The Gruve is a little device that clips onto your waist and keeps track of your movements throughout the day. You download the days activities into a computer program and it shows you how many calories you burned during the days and which times of day had the most activity.

The heritage of this machine comes from the Russian Olympic training program back in the 1960s. The Russians expended a great deal of money and time crafting better athletes and they came up with this vibrating platform as one way to do it

I have found over the years that the more a person cares about their body, the more likely they are to be greenies. I’ve watched myself go through the transformation and quite a few of my clients as well.

My sponsor Varier, sent me two chairs to road test for a few weeks. Here’s what I think of ‘em.

I was mindlessly flipping channels last week and paused upon an infomercial for the Malibu Chair with Susan Lucci as the celebrity endorser. I steeled myself and stayed on the channel to give it an honest chance, hoping maybe the instruction would be ok, It wasn’t.

So I’ve been a little busy this week.  Super busy in fact.  I’ve got a new gig working with the AOL Health folks.  I’m a fitness blogger for their That’s Fit page.
I’ve compiled my posts …

The closest thing yet to having a personal trainer in your house without paying for one.

Perhaps the one we’re all the most likely to fall for is the MD endorsement. Some guy on the cover of a book, or on the corner of a box with a white coat on ~ looking all official ~ telling us this is the way to go. You have to trust a guy with an MD after his name right?