{"id":1674,"date":"2014-01-30T14:15:19","date_gmt":"2014-01-30T19:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personaltrainersindallas.com\/blog\/?p=1674"},"modified":"2016-11-10T08:27:27","modified_gmt":"2016-11-10T14:27:27","slug":"fitness-on-a-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newwavefitness.com\/blog\/fitness-on-a-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitness on a Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/personaltrainersindallas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Snapshot-14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1677\" src=\"http:\/\/personaltrainersindallas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Snapshot-14-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Snapshot - 14\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Do you have a small budget or small space but want to own some useful fitness equipment in your home, office or apartment?<\/p>\n<p>Craig Lewin of Busy Body &amp; Fitness HQ stores shows Hut Allred of New Wave Fitness a few ideal pieces that will give you a great workout, but don&#8217;t take up much space and are cost effective.<\/p>\n<p>In their video, see how a Stability Ball, Hand Weights, Stretch Tube, Foam Roller and Exercise Mat all fit the bill:<\/p>\n<div class=\"responsive-vid-wrap\"><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NM4XX43PVQ4?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Hut: This is Hut Allred from New Wave Fitness with Craig Lewin of Busy Body and Fitness Headquarters, and you just finished a Good Morning America segment.<\/p>\n<p>Craig: We did. We had Good Morning Texas here, channel 8, which was a lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p>Hut: I said Good Morning America&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Craig: You did. We\u2019re working towards Good Morning America. Hopefully they\u2019ll see our segments and call us and then we\u2019ll fly to New York and do good Morning America.<\/p>\n<p>Hut: I\u2019m a visions guy. That\u2019s the next segment.<\/p>\n<p>Craig: Makes me have faith.<\/p>\n<p>Hut: That\u2019s great. I wanted to talk about some items that people could use at their home or wherever to get in shape and not necessarily have to invest in a large piece of strength-training or cardio equipment. What type of tools could they start leveraging for their home environment without investing in one of the bigger machines?<\/p>\n<p>Craig: People can actually come in to the Busy Body or Fitness HQ stores and we can get them started on small stuff. You don\u2019t have to have a lot of space for these things. I brought a couple of these things today to show you guys. First of all, at the end of the day, you can literally just take an exercise ball&#8230;(I\u2019m going to get these foam rollers out of the way for a second.) Here\u2019s an exercise ball that we sell\u2014really easy, small, doesn\u2019t take up a lot of room. As you know, being a trainer, there are so many things you can do with these exercise balls. So simple. You can use it for all of your stomach crunches. You can take these dumbbells\u2014now I can lay on here, I could do a bench press on here. I can sit up on it and work on doing a shoulder press. I can turn around and use it for leverage to be able to work on my back. There are a lot of exercises you can do. This actually ends up being like a bench, right?<\/p>\n<p>Hut: Absolutely. It creates a lot of instability, which forces you to recruit more muscle fiber than you\u2019re used to. It\u2019s a great tool and it\u2019s 35 bucks.<\/p>\n<p>Craig: It\u2019s cheap. That\u2019s the thing that\u2019s great as well. And it doesn\u2019t have to just be with dumbbells obviously; there\u2019s a ton of exercises. In fact, we\u2019ve got a really cool little book in the stores. It\u2019s called \u201cThe Great Body Ball Handbook.\u201d It shows you over a hundred different exercises you can do with this ball that will make you cry for your mommy.<\/p>\n<p>Let me show you this as well\u2014a stretch tube. Something so simple. I think one of the biggest reasons we sell so many stretch tubes has to do with the fact that a lot of people are traveling so they\u2019re able to take these with them, which is cool. You can stand on these and do bicep curls. You can go here and do shoulder presses. What\u2019s neat about these too\u2014they come with door anchors so if you\u2019re in a hotel room, go to where the bathroom is and hook it up. Now you can do all of your pull-downs, tricep pull-downs\u2014there\u2019s a ton of exercises.<\/p>\n<p>Hut: So basically with our stability ball, hand weights, bands, we\u2019re able to do all of the movements that will allow us to recruit all major muscle groups, like a traditional home gym, but again, something we can take with us from our home, on trips, et cetera.<\/p>\n<p>Craig: And something that\u2019s not expensive. A stretch tube is $15; a ball is $35. These dumbbells are very inexpensive. It\u2019s just a way to at least get moving, doing stuff at the house If you\u2019re not doing something already. By the way, I also don\u2019t want people to think that, \u201cWell, if I start with this, is it really going to give me a good workout?\u201d You can get a great workout with these things!<\/p>\n<p>Hut: Huge workout\u2014even just with your body weight, doing a lot of these movements using that ball, an amazing workout.<\/p>\n<p>Craig: I remember when you used to come to my house and you were doing training with me. I remember we did so many different exercises with stretch tubes, and I swear I felt like it was the most amazing workout ever. Tell us about the foam rollers. We sell a ton of them and they seem to have just gone through the roof.<\/p>\n<p>Hut: This piece of equipment actually is one of the most unique pieces out there right now. Talk about improving mobility, flexibility, just rolling on this is like having your own massage therapist at your house. It basically helps work out all your minor and major muscle groups and really makes it easier for you to move and easier for you to recover from your workouts. It\u2019s basically getting on this bad boy and rolling your back, rolling your pits or your shoulders and arms that get sore. It helps work all of that out, which really makes the recovery and exercise program more efficient. That\u2019s what we want, especially as we get older, because we don\u2019t recover.<\/p>\n<p>Craig: That\u2019s been a big thing. I know the other night, we were working on doing squat exercises and my glutes were cramping up, on fire, and the back of my legs. I rolled out on a foam roller, which can be a little uncomfortable sometimes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Hut: When you first start, it\u2019s very uncomfortable.<\/p>\n<p>Craig: But woo! You can feel it. It made a difference the next morning. I was like, \u201cThis is the first day I\u2019ve woken up and I\u2019m not in pain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hut: You use a foam roller every day, you\u2019ll never stop. It\u2019s that good.<\/p>\n<p>Craig: I see people using them all the time. Like I said, in our stores, we have 11 stores in Dallas \u2013 Fort Worth Metroplex, and people are coming in for foam rollers so much that it\u2019s to the point now, I have a whole wall full of different types of foam rollers. There are even different colors now! Green, bright orange, bright pink. We\u2019ve got a lot of colors.<\/p>\n<p>Hut: Where\u2019s our New Wave blue?<\/p>\n<p>Craig: I know, we need New Wave blue. Wait\u2014I might have one! Hold on a second. We\u2019re going to get New Wave blue. It\u2019s right here, I\u2019ll bring it in on the set. So here\u2019s New Wave blue.<\/p>\n<p>Hut: All right!<\/p>\n<p>Craig: There\u2019s a ton of different stuff. If you just want to stretch out, these are really nice mats. We started doing something, which is pretty cool. We brought in one of our vendors where the mats have college logos on them. This is kind of cool. This one is for UT. I had to be UT just \u2018cause I\u2019m a Horn, but pretty exciting, just something a little bit different.<\/p>\n<p>Hut: That\u2019s great. So a lot of small tools that you can use to get started with your fitness for the new year, 2014&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Craig: I could do all this for under $100. I could get a foam roller, stretch tubes, some dumbbells and a ball for $100.<\/p>\n<p>Hut: And get phenomenal results from your exercise program<\/p>\n<p>Craig: Absolutely.<\/p>\n<p>Hut: That\u2019s great. Well, I enjoy all of this because we use a lot of this with all of our clients. If you want to give any of this equipment a chance, come on in to any of the stores. Again, we\u2019ve got 11 locations in the Dallas \u2013 Fort Worth Metroplex. If you want to come in here, this is Plano Busy Body. You can actually see the man if you get that opportunity. Good stuff, brother.<\/p>\n<p>Craig: Thanks, Hut. Good to see you again.<\/p>\n<p>Hut: Good to see you as well.<\/p>\n<p>Craig: Thanks, man.<\/p>\n<p>Hut: And we\u2019ll see you next month. Thanks, guys.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you have a small budget or small space but want to own some useful fitness equipment in your home, office or apartment? 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