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Full Body Home Workout with Body Weight and Towel

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No gym, no problem! Even though your membership may be frozen due to the global health pandemic, you can still get an effective, full-body workout at home that kicks up heart rate and strengthens and tones muscles with merely your own body weight.Adidas Home Workout with The Fit Fork - Jennifer Fisher

No need to invest in any fancy home fitness equipment (although a fabulous new workout outfit can work wonders for motivation). In fact, today’s workout just uses a simple hand towel from your bathroom or dishtowel from the kitchen! Read on to get his Body Weight Towel Workout for Home that will keep you fit at home.

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4 Empowering Trends in Women’s Sports, Fitness and Adventure for 2020

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 International Women’s Day (3/8/2020) brings awareness to the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women – including the celebration of female athletes of all ages and abilities, not just those in professional sports.  That’s what I want to speak to today, how everyday women are supporting, empowering and lifting up each other to live, love and give their best through an active lifestyle. yoga adidas jennifer fisher thefitfork

Over the last few years, I’ve noticed several trends that remain on the uptick for active women. These include more female participation in “extreme” sports at an amateur level; support and encouragement through various “sisterhoods of sweat;” “do as I do” role modeling by older women to younger women and/or girls; and solo (or mother/daughter) adventure and sport travel. Read to learn more about these Empowering Trends in Women’s Sports, Fitness and Adventure for 2020.

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Easy Plant-based Snack Ideas to Fuel Fitness Goals

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It’s a new year with new fitness goals! Whether you are starting a new fitness routine for the first time or just hitting the “reset” button for 2020, choosing the right pre- and post- workout snacks (and even bedtime snacks) can help you optimize overall results.

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Today, I am sharing some of my favorite homemade workout snacks that can be incorporated into a training diet to help you make the most of all that hard work. All are vegan-friendly and gluten-free, but also tasty for us omnivores who are looking to add more variety and plant-power to our plates. Read on to learn more about pre- and post-workout nutrition and get my ideas for plant-based snacks to fuel fitness goals. Continue reading →

How to Become a Runner and Love Running for Life

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A new year is just around the corner, and countless new health and fitness goals are being set across the planet with almost giddy expectation for success. Unfortunately, most resolutions don’t even last a month until good intentions give way to less favorable old habits. Starting and keeping a running routine to lose weight and/or improve health, is one of these popular goals that often fizzles well before the figurative finish line. jennifer fisher running since 1988

But that doesn’t have to be the case; everyone can begin a running routine AND KEEP IT for a lifetime. In fact, being a runner is an easy, inexpensive, versatile, empowering way to maintain health and fitness throughout the decades. Over my 30 years as a runner, I’ve relied on various mental strategies to stay in a committed relationship with the sport. Today, I’m sharing these tips can that can also help you start running, keep running, and actually like it! Continue reading →

12 Days of Christmas Workout | Gym & Home Versions

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Looking to “sleigh” your holiday sweat session? Today, I’m sharing two workings based on on the song, “The Twelve Days of Christmas.”  A 12 Days of Christmas Workout is nothing new, there are countless versions floating from gym to gym and around the Internet. They will all get your heart-pumping and make you want to sing (or gasp) along, plus there is something for everyone from the hard-core fitness beast to someone just looking to get in a light workout while on vacation.

12 Days of Christmas Workouts

I have put together two 12 Days of Christmas Workout Versions today — one for the gym where you have access to various fitness equipment and another one that requires NO equipment and can be done anywhere — in a hotel or at home!

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