There's no longer time to mess around. If you're going to exploit summer for its healing properties, you must get on to that project pronto. Social Workout recommends you consider joining 1,500 or so other brave souls in our latest challenge, a two week joint production with Everyday Health. What's this got to do with furniture? Look, you don't want to end up feeling like an overstuffed La-Z-Boy before your time. The obvious solution is more exercise and healthier eating, and a strict limit on sedentary, screen-based entertainment, (certain design blogs notwithstanding). You've heard of "social media?" Well, this is "social fitness," and it turns out that group energy works, and tracking your daily behavior in the presence of others can have very beneficial effects. Kind strangers and nice prizes await you — like a one-on-one consultation with one of Everyday Health's certified nutritionists. Let's make the long days count.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder. It's deep summer, and time to leave the Room & Board catalog behind, slam the screen door, and do cartwheels across the nearest lawn. Social Workout, Apartment Therapy's health-conscious cousin, has partnered with mega-site EveryDayHealth.com to concoct the 14-day 'I Heart Summer' Slim-Down Challenge kicking off this Monday. Upwards of 2,000 people have thusfar committed to eat healthier, spend less time in front of their various screens, and to get outside and be active. Why join them? We're talking massive outpouring of group support for your long-suffering body! This thing could turn your summer from muggy to memorable. Also, on offer are a slew of prizes, including a complimentary one-on-one with a certified nutritionist for everyone who finishes the challenge. Grab a friend, and come along. You can sort out the living room post Labor Day.

First comes the innocent yoga mat, dumbbells acting as bookends, or spinning shoes jockeying with stilettos. Soon the extra blankets go to Goodwill so the storage ottoman can accommodate yoga blocks. Then a person falls in love with hula hooping, and suddenly the coffee table bearing Marilyn Monroe memoirs is a villainous obstacle, preventing one from combining core exercises with an episode of Real Housewives. Clear the floor! A home designed for motion is lighter, less cluttered, and cleaner. Funny thing: The process works in reverse. Replace your static furniture with open space, yoga mat, or trapeze, and watch your body begin to move. Need a push? Find your challenge on SocialWorkout.com.

June is busting out all over. Are you? You may be dreaming of a wildly healthy barefoot summer, but you will be tested by lethargy, torpor and unholy air conditioning. Recommendation: Make the Internets work for you. Grab a friend and check yourself into a Social Workout challenge. Your chances of lifestyle victory increase big time with a bit of support and accountability. This month we introduce Social Workout 101, the core curriculum of extreme wellness. Also, we invite you to the Market Summer, which insists you visit your favorite Farmers' Markets early and often. Sound easy enough? Well then, start keeping track, impress yourself, inspire your friends AND win mad prizes!

In April, Social Workout challenged Apartment Therapy loyalists to juice with a vengeance. This month we’ve teamed up with our friends at Hudson Urban Bicycles to bring you two more seasonally-appropriate challenges: Could you ride your bike 100 miles, or get by without disposable plastic for a month? We dare you, and we’re standing by to track your progress and heap glory and prizes on you should you succeed. Grab a friend and come find out more....

Eleven Days into The Great Spring Cleanse on Social Workout, and we've discovered that both Mae West and Princess Diana were into colonic irrigation. Please forgive, it's the kind of fact that comes up. Since last we posted in this space, more than 1,000 people have stepped up to our spring cleanse challenge, attracted by the big group support and fine discounts from BluePrintCleanse. If the warm weather has you feeling the need to get healthy, and you could use a push, come join the party. The colonics are entirely optional, and the discounts get better as the challenge goes on.

Nothing improves a home faster than a party invite. You lived for years with that ratty old living room carpet, but now that friends are coming over in a week, the carpet is out on the street, and you're eyeing the rental floor sander at Home Depot. Deadlines focus the mind. The same dynamic holds true for your BODY. A bit of friendly social pressure can go a long way. Here's a party deadline for you from your friends at Social Workout and BluePrintCleanse: On April 1st, 500 or so otherwise quite normal and amusing people are kicking off The Great Spring Cleanse....

You declutter, but do you detox? You scrub, but do you exfoliate? You throw open your windows, but, (go with us here), when did you last throw down a heart opener? Dear Apartment Therapist, spring is in the house, and BluePrintCleanse and Social Workout respectfully issue a challenge to your April: We're talking 30 days of shockingly healthy meals, extra supportive workout buddies, and insidery deals on high-end healthy things both from BluePrintCleanse and Exhale Spa. (Like, 15% to 30% off, dude.)

It's that time of year when our homes fill with stuff and people, and our bodies fill with sweets and mixed drinks. One must be vigilant. At the new-and-improved Social Workout, we believe in mind-body therapy as well as home therapy, (it's all connected, dude!), AND we warmly invite you to come visit this holiday season. Join fourteen of New York's top yoga studios for Holidayasana, a yoga-centric, green-living challenge featuring free yoga classes and prizes from DANSKIN as well as BluePrintCleanse. (A three day juice cleanse might be just what you need in January.) Not a yogi? We've got other challenges for you. A healthy home begins with a healthy body.