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New Fitness Toy – Fitbit Blaze Review

Ok, I admit it…

I’m a nerd when it comes to tech stuff. I don’t think I’m an extreme nerd, but a nerd nonetheless.

So I’m excited to share with you my review of the Fitbit Blaze.

My wife has had this basic Fitbit for years (the Fitbit Flex):

This Is The Fitbit Flex (not the Fitbit Blaze)

And she’s loved it and it’s definitely helped her to exercise more. But with the release of the new and improved Fitbit’s since she originally got the Flex, she’s been itching to upgrade.

So finally…on June 25th we both bought the Fitbit Blaze –

Fitbit Blaze

And what I’ll do in this post is share with you some basic info on the Fitbit Blaze, and I’ll share with you my Fitbit Blaze review of what I like, and don’t like about it after using it for 2 weeks now.Continue reading

Reebok Realflex Review

After doing Plyocide from P90X2 a few times I noticed that I’d quickly start feeling pain in the arches of my feet when I would do the 1 Leg Slalom move. That’s the move where you’re hopping across a line on 1 foot super fast.

The pain got so bad that I would have to stop shortly after starting the move. I had heard in the past that if you don’t have good shoes then you’ll experience pain like that. So I decided it was about time that I start doing some research and look for a new pair of shoes.

After a ton of research I settled on the Reebok Realflex Transition shoe.

I’ve worn these shoes now for 3 workouts (during the P90X2 PAP Lower workout) and I wanted to give you my Reebok Realflex review.

Did these shoes relieve the pain? Would I recommend them to you? Continue reading my Reebok Realflex review and you’ll find out! :-)Continue reading

MiR Weighted Vest Review

MiR Weighted Vest

I found the “MiR Weighted Vest” online when I got to a point where I wanted to easily be able to step up the intensity of the P90X workouts without doing a million reps. After doing 2 rounds of P90X I was doing 20+ reps during the different pushup variations (for the standard pushups I was doing 30+ reps), and I was doing 15 to 20+ reps during the different pull ups variations.

I was doing a TON of reps and I got to the point with a few moves that I’d still be doing reps when the time for that particular P90X exercise would run out. I even started dreading some of the workouts because I kept worrying that I wouldn’t be able to pump out a few more reps then I did before.

So I went a mission to find a good solid weighted vest that you could use to add some weight to the equation. I did a TON of research because some of the weighted vests weren’t all that cheap. Also, I wanted a weighted vest that I could do with P90X Plyometrics if I wanted to, which involves a ton of jumping. So the weighted vest needed to be comfortable, snug, and one that wouldn’t move around if I was doing the moves in P90X Plyometrics.Continue reading