The definition of sexy hips and thighs can mean different things to different women. Some may have extra fat and flab that needs to be reduced or removed. Some may be too skinny and flat with no muscle shape or sexy curves. Others may just have too much cellulite to even think about wearing shorts, a bathing suit or a sexy skirt.

The bad news (good news comes later) is there is so much information from an endless number of sources that the simple act of finding out what to do and where to start can be extremely frustrating and sometimes overwhelming. This is one of the main reasons why most women fail to make improvements with their bodies and health. Confusion and uncertainty lead to feelings of despair and hopelessness.

News stories, advertising, internet schemes, staged infomercials are constantly touting the ‘latest breakthrough’ treatments, drugs, therapies, vitamin concoctions and gizmos. This information overload is targeted at the deepest pains of women and the things that bother them the most. By tapping into the emotional hot buttons, creating more pain and then offering a ‘new hope’, clever marketers are able to extract a lot of money from the desperate women who may be willing to try one more thing as ‘their last hope’. Only to find they’ve been lied to and scammed again.

Here’s the good news. The improvements you seek with regard to your hip and thigh area can be achieved with little or no cost and can be accomplished right in your own home. With a series of simple and targeted exercises for your hips and thighs you can re-shape and sculpt a firm and attractive lower body.

Several of the best hip and thigh exercises have been around for decades. Although some have withstood the test of time – they have been slightly modified and have become less effective in the process. Some have been forgotten completely, for no apparent reason, but can still occasionally be found being used by a small number of creative and insightful personal trainers and fitness pros who understand how and why the body reacts to certain exercises.

Floor exercises, such as the one leg hip extension and the 90 degree thigh lift should be combined with multi dimensional, standing exercises such as the stepping tee-dee and the slow side step up to stimulate all the muscles in the hips and thighs.

It doesn’t matter if your main goal is fat loss with muscle toning or you want to build up a flat and unshapely butt, hip and thigh area into an eye catching, beautifully sculpted lower body – the right home exercise plan can help you get there. The only difference between toning down and building up is the calorie factor.

Women seeking to tone down will have to keep calories in check while women who want to build up may have to increase daily caloric intake. For women who are plagued by cellulite but are happy with body size and weight will only have to add the right hip and thigh exercises that target the trouble spots to bring about the desired changes – without having to modify caloric intake.

There is a ton of information on the internet about this topic and I’ve seen a lot of it. Most of it talking about the same old stuff – squats, lunges, leg presses, leg extensions and leg curls. Stay away from these routines if you are not interested in working out like a bodybuilder for 2 hours a day.

Machines and weights are fine for certain goals and they do have a place in many fitness programs. But for the changes you are seeking in your hips and thighs the best exercises utilize body weight, gravity, form, tempo and combination sequences to deliver the best results. Keep this in mind when designing your home, office and travel exercise program.

Exercise Physiologist, Joey Atlas, is the creator of the internationally distributed ‘Leg, Butt, Hip and Thigh Makeover’ DVD exercise plan – a targeted program of the most effective Hips and Thighs Exercises for your toughest problem areas.

Also visit Targeted Abdominal Exercises for tips and info on getting sexy & strong abs.

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It’s one of the main reasons I chose to write this article. But, before I get into what you need to know about extremely effective and surprisingly simple thigh exercises you can do anywhere, anytime – without strenuous weights and dangerous exercise machines, I want to give you my experienced based perspective on the typical ‘weights and machines – bodybuilder, weightlifter, old-school personal trainer’ approach to fitness for women.

It’s not the only way of doing something that can be done several other ways. And it’s certainly not right for everybody. Fitness instructors and trainers are trained to teach people how to lift weights and use machines. This is fine – but it is just one element in the bigger picture of ways to pursue fitness.

Some of the most effective workouts for toning and shaping your thighs can be achieved with no weights and no equipment.

Factors such as bodyweight, gravity, speed of movement, form and sequence of exercises can be combined and coordinated to give anyone a targeted, results delivering lower body workout that is realistic enough to be a regular routine for any woman.

These elements, when followed on a consistent basis – as part of a regular fitness routine, combined with a wise nutritional intake that is in line with a woman’s specific health and fitness goals can produce results that success stories are made out of.

The thigh area is loaded with a bunch of different muscles of various lengths, shapes and thickness. Additionally, the functions of these muscles are all different. However, they must all coordinate with each other to perform the many movements we are capable of.

By taking advantage of these anatomical factors, a complete workout routine of thigh exercises can be devised and implemented with results that are second to none. It doesn’t matter if the goal is to lose unnecessary fat and cellulite while firming the muscles underneath or if the goal is to build up and add shapely muscle tone to a flat and scrawny hip and thigh area – the exercises are just as effective in both cases. The big difference in these two cases would be caloric intake.

If we take a female with twenty seven pounds of extra body fat – mostly in the lower body, and we take another female who is very skinny, with no muscle tone – just some flabby skin and maybe some cellulite. The exercise routine can be almost identical – because the desired end results are almost the same but because of the difference in starting points, there has to be a difference in caloric intake.

One promoting fat loss with muscle shaping and the other promoting some muscle growth and toning.

Both subjects are trying to improve the same areas of their bodies. They have the same muscles – and these muscles anatomically function the same in all humans – therefore the same thigh exercises can be utilized with success in different scenarios.

Joey Atlas, Exercise Physiologist, is the creator of the Leg, Butt, Hip and Thigh Makeover DVD series – a home, office & travel program of

Targeted Thigh Exercises & Workouts for women.

Also, learn about the Best Flat Stomach Exercises here.

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Fitness centers and health clubs are filled with big, expensive machines.

No matter what kind of leg exercise program you are looking for, the instructors are going to put you through a typical general lower body workout circuit doing one set on each machine for twelve reps and so on.

Of course, they are not going to show you a workout routine that doesn’t need a single exercise machine. They’d be out of business!

The truth is, toning and firming up your leg, hip and thigh area is not achieved by using all those weight machines, and heavy dumbbells and barbells that could get you all pumped up with much more muscle than you were looking to build, or cause serious, long term injuries! (we’ve all heard these horrible stories, right?)

The real magic of a properly structured leg exercise program lies in the combination of non-weighted and body weight exercises, put together in a sequence that targets all the muscles in AND around the legs, hips and thighs. The program should also emphasize proper form AND speed of movement along with breathing – these are elements that are lacking from most ‘modern’ leg workouts and fitness programs.

Here is an example of a highly effective, but simple leg toning and shaping exercise:

First you’ll need a staircase or a utility step – 9 to 12 inches high is good.

You may have one you can use in your garage or a closet – just make sure it is sturdy.

If using a staircase – stand on the second step with both feet. If using a utility step – try to use one that is about 10 – 15 inches high & stand on it with both feet. This is one of the simplest yet most effective leg exercises for women.

Place your hands on your hips or hold them out in front of you, or out to the side. SLOWLY, step down with your left foot & LIGHTLY touch the floor with your toes & the ball of the foot (keep your heel off the ground).

Then bring your left foot back up & lightly touch the step and repeat this 15 times with the left foot.

Take a 10 second rest and then do the right leg.

IMPORTANT – The leg that stays on the step is the one doing the most work & you should feel a nice ‘burn’ in that leg.

This means you are doing the exercise right.

If it is too easy – you may be moving too fast – the key is to move slowly to ‘use the muscles properly’.

Or the step may be too low – try a higher step to increase the intensity of this leg toning exercise.

Try to build up to 3 sets of 15 reps (per leg) with 20 seconds rest between sets. If you haven’t been exercising your legs, or are a beginner – you can do this 2 or 3 times each week.

If you have been exercising you can simply add it right into your current leg workout routine.

Often times, too much focus is placed on machines, gadgets and high intensity, ‘no pain – no gain’ concepts. Most of this is for marketing reasons and sometimes just a pure lack of understanding of what the female body needs in terms of the correct leg exercises and overall fitness program.

Joey Atlas, MS – Exercise Physiology is the creator of the Leg Butt Hip And Thigh Makeover DVD series – a complete program of the Best Leg Toning Exercises for women.

Also visit Greatest Abdominal Toning Exercises for tips and info for your abs and core workouts.

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There are hundreds of muscles in the core of your body – the abdominals (all layers), lower and mid back, pelvic region, obliques and the popular ‘love handle’ areas are loaded with muscles of all different sizes, shapes, lengths and angles – which require specific exercises to produce the desired strength training effect for optimal fitness.

The following exercises can serve as a core training primer for beginners or they can be added or substituted into your current core workout routine.

1 – Lying face up, hand down at your side. Bring your legs up, knees slightly bent with the bottom of your feet toward the ceiling. This is your start position. While keeping the abdominals pulled in (contracted), slowly lower your right leg, until the heel touches the ground, and then raise it back up. Do this fifteen times. Then switch legs.

2 – Lying face up with knees bent, feet off the floor. Arms are extended as if reaching toward the sky if you were standing. As you breathe out, slowly bring your knees toward you by contracting your abdominals (pulling inward). Then breathe in as you return to the start position.

3 – Lying face up with knees bent, heels on the ground and toes pointing up. Lift your butt off the ground to engage the core muscles. Now, here is where the fun starts. Lift one foot off the floor, extending that leg until it is straight, bring it back to the start position (heel on ground) and then do the same with the other leg. Keep alternating until you do a total of twenty, ten on each side.

If this exercise sequence is too easy, go through it again and see how you do. If it was too challenging, decrease the number of repetitions to about five and do this every other day. Gradually increase the repetitions as your core gets stronger.

A big mistake many people, even trainers, make is to mimic the abdominal routines of bodybuilders or power-lifters. The problem with that is most people are not bodybuilders or power-lifters – and these people tend to over-train anyway (I know this because I used to do it myself!). The problems here range from a lot of wasted time to serious, long term injuries.

This happens every day to people who try to exercise without proper guidance and it’s one the reasons why physical therapists are so busy!

The proper workout must be designed to provide the most effective exercise training stimulus to the entire midsection, in the shortest amount of time (because we are all very busy people, right?), with minimal risk of injury. The problem is it is extremely rare to find an abdominal and core workout routine that fits all of these criteria.

These are the exact principles I follow when training my personal, one-on-one clients AND they are the same principles I follow in my own fitness training workout program. Structure your own program according to the principles outlined above, with the proper selection of core exercises for effective and safe results.

Joey Atlas, M.S. ? Exercise Physiology, is the creator of ?Abs of Stone ? Core of Steel?, a complete fitness program of Core Strength Exercises & Workouts

Also visit http://www.AbsofStoneCoreofSteel.com/Core.html for more tips and information

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What is amazing is, these core muscles are all so close together, some of which are layered – meaning muscle behind muscle. And if all of these core muscles are worked out properly with the right exercise program and workouts – it is not a question of “Will I be able to get a great core?” but a question of “When will I have my great core?”

Unlike 97% of core fitness workouts that are in existence, the best core workout, is designed to provide a training stimulus to every single muscle in the body’s core a with the right exercises.

The upper, middle and lower core – the love handles – the obliques – the lower and mid back areas (avoiding these will not only prevent you from ever getting killer abs, but can lead to serious injury – this happens EVERY DAY to people who try to exercise without proper guidance – & it is one the reasons why physical therapists are so busy!)

The best core workout does not rely on big expensive fitness machines or silly exercise gadgets.

It does rely on the body itself, its natural movement patterns and how the muscles of the body work in relation to gravity. This means the ideal core workout can be done anywhere, anytime.

A big mistake many people, even trainers, make is to mimic the core routines of bodybuilders or powerlifters. The problem with that is most people are not bodybuilders or powerlifters – and these people tend to overtrain anyway (I know this because I used to do it myself!). The problems here range from a lot of wasted time to serious, long term injuries.

The proper core workout must be designed to provide the most effective exercise training stimulus to the ENTIRE midsection and core, in the shortest amount of time (because we are all very busy people, right?), with minimal risk of injury. The problem is, it is extremely rare to find an ab/core workout routine that fits all of these criteria.

Here is a list of what you should focus on when planning your ideal core workout:

1) A variety of carefully chosen core exercises that provide the ENTIRE midsection and core with the proper stimulus to become lean, defined, flat, strong and solid.

2) A certain number of specific exercises responsible for creating the lines which form ‘the Six Pack’ look AND uncovering that toned core by pushing your metabolism into fat burning mode.

3) Several functional/core moves that create the diagonal muscle ripples along the side ribcage areas.

4) Targeted exercises that zero in on ‘the love handles’ to slim them down if they hold extra fat, or firm them up if you want more sexy muscle definition in the core area.

5) Fast core workouts that can be done anywhere, anytime, in a total of 15 to 25 minutes.

6) Core exercises that are appropriate for both men and women.

7) A truly effective core workout should not kill the person doing it. Many trainers, and fitness enthusiasts, do not understand that the word ‘killer’ (as in killer ab routine) is used as a figure of speech which actually means ‘high quality workout that yields amazing results’. No back injuries, no hernias, and no six days worth of soreness.

Seek improvements ranging from cosmetic to enhanced performance in regular daily activities, sports and athletics and of course, love making (sexual performance).

9) An assortment of core exercises, combined to create an equal and physiologically necessary, balance on EVERY side of the abs and core to give your body that V-shaped look.

10) Specific exercises, derived from injury rehab programs,which strengthen and tone the deepest layers of the abs & core and most sensitive muscles of the lower back region – to get rid of most common aches and pains and keep you injury free and super-hero strong.

These are the exact principles I follow when training my personal, one-on-one clients AND they are the same principles I follow in my own core strength training workout program. Structure your own core workouts according to the principles outlined above, with the proper selection of core exercises for undeniable results.

Joey Atlas, M.S. – Exercise Physiology, is the creator of Abs of Stone – Core of Steel video series – the internationally distributed Core Exercise & Fitness Training Workout for men and women.

Joey is also the creator of BestFitnessAdvice.com – an interactive, global resource for expert Health & Fitness Programs and Nutrition Advice and Coaching.

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Anti cellulite nutrition focuses on minimally processed, high nutrient content foods. Salads, fruits, vegetables, lean proteins such as fish, turkey, beans and eggs are at the top of the list for foods that promote cellulite reduction.

As for the properly structured cellulite exercise workout program, I’ve put together a butt, hip and thigh routine which you can incorporate into your current workouts if you have one. This routine specifically targets the areas where cellulite tends to ‘hang out’.

Bear in mind, I’ve been training people since the late eighties. Speaking strictly from experience, I can tell you that the following routine is responsible for helping many women dramatically change the appearance of their cellulite areas.

- Lying on your side, do 10 reps of each anti cellulite exercise:

1) Bring both knees forward so your hips are at a 90 degree angle. Then straighten your top leg out in front of you, still keeping 90 degrees at the hip. Lift the top leg slowly about three feet off the ground & down.

2) Straighten both legs so your body is in a straight line. Tilt the hips forward slightly. Lift the top leg about three feet off the ground & down.

3) Repeat on the other side.

- On the elbows and knees, do 10 reps of each anti cellulite exercise:

1) Extend one leg straight back with your toe on the ground. Lift that leg up toward the ceiling & down. Then switch legs.

2) Lift your knee off the floor. Extend that same heel back and up so your leg is pointing toward the ceiling & then bring the knee back into you. Then switch legs.

- Standing up, do 10 reps of each anti cellulite exercise:

1) Start with your feet together. Step out in front in to a lunge position. Touch the ground with opposite hand. Come back up & step back to the starting position. Then switch legs.

2) Put one foot up on a step (12 – 18 inches high). Slowly step up and down with the other foot. Then switch legs.

If this routine is easy try going through it twice. If you still need more of a challenge, increase the reps to 15 or 20 per set. Do this anti cellulite exercise program two to three times per week and you’ll soon realize that you have found a true cellulite treatment that will also save you a lot of money that you would be spending on cellulite treatments, creams and lotions that never work. Remember, ‘it’s all in the exercises’.

Joey Atlas – M.S., Exercise Physiology, is the creator of The Cellulite Reduction Butt, Hip And Thigh Makeover DVD Fitness Program. For free anti cellulite exercise instructions visit Best Anti Cellulite Exercises

Sign up for your free subscription to Joey’s Fitness E-newlsetter – ‘Secrets of a Trainer’ at http://www.JoeyAtlas.com

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Consistency – sticking with their butt targeted exercise program on a long term basis.

Women start & stop exercise programs all the time – & those people are always the first to complain “I can never get my butt to look firm and toned.”

Getting a super sexy butt and firmly sculpted thighs is not working out for a few weeks, or even a few months, and then stopping – it just doesn’t work that way.

You must be consistent with the proper butt and thigh exercises to achieve the look you want.

Factor number two is being on the right butt exercise program. You can be consistent and faithful for months and months – and see no results if you are not on a good program. This does not mean you must spend two hours in the gym everyday, as a matter of fact, the best butt and thigh exercises can be done with no equipment right in your home.

We all know you can’t spot reduce, from a theoretical standpoint anyway. But you can ‘spot tone & lift’ if you have a properly structured butt exercise program. I’m not talking about heavy weights, dangerous machines or sweaty & crowded health clubs. The easiest and most effective exercises can be done on a simple mat while you are watching TV or listening to your own music.

So, if you already have a good program – be consistent with it.

If you don’t have a good butt exercise program – GET ONE! …and get moving.

The third factor for getting your butt and thigh area in fit and sexy shape is proper nutrition.

Here are a few shortcuts for cutting unnecessary, fat producing calories from your diet:

(Note – For women trying to gain butt roundness and size – you do not have to worry about watching your calories as it applies to weight loss – just be sure that your food choices are from healthy sources – that will help build up your butt.)

1 – Keep track of all the calories you take in by way of liquids/drinks – you may be quite surprised – these are calories just the same as food calories – they can turn into fat if you are over you daily caloric needs – fat that goes right to your butt and thighs.

2 – Cooking too much, putting too much on your plate & eating too much – ALL WITHOUT EVEN REALIZING IT !! – see, most people eat subconsciously – without paying attention to what they are doing. Hence overeating becomes easy and regular. And those extra calories have a tendency to store themselves in the butt and thigh area of most women. Start eating consciously – be aware of what and HOW MUCH you are eating.

3 – Eating when you are not hungry – HELLO! If you are not hungry – your body is telling you something “I don’t need the calories, right now.” Don’t eat out of boredom & don’t eat just because ‘everybody else is’. The best butt and thigh exercises won’t work properly if you are negating the effects of a great butt and thigh exercise program with too many unnecessary calories.

Reminder – For women with ‘flat butt syndrome’ – you do not have to worry about cutting calories from your diet – keep calories at normal levels – this will promote proper development in the butt muscles as you incorporate the right exercises.

Take control of this kind of stuff and there is no stopping you, if you truly want to be sexy and fit. By being consistent with a properly structured butt & thigh exercise program and paying attention to your nutritional intake you can get a super sexy butt, hip and thigh area no matter what your age or previous exercise experience.

Joey Atlas – M.S., Exercise Physiology, is the creator of The Butt, Hip And Thigh Makeover DVD Fitness Program. For free butt, hip and thigh exercise instructions visit Best Butt Lifting Exercises

Sign up for your free subscription to Joey’s Fitness E-newlsetter – ‘Secrets of a Trainer’ at http://www.JoeyAtlas.com

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Recently, the FTC took action against the marketers of one of the biggest selling ‘diet pill’ supplement on the market. The story follows:

–CortiSlim/CortiStress marketers hit for $4.5 million penalty.– California-based Pinnacle Marketing Concepts, Inc. and its president, Thomas F. Cheng, and Utah-based Shawn M. Talbott, Ph.D., have agreed to disgorge a total of $4.5 million in cash and other assets to settle FTC charges stemming from their roles in the marketing of CortiSlim and CortiStress, In its complaint, the FTC alleged that the defendants made false or unsubstantiated product claims and used deceptively formatted infomercials in pitching the dietary supplements. Litigation continues against three other defendants who were part of the scheme. The FTC’s complaint, filed last years, charged that CortiSlim was marketed with false or unsubstantiated claims that it would cause rapid, substantial, and permanent weight loss in all users and that CortiStress would reduce the risk of, or prevent, osteoporosis, obesity, diabetes, Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, and cardiovascular disease. The settlement agreement also prohibits the defendants from making unsubstantiated claims in the future about any dietary supplement, food, drug, cosmetic, or device. [Three Cortislim defendants to give up $4.5 million in cash and other assets: FTC's litigation continues against four remaining defendants. FTC news release, Sept 21, 2005]

A more detailed version can be read on the FTC website at ftc.com

Rulings similar to this one happen quite commonly. They just don’t make front page news and so the general public doesn’t get to learn about the fraudulent nature of these companies and therefore continues to purchase the money wasting products marketed by these companies. Think about it. With all of the ‘too good to be true’ products being sold today, the majority of the general public would be in fantastic physical condition instead of way out of shape and unhealthy.

Sooner or later we have to take responsibility for ourselves and stop looking for the magic fat pill or the breakthrough diet supplement. Nothing will ever replace smart nutrition and consistent exercise for getting you into the best shape that you are capable of. Even if a new legitimate diet drug becomes available to the public, just remember all of the diet drugs of the past that were eventually proven to result in severe adverse health effects and sometimes death.

Your magic pill is within you. You can give yourself the results you are looking for. Just seek out the information that pertains to you and begin taking action.

Joey Atlas, MS – Exercise Physiology, is the creator of The Butt, Hip and Thigh Makeover at http://www.ButtHipAndThighMakeover.com Joey is also founder of http://www.BestFitnessAdvice.com – go there to get your free ’52 Fitness Success Strategies’.

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Step1 – This is important! Take out one of your favorite swimsuits or bikinis. Put it on and look at yourself in the mirror. Write down what you would like to change about your body and try to imagine how your body will look with those changes. Also try to imagine how you will feel about yourself after those changes occur.

Take a mental snapshot of how you look in the mirror and make mental note of the things you want to change. This will be extremely helpful as you get closer to the summer season. If you don’t like what you see in the mirror, don’t get discouraged. Get inspired!

Before you take off the bathing suit, look yourself in the eyes, and make a promise to yourself that you will stay committed to making the necessary changes.

Step 2 – Start exercising. Don’t get crazy here, because you will end up quitting. Sit down with your calendar or schedule and write in your workout days, times and places. Not every workout needs to be in a gym. Your home, a local park or even a local playground are great places to have effective workouts.

If you haven’t been working out, start slowly and gradually build up your time and intensity. If you have been working out, start to kick the intensity up a bit. In the course of a week, you want to complete 3 – 5 cardio sessions, each lasting 25 – 35 minutes and 2 – 3 resistance/toning sessions, each also lasting 25 – 35 minutes. This is general guideline. Some weeks you may be able to do more and some weeks less. It is ok to do cardio and resistance on the same days if that is what your schedule allows.

Step 3 – Write down everything you eat and drink in a notebook (or PDA). The true secret to having a beautifully defined body is calorie control. The easiest, most realistic way to get them under control is to keep track of them. Don’t be obsessive here or you will drive yourself nuts.

Most of our foods have easy to read labels that are easy to understand. Use the calorie info on your labels and record these numbers next to what you eat and drink in your journal. Knowing how many calories you are taking in makes it much easier to adjust if you hit a plateau while trying to lose body fat. This method may require a bit of work in the beginning, but it is the method that has helped many of my clients defeat the body fat monster more than any other method in existence.

Step 4 – Stay committed to your self. If times get challenging, remember your mental snapshot of you in the swimsuit and picture yourself on the beach in the upcoming hot weather season. Remind yourself of the goals you wrote down. You may even want to make few copies of your goals. Put a copy on your refrigerator, one on your work desk, and one on your bathroom mirror. If you are not making progress, add a little time to your workouts or tighten up on your calories a bit.

Step 5 – Realize that you are in control of yourself and that no outside force can keep you from what you are going to achieve. If you miss a workout, tomorrow is a new day. If you eat too much, or you eat junk food (it is ok to ‘cheat’ sometimes), let that fuel your motivation in your next workout. Better yet, before you even slip up with your nutrition, ask yourself this key question, “Is what I’m about to eat going to help me be swimsuit ready?” If you answer this question honestly, then the proper action will come next.

Don’t let your friends, family members or co-workers sabotage your efforts. Live according to what is important to you and acknowledge your own progress.

Your simple, new habits will be the magic that helps you get awesome swimsuit shape.

Copyright 2006 Joe E. Atlas, Inc.

Joey Atlas, MS ? Exercise Physiology, has been helping people break through psychological and physical barriers to achieve life-changing levels of health and fitness since the late 1980?s. He is the creator of the Butt, Hip and Thigh Makeover workout DVDs http://www.ButtHipAndThighMakeover.com – Also visit http://www.BestFitnessAdvice.com for your free ’52 Fitness Success Strategies’.

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1) You must put yourself into the right mindset. Don’t think of your new efforts at weight loss as trying to do certain things every day. See your self living a new lifestyle, a new lifestyle that naturally includes behavior conducive to positive changes in your health and fitness levels. You transition into this new lifestyle by makng adjustments to your daily habits until these habits are in alignment with the goals you are aiming for.

2) Find an exercise partner. It can be a friend, a co-worker, or a family member. Why is this important? An exercise partner is a tremendous source of support. A partner is crucial on those days when you really don’t feel up to exercising. Unless you are sick, a good partner won’t let you slack and likewise your partner will need you to pull them up when they are not up for the workout. You being needed is an indirect but important type of support. With an exercise partner comes the element of accountability, which subconsciously reinforces your commitment to your quest.

3) Have a baby or get a puppy. These two strategies work in the same manner. I write about this one from first/second hand experience. My wife, Jeri-Jo, gave birth to our daughter, Darah, nine months ago. Today, she weighs less than she weighed before she got pregnant. What is the mechanism here? Jeri-Jo claims, “With Darah to care for, my mind is focused on her and her needs. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not at risk for malnutrition, but I don’t eat out of boredom any more simply because there is always something to do. The day flies by and I don’t have time to snack on foods that cause weight gain.”

The puppy strategy is very similar to the baby strategy. If you are not playing with it, training it, feeding it, walking it or cleaning up after it you are too tired to overeat. And, before you know it your new puppy is done napping and ready for more activities. Like caring for a baby, your puppy requires a lot of attention and mental energy. This prevents many people from unnecessary snacking that prevents weight loss.

4) If you are not ready for a baby or a puppy then take a up a new hobby. A new hobby will get you out of the house, stimulate your mind and prevent you from eating out of boredom. If your hobby is a fitness related activity, such as mountain biking or hiking, then you are really going to make some progress.

5) Drink more water. I know, you’ve heard this one before. But, can you truthfully say you are doing it? Not many people can. Ponder this. You consist of about 73% water. Your body gives off water all day and all night. You must continuously replenish your water levels in order for your body to function at its highest levels. Many fitness professionals talk about the metabolism slowing down as a result of too little food intake. However, just as important, yet rarely mentioned is water intake and its effect on metabolism. Not getting enough water can cause water retention and a slowing of the metabolism. Both of these can prevent weight loss and cause weight gain.

One little known strategy for boosting water intake is to drink 8 – 12 ounces as soon as you wake up. This helps wake up your metabolism. Another way to boost your water intake is to drink 10 – 12 ounces when you start to feel hungry. Instead of immediately reaching for food, drink the water and see if that calms your hunger until you are ready for your next meal.

Each one of these strategies can help you lose weight. But, by utilizing all of them, you are creating a formula for success. A formula that can be the foundation of your new lifestyle.

Copyright 2005 Joe E. Atlas, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Joey Atlas, MS – Exercise Physiology is the creator of the Home, Office & Travel Fitness DVD series for men and women. Visit http://www.JoeyAtlas.com to sign up for your free subscription to ‘Secrets of a Trainer’ Fitness E-newsletter and then visit http://www.BestFitnessAdvice.com for ’52 Fitness Success Strategies’.

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