There are thousands of workout DVDs out there, so how do you choose the one that is right for you?

Follow your interest

Being more active starts with just moving your body, and what better way is there to get motivated than through play? Here are 4 games that make exercise fun, and don't cost a penny.

1) Musical bumps

Dear Paul, I need some help with toning up my triceps, which are the best exercises for doing that? Thanks! 

Close grip push-ups are good, bench dips are good, overhead dumbbell extensions are good. All of those exercises will help you tone up your triceps.

Angelica (noenoe) was looking for a website that could help her motivate her 11 year old son, Roly, to get healthier and lose weight. XWeighted.com provided the tools she was looking for, and since signing up 14 weeks ago, Roly has lost an awesome 20½ pounds. 

Paul Plakas is about to attempt something great: He wants to set the record for the world's largest outdoor boot camp, and raise $25,000 for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. Here's how you can help him:

Paul Plakas will be returning to Saint John, NB, where he will be hosting boot camps and giving talks in conjunction with the Saint John YMCA, Weight Watchers and the Canadian Mental Health Association.

These events will be happening on the 17^th and 18^th of July, and tickets are available for those who have been participating in the XWeighted.com National Challenge (and those that missed the original event but want to attend this one).

With just over a week until the final weigh-in day (July 10^th), we asked Paul Plakas to tell us how to deal with this last week. Not surprisingly, Plakas is telling us all to go hard, right up to the end!

After taking hula-hoop classes for two years, Candice Prior trained as an instructor at Studio in Essence in Halifax (where she teaches with her mentor, veteran hula-hoop artiste Monique Ryan, shown in the picture). Prior says that hula-hoop fitness classes are the next big thing.