Hint: Self-respect ain’t one of them… By Rick Spalding 1. Baggy, brightly colored genie pants : What have you got playing in that oversized Walkman, some vintage Whitesnake? Dude, genie pants suck. They sucked when bodybuilders wore them in the 80s. You...

I was asked a few weeks back by a friend to look into a new fitness trend. One that celebrities are huffing all over Hollywood – oxygen in a can. Mind you imagine the irony when this friend requests this of me before going outside for a cigarette. Up...

A fitness company from Toronto, Ontario is claiming that they can give you the calorie-burning equivalent of a 45-mintue workout – in just 4 minutes! What the heck? H.I.T Fitness is offering clients a 4-minute mini-workout on its $15,000 super-fabulous-range-of-motion-wonder-machine...

I thought I had heard it all in the Stupid Fitness Idea of the Week – that is until now. Introducing the Doggy Pedometer …so Fido can woof up a sweat…I know total cheese, but I couldn’t resist! The Doggy Pedometer is marketed to jogging dog owners, who...

An appetite-suppressing chewing gum is promising to end the obesity epidemic! I don’t know about you, but my jaw hurts just thinking about it! British scientists have been granted $4.5 million in funding in order to develop an innovative appetite-suppressing...

Our obsession with the media never ceases to amaze me. If we don't want to look like a star, we want to find out all about their dirty little secrets - and sometimes we want both! I think this is our way of humanizing the celebrities we so admire, so...

Now for a different kind of Stupid Fitness Idea of the Week… A recent study done by Pediatrics revealed that teens, ages 13 to 19, with eating disorders are turning to the Web rather then to their parents for weight loss advice. The study also indicated...

I’m a fan of Becks. I’ve written about his celebrity endorsement of milk in the past. However despite my predisposition to his rock hard abs – grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr – it seems he’s relying on a little more than the white stuff to get his soccer on! He’s...

I admit it, I have, in the past, used the excuse that the camera adds 10 pounds! I know when I went through journalism school it was a constant battle to figure out which camera angle was your “most flattering” in order to get around this awful trick...

I have not the words for this one, so I’ll let you decide. Introducing the treadmill bike , and I will provide a mental picture for you, because trust me you'll need one. Imagine a long push scooter with a treadmill as the base. Yeah, I'm serious! I couldn’t...

I received this email in my editor@fitnessgear101.com inbox...thanks for your question Bob...I'll forgive you this time for calling me Sir...just kidding ;) Have any of you tried the Polar heart rate monitor with similar results? Should this product be...

Carolynn is asking about what we think about the Keys Fitness Ironman Resolution Vibration Machine. Have you tried this product out? Did you have something good or bad to say about it? I haven't tried this product out myself, so I thought I'd go to you...

A co-worker sent me this music video from the band OK GO. It's called What would you do with Eight treadmills? It was featured on the website Fugufish.org. I thought you would find the choreography amusing. NOTE #1: Do not try this at home! NOTE #2: This...

So there I was today wondering what oh what should be The Stupid Fitness Idea of the Week, when low and behold I recieved this email in the Stupid Fitness mailbox. So please enjoy this week's Stupid Fitness Idea c/o UCASST2: Email recieved on Wednesday,...

I was surfing my favorite news sources today for my daily dose of health and fitness related news, when lo and behold on CBC News I found an article that might or might not be perfect fodder on Stupid Fitness Idea of the Week. I thought we’d have some...

Have you seen the new Xenadrine diet pill commercials ? I did just this week, and it literally had me covering my mouth in total and utter astonished disgust. You can’t mistake this commercial. A Xenadrine man in a bad diet pill costume is flashed in...

Can a lip balm really curb my ice cream cravings? Say goodbye to slurping down creamy milk shakes, and licking chocolate double fudge ice cream cones, and make room in your purse for Promise, the appetite-suppressing, fat-fighting lip balm. Introducing...

Was Mona Lisa on a diet? I’m a huge fan of the book the Da Vinci Code , so much so that I actually went to see the movie last week – which I hardly ever do. Now with any bestseller comes the promotional swag – lunch boxes, video games, books interpreting...

There isn’t a “ray of hope” that this stuff will work! The fabulous Bliss Spa in New York, where the rich and beautiful are known to rub elbows while their getting rub downs, has launched a new water-resistant sunscreen humorously dubbed Ray of Hope....

Sprinkle a little on your food – for nothing! I came across a new weight loss wonder this week that I thought everyone would get a little giggle over – introducing Sprinkle Thin! Now using Sprinkle Thin is as simple as ripping open one of those little...

The truth behind the cellulite-melting spa sensation! We can thank Vogue, my favorite fashion magazine, for coining the term “cellulite” in the 1970s. Before that, cellulite was simply called what it is - fat. Ever since, cellulite has morphed into the...