Women's Fitness Guide

We all want to look and feel our best, so our Women's Fitness series provides you with your own personal trainer in bookazine form. Each edition focuses in on one aim, using expert advice from fitness professionals and nutritionists to help you reach your goals. You could try out the Women's Guide to Running, the Best Body Bootcamp, Tone up in Ten Minutes, Get Your Body Back – and numerous other titles all dedicated to helping you feel fitter and healthier at your own pace.

The Women's fitness team

Women's Fitness Guide

IT STARTS WITH YOUR HEAD

Busy life? That's no excuse! • If you're busy, it can be tempting to skip a workout because you have too much on your plate. But exercise can actually help you cope with pressure and solve problems. Here's how to get yourself motivated…

Run the numbers • Exercise won't just help you slim down – it will help you live for longer and reduce the risk of disease. Read on and we defy you to not be inspired to pull on your trainers and get moving…

The health benefits of exercise • Live longer, reduce your risk of disease – what's not to love about regular cardiovascular exercise? Here's how it can help keep you healthy for longer…

Be consistent, get results! • Missing the odd workout here or there is not an excuse to give up altogether. If you can broadly stick to an exercise routine, even if you miss the odd day, you'll still reap the rewards and get fitter

Motivational fitness apps

SHORT, SWEET AND EFFECTIVE

The best fitness classes • Burn fat, tone up and work up a sweat with our guide to the best exercise classes for helping you get the body shape you want

How hard, how long? • How often should you exercise and how hard should you work? You'll have to work harder during those shorter sessions…

Still not convinced that short workouts work?

10 easy ways to make exercise • If you get bored, you'll be tempted to give up. Instead, keep your workouts fun and varied, by following our top 10 tips that will make exercise seem like a breath of fresh air, instead of yet another chore…

EAT SMART, LOOK GREAT!

20 best fat burning foods • Whether it's foods that make you feel more full and help to prevent you from overeating, or foods that actually boost your metabolism, we reveal the best choices to help you lose weight and stay slim

Beat stress, get leaner • Stress can lead to weight gain and make you more likely to overeat. We reveal how to eat to beat stress

Week 1 YOUR 7 – DAY MEAL PLAN

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Lose weight with mindful eating • Mindful eating is an effective approach to weight loss, as it involves engaging your brain and thinking about your food while you are eating it. Here's how it can help you get your eating habits under control

Master your eating habits • Be in control of what you eat and how often, and the weight you've lost will stay off. Here's how to adopt a sound and healthy approach to food

BEAT STRESS, STAY SLIM

The benefits of yoga • Great for stress busting, improving flexibility, and making you look leaner and fitter, even short bursts of regular yoga will have benefits

15-minute yoga

How to reduce your stress levels • You may be exercising hard and watching your food intake, but if you don't combat stress, you might find it hard to achieve your fitness goals. Here's how you can banish stress…

you've done it! • You look and feel great! So, how do you create permanent habits to make health and fitness part of your life for good?