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Kick Your Holiday Booty With This Move

Have you skipped several workouts these past couple of months? Have you over indulged a bit? Are you traveling to relatives homes and don't know where you're going to workout!?

Try this move by Laura Mak. It's from her Glamorous Glutes workout which can be performed anywhere you're Holiday travels take you.

Standing 45° Rear Leg Curl

Click here to download this workout from MyBodyBeats.com and try this move

10 Tips to Avoid a Holiday Diet Disaster

If you follow the advise of our Pros and eat several small, well balanced meals through out your day, then the day long shopping trips, travel, and Holiday party temptations could ruin all of your hard work. Allow yourself at least one 'naughty' treat and keep these tips in mind. You'll enjoy yourself without gorging or feeling deprived.

1. Pile your plate with fresh fruit
2. Fill up on lean proteins such as turkey minus the gravy
3. Add steamed seafood like lobster and shrimp
4. Choose whole-wheat rolls or wild rice over the white rice or mashed potatoes
5. Snack on nuts for healthy fats and hard cheeses for protein
6. Eat a high protein snack before arriving at the party
7. Don't skip the fresh or steamed veggies
8. Choose the hummus dip over the blue cheese dip
9. Avoid casseroles. They're swimming in cream and butter.
10. At 350+ calories per drink, avoid the Egg Nog and White Russians.

Downloadable Workouts: Inexpensive Alternative to Personal Trainers

In hard economic times, usually the first things people cut back on are the very things that make them feel good like gym memberships and personal trainers. Don’t let this be among the excuses to not workout. Taking care of yourself and staying fit and healthy is numero uno.

According to a recent survey, MyBodyBeats customers use downloadable workouts as an alternative to intimidating and often pricey personal trainers. Downloadable workouts are the perfect inexpensive alternative anytime, but especially when you’re wallet’s tight and you wish your abs were instead. Personal trainers can cost upwards of $75+/hour. Why not download a workout from professional athletes at MyBodyBeats.com for as little as $5.99? Not only is it a fraction of the cost of a regular personal trainer, but try getting Valerie Waugaman or Branch Warren for a one on one…..good luck.

Over the past year, I've seen site after site offering downloadable workouts, but MyBodyBeats.com offers something a different. The workouts are intense and challenging enough even for the most seasoned fitness enthusiast, yet easy to follow for beginners. The workouts are created by and delivered by some of the fittest bodies in the world, who are also professional athletes. The workout routines are the exact routines that have gotten these ahtletes' bodies to their peak condition.

Don't let your fitness get in a slump because of hard economic times. Treat yourself to the expertise and motivation from the trainers at MyBodyBeats.com.

Stay Focused During Your Workout : Mind-Muscle Connection

I totally lost my focus today at the gym because some guy decided to curse his business partner out for 45 minutes over his cell phone while he attempted to workout. It seemed everywhere I went, every machine or dumbbell rack I went to…there he was. Loud and unavoidable. It annoyed me, yes, but it got me thinking…does this guy really think he’s getting a good workout while he’s got his head cocked towards his shoulder to hold the phone in place? Is he counting his reps while he has a full blown conference call? It was all I could do not to approach him and ask…

Then I look around and I see people everywhere are unfocused…on the cell phone while squatting, reading a novel while cycling at a snails’ pace on the stationary bike, or just plain day dreaming and mindlessly lifting. I had a boss who used to tell us before every meeting to, “be here now”, he meant mentally, of course. Focus on what you’re doing at that moment. I think a poster with this same quote should be posted to the walls of gyms everywhere.

There is a huge connection between the mind and the muscle. If you want any results from your workout, weather it be for muscle mass or performance, you must be focused and intense about it.

Next time you workout, train like you mean it! Try the following to see the best results from your workout.

• Put the cell phone and the magazine down. In fact, try leaving your phone in your car so it’s not a distraction.
• Before you perform an exercise, think of the exact muscles you’re trying to work and focus only on those muscles.
• Throughout the workout, imagine those muscles contracting and expanding with every rep.
• Visualize your goal. If you’re training for a bodybuilding competition, imagine yourself on stage, posing, flexing, then winning. If you’re training for a race, imagine your speed increasing, the wind whistling past your face, then being the first across the finish line.
• Get in the zone. Get yourself to a trancelike state where your breathing pattern and lifting speed blend into a perfect cadence.