EXPERT SECRETS | The best workout you've never heard of... Bodyrock.tv

IF YOU can peel your eyes away from Zuzana Light's impressive implants and actually follow the killer workouts she's leading in her online videos, you'll have access to one of the best at-home exercise tools you'll ever use.

They're so hard you might consider them masochistic, but these vidoes are more effective than hour-long gym sessions. Sayonara Cindy Crawford and your 2-pound dumbells. I'm trading you in for Zuzana and Freddie.

Zuzana's workouts? Tough. Make-me-collapse-in-a-sweaty-mess tough. In just 12 minutes.

The diet and workout challenges they create can last days, weeks or months, giving you the chance to workout and eat alongside the ultra-sexy (and super nice) Zuzana and (quiet fit in a Johnny-Knoxville-sort-of-way) husband Freddie, meaning you're not repeating the same dull movements day in and out.

There's nothing that kills motivation quicker than boredom and that's what you'll get doing the exact same video every day. Unless you plan on buying hundreds of workout DVDs, or having a Netflix queue dedicated exclusively to the Shape series, that's what's going to happen.

Not so with bodyrock.tv, where there are new bite-sized workouts loaded constantly with hundreds of commentors testifying to just how helpful, motivating and transformational they really are.

Burpees, mountain climbers, lizard crawls, pike jumps, high knees and other old-school exercises sit side-by-side with new-fangled ways to make your muscles quiver. Backdrops can be anywhere from a rooftop in Italy to Zuzanna and Freddie's Canadian living room. Many of the workouts use just body weight for resistance. When weights and tools are used they're pretty basic... sandbags, interval times and occasional free weights. (In place of the gymbox interval timer Zuzana uses, I use my iPhone's stopwatch function.)

Try out the warm up routines or some of my favourites like the Sexy Pain Train Workout, Suicidal Sweat Workout and Crazy Home Bootcamp Workout.

Price of your gym membership gathering dust? Thousands a year.

Price of lifetime of new, fun and really hard workouts courtesy of Bodyrock.tv? FREE.

Like Bodyrock.tv on Facebook and subscribe to their Youtube.com channel and you'll have no excuses to keep sitting on your a**.

Join the "home workout movement" now and feel less bloated this holiday season without having to dedicate hours to the gym and its rows upon rows of dreadmills.

Bookmark Bodyrock.tv and get your sweat on with the hottest couple in fitness.

5 WAYS TO | Use cool fitness trends to melt fat

ARE YOU you tired of religiously hitting the treadmill without seeing results? Are you bored to tears swimming laps? How about yawning like mad during your Hatha Yoga class? Me too. But there are plenty of novel ways to exercise. Here’s our pick of the strangest/coolest right now...

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Originally written by Jessica Teas for Smarter Beauty Blog. Image credit: flickr.com/photos/frted/4967459259/sizes/m/in/photostream/

BEAUTY OP-ED | Forget the beach body, embrace sanity

PERSONALLY, I say buck the trend, save the money and instead use it to pay for that beach holiday you otherwise might not have the money to take. Forget about getting tan, getting slim, getting ‘glowy’, getting blemish free, getting sun-kissed highlights in the wee morning hours before work and the few precious free ones you have after. In fact, if there’s anything I’ve learned from my seaside sojourns over the years, it’s that you achieve that look more readily going to the beach, not getting to it. And your sun-kissed highlights from swimming in the sea are free.

So are the honed thighs.

TOP TEN REASONS WHY GETTING BEACH-BODY READY IS NONSENSE:

1. Because you already have a body. And it’s ready for the beach NOW.
2. Who the hell wants to spend the summer swathed in radioactive orange tan (at least among the white-skinned folks out there)?
3. You’ll waste bucket loads of money you could otherwise spend on taking an actual beach holiday.
4. It’s as good as yo-yo dieting for your body. Meaning, it’s bad.
5. Even if you religiously follow the magazine’s instructions on how to get beach-body ready, you won’t look like the lady on the cover.
6. Because 90 year-old ladies in Croatia hit the beach every day – in bikinis – without spending months obsessing over how they’re going to look. If they can do it, so can you.
7. If all you can think about is how people think you look in a bikini, you’ll be miserable.
8. Highlights and salt water do not mix. Same goes with fake tan, makeup (even waterproof mascara) and body cosmetics (hey, even I wear a bit of leg makeup when I’m wearing tiny shorts).
9. At the end of the day, all that matters when you’re on the beach is that you’re not at work.
10. Cellulite is genetic (despite what some misguided beauty journalists will say). Sorry. If it bothers you, wear a cover-up. Nothing (no product, no treatment... no matter what the marketeers say) you do in the lead up to summer will ‘banish’ it from your body, so to speak.

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