Despite all of the pictures and videos you see floating around the Internet with these models in fantastic shape smiling from ear to ear while they are running, squatting, or doing jumping jacks this is not reality. If you watch anyone doing any type of exercise they are most likely not smiling, if they are, then they probably need to add more weight or up the intensity. Most everyone has some type of struggle when they are working out. Whether it is overcoming an injury, try

The past couple of weeks I have really been lacking motivation to work out and it started when I was running my boot camp 3 weeks ago. I was throwing a medicine ball straight up in the air as hard as I could and I ended up hurting my shoulder. I think I strained or pulled a muscle in my rotator cuff. Lesson learned is this is not a natural movement and I won’t ever do that again! Anyways, with my shoulder hurting I have not had any motivation to work out. Granted I do need to

A 5k is 3.1 miles, it is the shortest distance you can in an organized race, except if you are a kid then you can run a 1k. 5k’s are becoming a very popular event and if you search you can probably find one any time of the year. They are getting very creative in organizing 5k’s they have color 5k’s where spectators throw balloons filled with dye at you, night runs where you wear neon bracelets and it more like a party, they have 5k’s for charity, competitive 5k’s, 5’ks to mai