My husband and I were both way over due for a good pair of running shoes. You know how that can be when you’re trying to watch your money, it tends to fall by the wayside since a good pair of running shoes can run over a hundred bucks. But the fact is that if you run fairly often, which we do in the summer since we have a lot of nice outdoor areas to run in, you should really replace your running shoes about every 6 months to a year for maximum support. The support can break down that quickly, depending on how many miles you run at a time as well.

So, we finally broke down and went out shopping for a new pair for each of us. We really like Adidas shoes, in fact Adidas are the only kind of running shoes that I can even wear. For some reason, Nike and Reebok shoes just don’t fit my fit correctly, and they never feel comfortable or conforming enough. I used to be able to wear them in my twenties, but around ten years ago I found that Adidas were the only shoe I could get away with.

We went to an outlet store near us to shop. The selection is pretty decent, but nothing like the one you’d get at say a Dick’s store or an athletic shoe store. Still, the outlet store knocks at least twenty to twenty five bucks off the price of the shoe from what you’d pay for retail, so I thought that was a great deal.

We each looked and looked, and finally he said he found one called the Glide. He said, well I bet the women’s has them too. Turns out that women’s running shoes also carried the Glide version, called Glide Supernovas. The price on them was $75, which was about a $25 markdown from retail. I tried on a Glide and a Glide 2, which was a little more expensive, but actually not as comfortable or well fitting as the Glide. My husband found the same thing in his shoes as well.

So we both ended up with Glide shoes by Adidas. We tested them out running around the store, and they felt like you were running on air. Literally, you could feel no impact on your joints when bouncing up and down in these shoes. They are amazing, just like walking on clouds. I hope they keep making this shoe for a while, because I’m hooked, and I’d tell anyone that they’re worth trying on if you’re in the market for a great running shoe.

Try to find them at an outlet. You may have to by “last season’s” color, but who cares, all the colors I had available were still in style anyways.

If you’re a girl, you’ve probably heard of a really cool product that’s supposed to suck it all in for you when you wear those curve hugging dresses, or when you want your thighs and legs to look exceptionally slender for a certain event, called Spanx. Well, now they’ve come up with a t-shirt for men that claims it will make them look like they have a six pack. Gosh, if I were a guy, I’d be running out to the nearest store to buy one of these babies! Girls seem to go nuts over six packs, or something like that it seems, at least not guts, let’s just say that.

It’s basically a shirt that is a hybrid of cottons and spandex, that helps to suck in the middle core, and make you look like you don’t have as much flab there or are more toned there than you really are. It’s sort of like a man girdle, if you will. It’s called the RipTfusion shirt, and it currently retails for around sixty bucks, which I suspect many men who are in the right demographic and are body conscious or think they need to have a bit more of a cinched waistline might purchase in a heart beat if it really does make you look thinner.

The shirt not only says it might help you to suck it all in with it’s form fitting control materials, but it also claims that it can help men improve their posture. Not sure how that might be, but hey, if you’re willing to plop $60 down to try this interesting new little invention, then I’d welcome an honest review from you!

If you follow trends in fitness and exercise, then you know that one of the focal points right now is to achieve the most calorie burning potential in the shortest period of time, and oh yeah, also to get that accomplished with minimum impact to your joints and your body.  Well, that’s quite a tall order, and one of the reasons I decided to review the Cardio Cruiser Plus by Body by Jake is because this exercise machine actually happens to satisfy both of those requirements, and it’s so reasonable that you can fit it into your budget a lot easier than buying a huge piece of gym equipment from a retailer.

The shipping on this product also happens to be free right now, so I thought it would be the perfect opportunity since so many of us are watching our money right now, to contribute to the future health and wellness (and of course fitness) of America, so let’s get on with the review of the Cardio Cruiser Plus machine.  This machine is a very unique blend between two of the most popular and effective workout machines today.

Those two machines also happen to be my two favorites, which are the recumbent bike, where you lay back and pedal, and you also happen to be drenched in sweat when you’re done, telling you that although comfy in your position, yes you have torched several hundred calories, and the elliptical machine, which glides gently and doesn’t cause any bumpiness or jolting like other machines can.

Hence, these two machines have become staples at any gym, and you may even find it hard to find one to get on at the gym because everyone else scrambles for these ones too. Well, what if you could get a blend between those two machines for dirt cheap, and use it in your own home, where you don’t have to share the equipment with other eager gym patrons?

The Cardio Cruiser Plus allows you to do all that, in the comfort of your own home, which is why it was chosen as one of our latest product reviews in the world of fitness and self improvement – the healthy and ergonomically correct way, my friends!  Hopefully you enjoy this review, and hey, maybe you’ll even end up with one of your own in your home so you can get that svelte, toned look without bulking up that everyone wants.

I decided to review this product that is a great addition to anyone’s diet if they are trying to build lean, strong and healthy muscle tone.  This product has been the best value I’ve found for those daily, delicious protein shakes that almost feel like you’re being naughty because they taste good, but really you’re adding nothing but lean muscle building nutrients into your body. The product is a protein powder called Muscle Advance, and I feel it is the best value in protein powder because not only is it lean, high quality whey protein, which is one of the best proteins you can use to build muscle, but it has tons of other vitamins and natural ingredients that are good for the body.

It’s essentially like getting a multivitamin, muscle builder, fat blaster, and digestive aid all in one.  They decided to do something really cool with Muscle Advance protein powder, in that they even added digestive enzymes to it, to help you more efficiently digest the foods that are going in your body, so that they waste is less likely to convert into fat, which means more lean muscle mass for you instead of fat storage.  The ingredients, which also happen to include collagen, all work synergistically to help your body provide the protein and cell building blocks quickly for muscle, and to help destroy the processes that create fat storage.

Obviously, you still also want to consume a muscle building diet and one that has little fat in it, but taking a good powder shaker supplement like this helps you to get the results you want in less tme, and this one also helps fuel your energy by the addition of vital energy producing vitamins like B6 and B12.  Users of the Muscle Advance muscle building product reveal that they have more energy, and they also find it easier to build and maintain their muscle mass.

It’s also the best value I’ve found, hands down.  I just about swoon when I go into a chain or independent nutrition store and see what they are charging for these types of powders.  Half the time they don’t even have anything in them other than protein, and this one has that and then some and still rivals the cost of the bare minimum protein powders used in muscle gain. They offer specific formulas for muscle gain and weight gain, so you have a choice between the two depending on what your specific goals are for your body.