Unathi in Two-Piece Workout Gear Says "Remember to Have Fun"

Social media jump rope sensation Lauren Flymen is showing fans and followers a new skipping routine set to Madonna’s Like a Prayer. Flymen, 32, shared a video of herself wearing a red one-piece workout dress, jumping rope in her yard with headphones on and a black cap. “Fun one 💃🏼 🪢 using my pvc rope (link in bio) 🤓 learn my ways: @fancy.feats app,” she captioned the post. Flymen has made a career out of jumping rope and showing others how to do it—here’s what her wellness regimen looks like.

1. Fitness and Happiness

Flymen started jumping rope during the pandemic lockdowns. “Jump rope turned my life around in lockdown,” she told Get the Gloss. “Not only am I now the fittest I've ever been and in the best shape I've ever been, it gave me a reason to get out of bed when I wasn’t working, it gave me something to focus on, and it gave me the satisfaction of something to work towards with unlocking new skills. It kept me healthy, it connected me with people around the world and gave me a sense of togetherness.”

2. Strength Training

Flymen focused on strength training before she started to jump rope. "My cardiovascular endurance was lacking so it was a slight shock to the system taking up skipping,” she told Get the Gloss. “At first, I couldn't jump for very long without feeling exhausted. I find it so much easier now and my sessions are often up to an hour with little rest. I'd steered clear of cardio for a while because I didn't enjoy it and preferred weight lifting. Before skipping I was lifting weights four times a week so I had a level of fitness from that.”

3. Career Goals

Flymen is thrilled she gets to jump rope for a living. “When I started this, my goals were always just to learn the tricks, and those are still my goals,” she told Muscle and Health. “There are loads of skills I still want to learn. I realized skipping had become more than just a hobby when I went back to work after being furloughed, and it was so difficult to keep on top of everything going on. Shortly after that, I left my job, and now I can call skipping my full-time job, which is amazing.”

4. Sporty Spice

Shutterstock

Flymen has a background in sports and athletics. “I am a sporty person, and I grew up doing dance and sports such as squash, netball, lacrosse and athletics so I guess I'm quite coordinated although, that said, skipping made me feel very uncoordinated at first,” she told Get the Gloss. “It's so much harder than it looks. I'm quite a determined person and hate being rubbish at things so I guess I do pick things up quickly due to this.”

5. Have Fun Working Out

Flymen knows how important it is to find exercise you genuinely enjoy. “The best fitness advice I’ve ever received was to do something you enjoy and enjoy being fit and healthy,” she told Muscle and Health. “If you don’t enjoy it, you won’t be able to sustain it and won’t want to do it every day. So, find something you love doing every day. People should start skipping for the same reason I did because it’s so much fun. And once they get started, they won’t be able to stop.”

Iskra Lawrence is wishing fans a “good morning” in her swimsuit! The inspiring model, influencer, and designer shows off her beautiful body in a few swimsuits via her latest Instagram Stories posts, motivating fans to start off the day on a healthy note. In a recent interview with Celebwell, the mother-of-one revealed her top 5 fitness secrets. Read on to see Iskra Lawrence's top tips for staying in shape and the photos that prove they work—and to get beach-ready yourself, don't miss these essential 30 Best-Ever Celebrity Bathing Suit Photos!

1. Find Joy in Movement

Iskra Lawrence/Instagram

Iskra insists that it is important to have a healthy relationship with fitness. “As someone who's had an eating disorder and had body dysmorphia, I used to see exercise as punishment, and I used to simply see it as a means to burn more calories, so I could be in calorie deficit,” she told Celebwell. Then she found “that joy in movement” and realized that exercise didn’t have to be “all or nothing” and then she started to enjoy it. “Now I know that there are so many different ways I can move my body,” she said.

2. Challenge Yourself

Iskra Lawrence/Instagram

Iskra suggests finding ways to push and motivate yourself to do more. “When I do find a new challenge. I then feel really accomplished when I do something that's either unexpected or I know is empowering.” For example, sometimes she sets a high number of reps or weights.

3. Focus On Building Strength

Robin L Marshall/Getty Images

Iskra strives for a feeling of strength and empowerment. “I like to view my body as something that's strong and something that's able, something that's taking me around the world enabling me to do things,” she continued. “I love going on hikes running after my little one.” Now she views her body, “like it's my home,” she continues. “I want it to be strong. I want it to be built out of brick, not straw.”

4. Find Your Safe Fitness Place

Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images

Iskra isn’t exactly comfortable in gym settings. “As a woman I feel like I'm never taken seriously when I want to use a piece of weight equipment,” she said. “I get interrupted a lot, even during reps and sets. I've been interrupted multiple times, tapped on the shoulder trying to talk to me about form. And for me when I want to work out it's like I only have this much amount of time allotted to move, and I just want to be in it. I want to forget that I'm in the real world. I'm just in this zone.” This is why she tries to workout at home.

5. Mix Up Your Workouts

Pierre Suu/GC Images

While her partner, Philip Payne, can do the same cardio workout every night of the week, Iskra needs to mix up her routine and dabble in different workouts. “That would drive me bananas,” she told us. “I need to switch it up.”

Whitney Simmons is an extremely successful influencer. She is known for specifically being a fitness influencer. Simmons shared a new gym video on her Instagram this week. In it, she wore a pink workout outfit, and did some squats with a barbell. She captioned the post, “I hate to admit it but… I did have fun.” How does she stay so fit? Read on to see 5 ways Whitney Simmons stays in shape and the photos that prove they work.

1. She Isn’t Focusing On Her Weight

In this Instagram post, Simmons talked about how she is no longer focusing on her weight. “GAINING WEIGHT IS NOT ALWAYS A BAD THING,” she wrote in the caption. “I finally, after years of hard work to overcome my mental illnesses, feel my strongest again both mentally and physically. I’ve worked hard to continue to push weight out of the desire to simply feel strong again, not to chase a certain body type. With this has brought a lot of negative criticism about my body and assumptions being made. Thank you for sticking beside me through this journey. To have your support through it all has left me with so much gratitude for you, I’ll never be able to properly express it.”

2. She Works Her Legs

Simmons shares a lot of her workouts for specific body parts on her Instagram. In this post, she shared her lower body workout. “LEGS GET ITTTT 🩵🎧🤸💦👟 ALRIGHT my angels let me walk you through this HOT FIRE GLUTE workout coming at you from my Legs Get It @thealiveapp program 🤪1️⃣ 4x10 kas glute bridge. 2️⃣ 3x8 barbell rdl. 3️⃣ 3x8 step ups swap machine for bench/box + db. 4️⃣ 3x12 glute med cable kickback.”

3. She Works Her Upper Body

In this Instagram post, Simmons shared her favorite upper body exercises. “WE DON’T SKIP upper body days around here partner 🎀🩰🍰🍒🩷 let me walk you through this HOT FIRE shoulders, chest and triceps workout coming at you straight from the Begin Again Challenge on @thealiveapp ✨☁️🩵 it’s never too late to start 🤭 start your FREE 7 day trial and see if it’s a good fit for you 🫶🏼 1️⃣ 3x8 seated shoulder press. 2️⃣ 3x8 lateral raises. 3️⃣ 3x8 close grip chest press superset with 10 neutral grip skullcrushers. 4️⃣ 3x8 cable tricep pushdown.”

4. She Works Her Back

Simmons makes sure to workout her back. She shared her favorite exercises in this Instagram post’s caption. “MIC’D UP 🎤 BACK ATTACK 🤭back again to demolish your back 👟🪩🎧🤍☁️ coming at you straight from my NEW LEGS GET IT program on @thealiveapp. 1️⃣ 4x8 bb bent over row. 2️⃣ 3x10 lat pulldown. 3️⃣ 3x10 bicep curls. 4️⃣ 3x8 kneeling cable pulldown. 5️⃣ 3x6 wide 1 and 1/2 curl.”

5. She Weight Trains

As you can see in a lot of her Instagram posts, Simmons does a lot of weight training. The Mayo Clinic states that using weights has a lot of benefits. “By stressing your bones, strength training can increase bone density and reduce the risk of osteoporosis. Strength training can help you manage or lose weight, and it can increase your metabolism to help you burn more calories.”

Fitness model Michelle Lewin is asking fans their opinion on where she should compete next. Lewin, 38, shared a video of herself wearing bikini bottoms and a black tank top, posing in front of a mirror. “Will we compete again? 😜 And what category? Bikini or Wellness?” she captioned the post. “Beautiful Michelle! You are an example of perseverance and discipline ❤️,” a fan commented. Here’s how the fitness influencer stays strong and happy while juggling family and career.

1. Intense Cardio

Lewin loves intense cardio sessions at least once a day, especially when she’s trying to cut weight for competitions. “I just love to sweat like a maniac,” she told Simply Shredded. “So whatever I feel like: StairMaster, rollerblading around South Beach Miami or spinning classes. I keep the intensity high and make sure that I am always pushing my hardest.”

2. Go-To Exercises

Shutterstock

Lewin has three exercises she would pick if she had to limit herself: “Sprints – Helps tighten that booty and burns fat at the same time,” she told Simply Shredded. “Lunges – Great exercise to really target my leg muscles. Side Lateral Raises – Boring for some people but I love to train shoulders and I feel that side raises have really helped sculpt my delts.”

3. Weights and Cardio

Lewin works out twice a day, mixing it up with weights and cardio. “My day consists of two workouts: cardio in the morning and weight training in the evening,” she told Iron Man Magazine. “But that’s the only thing that is constant from day to day. My life is packed with meetings, photo shoots, gym videos, and a lot of traveling. I train six days a week. I do cardio in the morning for 45 minutes and weights every evening. I do all muscle groups once per week, but I focus mostly on glutes and abs, which I train twice a week.”

4. Zumba Workouts

Shutterstock

Lewin loves fun workouts like Zumba, which keep you going and don’t feel like a grueling exercise. She suggests doing it in hotel rooms while traveling if necessary. "Each move you make is accompanied by music, and music is the main motivator,” she told PEOPLE. “You forget to count while you are exercising and enjoy yourself while you do this one-hour workout that works out every muscle in your body."

4. Always Ready

Lewin doesn’t take a break from training, after a negative experience while on vacation. “I wasn’t able to keep up my routine, and it took almost two months to get back in shape,” she told Iron Man Magazine. “I really learned from that and will never do that again! I’m usually just seven days out from being shoot or competition ready. My body is my career and a business, so I can’t afford to let it go.”