Bikini Season {Tone It Up Challenge}

{recently bought from Old Navy}



Every year for almost every girl we see all the cute bathing suits that come out in the stores, and we say to ourselves "holy crap! bikini season is just around the corner"

aka time to diet, work out, diet, work out some more...

For me, this means saying goodbye to sweets (settling for fresh strawberries with some cool whip) besides the occasional cup of fro-yo, taking it easy on the my carb intake, and up'ing my cardio/strength training.

Today I have something to share that some of you may have heard about, but if not, this would be great to help you get in better shape for bikini season.
All of us can use a nice butt kickin' every now and again. Am I right or am I right?!
This will do that.

I've expressed my love for the Tone It Up girls many times on le blog..

(you can read about one time: here)

and since I've said before that I would give my left leg to have their bodies (but I'd be sans one leg, obviously), I trust them. They know what they are talking about..they know what works and they know what doesn't..they make their workouts/exercises easy to learn. 

The Tone It Up girls just announced that they are the trainers

 for Self Magazine's Drop 10 Challenge.

Right when I heard this news, I jumped on over to SELF.com and signed myself up. I'm passionate about living a healthy lifestyle and feeling the best that I can. We all want to look and feel our best, don't we? The Drop 10 Challenge is free and Karena and Katrina will provide you with meal plans, toning moves, and cardio workouts to get you slimmer in 5 weeks. You can access all of these on SELF.com, but they will also have two 14-page spreads in April and May's SELF magazine issues.

Last year I did their Bikini Series workouts weekly and loved them. They made me feel stronger and I really liked that I could just follow along to the workouts in my own home if I couldn't make it to the gym one day. I also signed up to receive their newsletters so you can get workouts sent to your email.

I really do just love everything these 2 girls do (..hire me? pahlease?), so the point I'm trying to make is: if you are looking to tone up or lose weight for the summer..I would definitely recommend trying this.

Push yourself out of your comfort zone!
You will feel so happy that you completed it and will take pride in yourself.
That is so important.

What do you have to lose?
besides that excess weight you don't want anyways.. ;)

You can sign up HERE.

In the meantime, before you start this challenge (like how I assume all of you are going to sign up?!), here is one of my favorite workout videos by the TIU girls.

{if you want to see more of their workout videos, just go to youtube and type in "tone it up girls" and a bunch of workout videos will pop up!}

Go on..

get to work.

and then sing to yourself--"I'm Sexy and I Know It.."

What do you do to get ready for bikini season?

Do you do any of the Tone It Up workouts?