Great legs and a toned butt are a summer confidence booster and svelte lower half makes you look instantly younger.

Toning up and shedding body fat doesn't just mean exercising more it's also a question of exercising smarter.

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Weight loss can be a long uphill battle that gets more difficult as we age. We’re surrounded by magic diets that promise fast weight loss with a single radical change, but any weight we lose always seems to return. Sometimes with a vengeance.
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If you haven't tried a core exercise program yet - here's a few free exercises you can have a go at without calling in a personal trainer. 

One of the best things about a core exercise routine is that you can do it for free in the comfort of your own home. All you need for a core exercise routine is a fitness ball and somewhere soft like a carpeted floor or a mat and you're ready to go.

So core exercise can be one of the easiest forms of fitness training to fit into your schedule - however busy you are.  Even better - in conjunction with a healthy diet - core exercises really help shift those stubborn areas of abdominal flab.

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Many of us now know the importance of core strength training for dealing with abdominal flab and preventing back problems. We hunt for the best core exercise program on the web without realizing that the solution may lie in a familiar activity that we haven't even considered as core exercise - swimming.

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Thomas Jefferson is famous for many things. He wrote the Declaration of Independence and he was America's third president. He is also credited with inventing a wonderful little fitness tool called a pedometer.

A pedometer, or step counter, is a small, electronic gadget that is worn on your belt like a pager. It contains a pendulum that moves as you walk or jog. It counts the number of steps taken each day and encourages its wearer to be more physically active. "We all know what we are supposed to do", says Ray Varner, an exercise physiologist from Indianapolis. "Its just finding the motivation to do it. A pedometer gives you a goal for the day and holds you accountable to that goal".

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Nearly everyone likes to dance but not everyone likes to exercise. Now you can dance and get a great cardio workout too - whatever your age. 

As we all know heart-pumping cardio exercise is an essential part of any anti-aging regime.  But - for many of us - "workout boredom” can get in the way of continuing an exercise program. Twice weekly visits to the gym to pound the treadmill or the exercise machines soon lose their attraction. And one thing you really need when you are trying to tone up and shed weight is motivation. So why not step out to a 4-beat-bar and join a salsa class?

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