Most of the fitness experts you see don’t really look like that most of the time. Quite a few stars will diet down a dress size or two for the brief amount of time that they actually shoot the shows.

The fitness industry has seen how busy you are and responded with 30 minute workouts, 20 minute workouts, heck ~ even a 6 minute workout DVD that will get you slim, “in no time!” Doesn’t that all sound a little silly? Here’s a sane way to reach your goals and stay there for good.

If you’re going to get your Irish on this St. Patty’s Day you need to know how much damage you’re doing. What will it actually take to burn off a couple of pints ‘o Guinness?

Here are some fitness trends for 2009. Use them to shake up the same old, same old.

Perhaps the one we’re all the most likely to fall for is the MD endorsement. Some guy on the cover of a book, or on the corner of a box with a white coat on ~ looking all official ~ telling us this is the way to go. You have to trust a guy with an MD after his name right?