh is parallel to the floor, and both knees are bent at 90 degrees.
4) Perform your bicep curl at this bottom position and be sure not to use momentum by swinging your arms. Up for 1 count down for 3 counts (use that negative force)!
5) Be sure to keep your abs tight and your back straight, chest up.
6) Holding your abs drawn in, return to the starting position. That’s one rep. Perform 12-15 reps before switching to the other side.

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The third workout in the new Lean Body Series is now up on the FitForceFX YouTube channel (link in bio). It’s a 15 minute fat-incinerating, muscle-toning good time. Carve out some time and try this one - you’ll feel so good afterwards!

If you have just joined us, the Lean Body Series workouts focus on fat burning and muscle toning. All the workouts in the series are high-intensity interval training workouts and there will be a variety of interval formats. All fitness levels can do these - you can go at your own pace within the timed interval, as long as you are working at YOUR max effort. This series is designed to encourage fat burning and full body toning. It is meant to challenge your body and help you break through any plateaus. I hope you like it! 
As you progress through the series, let me know how you are doing. I love getting your workout photo check-ins! You can tag me on Instagram or Facebook, or send me an email. 
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Lean Body Series: HIIT Workout #3

The third workout in the new Lean Body Series is now up on the FitForceFX YouTube channel (link in bio). It’s a 15 minute fat-incinerating, muscle-toning good time. Carve out some time and try this one – you’ll feel so good afterwards!

If you have just joined us, the Lean Body Series workouts focus on fat burning and muscle toning. All the workouts in the series are high-intensity interval training workouts and there will be a variety of interval formats. All fitness levels can do these – you can go at your own pace within the timed interval, as long as you are working at YOUR max effort. This series is designed to encourage fat burning and full body toning. It is meant to challenge your body and help you break through any plateaus. I hope you like it!
As you progress through the series, let me know how you are doing. I love getting your workout photo check-ins! You can tag me on Instagram or Facebook, or send me an email.
Are you ready?! Let’s go get it!

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Move of the Week: Sculpt tight abs with the Twisted Knee Tuck! For strong and defined abs you need to extend, flex, and rotate, and this move does all of these. To SEE those strong abs, you’ve got to reduce fat and this move will help with that since it uses more muscles than just the abdominals, therefore burning more calories. It even gives you a bit of an upper body and lower body workout. Score! Throw 3 sets of 12 reps of these bad boys into your next workout.

Technique:

1) Begin in a full plank position, feet on gliders. If you don’t have gliders, you can use 2 small towels (hard surface) or paper/plastic plates (carpeted surface).
2) Ensure that your hands are lined up under your shoulders and your core is engaged. 
3) Rotate your hips to the left, keeping your legs together and in a fluid motion press the balls of your feet into the floor as you pull both knees toward your left elbow. Hold for 2 counts.
4) Continuing to press down with the balls of your feet, return back to plank position. Repeat on the right side. That’s one rep.

Tips: 
1) Pushing the balls of your feet into the floor creates more resistance and engages the core more, which increases the intensity and effectiveness of the move.
2) Try doing this move with your feet up on a Swiss ball!

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Move of the Week: Twisted Knee Tuck

Move of the Week: Sculpt tight abs with the Twisted Knee Tuck! For strong and defined abs you need to extend, flex, and rotate, and this move does all of these. To SEE those strong abs, you’ve got to reduce fat and this move will help with that since it uses more muscles than just the abdominals, therefore burning more calories. It even gives you a bit of an upper body and lower body workout. Score! Throw 3 sets of 12 reps of these bad boys into your next workout.

Technique:

1) Begin in a full plank position, feet on gliders. If you don’t have gliders, you can use 2 small towels (hard surface) or paper/plastic plates (carpeted surface).
2) Ensure that your hands are lined up under your shoulders and your core is engaged.
3) Rotate your hips to the left, keeping your legs together and in a fluid motion press the balls of your feet into the floor as you pull both knees toward your left elbow. Hold for 2 counts.
4) Continuing to press down with the balls of your feet, return back to plank position. Repeat on the right side. That’s one rep.

Tips:
1) Pushing the balls of your feet into the floor creates more resistance and engages the core more, which increases the intensity and effectiveness of the move.
2) Try doing this move with your feet up on a Swiss ball!

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Tone up with your toddler! (Or 5.75 year old)! This video (part 1 of 2) demonstrates some fun and effective exercises you can do at home using your toddler as resistance. Some of these moves can be modified to be done with your infant/baby with proper neck support. Workout, lose weight, bond with your child, and have fun! 
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Tone Up With Your Toddler Workout!

Tone up with your toddler! (Or 5.75 year old)! This video (part 1 of 2) demonstrates some fun and effective exercises you can do at home using your toddler as resistance. Some of these moves can be modified to be done with your infant/baby with proper neck support. Workout, lose weight, bond with your child, and have fun!
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I’m back from my vacation and a new workout is up! “Legs & Glutes Toner” is a box workout. A plyo box, or step can really amp up your workout by requiring you to get up higher or down deeper. Plyometric training is also a great way to not only build strength, but also great for athletes who want to build explosive power and speed. Not only are your muscles working harder, your heart is too, giving you a great cardiovascular workout with mega fat-burning. If you don't have a plyo platform, you can use a stable chair pushed against the wall, or a park bench. 
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Legs & Glutes Toner

I’m back from my vacation and a new workout is up! “Legs & Glutes Toner” is a box workout. A plyo box, or step can really amp up your workout by requiring you to get up higher or down deeper. Plyometric training is also a great way to not only build strength, but also great for athletes who want to build explosive power and speed. Not only are your muscles working harder, your heart is too, giving you a great cardiovascular workout with mega fat-burning. If you don’t have a plyo platform, you can use a stable chair pushed against the wall, or a park bench.
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Move of the Week: The Squat Front Kick is a great exercise for both fat burning and lean muscle building. Squats are an effective, tried-and-true exercise to tone the glutes and legs and by adding a kick, you are targeting the core muscles more as well as increasing the fat burn. It’s a “no-excuse” exercise that you can do anywhere and no equipment is necessary! Go as fast as you can, while being sure to keep good form. Your heart will pump and your muscles will burn!

Technique:

1) Stand with your feet a little more than shoulder width apart and hands in guard position. 
2) Contract your abs and keep them contracted throughout the entire movement.
3) Bend knees and lower into squat position.
4) Return to standing, bringing knee up.
5) Complete a front kick with your raised leg.
6) Be sure to re-chamber your leg at the knee and then bring it back down (you are making your muscles work extra hard here)! That’s one rep. Repeat alternating legs for 24 reps (12 each leg) of 3 sets. Alternatively, you can turn this into a Tabata and set your timer for 20 seconds on and 10 seconds off for 8 rounds (4 minutes). This is one of my favorite go-to Tabata’s in between sets on strength training days.

Beginners: Try to kick to waist level. Advanced: Try to get the kick as high as you can. Can you get it higher than your head? This is a great exercise to do in front of a mirror to see how high you can go. Aim for a kick in the head! ;-) Tip: Transfer your weight to your heels during the squat to ensure you are properly working the target muscles, without putting undue stress on your ankles and knees.

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Move of the Week: The Squat Front Kick

Move of the Week: The Squat Front Kick is a great exercise for both fat burning and lean muscle building. Squats are an effective, tried-and-true exercise to tone the glutes and legs and by adding a kick, you are targeting the core muscles more as well as increasing the fat burn. It’s a “no-excuse” exercise that you can do anywhere and no equipment is necessary! Go as fast as you can, while being sure to keep good form. Your heart will pump and your muscles will burn!

Technique:

1) Stand with your feet a little more than shoulder width apart and hands in guard position.
2) Contract your abs and keep them contracted throughout the entire movement.
3) Bend knees and lower into squat position.
4) Return to standing, bringing knee up.
5) Complete a front kick with your raised leg.
6) Be sure to re-chamber your leg at the knee and then bring it back down (you are making your muscles work extra hard here)! That’s one rep. Repeat alternating legs for 24 reps (12 each leg) of 3 sets. Alternatively, you can turn this into a Tabata and set your timer for 20 seconds on and 10 seconds off for 8 rounds (4 minutes). This is one of my favorite go-to Tabata’s in between sets on strength training days.

Beginners: Try to kick to waist level. Advanced: Try to get the kick as high as you can. Can you get it higher than your head? This is a great exercise to do in front of a mirror to see how high you can go. Aim for a kick in the head! 😉 Tip: Transfer your weight to your heels during the squat to ensure you are properly working the target muscles, without putting undue stress on your ankles and knees.

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New workout is up!

Ripped Body Strength

New workout is up! “Ripped Body Strength” can be found on my YouTube channel and FB page (link in bio). Strength training is very important to include in your workout regime. This workout is a strength workout but it will also raise your heart rate. If you would like more cardio, add in some burpees, or cardio of your choice, between each exercise, or pair this workout with one of my HIIT or Tabata workouts.
Benefits of Strength Training:
1) Improves balance, strength, and body mechanics.
2) Stops, prevents, and even reverses bone and muscle loss (especially important after 40).
3) Assists in weight loss (and helps keep it off for good).
4) Asthetics – muscular definition!
5) Boosts energy levels and improves mood.
6) More muscle = more calories burned at rest, since more calories are used to maintain muscle than fat. Strength training can boost your metabolism by 15%, which can really jumpstart a weight loss plan.

This is why I always include strength components even with my hardcore cardio HIIT and Tabata workouts. Now let’s go build some muscle!

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