Welcome to the Get Fit Guys' quick and dirty tips to slim down and shape up.

My name is Ben Greenfield, and I'm the Get Fit Guy.

You know, there's nothing like the holidays to make you think about fitness.

After all, you'll need something to get you inspired to exercise once January 1st rolls

around, right? And while it is, of course, an ideal and healthy plan to actually stay fit

during the holidays, which you learn more about in an article I'll link to over in the show

notes called How to Stay Fit during the holidays, most people gain on average during the eight-week holiday

period about 1.5 pounds of pure fat. Well, last year I wrote a fitness holiday shopping list

that featured 16 killer resources to buy with your holiday gift cards. And this year, I'm going to give you 10

of my favorite holiday fitness gifts and tell you exactly when to use them. So here's the first,

and it's small and perfect for a stocking stuffer, so I figure it's a good place to start. It's called

the set starter interval timer.

Now, you've learned the value of high-intensity interval training in previous podcasts,

and the set starter is a timer that you literally wear on your finger or on your thumb.

It vibrates or beeps at specific intervals to remind you when to go hard and when to go easy.

You can see me demonstrating the set starter in a video that I'll include a link to in the show

notes over at quick and dirty tips.com.

And as you'll see, it's small and it's also very affordable and it encourages the best form

of cardio, interval training.

Get fit guy listeners and readers get a 10% discount by using the code 10% at

setstarter.com. Number two is the most fit suspension trainer. Now, you may have noticed that

TRX classes are popping up at gyms around the world, and these basically involve a series of

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