Workout Tips

• Get off balance. Anytime you're on an unstable surface (like using a stability ball or Xerdisc)—and therefore trying to balance—you're developing your core strength. I once had my team pull in their guts and stand on one leg while doing bicep curls to help tone their middles.
  
• When it comes to feeling self-conscious at the gym, we've all been there. You need to focus on what you need to do. Find your gym. Find one thing that you could do at that gym. Take care of yourself, and then just go on through the rest of your day.
  
• Sometimes working out means not even going to the gym. I find that if I had a couple of 10-pound weights, for instance, or even 5 pound weights in my house, I could do a workout.
  
• Men love to work their pectorals (chest), but working out the chest can help women, too, by lifting sagging chests and breasts. In addition, chest muscles are essential in sports like tennis, free-style swimming, and any sport where you throw a ball.