Fitness Tip: Add more work to each rep, and increase the efficiency of your workout by increasing the range of motion: squat deeper, raise the step ups, etc.

Fitness Tip: By sliding your shoulder blades down and back before an exercise, you can improve your results and protect yourself from injury.

Fitness Tip: Trade your machine exercises for dumbbells, barbells and medicine balls in order to build strength in ways more specific to your body.

Fitness Tip: Do 15 to 20 minutes of interval training. This can burn as many calories as an hour of traditional, steady-state cardio.

Fitness Tip: Get great glutes by targeting the muscles and connective tissues buried deep in your body. To hit them, do high-intensity squats, eg. jump squats.

Fitness Tip: Unless you’re training for a marathon, skip long-distance running – sprinting builds more muscle. Add some 10 to 60 second sprints to your run.

Fitness Tip: Go kayaking to get a taut stomach – it’s ideal because much of your rowing power comes from your core.

Fitness Tip: Squat-thrust push-ups get you in shape, working your upper body, core and lower body, and improve agility, strength and endurance all at once.