Fitness Tip: Learn the ropes. Not only is it inexpensive, portable, and easy to use almost anywhere, you’ll burn about 200 calories in 20 minutes.

Fitness Tip: A workout partner not only keeps you accountable; they also may help you clock more time at the gym and torch more fat.

Fitness Tip: There’s no point in performing any exercise without proper form. It doesn’t matter how many push-ups you can do if you’re not doing them correctly.

Fitness Tip: When you do high intensity interval training, follow a 2:1 work-to-rest ratio, such as sprinting one minute followed by 30 seconds of recovery.

Fitness Tip: The reason most people don’t see changes isn’t because they don’t work hard – it’s because they don’t make their workouts harder.

Fitness Tip: Eat sweet chili peppers in your burritos, stir fries, and soups, and you may burn more fat during your outdoor cold-weather runs.

Fitness Tip: Packing your two-piece away for winter means that you won’t think about how you’ll look in it until about April.

Fitness Tip: Before you start a juice cleanse diet, know that drastically restricting your caloric intake to drop pounds may backfire.