Since the invention of cars and online dating, humans have needed extra motivation to marshal muscles into shape. Avoid the temptation of driving a car to work or pulling it with your teeth by shaping up with today’s Groupon: for $49, new clients get a six-week boot camp, pre- and postcamp fitness assessments, a nutrition plan, and a shopping guide at Pittsburgh Fit Body Boot Camp in Wildwood (a $348 value).
The certified personal trainers of the Fit Body Boot Camps are half drill sergeant, half high-school football coach, half mathematician, and all expert. After a preclass fitness body assessment, the instructor and group atmosphere combine to encourage trainees of all levels to push past fitness thresholds and recurring images of trucks chasing them. Students sweat through an ever-changing arsenal of training itineraries that work on building muscle, maintaining healthy cardio levels, and dropping pounds in a minimal time period (a $249 value for six weeks). The sessions are fun and energetic, sparking positive memories of slender past summers riding exercise bikes down the boulevards and swimming through medicine-ball pits.
In addition to the fortifying classes, a nutrition plan (a $25 value), a healthy-shopping guide (a $25 value), and a postclass fitness assessment help flab fighters keep lost pounds unfound by fusing fitness regimens with their whims in the kitchen.
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The Groupon Guide to: This Year's Coolest Gadget
Technological achievements have made gadgets more advanced than ever—the only problem is that no one knows which ones are the most must-havingest. Solve that problem with this list of the year's coolest gadgets:
- SolarScoot: This urban scooting transporter, made of imported Brazilian coacaba wood with decals designed by Tristan Cuehlo, certainly isn’t embarrassing for a full-grown adult to be riding in front of other full-grown adults.
- SongDog: Days at the dog park have never been more fun with this urban technophile's dream—a helmet that gently hypnotizes your dog into bark-singing your favorite MP3s.
- MirrorMD: Ideal for the young, health-conscious urban professional, this miraculous mirror reads your skin pallor, muscle tension, blood sugar, and retinal-reaction speed, then recommends that day's mixture of vitamins before predicting your D.O.D. (Date of Divergence).
- UrbanDogHat: Compatible with SongDog and the forthcoming SongDog Pro II, this techno-leap is another kind of hat…that dogs can wear!
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