ACE Fitness^® & Healthy Lifestyle Blog

Ready to firm up those upper arms once and for all? ACE Certified pro Sabrena Merrill offers up a trio of triceps exercises that, along with a comprehensive fitness plan and balanced diet, are sure to improve the shape, tone and strength of the upper arms.

Exercising outdoors in the summer can be a lot of fun, but it also can increase your risk of heat-related illness like heat exhaustion and heat stroke. Learn how you can safely exercise outside even when the mercury is on the rise. Here are six tips for staying cool while you heat up that calorie burn.

Running is a fantastic cardio activity, but it also can give the body a pounding. Yoga poses are a great way to finish off a run and prepare your body for the next one. Yoga expert Elizabeth Kovar presents six ideal yoga poses that will help you maintain your flexibility and potentially avoid skeletal or muscular pain or injury.

Everyone from bodybuilders and athletes to novice exercisers perform biceps curls, each striving for that athletic look the biceps help to achieve. And while the biceps curl is a fantastic exercise, the real fun comes from the countless variations you can try. Check out these challenging, super-charged biceps curl exercises from fitness pro Stephanie Thielen.

There’s nothing quite like a good tune to help kick up your workout to a higher level. ACE fitness pros share their favorite workout songs that will have you rockin’ out as you sweat it out all summer long.