This advanced move will have you grabbing great abs while grabbing your groceries.

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With cart in front of you and feet firmly planted hip width apart, engage your abs and push the cart forward far enough that your arms are extended, but your elbows are not locked.  Keep feet in place and use your abs to bring cart back toward you.  This movement originates from your abs with the help of your arms.  It is very important to keep your abs engaged throughout this challenging move.  If you feel any pain in your lower back, please discontinue this movement.  Work up to one set of 12 or more.

Grab Abs is one of six exercises featured on our new Grocery Girls Totes. Available in black and sand, this durable shopping tote is 100% recyclable and features a Clip ‘n Carry Exercise Card with descriptions of the exercises you can tuck in your bag or share with a friend.

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Make the most of waiting in line with our Legs In Line move.

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While standing at your cart lift one leg off the ground with toes pointed up and heel down.  Slowly move your foot in clockwise circles. Keep this movement slow and controlled, focusing on using your inner thigh to bring the leg around.  After 30 seconds, reverse direction and make counterclockwise circles, focusing on using your outer thigh muscle to move the leg around.

Variation: To make this exercise more challenging let go of the cart.  Make sure to engage your abs to maintain your balance.

Legs in Line is one of six exercises featured on our new Grocery Girls Totes. Available in black and sand, this durable shopping tote is 100% recyclable and features a Clip ‘n Carry Exercise Card with descriptions of the exercises you can tuck in your bag or share with a friend.

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Are you resolving to eat better in 2010?  At SqueezeItIn we give you clever and effective ways to squeeze exercise into your daily routine, but we’re also on the hunt for great ways to help you squeeze in nutrition.  With that in mind, we asked  NeverSayDiet.com’s Karolina Starczak to share her favorite tips for squeezing more fiber into your diet.

Here’s the latest installment from Karolina’s series “Squeezing in Fiber Can Get Rough:”

One of fiber’s biggest perks is that it can’t find its way into our fat cells. Instead, it simply passes through, undigested. Now before you down that whole bag of celery, let’s explore the science behind fiber’s magic. When fiber enters the small intestine, it actually signals a hormone called CCK (cholecystokinin), whose job is to tell the brain that we are full. This is the “fullness” hormone that makes us put our fork down with ease. Usually this hormone is release when fat is being digested and suppresses our appetite, but it has been found that fiber has a similar affect, minus the calories.

Read on to get this week’s Making Fiber Fit tips from Karolina:
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We all know that making good choices at the grocery store means reading labels.  While making those good choices squeeze in some good moves with our Label Readers.

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Stand perpendicular to your cart facing the shelves with feet hip width apart and knees slightly bent.  Engage your abs and push the cart away from you. Pull the cart back toward you using your arm and your oblique muscles (the abdominal muscles that run along the front and sides of your body). Your feet should not move.  (See video.)  Continue for at least one set of 12 on each side throughout your shopping trip.

Label Readers is one of six exercises featured on our new Grocery Girls Totes. Available in black and sand, this durable shopping tote is 100% recyclable and features a Clip ‘n Carry Exercise Card with descriptions of the exercises you can tuck in your bag or share with a friend.

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To celebrate our recent appearance on The  Dr. Oz Show we’re giving you $2 off our new SqueezeItIn.com Workout DVD !

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Earlier this year we asked our Facebook Fans, “What’s your biggest challenge when it comes to ’squeezing in’ nutrition?” The “bulk” of your answers: Making fiber fit. So to “get things moving” we turned to NeverSayDiet.com’s Karolina Starczak who came up with weeks of “regular” fiber-filled guest blog posts. Here’s the first installment from her series “Squeezing in Fiber Can Get Rough:”

Fiber’s claim to fame may have started with “an apple a day”…, but if you’ve been keeping tabs on our dear old friend, then you probably know that it’s been popping up in everything from Splenda® to yogurt. Yep! Artificial sweeteners with fiber—a little over the top in my opinion, but it definitely places fiber in the supermarket hall of fame. So what’s the big deal with fiber and why is it bombarding store shelves everywhere?

Technically, fiber is a carbohydrate, but our bodies cannot break it down. Its resistance to our digestive enzymes gives it unique characteristics that benefit us in several ways and give this unbreakable carb health properties unlike any other nutrient. Not only can it lower cholesterol and the risk of diabetes, but it helps keep us fuller longer while keeping our digestive tracts healthy and regular.

This week’s Making Fiber Fit Tip from Karolina:

• Skip fruit and veggie juices. While juices can have plenty of vitamins and taste great, they lack the fiber of whole fruits and vegetables. A cup of apple juice only has 0.2 grams of fiber, but a whole crunchy apple can have about 5 grams, depending on the size.

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Why not make the most of the heaviest items you buy at the grocery store and get great arms by the gallon with this two-in-one move?

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Hold a gallon of milk, juice, or detergent down at your side. Slowly raise the gallon up and bring it toward your shoulder.  Slowly lower it back to starting position. Continue this exercise for at least 2 sets of 12 on each arm.

Variation: Tricep Press

Clutching the gallon, keep hand by your side and bend your elbow.  Keeping elbow bent extend the gallon straight back. Return to starting position. Keep this movement slow and controlled, focusing on using the tricep muscle to bring the gallon back and forth, not the momentum of the weight. Continue this exercise for 2 sets of 12 on each arm.

Grab-a-Gallon is one of six exercises featured on our new Grocery Girls Totes.  Available in black and sand, this durable shopping tote is 100% recyclable and features a Clip ‘n Carry Exercise Card with descriptions of the exercises you can tuck in your bag or share with a friend.

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Did you and the turkey (and stuffing, and gravy, and pie) tie one on this holiday? SqueezeItIn.com featured guest bloggers Jen & Jaclyn of fit·n·pretty offer up their best holiday “hangover” cures in five easy steps:

From Jen & Jaclyn:

Confession: We have the (not so healthy) tendency of turning Thanksgiving into our own personal girl vs. food eating contest. So, if like us, on Thanksgiving you downed a bit too much stuffing and not enough veggies, you may have woken up  feeling more stuffed than the turkey. And while holiday eating may leave you with a guilty conscience, don’t let it derail your normally healthy eating habits! Read on for our most tried and true fit·n·pretty tips for recovering from a food filled day.

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We are thrilled to announce the SqueezeItIn.com online store is officially open and features our brand new workout DVD!

(Read or download our press release here.)

The new SqueezeItIn.com Workout DVD features two ways to Squeeze-It-In:

“The Workout” is an exclusive 30-minute workout that teaches you to “let life be your workout!” No gym, no equipment, no excuses.

“The Moves” are dozens of on-location videos of clever and effective exercises that show you how to make fitness fit throughout your busy day.

The DVD also includes the bonus 5-Anywhere Exercises – moves you can do anytime, anywhere – and no one will even know! And inside you’ll find a Clip ‘n Carry Exercise Card of some our most popular moves.

And an exclusive coupon code from SqueezeItIn.com apparel partner BornFit.

But we’ve got even more great SqueezeItIn.com products for you!

The Grocery Girls Totes feature illustrations of six exercises you can do at the grocery store.  Available in black and sand, this durable shopping tote is 100% recyclable and features a Clip ‘n Carry Exercise Card with descriptions of the exercises you can tuck in your bag or share with a friend.

And we didn’t forget the t-shirts!  From the “SqueezeItIn Girl Ringer” to our “Life’s a gym. Work it out!” black scoop neck tee, we’ve got you covered in SqueezeItIn.com style.

Shop now! Pre-order you SqueezeItIn.com Workout DVD today!  Orders start shipping Dec. 1, 2009!

SqueezeItIn.com featured guest bloggers Jen & Jaclyn of fit·n·pretty have found a way to have their cake and keep their skinny jeans, too!   Better yet, they’re sharing their tried and true tips for baking denim-friendly treats that will keep you looking good after eating goodies! And, of course, they included recipes. Enjoy!

From Jen & Jaclyn:

The holidays wouldn’t be the same without the sweet aroma of pies, cookies and breads wafting from a warm kitchen. There is something very comforting about mixing up an old family recipe and sharing the fruits of your labor with family and friends. The only problem with all of this home baked goodness, is that with each sugar cookie, slice of pie, and piece of pumpkin bread you eat, the chances of fitting into your jeans come January 2nd dwindle. And we are in a recession girls! We can’t afford to be buying new pants after convincing ourselves that our current pair has shrunk in the wash (fyi, they didn’t). But for us, not baking during the holidays (or anytime for that matter), is not an option. So rather than hanging up our aprons and putting away our wooden spoons, we have devised some sneaky and very fit·n·pretty ways to lighten up our holiday baking.

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