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

My name is Ben Greenfield. I'm the Get Fit Guy. And in today's episode, you're going to discover the best exercise equipment from simple all the way up to complex for building a perfect body.

I recently packed up my wife and twin boys and embarked upon our annual family vacation

to the tiny, sleepy Pacific Northwest coastal town of Seaside, Oregon.

In reality, seaside, a somewhat touristy town with far more arcades, candy stores, and ice cream

shops than gyms

wouldn't be my ideal choice for an active, healthy hotspot destination, but it's a long-standing

tradition in my wife's family, so I joined in. Into the back of the car, I threw my kettlebell,

my suspension trainer, an elastic band, a couple of light sliders, think tiny plates the

size of paper plates that can be used for a host of different exercises, with no access to a gym

or any other workout equipment, but armed with these four simple and easy to transport tools and

five basic exercises for each tool every day I was able to perform an

enormous variety of exercises including and by the way if you go to quick and dirty tips

com and look for this episode episode number 342 I'll put links to each of these in the show

notes a kettlebell kettlebell exercises that I use as my

five go-to exercises are swings around the world, cleaned overhead press, goblet squat, and bent

row, a suspension strap for pull-ups, suspended push-ups, left and right leg, suspended lunges,

and plank rotations. Sliders, which are almost like paper plates for exercises. For mountain

climbers, lateral slides, pikes, bridges, and crocodile walks. An elastic band for front raises,

side raises, lateral shuffles, squat to press, and kickouts, and body weight exercises,

burpees, jumping jacks, skipping in place, sit to stand, and plank push-ups.

Now the fact is, from family reunions to road trips to long airplane rides and beyond, you can drop me just about anywhere on the face of the planet,

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