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Get Your Sports Drink On, Minus the Bottles and Sugars

Staying properly hydrated while engaging in any athletic activity is critical for performing at your peak. As sport drink brands such as Gatorade and Powerade are happy to point out though, drinking plain water alone fails to restore essential salts and electrolytes your body hemorrhages while sweating. What they don’t like to highlight is that [...]

What Sore Muscles Knead

There are plenty of good reasons to incorporate a foam roller into your workout or post-workout regimen, particularly when the roller you choose is as durable and full-featured as The Grid from Trigger Point Therapy. Offered in both orange and black (without hesitation, we chose orange), The Grid is designed to stand up to daily [...]

Result: The Handshake To End All Handshakes

Named after pirate Captain “Bone Crusher” Roberts, Bone Crusher Grips are made to give you grip strength that will make your adversaries shiver their timbers. Ranging from 100lbs to 500lbs in grip resistance, you can slowly build up your grip strength and forearms. A better grip will improve your performance in the gym immensely, because [...]

Smal Bar, Big Taste

Being in college and eating a fulfilling, healthy meal is about as hard as narrowing down the long list of analogies the long list of analogies that I mercifully chose not to insert here. Luckily, I’ve had Clif Bars. The small chunks of goodness are easy to pack, offer a disproportionately huge amount of protein, [...]

The Anti-Shoe

We know you’ve seen the commercials for toning sneakers on TV. Seriously, what guy isn’t a fan of the Reebok ads? Perhaps you’ve considered buying a pair for your girlfriend. Perhaps you’ve considered buying yourself a pair. No matter what your inclination may be, leave it up to Gear Patrol to find out what they’re [...]

Make Your iPhone Your New Running Partner

As part of my 1/2 marathon training, I’ve enlisted the help of RunKeeper to act as my virtual coach and running companion. While tracking time is all well and good, the RunKeeper Pro App utilizes the iPhone’s GPS to measure distance, speed, and average pace. It will even give you verbal updates on each metric [...]

They Provide the Plan, You Provide the Sweat

How’s that New Year’s resolution to get back in shape coming? Not easy, is it? It can seem daunting if you’re not quite sure how to go about accomplishing said goal. Luckily, Men’s Fitness has taken the guess-work out of your gym work. Starting in January, they are offering a workout plan each and every [...]

Super Simple, Insanely Important

Being responsible, safe, and planning for contingencies aren’t always traits that we men are known for. Sometimes we just like to do, as though spontaneity were written into our genes. When it comes to running, I’m guilty of jetting out the door without taking the time to stretch or hydrate or, sometimes, even check the [...]

Shake Up Your Workout Routine

Aqua Bags Australia-based Aqua Bags has just the training tool to shake up your routine. Literally. Filled with water, the Aqua Bag is a resistance training aid that forces your body to compensate (read: stabilize) for the bag’s instability. It may seem harmless enough, but they claim it will engage muscles from your wrists down [...]

Your Tool Kit for a Healthier Lifestyle

With the new year just around the corner (less than 24 hours away, actually), it’s time once again to refocus of a healthy lifestyle. Let’s just chalk up the past month’s transgressions to holiday fun and set about undoing the damage. To that end, we direct your attention towards SparkPeople, a free website that offers [...]

For the Slightly Less Masochistic Among Us

There are two camps of open-water swimmers – the purists who wear nothing but a Speedo and those who swaddle themselves in neoprene. If you’re one of the masochists who prefer to swim au naturel, or are an aspiring English Channel swimmer (wetsuits not allowed) read no further. But if you’re like me and intend [...]

Get Down And Give Me V20

Unless you’ve been living with the mole people for the last few years, you’ve likely heard of the Perfect Pushup. We even covered both the regular and mobile units before. To briefly recap, the Perfect Pushup adds more rotation to your pushups (i.e. a dumbell bench press or punch), allowing a fuller muscle contraction and [...]

Strong Enough for Livestrong, Strong Enough For You

If you’ve been on ESPN.com in the last few months, there’s no doubt you’ve seen the ads for FRS featuring an uber-ripped Lance Armstrong. FRS (Free Radical Scavenger) is being touted as the next best thing in the supplement world. The key ingredient this time, Quercetin, is an antioxidant found in blueberries, apples, and grapes; [...]

Dry And (N)ice

Always a skeptic we used the gold standard of bags of pellet ice and shrink wrap as a benchmark for the Moji Knee… Moji kicked it’s ass.

7 Kettle Bells in 1

I laughed, I cried, I cheered. No, I wasn’t watching an Academy Award winning film, I was participating in my first entirely kettle bell focused workout. Allow me to elaborate. I laughed when the rep from Weider told me that their Powerbell (an adjustable weight kettle bell) was more than enough to provide a rigorous total [...]