Love Your Body: Eat Clean With 6 Inspired Ways to Cleanse Pre & Post Workout

Carat & Roses January 26, 2014

Love your body with fitness plans and workouts from Tone it Up and get inspired with these 6 clean eating tips that will have help you stay healthy and fit just in time for Valentine's Day and the perfect prep for the summer months to come! Use organic fruits, veggies and eat clean with fresh pressed organic juices and whole foods.

1. Infused Waters

Take these fruit infused waters with you on the go perfect for quenching your thirst with antioxidant rich fruits full of vitamins and immune boosting nutrients. Store them over night using any fruits including lemon and cucumber perfect for detoxing and improving digestion perfect for cleansing. Use coconut water which will help keep you hydrated and restoring electrolytes.

2. Smoothies

From green smoothies to coconut water and oatmeal, they are the perfect way to keep your metabolism going throughout the day. Use fresh organic fruits and honey along with organic Greek or regular yogurt from Liberté or Olympic Dairy. Boost your smoothie with vanilla or chocolate organic protein from Perfect Fit as part of your post workout routine.

3. Pressed Juices

Take on the juice cleanse with fresh organic and all natural pressed juices with detox plans, daily nutrition and healthy immune boosting benefits. These pressed juices are the perfect way to help you detox and promote a sustainable healthy balanced diet, easy to maintain with clean eating and whole foods.

4. Granola

Start your day off right with nutrient packed Love Crunch granola from Nature's Path. Add your own, fresh fruits including coconut and top with organic honey, perfect for kick starting your metabolism. Add in organic dark chocolate like ones from Green & Black's, Vosges Haut-Chocolate or Hagensborg Chocolates which are full of antioxidants and can help to lower blood pressure and control blood sugar.

5. Snacks

From frozen yogurt bites to nuts, dark chocolate to fruits and veggies, eat clean with healthy organic snacks that help you fight hunger and cleanse from artificial flavors and colors in candies, candy bars and chips. The perfect day to night time snack, take them with you from the office, the gym to the movies, they're a great way to indulge without the refined sugars or food coloring.

6. Salads

Try fresh healthy salads full of fat-blasting, hormone balancing nutrients perfect for helping you tone, shape and cleanse. Use chunky organic fruits and veggies full of vitamins and free of chemical pesticides that slow your metabolism and digestion. For fruit salads add a dash of cinnamon or coconut, great for clearer skin and improving digestion. Take these on the go and perfect for sharing at a party.

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All that Glitters: 6 Chic Gym Accessories for your Workout

Carat & Roses January 13, 2014

Get fit and keep your new years fitness resolutions with these chic workout accessories perfect for taking your fitness routine to another level.

1. Jump Rope

Work it out with this Alexander Wang jump rope, perfect to add into for your fitness routine and sure to give you a jump start on your new years resolution.

Alexander Wang Black Jump Rope, 135$

2. Boxing Gloves

Kick it into high gear with these Elisabeth Weinstock boxing gloves that will give you a confident boost to help you take your workout to the next level.

Elisabeth Weinstock Manila Boxing Gloves, 1 450$

3. Fuelband

Take this Nike fuelband from day to night perfect for keeping track of your workout and your step throughout the day and help you stay on top of your goals.

Nike Rose Gold Fuelband, 169$

4. Comb

Detangle your locks from your gym session with this Aerin gold tooth comb the perfect combination of chic meets essentials to keep your hair healthy and sleek from workout to night out.

Aerin Large Gold Comb, 40$

5. Headphones

Pump your playlist in these Beats by Dre headphones, to give you the motivation you need to make it through your fitness routine and chic on the go to keep your head in tune and listen responsibly at a lower level to protect your ears.

Beats by Dre Studio Wireless, 379.95$

6. Boxing Speed Bag

Pair your chic boxing gloves with this Killspencer leather black leather boxing speed bag.

Killspencer Boxing Speed Bag, 225$

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Train Like An Angel: 6 Inspired Workouts To Get In Victoria's Secret Model Shape

Carat & Roses December 10, 2013

Tune into the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show Tuesday Dec. 10 10/9c on CBS and train like an angel with these Victoria's Secret inspired workouts that will keep you toned & fit this festive holiday season. Maintain a healthy diet with clean eating, fresh pressed organic juices, our favorite protein by Perfect Fit, focus on eating organic with the foods you eat the most of and skip the coffee. You'll be catwalk ready that will have you ringing in the new year in model perfect shape and keep you healthy with routines and fitness right off the runway.

1. Ballet Beautiful

Touted as the go-to workout for Victoria's Secret Models Lily Aldridge, Doutzen Kroes, Lindsay Ellingson and Erin Heatherton, Ballet Beautiful promises to impress with a range of classic and cardio blasting routines to tone & sculpt you into model ready shape.

Can't get into their New York studio? Tune into their online classes or take home their DVD series for the perfect custom workout you can take with you anywhere you travel.

2. The Extension Room

This inspired ballet studio offers a variety of fitness and workout classes geared toward developing lean muscle, strengthen and give you improved posture and a fluid style of movement.

From Sugar Plum Fairy workshops and ballet bootcamps to Candle Light Stretches, barre, cardio and core sculpting classes The Extension Room in Toronto has everything you need to give you model legs, sculpted arms and belly blasting workouts giving you a sleek classical ballet physique perfect for your street style model walk off.

3. iNSiDE Out Studio barre

With low-impact, high result focused workouts, Ottawa's iNSiDE Out Studio barre offers the perfect variety of barre training designed to give you elongated muscles, a flat and toned tummy and increased flexibility, energy and strength.

Challenge yourself with targeted routines towards lean arms, sculpted legs and toned core that will help you get in shape like a Victoria's Secret angel and focus your workouts with stunning barre techniques proven to give you feeling of being in heaven on earth.

4. Tone It Up

Get these perfect beach workout routines to get you in model ready shape from Tone It Up that will keep you fit and toned for that beach destination holiday with workouts geared to target muscle sculpting, toning and shaping.

Follow a fitness program that works for you from their wide selection of DVD's and targeted workouts to help you blast away fat and give you the Victoria's Secret physique that will leave you with a model perfect strut well into the new year.

5. Tracy Anderson Metamorphosis

Be like an Victoria's Secret angel with this fitness program designed to transform you through a targeted approach focused on increasing muscle strength while toning and lengthening.

Metamophasis is the perfect take home workout to take on the go or get into their Brentwood, New York, Hamptons or Studio City locations. With sleek training and design these routines are sure to get you a model ready shape.

6. AeroSpace NYC

This famed AeroBarre ballet-boxing routine followed by Victoria's Secret models Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Doutzen Kroes, Candice Swanepoel and Adriana Lima, is the perfect balance of intense physical movement and graceful extension.

With basic barre maneuvers along with sculpting technique and fatigue exercises, get into their New York studio or bring home their DVD's with a mix of high performance boxing, jump and ballet workouts sure to give you sleek muscle definition and toned physique for the perfect off the runway walk.

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