New here?  Like Athlean-XX for Women on Facebook to stay up to date with new posts, great fitness and nutrition articles, motivations and inspirations, fitness challenges, Q&As, giveaways and more! When we’re looking to lose weight, we tend believe that the only factors involved are diet and exercise. But, we forget that a crucial factor in our lives can cause weight gain and prevent weight loss: STRESS.  Excess stress causes cortisol hormone levels in your body …

New here?  Like Athlean-XX for Women on Facebook to stay up to date with new posts, great fitness and nutrition articles, motivations and inspirations, fitness challenges, Q&As, giveaways and more! Most women who’ve done strength training as part of their fitness routine have tried the machines at the gym at some point.  As hard as they can be to figure out, they often feel safer to us than other types of strength training.  There are pictures …