Hope you had a fantastic Thanksgiving yesterday!  Now it’s time to get after the Black Friday Shopping Craze.

Here are my Top 5 Black Friday Fitness Gift Ideas and Reviews for the workout fanatic in your life…

1 Kettlebells

What says “From Russia with Tough Love” better than this all-in-one fat loss secret weapon cannon ball with a handle?  That’s right. The Russian Kettlebell.

What to look for in a kettlebell…
-Proper balance point of weight to handle
-Thicker handles for added grip strength
-Handle and Body (Bell) cast as one unit (some companies weld their handles on…spells disaster)
-Avoid plate-loaded or selectorized kettlebells for overhead lifts…that is a safety miscue waiting to happen
-Paint job.  Paint should be a textured epoxy to avoid chipping and wear very nicely as you reach your 100,000 snatch rep
-Backed by a Satisfaction Guarantee

There is a HUGE discrepancy in the quality of kettlebells on the market so choose wisely.  By far, the highest quality kettlebell is made by Dragon Door.  I know…I own about 120 of them.

Click HERE to buy the Best Kettlebells Online

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2 GymBoss Timer

This may be the best invention ever for taking your fitness to a whole different level.  Click HERE To see my Gymboss Timer VIDEO Review.

Here’s what the best digital interval timer online will do for you…
-One or two different time intervals from 2 seconds to 60 minutes adjustable by the second
-Adjust the Interval Period and/or the Rest Period or both
-Auto mode keeps repeating through intervals
-Manual mode acts as countdown timer
-Alarm by beep, vibration, or both
-Alarm duration of 1 or 10 seconds
-Size of a small pager
-Water and shock resistant
-Tracks the number of intervals you have completed
-Easy to use
-Easy to change intervals

Conclusion: the GymBoss Timer is the Ultimate KICK in the Ass

Click HERE to buy the GymBoss – BEST Digital Interval Timer

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3 TRX Portable Gym / TRX Suspension Trainer

Travel a lot?  This is an all-in-one suspension training system that can attach to any door or cross bar.  Set up for your workout in seconds.  Click HERE To see my TRX Portable Gym VIDEO Review

Why the TRX Portable Gym Suspension Trainer?
-Heavy duty straps (easily adjustable up and down to increase/decrease leverage) and buckles
-East to carry with you ANYWHERE
-Easy to set up / attach to a door, bar, branch, fence, post…almost anything that will support your bodyweight.
-Easy to use for change of exercises…flow from one to the next
-Versatile to hit the entire body
-Great for CORE workouts and exercises
-Easily modified for different user levels
-Simple progressions
-Killer total body workouts in minutes
-DVDs are well-designed with “meat only” content
-Portable, laminated take with you exercise reference guide included
-Eliminates expensive home gyms

Click HERE to Buy the TRX Portable Gym-in-a-Bag

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4 Resistance Bands

Not the sissy ones you get in the your local sporting goods store or Target.  REAL Resistance Bands that are virtually indestructible.  Click HERE To see my Resistance Band Training Review

Here’s what Resistance Bands have to offer…

-Portability.  Take them ANYWHERE.
-Large variety of exercises. You can do endless exercises with bands because you can change your positioning and the angle of the band in multiple ways on the fly.  You can do every single exercise you can do with free weights plus many more.
-Easily switch from one exercise to another.
-Easy to set up. Bands can be attached to a door or a banister or step on for INSTANT workout capabilities
-Provide a total body workout.
-Bands constantly engage your CORE. Both Upper and Lower body exercises will require you to engage more of your core in order to stabilize against the resistance.
-Create resistance from ALL angles. Front, behind, side, low, high, overhead, below…every possible angle.
-Progressive Resistance. The more you expand the band the harder it gets.  Resistance Bands are the ONLY exercise tool that offer this.
-Increased coordination. Due to progressive resistance, stabilizers come into play much more.
-Great for all fitness levels.
-Inexpensive. Most bands are between $20-70 for a set
-Color-coding for the different tension levels (light, medium, heavy, very heavy)

Click HERE to BUY Resistance Bands

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5 24-Day Challenge by AdvoCare

Who else wants to Lose 10lbs and 10 inches in 24 Days?  That’s what the average person is achieving with this eating plan / fat loss system.

Here are the RESULTS from the 24 Day Challenge done BETWEEN Thanksgiving and Christmas in 2009…

Kari A.  -10.75 inches  -9.2 lbs  -1 jean size
Simona B.  -11.5 inches  -12lbs  -1 jean size
Marty B.  -4lbs  -1 jean size
Amber B.  -8 inches  -5 lbs  -1 jean size
Cassandra B.  -5lbs  -1 jean size
Kris C.  -8lbs  -1 jean size
Elyse C.  -8.5 inches  -6.4 lbs
Kelly C.  -9.5 inches
Gin G.  -8lbs
Jennifer H.  -10 lbs
Jen L.  -10 inches  -7.4 lbs  -1 jean size
Jennifer L.  -6lbs  -1 jean size
Jen L.  -8.75 inches  -6.6 lbs
Lori M.  -7inches  -9lbs
Ron M.  -10lbs
Linnea P.  -8 inches  -7lbs  -1 jean size

The AdvoCare 24 Day Challenge Includes a bundle of five different AdvoCare products along with a program guide.  Email me to receive the program guide.
Herbal Cleanse Video HERE
Meal Replacement Shakes – Video HERE
AdvoCare Spark!
Catalyst – Video HERE
Metabolic Nutrition System

Click HERE to purchase the 24 Day Challenge

There you go…My top 5 Black Friday Christmas Fitness Ideas.  Happy shopping!

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Here I compare the TRX Portable Gym Suspension Trainer vs the Elite Gymnastics Rings II.

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Click Here to Buy the TRX Portable Gym in a Bag

Click here to Buy Elite Rings II – Gymnastics Rings

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 ”What is the BEST Portable Gym available for the money?”

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That is one of the most common email questions I receive.  Here is my answer…

I own the 2 most popular suspension training gyms on the market…

1 TRX Suspension Trainer Gym in a Bag

2 Lifeline Jungle Gym

The following Video contains scenes from my “Lab” where I test equipment like this on a daily basis.

Here’s my opinion on how they stack up against each other…

Here’s who wins in a cage match between the TRX Gym in a Bag vs. Lifeline Jungle Gym…

• Durability…TRX Gym in a Bag
  
• Multiple Anchoring Capability (doors, bars, trees, anything you can “loop”)….TRX Gym in a Bag
• Ease of Adjustability…TRX Gym in a Bag
• Strength of Straps…TRX Gym in a Bag
• Handle Comfort…TRX Gym in a Bag
• Overall “Feeling” of Safety…TRX Gym in a Bag
• Overall Ruggedness / Ability to Handle the “Beatdown”…TRX Gym in a Bag
• Price…Jungle Gym

*Price is the ONLY comparison where the Lifeline Jungle Gym beats the TRX Suspension Trainer Gym in a Bag.

Which car is better in performance (and which would you rather drive)…a Chevette or a Audi R8?

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When you decide on the Audi R8…
I recommend the TRX Gym in a Bag “Home Training Bundle”

Click Here to Buy the TRX Gym in a Bag

Click Here to Buy the TRX Gym in a Bag

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The April 2009 issue of Men’s Health Magazine voted…

The Fitness Anywhere TRX Suspension Trainer:  BEST Total Body Fitness Tool for 2009.

I have been recommending the TRX Gym in a Bag
for over 6 months now and it is just simply an amazingly versatile
piece of gym equipment that you can do A LOT of different exercises
with.

The TRX Suspension Trainer Force Kit offers…

1 Heavy duty straps (easily adjustable up and down to increase/decrease leverage) and buckles
2 East to carry with you ANYWHERE
3 Easy to set up / attach to a door, bar, branch, fence, post…almost anything that will support your bodyweight.
4 Easy to use for change of exercises…flow from one to the next
5 Versatile to hit the entire body
6 Great for CORE workouts and exercises
7 Easily modified for different user levels
8 Simple progressions
9 Killer total body workouts in minutes
10 DVDs are well-designed with “meat only” content
11 Portable, laminated take with you exercise reference guide included
12 eliminates expensive home gyms

What is “Suspension Training” ?
Suspension training combines your bodyweight and gravity to deliver a
challenging workout.  Since the foot straps on the TRX are an added
bonus, many exercises that are normally done on the ground or from the
hands bring on a whole new dimension when your feet are in the straps.
Some of those exercises include:
-Mountain Climbers
-Abdominal Jacknives
-Abdominal Pikes
-Pushups
*all of these are taken to the next level because your feet are “suspended.”

Who Uses the TRX Gym in a Bag?  Many top professional athletes such as…
National Football League (NFL)
Drew Brees
Ladanian Tomlinson
Reggie Bush

Mixed Martial Arts (UFC)
George St. Pierre
Roger Huerta
Brandon Vera
Bas Rutten

Golf
Laura Diaz, LPGA
Dr. Greg Rose, Cofounder Titleist Performance Institute

Pro Beach Volleyball Player
Megan Wallin

      Click Here to Buy A TRX Suspension Trainer Portable Gym.

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As seen on the Biggest Loser!

I get asked all the time on what products to buy to use at home, traveling for work, on the road vacationing…all-around “portable” equipment.

The TRX Gym in a Bag by Fitness Anywhere is one of those tools.  I first purchased one in December in 2008.  I thought it was going to be a more expensive version of the Jungle Gym by LifeLine USA.  Man was that the WRONG assumption.

Here’s what the TRX Portable Gym has to offer and why it blows similar products out of the water:

1 Portability. All TRX Portable Gyms come with heavy duty mesh bag that keeps everything together and also
allows for easy packing in luggage or taking it to the gym.

2 Attachment. Via the carabiner provided OR purchasing the “door anchor.”  Both work fantastic.

3 Adjustability. Way simple and can be done in 2 different ways…through the attachment and/or the straps.

4 Durability. The nylon straps are reinforced multiple times and makes the TRX much more safe and gives you peace of mind.

5 Functionality. There are multiple exercises you can do with the TRX Portable Gym.
The COOLEST feature of the TRX is the FOOT STRAPS which instantly
doubles the number of exercises you can do.  Now you can do drills with
your hands OR your feet in contact with the TRX.

6 Progressions. The TRX allows you to transition from beginner to
advanced exercises very easily…most of the time by just
re-positioning your feet!  No more wasted set up time!

7  Instruction. Best of all the DVDs that are available from Fitness Anywhere deliver excellent progressions and tutorials on exercises that are straight to the point.

Most of you know that I teach A LOT of boot camp classes.  Because
of this I am always on the look out for new, innovative, simple to use
equipment that still helps deliver BEATDOWNS.  As soon as I received my
first TRX Portable Gym, I used it myself and I watched the two DVDS
that I ordered with it.

The next day I ordered FIVE (5) more TRXs because I KNEW that I had
just discovered another piece of equipment that my clients would love
to hate.

For those starting out, here’s what I recommend buying:

TRX Home Training Bundle

Includes:
TRX Professional   – club quality suspension trainer.  Their most popular product
TRX Door Anchor  – anchor your TRX to ANY sturdy door
TRX All Body Xpress:  Guide & DVD   – a total body workout in just 25 minutes
TRX Core Strength:  Guide & DVD   – killer core building workout
TRX Storage Bag  – lightweight, durable mesh bag with drawstring closure to carry your TRX with you.

CLICK HERE to Buy a TRX Gym in a Bag!

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