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Workout News

January 21st, 2008

Personally, I have never ordered anything from Total Fitness DVDs, but I have read nothing but positive reviews about them from the various video fitness boards I go to.

I am mentioning them today because they have a few new Firms available for preorder right now.  The Firms available for preorder are the ones that are set to be released on March 4, 2008.  There is a possibility that they might have them sooner than that, but don’t quote me on it.

They are currently showing these new Firms available for preorder -

Tight Buns and Killer Legs was part of the initial add on pack for the Transfirmation system and one I am looking forward to, even though I haven’t worked out in ages.  Ha!

I am also looking forward to the Balance Trainer one.  I have seen those types of discs at the gym, but never tried them.  It looks interesting though.  I should probably try it at the gym though - to see if my wonky knee gets affected by it - that should make or break my purchase of it.

The prices at Total Fitness DVDs actually are quite reasonable - more reasonable than Collage actually, and I have heard that their shipping is pretty fast too.  I am surprised, but a few of those new ones aren’t even available for preorder at Amazon yet.

In other workout news, Cardio Coach is running a pretty awesome sale until February 1, 2008 right now.  What’s Cardio Coach?  Okay, again, I have never done one myself, but they are audio workouts designed to help your cardio fitness.  The people at the video fitness boards swear by them and I can’t wait to get them actually, even though I have no idea when I am going to use them - again HA!

You can use them on any type of fitness machine, but most people use them for running on a treadmill, I think.  I will probably start off with walking on the treadmill and see how that goes.

They are offering a New Year Special, which is just incredible.  You get 6 CD’s, 1 mp3 download and a $20 gift certificate - for $30!!!!!!!!!!!!  Each workout is normally between $15 and $19 dollars, so you can see why this is such a bargain.  I ordered them really early Friday morning and they should be here tomorrow actually.  I would have gotten them on Monday, but there was no mail on Monday because of the holiday.

I would highly recommend picking this up now - just because the price is so good.

One thing that is really bad about getting the Cardio Coach’s though, is that it is making me want to get one of those ultra mini mp3 players for the gym.  I just got a new one which I don’t want to talk about yet, just because I am weird like that, but I am now thinking about getting a Creative Zen Stone Plus.  It’s like an iPod shuffle, but costs a bit less.  The Zen Stone Plus holds 2 GB’s and also includes a display, a radio, a stopwatch, clock, timer, voice recorder and can be used as a storage device - for around $50.  Those new fangled shuffles only have 1GB of storage, no display and costs around $80!

Yea, I know what I would rather spend my money on.  I really like the Creative products, I just don’t understand why their market share is so low.  I mean, heck, there is even a freaking keychain case for the Zen Stone Plus, so you can use it as a keychain!  How cool is that?

Oh, but if you like the sound of the Zen Stone Plus, Creative is actually coming out with a newer version soon which is going to include a built in speaker!  ZOMG!  I don’t need a built in speaker though, so I think I will pass, but the price shown at the Creative site is still really reasonable - I think it is going to pretty much be the same price as it is now.

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