Fitness is important, but remember to pay attention to your diet too. What you eat is 80% percent of your health, so try to eat no more than 15 grams of sugar and 6 servings of carbs a day. 
In my experience when preparing for competition or a photo shoot I would start with my diet. I would clean it up further to shed more fat to bring out my hard earned muscle. In doing this I never wanted to loose size and wouldn't add my cardio training in to my routine in my first 4 weeks of dieting. Depending on the length of time I had I would hold off doing cardio work in the first weeks and only concentrate on pumping the iron heavy and hard and stick to my strict diet. Being small this helped me shape my body, loose fat around my muscle and not loose any size or too much weight. I could see the change in my body within the first weeks and without losing any weight I was able to change my body and bring out the definition I needed with just changing my diet. This was done without any cardio work added.
If you keep your diet clean and maintain a healthy year round eating habits you'll never be to far away from that body you want. Keeping yourself within 10-12 pounds of your perfect ideal weight is a good measure to have. That way you'll never be that far away from uncovering the beauty that lies beneath. Being closer to your ideal goal weight is also a plus if your wanting to step up your game for a competition, photo shoot or just to being able to wear that Sexy bikini or swim trucks to the beach. It can be easily obtained it you do the work on a daily, regular routine throughout the year. This is called a healthy Fit4Life life style choice.. 
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Wanting to be a beast for me means bringing out my inner beast while I am training hard. Letting myself feel the "Beauty" and "Power" of the weights and how good it feels when I am lifting them. Becoming one with the cool, heavy iron as you get lost in your workout and your inner "Beast" comes out to play! Hear the {{ROAR}}
Being a beast while training is not only for the men athletes.. It's for the women athletes as well. We women have the benefits of not looking like a beast...but we can surely bring out our inner beast and train like one. Feeling the power and drive within us is the Beast.. Loving the challenge and competition. Daily competing against ourselves to be super fit, super healthy! Facing the sacrifice, the dedication it takes everyday to be that Super Fit and Healthy you! Our inner Beast continues to emerge everyday and fight to be... Fit4Life! ✿ 
Running on the wet sand gives you a harder surface to run on and much it's easier to run a longer distances when running on wet sand. Big draw to running on wet sand is.. You can run barefoot which I love to do. Another big draw is running on wet sand means your close to the water and the waves crashing on the shoreline. It's also a great workout to run through the water as it's crashing under your bare feet as you are running right along the shoreline. Depending on the size of the waves you'll have to lift your legs higher and make a wider strides to run through the water and this is a awesome workout for your legs and okole (glute) muscles..
Ever wonder why you feel so good after working out? It’s not just your imagination at play – psychologists and exercise physiologists have found that exercise may actually work as well as drugs for treating depression. A Duke University study tested this theory by recruiting 156 men and women age 50 and older who suffered from major depression. They split the study participants into two groups. One group walked or jogged for 30 minutes three days a week, while another group simply took the antidepressant Zoloft. 
I refused to follow the doctor's instructions. My son and I agreed that I would keep training him with weights and kicking his ass in the gym and that would be his form of medication. He began to focus on his goals for school and other dreams he has for himself. He was dedicated to training and working out every day. It made him feel alive and better than he had ever felt. Of course the doctor's felt the change in my son was due to the medication they prescribed for him. They had no idea that he had stopped taking the medication on the third day and we started our own form of medication. This medication is called training your ass off and feeding your body and soul with exercise rather than with pills to fix a problem.
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Weight loss is a lot like driving a race car. In order to get results, you must focus on where you want to go. Saying what you don’t want – “I don’t want to be fat” – is not going to get you there. Saying “I want to lose 10 pounds this month” instead gives you clarity and focus. It also gives you a deadline. If you have the means to go to a local gym and can afford to go it would be the best gift you could give yourself. There you can learn about strength training and more about fitness and how to make it a part of your life after you conquer your weight loss goals. Don't stop after you lose that goal of 10-15 pounds. Fitness is not just about losing weight, it maybe how most of us start out but it's a way of life and incorporating a fit life style in to your daily life will keep you fit, happy and keep those extra 10-15 pounds from regaining control of life and your body again. Keep yourself motivated and use simple training techniques like...Running, sprinting, fast paced walking, jumping rope for cardio work. Using a set of dumbbells or a single kettlebell can give you a great strength training workout. Strength moves with weight are the best way to begin. If your just starting out then educated yourself daily and every chance you get. There are so many great exercise DVD's, online information and workouts to get you going and started on your path to living a fit healthy life style. 
