The Fitter Female Blog
Keeping you up to date with fitness, health and nutrition tips and best practices.
Have a Happy & Healthy Holiday Season
The festive season is full of fun, laughter, happiness, and toasting to good health and a fresh new year. As a result of such jollification, it can become all too easy to neglect your body and put it under extreme stress. As December is usually a time for frantic...
5 Muscle Building Exercises for Women
While many women choose to exercise to experience weight loss, many exercises can be completed to both enhance that weight loss and help build muscle as well. Whether you join a small group personal training programme, go it alone at a health and wellness center, or...
What is Functional Training?
Functional training is, without a doubt, one of the most important forms of exercise. While regular activities in fitness classes and fitness centers are all beneficial, functional training focuses on the parts of your body that are used on a daily basis. The goal is...
Healthy Fat: What Fats Are Good for You?
There’s a common misconception that all fat is bad fat. The truth is, your body needs fat, but it takes education to know how to add those good fats to your diet while removing harmful fats in the process. Bad fats are saturated and are found in your everyday fast...
Best Cardio Workouts for Women
When you’re looking for a new female weight loss program to improve your levels of health and wellbeing, it’s vital that it includes plenty of cardio workouts. There are so many benefits associated with cardio exercises for women, and finding that perfect fitness...
4 Tips for a Healthy Thanksgiving
The countdown is on, and everyone is getting ready to tuck into a delicious Thanksgiving dinner where it seems second and third helpings are a must. While traditionally it’s known as a time for trousers to be extended to make way for lashings of turkey, cranberry...
5 Benefits of Small Group Personal Training
If you’re just beginning your weight loss journey, or you’re looking at your options to get in shape, some congratulations are in order. You’ve decided to become a healthier version of you, and that’s to be applauded. So what’s next? How do you kickstart your...
What Water Means to Your Weight Loss Program
Losing weight can be extremely difficult. Exercise and diet make up a huge part of the weight loss process. However, even for people who take advantage of the weight loss programs , results can be hard to come by. For many of those people, the issue is their water...
Body Buddies: Pair Up Because Working Out with a Friend Works
When your best friend tells you that she ran a marathon or tried some new workout routine, doesn’t it motivate you to start working out, as well? Research suggests that working out with a friend may be good for you after all. A study published in Nature Communications...
Fitness Knows No Age: Take a Cue from this 101-Year-Old Female Athlete
For many, a perfectly-sculpted beach body is the ultimate fitness goal, but not for athlete Man Kaur. At 101, Man Kaur, a native of Chandigarh, India, aimed to compete in the World Masters Game in Auckland, New Zealand. Never Too Late Kaur did not venture into running...
Healthier Happier Habits
Don't you feel bad when you see a woman who is at a healthy weight, has lots of energy, vibrancy, healthy skin and a bounce in her step? Don't you feel bad that she can eat anything she wants, stay up late, drink lots of alcohol and burn the candle at both ends? Maybe...
Are You Having Trouble Staying Focused on Weight Loss?
Do you ever wake up in the morning full of energy and hope that this will be the day you get through your to do list? Do find yourself getting distracted and overwhelmed by different priorities and small fires that constantly need to be put out? Do you find most days...