Summer is officially here! After six months of notoriously finicky weather, mother nature has decided to reward us with beautiful blue skies and pleasantly mild temperatures. It has always been my favorite time of the year. I always look forward to the yearly tradition of storing away my bulky layers of winter clothing, hanging my summer dresses in my closet and best of all … shopping for bikinis!

So, now that summer is here, am I ready to wear less?

It has been a challenge, but I have worked hard to maintain a good sensible diet and I regularly to go to the gym as often as my busy schedule will allow.

Inline skating and roller skating are recognized by fitness professionals as one of the most effective ways to burn calories and increasing cardiovascular and respiratory fitness. No other exercise works your core, as well as shaping your glute, legs, and stomach muscles like inline skating. Inline Skating is also a highly injury-prone sport, or it was until fitness entrepreneur Thomas Demme developed the Skaters Coach.

The Skaters Coach is a wheeled device which provides stability and balance for inline and roller skaters of all ages.

4 out of 5 American women say they’re dissatisfied with the way they look. That will change this spring. SHAPE magazine, the #1 women’s active lifestyle magazine, is excited to announce its first ever “Bikini Body Tour.”

SHAPE will hit the hottest beaches with forty exhilarating fitness classes, sand-tastic games, sizzling prizes and special guest, Victoria’s Secret Supermodel, Marisa Miller. The cover model of the special Summer Issue, will be on-hand as women push themselves to the limit with muscle-burning moves on the beach. Those sexy beach bodies that women covet all year long can now be achieved with the help of the tour’s intensive exercise classes! Once they’ve got the bod, they can check out the hottest looks at an exclusive summer fashion show hosted by SHAPE’s Executive Style Director, Jacqui Stafford.