podcast episode number 33 from Ben Greenfield Fitness dot com. Welcome to the Ben

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Okay you know sometimes your exercise routine just gets a little boring and you

want to throw something new in there something fresh something that keeps you

entertained while you're working out about eight months ago I was walking

through a health and fitness expo and I came across this guy demonstrating all

these different exercises with basically what amounted to a lightweight

aluminum composition stick with a couple of elastic bands attached to either end

and he was doing lunges and curls and overhead squats and moves for lean

muscle moves for performance and so I stood there for while watching him then he

handed it to me and he taught me a few moves and I started to learn a little bit

more about it anyways I ended up buying one and brought it back to my personal

training studio and started using it with some of the clients that I work with

and it turned out to be a big hit it was just something fresh something new

something that actually allowed for pretty decent results as well and so it's

called a gym stick and what I did was I did a workout with the gym stick a

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