Happy Black Friday!  Have you been shopping yet today?

I have some weight loss/fitness/healthy lifestyle deals to share with you today plus a product review and a few fun giveaways.

Let’s start this post off right with the “Hit the Deck prize” giveaway thanks to PowerHouse Performance Coaching.

Trying to lose weight? Short on time?
Looking for cardio and strength training all in one workout? Trouble managing your stress?
Need a convenient workout at home or on the road?

PowerHouse Hit The Deck™ is the answer — one box has it all!

Set the timer, draw your first card, and do as many repetitions as you can. When the timer beeps, draw your next card!

Simple, easy, effective: a cardiovascular AND strength training workout at the same time, as well as an effective tool to combat stress and the Cortisol Crisis™

What can PowerHouse Hit the Deck™ do for you?

• Help you to lose weight, burn fat, and add muscle tone
• Provide cardio AND weight training exercise at the same time
• Expand your ability to handle and recover from stress
• Improve your overall levels of fitness and wellness
• Allow for flexibility – workouts can be any length desired
• Offer variety by providing wide range of effective exercises
• Deliver an excellent workout with no fitness equipment
• Provide a great way to cross-train
• Improve the quality of your sleep

Just leave a comment on this post by Sunday at 10 PM Eastern telling me what benefit of this product excites you the most.

Here are some great gift ideas for you to share when someone asks you what’s on your holiday gift wish list.  This list will also help you shop for the active health conscious person in your life!

*Gift certificate to local gym/fitness center
*Fitness equipment
*Workout DVD’s
*Fitness gear
*Healthy Gift Baskets like the Ultimate Healthy Gift Basket™
*Journals
*ipod and/or itunes gift card (Here are some of my favorite workout music tunes)
*Gift certificate to health food stores like Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, etc.

And the list goes on!

Can you think of any other gift ideas for the fitness or health conscious nut?

Now let’s move on to some product specials I have found around the web.

Who doesn’t love Dicks Clothing and Sporting goods store? They have Black Friday Early Bird Specials at DicksSportingGoods.com! Shop the Circular. 11.27 Only 5am to 2pm EST

Get the goods while you can!  And be sure to hit their Cyber Monday Sale: 25% off Any Single Item at DicksSportingGoods.com! Exclusions Apply. Valid only on 11.30

Thanks to Dicks Clothing and Sporting goods store for these great offers!

Don’t forget to shop at New Balance for AWESOME shoes.  I have been wearing New Balance for the last two years and I absolutely love them. They really helped with my knee issues.  They have a holiday special going so be sure to check it out.

And just for fun take a peek at these adorable personalized teddy bears.  Be sure to click on Sporting Gifts to find the most adorable sport themed teddy bears.  Aren’t the Walker and Aerobics personalized teddy bears just adorable?  These bears are NOT for kids so be sure to read the fine print.  You can get 30% off orders over $100 TODAY by using code “30off”. Enjoy!

And now we have one last fun giveaway!

Jennifer Swain, an Independent distributor rep for the company itworks is giving away the ULTIMATE BODY APPLICATOR!  What a generous prize!

It is an cloth wrap infused with an herbal solution. The active ingredients in the Ultimate Applicator help to heal the skin, producing a tightening, toning and firming effect. The Ultimate Applicator also detoxifies the body, which often results in inch loss as your body flushes out the toxins. The ingredients continue to work for 72 hours after you have applied the Ultimate Applicator, so you may continue to see progressive results over this time period.

The results you see from the Ultimate Body Applicator are not temporary, like you may have experienced or heard about with many body wraps that simply cause water loss.  The Ultimate Body Applicator helps detoxify, tighten, tone, and firm in a manner that produces lasting results—without water loss.

As is true with any weight loss or body slimming, you can reverse the results you see from the Ultimate Body Applicator with poor eating habits and lack of exercise. This is why we say, depending on your eating habits and level of daily activity, you can expect your results to last approximately anywhere from 2 – 6 months.

Continued use of the Ultimate Body Applicators (one wrap every 72 hours at most) will also help you achieve continued results and maintain results you may be reversing with eating and lifestyle habits.

This sounds like a pretty cool product!  I do want to say however that I have not personally tried this product so I cannot share any results or give you much info on the product however Jen is more than happy to help answer any questions you might have.

To enter for a chance to win this giveaway, visit Jen’s website and come back here to tell me the name of at least one other product the company carries.  Comment before Sunday at 10 PM Eastern.

Thank you Jen for such a great giveaway!  I’m looking forward to hopefully trying out the product as well.

Happy Shopping & Happy Holidays,

P.S. And lastly is a quick review of an Otterbox product called the Commuter™ Series for iphone that I received from the Otterbox company for review.  I got the red Otterbox Commuter TL iPhone case and it’s pretty good for every day use.  The outside is a plastic translucent shell that gives extra support along with a textured silicone skin.  I’m not sure I could use this case when I go to workout because it doesn’t totally cover the iphone (the potential of the front of the iphone breaking scares me ha ha) but I do like it for everyday use and have been using it exclusively for about 2 weeks now and overall give it a thumbs up.

I am also in the process of reviewing two other Otterbox products and I cannot wait to do a full review on all 3 items together.  I’ll be testing these products out over the next 5 weeks and will have a full review by the 1st week of January.  I really want to see how well one of them works in Jamaica since I’ll have my iphone around sand and water.  Keep your fingers crossed for me!  Should be fun reviewing these other 2 products.  Thanks Otterbox and Molly for the opportunity to test out these great products.