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There’s nothing to boost your confidence like feeling like you have a great butt and great legs.

You walk around standing a little taller, wear heels, skirts and dresses a little prouder and look back at yourself in the mirror a little longer. More than that though, it’s a great boost to your fitness level and is key in allowing you to squat well, do heavy deadlifts, and not to mention excel at sports such as running and cycling.

If you’re looking for a place to get started on improving your fitness, confidence and body image, your legs and butt are the place to go.

Here are 5 exercises you can do at home in your living room - equipment free – that are great to get you started.

It happens to all of us: things are going really well on your new healthy living plan, you’ve been seeing progress and are really proud of yourself for how far you’ve come. But then, you’re suddenly off track.

It started with a weekend family getaway and then you came back and had a friend’s going away party and a family BBQ and then a girl’s weekend and so on and so on, and things just spiraled out of control, leaving you completely off course with your healthy lifestyle plans, not to mention, feeling a little bit disappointed in yourself for falling off the wagon.

But don’t worry!

While feeling disappointed and upset at yourself is normal, more important that obsessing over what happened and how bad it was that you let yourself get there (stop that!), is how well you get back on track.

Let the past be the past and now use these 17 tricks to help you set things straight for the future, starting now!

Are you making one of these 5 common mistakes that may be sabotaging your weight loss goals or preventing you from seeing progress?

Read on and find out:

We all love it when the sun and summer weather show up: lots of iced tea and coffee, cute summer dresses and tank tops, flip flops and long days filled with sun at the beach.

But if you’re used to doing your exercise outside, it can be a bit of a different story: sweaty, overheated workout sessions, sunburns, low energy and dehydration.

Don’t let the summer put a damper on your workout routine. Instead, check out these 6 tips for running in the heat and humidity!

Okay, so you've taken up running to get in better shape. You enjoy it, it’s great exercise and good for clearing the head, and you’ve even had success putting a dent in those weight loss goals. But now, as you start running long distances, you tend to lose motivation. No problem, that's normal!

Here are 4 ways to motivate yourself while you’re running solo: