Kim Martin reached her breaking point when she realized she couldn't even sit on the sofa with her youngest daughter.

She always had struggled with her weight, which always had fluctuated, and having three children hadn't stabilized it. But she knew it was time for a change, she said.

"At my heaviest, I was probably very unhappy, even though people can't necessarily tell," Martin, of Lincoln, said. "But if you really look at my eyes in the pictures, you can tell the unhappiness, if somebody's been in that same place."

Over three years, Martin lost more than 100 pounds, and as she pursued a healthier lifestyle, she discovered Zumba, the fast-paced dance workout that's growing in popularity around the world. Her love of Zumba, and of helping people get healthy, led her to quit her job, become a Zumba instructor and open Total Body Infusion, her fitness studio at Seventh and Van Dorn streets.

An expensive gym membership is the last thing a person can fit into their tight budget these days, let alone their hectic schedules. This does not mean you have to deprive your body of a good workout. If you truly want to slim down and tone up by summer, all you need is a little bit of creativity. When a trip to the gym is just not going to happen, in-home training is a great option.

Even though your favorite state of the art stair master machine will miss you, you do not have to miss the workout you can get from it or any other machine you like to use at the gym. Quick and convenient workouts can be done in your home at no extra cost to you, minus a little bit of sweat of course. Here is how you can get started today.

Unless your favorite form of exercise is roller skating around a rink, you do not need a lot of space to get a great workout. If you do not have an exercise room, clear out a space to use your living room. It is there, you just have to re-arrange your furniture and maybe get rid of those TV trays. All you really need is enough space to take two broad steps in each direction....

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Is it difficult to find proper gym workouts? Are you noticing an overwhelming plethora of information that deal with gym workouts. Let me be the first to tell you that not all the information that you find will be credible and accurate. I say this because everyone has different goals that they are trying to achieve. This naturally means that not all gym workouts will benefit everyone.

You will need to customise your own workout routine depending on what your aims are if there is any assurance that you are lead in the right direction. I’ll break it down for you, if your desired ambition is weight loss and you are continuously building fat in the gym, these gym workouts aren’t working towards your goal, therefore achieving nothing.

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