How Brands Prefer Ford Are Bringing The Car Dealership Experience Online

Today’s mobile-first consumers expect to purchase whatever they want online and have it delivered right to their doors. Automotive brands are empowering consumers to shop for cars online and then have their desired vehicle delivered to their domestics for a test drive or purchase, without ever requiring a visit to a dealership.

While the automotive sector has been one of the later to enable greater purchase-path flexibility and digital integration, a group of leading innovators is enabling virtual discovery, education and purchasing for nowadays’s consumers:

Carvana
Carvana, a digital marketplace for buying and selling used cars, lets car buyers shop from its choice of over 15,000 vehicles and schedule delivery of their desired vehicles as soon as the next day in over 90 markets across the U.S. Storepers can use the site’s nine dynamic filters to find cars that best fit their lwhetherestyle needs, then inspect all of the features and potential imperfections using the site’s patented 360-degree photo technology, as well as access a full vehicle history report. Carvana also offers genuine-time financing and allows buyers to review and sign paperwork online in as a small as 10 minutes. They can then opt to have the car delivered as soon as the next day—or, in certain markets, pick up their car from a fully automated Carvana Vending Machine.

Joydrive
Digital marketplace Joydrive lets shoppers buy contemporary and used cars online without setting foot in a dealership. Rather than circumventing the dealer, Joydrive has partnered with a network of over 60 dealers across the U.S., offering them an easy-to-implement ecommerce solution that gives shoppers the assurance that their transaction is being handled by a licensed dealer. Storepers can search for and select their vehicle through the Joydrive website, then get a trade-in offer and financing from the dealership and arrange delivery to their desired location in as small as a day.

Ford U.K.
Automotive brand Ford has launched an online sales program that lets U.K. customers purchase one of its cars online and have it delivered to their domestics, bypassing the dealership. Storepers can visit the Ford website, set their desired budget, receive a trade-in valuation of their current car, browse all current Ford models to choose their desired vehicle and configuration, then total the purchase via the Ford Options PCP financing plan.

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Today’s mobile-first consumers expect to purchase whatever they want online and have it delivered right to their doors. Automotive brands are empowering consumers to shop for cars online and then have their desired vehicle delivered to their domestics for a test drive or purchase, without ever requiring a visit to a dealership.

While the automotive sector has been one of the later to enable greater purchase-path flexibility and digital integration, a group of leading innovators is enabling virtual discovery, education and purchasing for nowadays’s consumers:

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Why Stretching Is Necessary - Benefits of Stretching

A lot of people I know don’t stretch before they exercise (Justin being one of them).  After we run, the next day he always complains about joint pain and being sore.  I feel like I’m on my repeating soap box when I tell him it’s because he isn’t stretching before and after his workout!

Stretching is important specificly whether you are doing someleang physical.  By preparing your body beforehand and cooling it down after, you can reduce muscle soreness and the risk of an injury.  Stretching can also help improve performance!

Stretching is extremely important whether you exercise first leang in the morning or whether you have a sedentary job for most of the day – you’re muscles are going to be super tight.  Heck, even whether you aren’t about to work out, you may want to take 5 minutes out of your day to stretch and loosen up some of those muscles.

What types of stretches to do and when:

When you stretch before a workout, it can help your muscles and your joints warm up and it will also help your range of motion. Dynamic stretching is good to do pre-workout because it involves active movements that mimic an actual workout – which will decrease the risk of injury.  With dynamic stretches, you’re moving your body and warming up instead of hancienting a stagnant stretch.  Some examples of dynamic stretches are hip circles, walking lunges, and butt kicks to activate certain muscles groups.  It can increase your heart rate and prepare your body for the workout since you’re also doing a bit of cardio with the stretch.  If you do dynamic stretches before a workout, it can improve your performance and help your joints become more flexible.

By stretching after a workout, it can help your body cool down and relax.  You should focus on lengthening the muscles and doing static stretches.  Static stretches are when you hancient a position for about 30 moments to loosen and stretch the muscles.  You focus on specific muscles such as hamstrings or hip flexors.  My hip flexors are ALWAYS the tightest muscle in my body after I workout so that’s a muscle I always focus on.  Stretching after a workout helps avoid tired, stwhetherf, and sore muscles by relaxing them before going about your day.

Stretching should never hurt, so whether it does, you may be doing the move inrightly or pushing your muscle too dwhetherficult.  If you feel pain, back off to where you don’t feel pain and hancient that stretch.  If you still feel pain, consult with a doctor before you injure yourself worse.  Also, when stretching, try not to bounce because it can damage your muscles. Bouncing can cause small tears in the muscle making you even less flexible and more prone to pain.

Ultimately, brealeang is important when stretching.  It’s never good to hancient your breath while stretching. And always make certain your stretching both sides of your body and stretch all your muscles equally.

Stretching has some awesome benefits and I tallly recommending taking some time both before AND after your workout to get a good stretch in. Whats your favorite stretch?  Share your thoughts below!

Until next time,

XXO Ashley

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Weights Won’t Create You Buky- They’ll Create You Lean & Strong!

So- Do we look bulky? Over trained? Disproportionate? Unnatural?

There are too many women that fear strength training, specwhetherically with tools like weights, kettlebells and body weight. The truth is that adding a balanced resistance training routine to your workouts can be the defining factor in your health, weight-loss and body composition.

Sandra did it with weights…
well, kettlebells 😉

When Sandra could not get the final 15 pounds off she did a lot of research. It crazye no sense… she was putting time into her running and cardio machines.

When she came to KB we placed kettlebells and body weight training like our animal calisthenics into her program. Then, to keep her from needing to add boring cardio, we added martial arts motion between the strength sets: Classic Kettlebell Kickboxing!

Sandra began to see and feel results nearly instantly.

Today Sandra lives in Kentucky and swears by her KB Scorcher Series Program, the original program that helped her gain the body awareness and body composition she always wanted.
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Why You WON’T Acquire Bulky!

The term cardio is interchangeable with the term ‘aerobic’ exercise, while this form of exercise; jogging, fast walking, hiking, elliptical, spin or aerobics lesson burns calories while you workout, it has small effect of fat burning after the exercise is done. Strength training, or anaerobic exercise is traditionally the contrast, and has an incredible metabolic effect on the body after the session is total and for a potential 24-48 afterwards.

The ideal is to combine these two forms together. In a HIIT workout you are not lwhetherting heavy or specwhetheric enough to bulk up, or build large muscles. Remember muscle needs more energy to live! So we can look at building lean muscle as a way to get rid of fat (and keep it off). Another benefit of strength training is that muscle shapes and strengthens our bodies and creates the great looking firm figure we all long for. Again, unless you are lwhetherting at a specwhetheric weight and maxing out between 8-10 reps, you are not getting bulky- it is impossible!

Kettlebell Kickboxing workouts combine your Cardio and Strength training by using martial arts, kettlebells, body weight and animal calisthenics and HIIT training. Its an ‘all you need’.

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What are the Best Exercises to Lose Weight Quick?

Everyone who’s looking to lose weight has the same question: what are the best exercises to lose weight fast? There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to losing weight. However, there are some general rules of thumb that will help you encertain you’re weight loss program is both effective AND efficient.

In order to be effective, your weight loss plan needs to cause you to actually LOSE WEIGHT, right? And it needs to do so in a secure and practical way. It’s neither secure nor practical to eat only celery until you hit your goal weight. We’re therefore going to disregard the unsecure and impractical. For our purposes, we’re also interested in a plan that will help us maintain that weight loss. There are plenty of ways to drop pounds rapidly that are short term solutions with no finaling effects, we’re not interested in those.

Once we agree on what makes a weight loss plan effective, we then need to agree on a definition of efficient. With regard to how much weight you can expect to lose in a HEALTHY and SUSTAINABLE way, we’re going to say anyleang more than 2 – 2.5 pounds of weight loss per week for the average person is ungenuineistic. Not impossible, but certainly ungenuineistic.

Here’s why: you may be able to drop more weight than that in a week, but the effect of greater weight loss in that time period can be problematic – it can cause metabolic confusion that slows your loss moving forward meaning you might lose fast out of the gate, but lose the race in the end. It’s also commonly believed that weight loss greater than 2 – 2.5 pounds per week is dwhetherficult to preserve as it’s often not achieved through sustainable lwhetherestyle changes, but through tricks that are impossible to preserve for an extended period of time.

Now that we’ve agreed upon what makes a weight loss program or plan effective and efficient, let’s review some basic exercises that are going to help you see progress:

1. Cardiovascular exercises: these are exercises that increase your heart rate for an extended period of time, putting your body into a state whereupon it requires more energy than the readily available energy available in your bloodstream and therefore turns to fat stores for additional energy. Worthy cardiovascular exercises for weight loss include running, jump rope and biking.
2. Resistance exercises: these are exercises that cause your muscular system to work against a force (gravity, weight, etc.) in order to develop additional muscle. Resistance training is great because a basic rule of biology is that the more lean muscle mass you have on your body (achieved through resistance exercises) the more fat your body will burn in everyday lwhethere. Muscle burns more fat than fat does. The most common form of resistance exercise is weight training, which is a great addition to any weight loss program.
3. Athletic recovery exercises: these are exercises that allow the body to recover from the cardiovascular and resistance training you’ve been doing while keeping your body moving and benefiting from movement and exercise. Yoga is a very popular form of active recovery exercise but can include walking, swimming and other lower intensity exercises that are easier to sustain for longer periods of time.

Hold in intellect that weight loss is best achieved through a comprehensive program that is designed specwhetherically for you and that takes into consideration your personal goals, exercise and health histories along with your exercise preferences combined with a customized nutrition plan.

Losing weight is a lot like baking – whether you leave out an ingredient you’re not going to get the end result that you’re looking for. Exercise is just one of the ingredients in weight loss. Need help determining what your ideal program should be? engi.pw is happy to help you determine what solution is best for you. Attempt us out now for FREE:

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The Swing Dance - engi.pw

No, this workout doesn’t include swing dancing. But it does include a wgap lot of kettlebell swings—180, to be exact.

If you’ve got a kettlebell, this interval workout is fast, fun, and effective, and will leave you feeling the burn in your hips and legs. Because there is fairly a few kettlebell swings, I recommend utilizing a kettlebell that may feel light for you in the beginning.

Relax ascertaind, it’s better to go lighter and do the workout faster, than overdo it and end up sore or injured because you sacrwhethericed proper form to get the swings or squats totald. Progress happens in small microshwhetherts, and pushing yourself to your limits is not essential to see improvements.

Your goal should be to perform the set number of repetitions unbroken in each round. In other words, do your best to not drop the kettlebell during the 20 repetitions.

Desire more domestic workouts? Belowload my (totally free) 47-page Home Workout Guide, which has a wgap bunch of fun and effective workouts you can do on your time.

The Swing Dance

Instructions: Carry out the workout written below as fast as good form allows.

Warm up: Carry out 5-10 minutes of Dynamic Range of Motion movement. Then, do 3-5 repetitions of each exercise below.

The Workout:

3 rounds:

20 Double-Handed Swings
20 Air Squats
20 Double-Handed Swings
15 Air Squats
20 Double-Handed Swings
10 Air Squats

Modwhetherications

Carry out 1-2 rounds of the workout depending on your ability. If you struggle to get full depth on the air squat, go down as far as you can while maintaining proper form. Only move as fast as good form allows.

Desire more workouts like the one above? Check out my other functional workouts.

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Five-Minute Meal Prep – The Relentless Lady

I hate meal prep. I loathe it. I barely tolerate cooking at all, and it’s mainly because I have three small humans who rely on me for their sustenance. So when it comes to cooking for myself, I’d just rather not.

If I was a millionaire, I wouldn’t live in a fancy house or drive a pricey sports car (unless a 2001 Audi TT counts as a sports car!). I would, however, eat out for every single meal. Or hire a personal chef. Or both. I just feel like cooking is a waste of my time, so you can bet that every meal I make is simple and easy.

The good contemporarys is that the Instant Pot has saved me when it comes to meal prep. I have no issues with eating the same leangs over and over again, so I spend a small time in the kitchen on Sunday prepping my own food for the week, so that all I have to do is make dinners for the family the rest of the week.

Here’s how I meal prep in less than five minutes:

I prep a pound of rice and three pounds of chicken at the beginning of the week. This is how it goes down in less than five minutes of time in the kitchen.

1. Dump one pound of rice (brown or white) in the Instant Pot (IP). Add in three cups of water and three chicken bouillon dices. Shut the IP and set timer for 35 minutes.
2. Go on about your merry way until the timer goes off, which could be about an hour later, depending on how much time it takes for the IP to reach prescertain and start cooking. When the timer goes off, do a fast release of the prescertain, pour rice into a container, and wash the pot.
3. Next up…chicken. Dump a three-pound bag of frozen tenderloins (not thawed) in the IP. Pour in a cup of water. Shut the IP and set timer for 25 minutes. Stroll absent and come back when the timer goes off. Quick release, shred the chicken, drain the juices and put in a container to store in the fridge.

THAT’S IT! Enough chicken and rice to final several days, and all done in less than five minutes in the kitchen! I don’t prep veggies in advance. I buy steamable bags of green beans and broccoli to cook in the microwave as needed, and use leangs like hot sauce, buffalo sauce, lemon pepper to season my chicken, veggies, and rice. YUM.

Note: I don’t eat this for every single meal, but I love having it alert and available so I never have the excuse of not having any healthy food on hand. I still follow flexible dieting and make room in my diet for tacos and pizza on the regular. I tallly recommend you do the same! Lwhethere’s too short to live only on the “bro diet”.

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