Interval training maximizes your efforts and gets you results. Your health is your wealth! Feel good, look sexy. Give me 15 minutes, and I'll get you summer body ready.

Exhaustion seems to make me a more forgiving listener.

As a personal trainer and nutritional consultant, I get asked a lot of questions. Apparently, while not everyone actually goes to the gym or follows a specific diet, everyone is certainly curious about it. And, for some reason, every query seems to start with "how much," "how little" or "how often."

If you're looking to get rock-hard abs, remember that proper dietary choices is your first step, but from there a comprehensive fitness program and targeted ab exercises will help you achieve your goal.

An exercise training program must continually build, constantly offering the body and muscles new challenges so as not to plateau, and to continue to rev up the metabolism and build stamina. But how that is done is truly relative and specific to each client.

By Laura Schwecherl It's time to amp up the intensity. Circuit, HIIT and Tabata training produce killer results in little time. Circuit training ...

Hopefully, your first three weeks of training were productive and you are starting to feel stronger and a bit more conditioned. In this next three-week phase, we are not only going to change the program, but we are also going to slightly increase the intensity of the strength training program.

Over the next couple of months, I am going to guide you through a training program that will not only make your time in the gym more efficient but more productive. This program will primarily be about adding lean muscle mass while decreasing body fat.

Years ago, I had a workout plan and I followed it to the letter. But these days, almost never do I go to the gym and do the workout I plan to do.

Ditch the idea that when it comes to exercise, longer is better. Enjoy quick workouts -- and your extra time!

We've collected playlists from top trainers, DJs, music industry executives, editors and athletes to bring you new music for your time in the gym, the park, or anywhere else you like to get physical.

When I enter the park in the early morning, somehow in my running shoes and slightly whimpering, I need a playlist that won't just pump me up -- I need it to wake me up.

We're big fans of interval training over at Greatist, so it's no surprise we're always looking for music to go along with those high-intensity routines. The trick to a good interval playlist? A mix of tempos to help you push through the rough spots and coast through the rest.

If you can only find 30 minutes (or less) to fit in some exercise, what's the best use of your time -- a cardio workout or a weight training session?

If you're one of those exercisers who feel like you have reached a plateau in your workouts, it's time for you to consider "interval training."

Would you say I was crazy if I told you that a brief four minute workout could help you shed fat, taper inches off your waist line, improve your overall health and endurance?