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Product of the Month!

2012-01-08T11:57:00.000-05:00

The Ab Coaster® MAX is a revolutionary exercise device that is taking abdominal training in a whole new direction. Unlike traditional crunches, which work your abs from the “top-down,” the Ab Coaster works your abs from the “bottom-up,” while limiting stress to your neck, back and shoulders.
Ab Definition for Everyone The Ab Coaster® MAX patented design, combined with its plate-loading resistance system, allows anyone— professional athletes, health club members, and home exercisers—to achieve great abs in the most effective way possible.

http://www.thefitnesssupercenter.com/strength-training/abdominals/ab-crunch-machines/ab-coaster-max.html

Our new website

2011-12-24T17:31:00.000-05:00

We are proud to launch our new website at the closing of 2011. We completely revised the layout, made it more user friendly and added many new features! All website work was performed in house by The Fitness Supercenter's web team.

We invite everyone to take a look and please give us your feed back!

Our Website is being redesigned and UPDATED for 2011

2011-07-13T12:31:00.000-04:00

We are in the construction stage on our new website!! We hope to have the site active by August 2011. Our new site has a Brand NEW look ,with more products and more user friendly.

We Are Redesigning Our Website

2011-03-29T17:03:00.000-04:00

All New Features , Easier to Navigate, Completely New!!!!!!

Expected Release Date in the Summer 2011

Eating Essentials

2010-09-26T11:18:00.000-04:00

Eating Essentials

Time to make some changes in your diet? Learn all about the food guide pyramid, remarkable vitamins, the best super foods, calorie requirements, and more.
Balancing Act
Climbing to the Top of the Food Pyramid
The new food pyramid gives you the best choices for your busy lifestyle. Learn why getting closer to the guidelines is a good step in the right direction.
Whole Grains: We’re Not Talking Cardboard
How to select whole-grain foods packed with fiber and vitamins, plus easy ways to fit more whole grains into your diet.
Vegetables: Going Green, Red, and Orange
Discover more about vegetables -- from dark green to orange to starchy. Find out how many vegetable servings you and your family need each day.
Fruit: From Apples to Watermelon
Learn all about fruits, how many servings you need daily, and what fruits can do to boost your health.
Meats and Beans: Not Your Mama’s Protein
Discover the different types of protein foods included in the meats and beans group. Find out how much you need daily from this group depending on your age, sex, and physical activity.
Milk, Yogurt and Cheese: Dairy Is Your Friend
Learn about the different types of dairy products that are high in calcium and low in fat. Discover how many servings you and your family need each day.
Oils: The Good and the Bad
Find out if you are eating healthy fats or unhealthy fats. Learn more about healthy oils and how many servings you need daily.
Eating by the New Food Guide Pyramid
Learn all about the different food groups and calorie and portion sizes you and your family need each day.

MA In the News: 2010 Convention (WXII) 8-6-10 12pm

2010-08-13T16:57:00.000-04:00

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2010-06-22T17:17:00.000-04:00

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Alpine Elliptical Trainer

2010-01-27T14:01:00.002-05:00

Dear Valued Fitness Customers,

We are happy to announce an unbelievable promotion. We have dropped the cost of our innovative 7851-590 Alpine Elliptical Trainer to $1259.00.The suggested retail on this trainer is $2159 YOU SAVE $900.00

MochaTonix® Energy Drink

2009-12-31T12:14:00.004-05:00

MochaTonix® Energy Drink

MochaTonix is a nutritionally balanced drink, available in cappuccino, mocha and vanilla flavors. Not only does it provide key nutrients for optimal health, it also provides a pleasant boost of energy and increases metabolism, thus stimulating weight loss.

MochaTonix is a powerful energy booster. It comes in powder form. Just mix it with hot water in a blender, adding ice when preferred to create a tasty shake to increase well-being, concentration and energy all at the same time!

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What makes this product unique?
MochaTonix is a nutritionally balanced drink, available in cappuccino, mocha and vanilla flavors. Not only does it provide key nutrients for optimal health, it also provides a pleasant boost of energy and increases metabolism, thus stimulating weight loss. MochaTonixs advanced formula features patented ingredient Advantra Z® which helps burn fat and increase physical performance. Derived from the Chinese herb Citrus aurantium, Advantra Z promotes lipolysis, the breakdown of fat, and thermogenesis, the production of body heat in muscle and fat. When coupled with an exercise routine, MochaTonix provides a dramatic edge to hectic, sometimes overwhelming lives. It leads to increased energy and physical performance, because the body can efficiently convert free fatty acids released from stores of fat into additional energy.

Primary Benefits:
• Promotes cognitive health
• Promotes mental focus and memory
• Promotes mental alertness
• Helps heighten energy and endurance
• Helps to alleviate occasional fatigue
• Helps to improve physical and mental performance
• Promotes thermogenesis and lipolysis
• Supports weight loss and control

Isotonix OPC 3

2009-12-31T12:07:00.006-05:00

Isotonix OPC-3®

Isotonix OPC-3® is an isotonic-capable food supplement that is made from a combination of bilberry, grape seed, red wine, pine bark extracts and citrus extract bioflavonoids, all found to be potent antioxidants. Studies have shown OPCs to be up to 20 times more powerful than vitamin C and 50 times more powerful than vitamin E in neutralizing free radicals. Isotonix OPC-3 contains the only isotonic form of Pycnogenol® in the world. Pycnogenol is a natural plant extract from the bark of the French maritime pine tree, and the most clinically researched and poten bioflavonoid.

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What makes this product unique?
A free radical is an atomic structure with an unpaired electron in its outermost shell. These unpaired electrons tend to be highly reactive, resulting in chemical reactions such as oxidation. Because they have one or more unpaired electrons, free radicals are highly unstable. They scavenge the body to grab or donate electrons, causing damage to cells, proteins and DNA. Free radicals are naturally occurring; however, air pollution, stress, smoking, heavy exercising and aging all contribute to the creation of harmful free radicals. Free radicals can cause oxidative damage to the body, potentially leading to serious health problems. Normally the body is able to protect itself from the damaging effects of free radicals, but if antioxidants are unavailable, or if free radical production becomes excessive, damage can occur.

Antioxidants are natural cell protectors, neutralizing free radicals by pairing an electron to the outermost shell of radical oxygen molecules, rendering them harmless. Antioxidants are nutrients such as vitamins and minerals, and enzymes that are capable of counteracting the damaging, but normal, effects of the physiological process of oxidation in bodily tissues. Antioxidants work in two ways, chain breaking and prevention. A chain-breaking antioxidant such as vitamins A, C and E, stabilize free radicals or cause them to decay into harmless atomic structures. A preventative antioxidant prevents the oxidation process by scavenging free radicals.

Primary Benefits:

° Combats free radicals
° Demonstrates anti-inflammatory activity
° Helps maintain healthy cholesterol levels
° Helps maintain healthy circulation by strengthening capillaries, arteries and veins
° Helps maintain joint flexibility
° Helps promote/support cardiovascular health
° Helps reduce mild menstrual cramping and abdominal pain
° Helps support visual health/visual acuity
° Potent free radical scavenger
° Promotes/Supports healthy blood vessel dilation
° Promotes/Supports healthy nitric oxide levels
° Supports a healthy complexion
° Supports healthy blood glucose levels
° Supports healthy platelet activity
° Supports healthy sperm quality

Isotonix Supplements are HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2009-12-13T20:41:00.004-05:00

We offer a wide selection of liquid vitamins, organic supplements, liquid supplements, liquid antioxidants, organic antioxidants, natural vitamins, vitamin supplements, liquid multi vitamins, antioxidant supplements and all types of natural health supplements, natural nutritional supplements and isotonic supplements.

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ABSOLO HOME FITNESS MACHINE

2009-08-26T17:48:00.010-04:00

HOT NEWS FROM ABSOLO

THE HOME VERSION

ABSOLO PT1000

COMING SOON TO THE FITNESS SUPERCENTER

Crunch Free Ways to Transform Your Abs

2009-05-14T19:46:00.001-04:00

Crunch Free Ways to Transform Your Abs

Adopt these Pilates-inspired tricks to strengthen your entire core and improve your posture.
By Lara Rosenbaum
If hitting the beach conjures painful thoughts of skimpy suits, Brazilian wax jobs and itchy sun burn, here’s one way to make the body-baring preparation a whole lot easier. By incorporating Pilates-inspired moves into your fitness routine, you can strengthen and shape your entire core all without doing a single crunch on the floor. What’s more, you’ll straighten your posture and improve your balance—so you can not only look hot in your bikini, but you’ll torch the competition in beach volleyball, too. Here, Pilates Master trainer Lizbeth Garcia, owner of Tilcia Studio in San Diego shows you how to sculpt your midsection and stand tall. Aim to perform the following tricks three to five times a week, and according to Garcia, you’ll see noticeable results in six weeks—just in time for Summer.Prop into Plank: You’ve heard of this move, but this core-building exercise has become a classic for a reason. “It works nearly your whole body,” Garcia says. “Your core encompasses your entire trunk—from your shoulders to your pelvis. And planks target your spinal and pelvic muscles, too, along with all of your abs—internal, external, obliques and rectus and transverse abdominals.”Even better, planks promote core stability, which can enhance athleticism and balance. (Thinking, looking good while remaining injury-free.) Try Belly Bulge Blast on ExerciseTV with Cindi Whitmarsh for a plank variation that utilizes leg movement and especially targets the lower section of your abs.Or try Lizbeth Garcia’s No Limits Plank Series, for side planks.
“When you perform variations and especially side planks, you have to balance and work harder,” Garcia says. “It becomes more of a workout.”
Perform Stand Up’s vs. Sit Up’s: “When you stand, you add a balance challenge to your work,” Garcia says. “You lose your balance in general when you don’t have a strong core, so performing abdominal exercises while standing is like a double whammy.”
Start by focusing on your alignment, pulling your navel in towards your spine to help create a neutral, straight line in your back. You’ll want to do this when performing the plank, too. “Your alignment has to be correct to balance well,” Garcia says.
Try the standing cross crunch—as performed in Core Class, with Jessica Smith. Stand with feet shoulder-width apart, and bring your left knee up toward you chest while simultaneously crunching your right elbow to your left knee. You don’t want to hunch, but rather stand strong. Repeat on the other side and continue for thirty reps.
Along with balance, bringing your knees up like this helps target the lower belly, a common trouble zone
“You also need to breathe properly,” Garcia says. “Allow your lungs to expand when you inhale, and then squeeze your navel toward your spine as you exhale. When you breathe like this it helps with your alignment and allows you to train your core more deeply
Stretch Your Spine: “Better posture naturally makes you look more slim,” Garcia says. “When you slouch, it can make your mid-section look chubby.”
Performing planks will naturally help you stand taller, as they work your shoulders and back muscles, and but it’s also important to loosen up to avoid muscle imbalances. Stretch your chest after doing exercises like push-ups and bench press, or if you frequently sit at a computer. Simply stand facing a door, and hold one end of the frame. Lean forward until you feel a stretch. Repeat on the other side.
To release your spine, however, and extend your vertebrae one by one, roll your spine as shown in Posture by Jennifer Galardi on Exercise TV.
Not only will it help you stand slimmer, it will relax all of your muscles post workout, so you can feel refreshed after your abs workout. Now there’s nothing painful about that.

Grizzy Fitness comes to The Fitness Supercenter

2009-03-20T07:15:00.005-04:00

We are proud to have Grizzly fitness be part of our fitness family.

Here's a little about GrizzlyFitness:

Grizzly Fitness has been providing superior quality and innovative fitness accessories for over 24 years and is the #1 recognized brand for fitness accessories in Canada.
Grizzly Fitness currently supplies 44 countries worldwide including Switzerland, Norway, Japan, England, Australia, Italy, and many more. At Grizzly Fitness, our main goals are to provide the best customer service in the industry while continually evaluating our customers needs and providing the latest technology and highest quality fitness accessories in the industry!

Discover a Mindful Approach to Health though Yoga

2009-03-08T13:00:00.007-04:00

Yoga for Cancer Survivors 4 DVD Set
Discover a Mindful Approach to Health though Yoga

This gentle 7 session therapeutic yoga program is based on hatha yoga, but has been modified for people who are particularly stiff, immobile, ill or under stress. Each session is 75 minutes and no previous yoga experience is required.Previous cancer survivors who have completed this program have found significant benefits in physical strength and function, overall mood, stress levels and quality of life.The yoga for cancer survivors research is under the direction of Dr. Nicole Culos-Reed. The program was developed by Susi Hately-Aldous of Functional Synergy. Many thanks to Mr. Bill Andrew for providing funding to this important project.
This 4-disc set covers a wide range of exercises that will be suitable for most people. Not all exercises will suite all individuals needs. Includes 7 x 75 minute sessions.

The Fitness Supercenter's Fitness Tip

2009-03-06T11:37:00.001-05:00

The Fitness Supercenter's Fitness & Exercise Tips for Women & Men

As we age, our bodies lose muscle tissue and our metabolism slows down. Exercise is the best way to get physically fit and lose weight. Starting an exercise regimen at any age is extremely beneficial and can add years to your life.
Working out takes discipline and should not be painful. "No pain, no gain" is just a myth and is not good advice to follow. Exercise should make you feel healthy and fit, not looking for the ibuprofen and ice packs.
Experts advise that 20 to 30 minutes of aerobic activity at least three times a week is beneficial for both men and women. Select the best plan that is favorable to your lifestyle, whether it is at home or a fitness club.
Opt for a form of exercise you will enjoy the most and start out slowly, increasing your activity and work out-time gradually. Consider adding basic weight training to build muscles, burn calories and control body fat.

Aerobic Activity TrainingBicycling
Brisk walking
Dancing
Jogging
Jump Rope
Roller-skating
Skiing
Swimming
Tennis
For beginners, try increasing personal fitness in your everyday life by walking more, doing some yard work, painting, and parking your car further from your destination. Not only will you have the satisfaction of getting things done, you'll enjoy the benefits of being physically fit.
You don't need to lump your exercise all in one session. Try it in 10 minute increments if this is easier for you and as time allows. While there's no plan or guarantee for everyone, get started and find out what works for you.
Consult your physician before starting any exercise routine and understand that diet and nutrition will play a big factor in your overall results.

"NEW FOR 2009" Cap Barbell Multi-Station Home Gym

2009-03-04T09:50:00.006-05:00

Cap Barbell Multi-Station Home Gym

The Cap Barbell Multi-Station FM H1005 home gym is an entry level home gym for users with limited space and tight on a budget. With a compact size of only 58" long and 41" inches wide you can enjoy basic toning and muscle building exercises like chest presses and lat pull downs for the upper body and leg extensions and curls to firm and tighten your lower body. The Cap Barbell Multi-Station FM- H1005 gym comes standard with a durable powdercoat paint finish, vinyl encased 150 pound cement weight stack, lat bar and straight exercise bar.

* Durable Black Powdercoat Paint * Vinyl Encased 150 Lb. Cement Weight Stack * Chest Press Station * Lat Pulldown / High Pulley * Seated Row / Low Pulley * Leg Extension / Leg Curl * Pectoral Fly Station
Gym Size: 84" High x 58" Long x 41" Wide
Weight Stack: Vinyl Encased 150 Pound Cement Weight Stack.
Targeted Muscle Groups: Arms, Chest, Shoulders, Back,Abdominals, Legs

Frame Finish: Durable Black Powdercoat Paint.
Cap Barbell Full Factory Warranty.

LOOK! "GET IN SHAPE FOR 2009"

2009-03-03T14:24:00.002-05:00

We carry high quality products from the top fitness equipment manufacturers at the lowest possible prices. Whether you want to lose weight, bulk-up or simply look great and feel great we have the equipment and supplies you need to accomplish your goals. Whether you are looking for a home treadmill or an exercise ball, weight lifting equipment or an elliptical trainer, we are the place for fitness. If need a home gym or perhaps you just have an exercise routine,that needs some additional exercise equipment. We offer products for aerobics, yoga and pilates and strength training programs too! You can reach any health and fitness goal you set for yourself !!

Everlast Easy Grip Hand Weights

2009-02-10T08:53:00.005-05:00

Everlast Easy Grip Hand Weights

The Everlast Easy Grip Hand Weights offers comfort and easy gripping during your strength training or cardio workouts. Unique design offers hand and wrist stability. Easy Grip Hand Weights from Everlast are coated with a soft vinyl layer so that they are comfortable to the touch and will not cause blisters or soreness like traditional metal or neoprene weights. The Easy Grip Hand Weights also have a patented ergonomic design that increases your hand and wrist stability to help prevent injuries and sprains. The Easy Grip Hand Weights are available in 3lb(pink) and 5lb(purple) versions

* Soft coating for comfort and gripping

* Unique design for hand and wrist stability

* 3-pound weight

* 5-pound weight

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Absolo Training System

2009-01-04T12:05:00.012-05:00

Absolo Training System

The Absolo is a revolutionary core abdominal training system that develops your body to perfection. Engineered with strength and style, the Absolo allows you to isolate these vital muscles to build a better physique. This is accomplished by the Absolo's innovative techniques that have incorporated the use of medicine balls ranging from 5-9 pounds. The Absolo is a state-of-the-art piece of exercise equipment that allows you to focus on the core muscles more efficiently with faster results.

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NEW for 2009! SPRI Braided StretchCord Series

2009-01-04T11:33:00.009-05:00

NEW FROM SPRI!!!

Rubber resistance exercise and conditioning demands have increased and so must the performance and responsiveness of the tubing products you depend on. SPRI's Braided Tubing rope-like construction meets and exceeds the most rigorous training applications.

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