Transform: Your Body & Mind

Vancouver's YYoga is leading a 40-Day Personal Revolution course. Based on Baron Baptiste's book, "40 Days to a Personal Revolution," participants follow a six-day weekly yoga practice, plus enjoy daily meditation and a cleansing diet. Each week emphasizes a different theme to help inspire and support your journey: Presence, Vitality, Equanimity, Restoration, Centering and Triumph. Call up your friends and start your own workshop. Unsure which yoga style suits you? Lululemon's Yoga 101 and podcasts will bring out your joy, serenity and happiness.

New! Q&A: Strength Training

Q: Do all exercises do the same thing when working your arms? A: What I think you're asking is: do all biceps or triceps exercises hit the same muscles? Biceps exercises hit the muscles on the front of your arms, but certain exercises target specific sections of the biceps, which are comprised of two muscles. Read more >>

Journal: Your Meals

Trying to improve your healthy eating habits? Studies prove that a diet diary or food journal is the most helpful tool. Logging your meals ensures that you're meeting daily nutritional requirements. When you see what foods you're eating, monitor portion sizes and maintain regular eating occasions, you'll get desired results. Even if you record your meals over a short time period - say in a seven-day diary - you may find patterns in your lifestyle that are helpful or hinder your success. Then you can make improvements. Do you keep a food journal? AOL Health's online diet diary is convenient and easy to use. BEST TIP: To reach your health goals, focus on what items you need to add to your nutrition, rather than on what you can't eat. You'll feel good - not deprived - about making small changes that make positive behaviours stick.

Visit: This is Why You're Thin

Does a deep-fried chocolate cream egg tantalize your tastebuds? What about corn on the cob wrapped in hickory bacon, with two hot dogs and Colby-Jack cheese sticks wrapped in ground beef? This is Why You're Fat is a site featuring images of the fattiest foods people put into their bodies. At once, it's disgusting and astonishing, like cheesy gastronomic porn. But what is harmful is that visitors to the site say that the images compel them to try the dishes, which supports the maxim: we eat with our eyes. If that's true, visit the site's healthier counterpart. There submissions are posted celebrating the foods and behaviours that make and keep you fit, lean, and healthy. Everyday people send in their photographs of beautiful fruit and vegetable dishes, healthy smoothies, trips to the farmer's market and all kinds of exercises certain to inspire your healthy lifestyle.

Celebrate: Earth Day

Make this Wednesday, April 22nd special and workout nature's way. If you want to participate in Earth Day celebrations, but do more than strike a tree pose, then swap your sneakers for wellies. The Telegraph reports that people in the UK head for the countryside and build a wall or clear some trees. These outdoor gyms offer a way of keeping fit in the fresh air and sunshine by engaging in a wide variety of activities, from clearing woodland and building dry stone walls to repairing footpaths and creating community gardens. They also give nature lovers a steady cardio, upper and lower body workout. Learn how to start a green gym or pick up Get Fit Through Gardening, an excellent aerobic gardening book with advice that can save your back and knees. Don't have a yard? Apartment dwellers take heart and check out Earth Day events in your neighbourhood.

Fit Facts:

Caffeine boosts your exercise performance by stimulating your nervous system. Caffeine users improved endurance and short/high intensity exercise performance by 12.4% when compared to groups using placebos. Sports medicine studies recommend one cup of coffee at least 20 minutes prior to exercise. Curious about just how much caffeine is in popular sources you enjoy?

Energy drinks are loaded with 300 mgs of caffeine in one 12 ounce can. That equates to:

• 2 cups of coffee

• 6 espresso shots

• 30 chocolate bars

Weird or Wonderful?

Medicine and Swiss balls, tubing and dumbbells are useful fitness aids that help you get results you seek. But this London club, Gymbox, has an innovative to help members exercise.