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[ Week 1: High Intensity Interval Training | Week 2: The Truth About Cardio | Week 3 ] Most of us don’t use all of our available muscle fibers or more simply put our muscle’s potential. In fact we fall well short. Strength training is as much about conditioning your mind to utilize your body’s [...]

The Rucky Chucky is a high-perforance long-distance mountain/trail running shoe that excels in all the areas most important to a trail running shoe. Support, traction, and stability. Not unlike a good set of off road tires (Ed: Full disclosure: Brian’s SUV wears BFGoodrich AllTerrain T/A’s) The Rucky Chucky’s uppers are made of abriasion-resistant bomber synthetic [...]

[ Week 1: High Intensity Interval Training | Week 2: The Truth About Cardio ] With summer around the corner it’s not too late to shed the last of your winter weight and hit the beach with confidence. Every Wednesday in June Gear Patrol will bring you our take on fitness. If you’re as busy [...]

Precor’s S3.25 Strength System is a biomechanically correct fully body workout system that is designed to support good form and a full range of motion. There is a leg extension station, decline, incline, standard & shoulder presses to provide you with a total of 30 exercises. Precor’s signature ultra-quiet mechanics make it to the home [...]

Last Friday we selected a Gear Patrol Dispatch subscriber as the winner for the Everlast Training Gloves Giveaway. Congratulations B Boyles! “…I look forward to the daily emails on cool new stuff that I might otherwise find out about way later or not at all.” Oh yes, a moment of unabashed shameless promotion. After asking [...]

Update: WE’VE GOT A WINNER for the Everlast Boxing Gloves Giveaway. It’s not Floyd Mayweather (we’re still working on that) but he is a Gear Patrol reader and we’ll be announcing the winner shortly in a new post. Thanks to all those that entered and don’t forget that if you’re subscribed you’ll continue to remain [...]

When you think of water bottles most likely Nalgene comes to mind and rightly so since they’ve put out a venerable product for more years than we care to remember. But Camelbak, also synonymous with hydration solutions has a bottle you should avert your eyes and money to. It’s an innovative spill-proof bottle. It uses [...]

Runners, your watch is here. The Garmin Forerunner 405 continuously monitors your time, distance, pace, calories and heart rate. The GPS enabled watch will store the data in memory and send it wirelessly to your computer. The touch bezel (a la iPod) will let you scroll and select features on the run, not being hampered [...]

It’s 13 degrees in New York right now and the thought of golf is far with thoughts of warmer weather and bikinis. For those of you who fortunate enough to live in more temperate climates and can hit the links then don’t let a little chill stave your round. Get the Nike Pro Thermal Sleeves [...]

This leather punching bag has vintage written all over it. The bag is stylish enough to throw into the corner of your entertainment room or your office and makes for a good way to relieve stress from the two hundred idiotic e-mails you get every day. The bag comes with leather gym accessories and the [...]

Working out at home is an oxymoron. Why would one want to work out when there are televisions, football games on television, beer, or hell – video games? Purchasing massive home fitness equipment is often a terrible investment since the most your Bowflex will ever do is bow to the dust bunnies. Keep the gym [...]

[click on image to enlarge] This tent looks light and airy doesn’t it? Well, that’s exactly what it is but 10x times more functional than the Coleman sitting in your garage. Unfortunately it’s not exactly intended for your afternoon jaunt up the mountains. This 60″ X 80″ tent from Colorado Altitude Training is designed to [...]

At first we were skeptical at idea of the Nike Amp+. A device that serves as a watch and an iPod remote on one hand and also provides instant voice feedback of your time, distance, calories when teamed up with the Nike+ iPod Sport Kit and any set of Nike+ Ready shoes. Didn’t appear to [...]

Pushups are one of the best ways to get your upper body in great shape through functional exercise. The Perfect Pushup simply accelerates that process by allowing your arms to rotate naturally when you do your pushups. Relatively similar to the way you throw a punch or press dumb bells. Better yet, they arc with [...]

It’s tough to get your head around the idea of owning a gym based around the design of a Ferrari, but then we’d hope that if you purchased this gym you’d already have one or two actual Ferraris parked outside your home to assuage those wonderments. Everything from the pulley detailing to the seating is [...]