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Special Holiday Message from Total Gym CEO

Whatever holidays you celebrate this time of year, we at Total Gym wish you blessings, happiness and prosperity.

I am thankful for family and friends and all the diversity that each of YOU brings to our lives.

I am thankful for a landmark year in which Total Gym returned full circle to its roots and launched new products into more than 20 countries through our amazing distributors.

I am thankful for nearly four decades of Total Gym delivering life-changing results to customers… customers who actually write to us and tell us about it daily, which changes our lives.

I am thankful for your enduring support of our company and our family… all of YOU –customers, suppliers, service providers, trainers, dealers, distributors, friends, family, editors and publishers.

In the spirit of love and joy, from our family to yours, we wish you a Merry Christmas and a very happy and prosperous New Year!

In health,
Tom Campanaro
Total Gym President and CEO

Vote for Our American Airlines B.O.B.s Video!

Total Gym needs your help to win the American Airlines “Flights, Camera, Action” contest!

Watch our video – featuring Total Gym CEO Tom Campanaro – and please cast us a vote http://bit.ly/oQUhWh! You can vote with multiple email addresses once a day.

Thanks in advance for your vote … and your B.O.B.s (details in the video)!

Week 3: Get Your Body Summer Ready – Upper Body Challenge

Here we are … week 3 of our new 7-week exercise series to keep you motivated and fit this summer. Every Monday, we’ll introduce a new muscle group and exercises to include in your Total Gym workouts.

Today we’re focused on the shoulders and triceps. Total Gym Master Trainer Nicole Decker and I lead you through a challenging upper body workout that incorporates the core muscles. Ever tried static equilibrium on the Total Gym? What a way to really exhaust your muscles!! Take a look:

Click here to see this video on our Total Gym YouTube page and let us know your thoughts!

Get Your Body Summer Ready: Biceps Exercises

Last Monday, we introduced our NEW 7-week exercise video series to help keep you motivated and fit this summer. Every week we’ll introduce a new muscle group and exercises to include in your Total Gym workouts.

Abs were last week … today, it’s all about the biceps! The cool thing about the Total Gym is the versatility it offers for doing bicep curls in multiple positions, from seated, to kneeling and lying supine (or face up) on the glideboard. GRAVITY Master Trainer Nicole Decker shows you how it’s done!

Click here to see the video on YouTube.

Tom's Log: Strengthening and Stretching on Total Gym

Watch a cat get up from sleep or a dog waking up in the morning. The first thing they do is take a stretch. We have a wonderful tool in the Total Gym to stretch and strengthen at the same time! Many of us don’t take the time to stretch properly, which leaves us at risk for injury. Total Gym does the work of stretching while also strengthening your muscles!

Take the simple two arm Pull Over:

• Lying on your back with your hands holding the cable pulley handles overhead, just hang there for a minute. Breathe.
• Then slowly pull your arms over your head like you are reaching for the ceiling and down to your side.
• Now move your arms back to the starting position.
• After 5 repetitions, lift your head and crunch to activate your abs! Then go for 15 more repetitions.

Now, change to a leg stretch:

• Sit with your bum at the top of the glideboard facing the tower and put your feet into the foot holder.
• Now lie back and allow gravity to do the work of stretching your entire body.  That feels so good!
• After a nice stretch, start to pull yourself up the glideboard from your heels and return down to a lying position.
• After 5 reps, do a mild crunch raising just your shoulders (not your back) off the glideboard to activate your abs. Now you’re getting a lower body stretch AND an ab workout!

Take 5 minutes to strengthen and stretch and you are ready to go for the day! All of the pulley exercises on Total Gym can achieve this combo of stretch and strength results! Click here to visit the Total Gym Exercise Library.

Total Gym users, fitness professionals and rehab specialists can get the latest Total Gym GRAVITY workout DVDs and exercise tips at GRAVITYClubhouse.com, our free online membership program. Gain access to acclaimed GRAVITY trainers like Rob Glick, Helen Vanderburg, Michael Steel, Jeff Groh and Elizabeth Leeds and their tips to progress your Total Gym workouts.

Have a great workout!

Tom's Log – FIBO 2011 News

A look into the fitness world in Europe

What a pleasant surprise to visit the FIBO 2011 trade show in Essen, Germany, last week and see the amazing reaction from attendees to our new Total Gym product line! They loved it!

The Total Gym FIBO team

My wife, Joy, and I have not been to the FIBO show in two years. Last year’s volcano in Iceland made it impossible for international travel. However, our German distributors have been exhibiting at this show for the last 15 years and this was the first year that we all saw a major shift to personal training in health clubs!

As little as two years ago, you would go to Germany and other countries in Europe and industry people would tell you they don’t do personal training or charge extra for it? Are you kidding?!

Wow, what a shift in the market today! The new design and branding of our Total Gym equipment was so well received! Our German distributors sold up a storm. We also noticed the paradigm shift in rehab, where physical therapists are starting to offer cash-based fitness programming to provide the full continuum of patient care and boost revenue. In fact, there are clinics in Germany using 10, 15 and as many as 50 – yes, 50 – Total Gym GTS and

The new look of Total Gym revealed to the world

PowerTower commercial units for rehab!!!!

Other countries are also starting to embrace personal training and Total Gym equipment is the centerpiece of those fitness offerings!!!

Total Global will soon be moving into India, Brazil, Israel, Greece, Sweden and Lebanon, and many more countries! Stay tuned …

Yours in good health on our way home from Germany,

Tom

Greet the new Total Gym product line at www.totalgym.com/products. Leave a comment and tell us what you think of the new Total Gym Sport, GTS and PowerTower!

Athletic Business Newswire Blog: Total Gym Has My Total Respect

From the Athletic Business Newswire Blog on Friday, February 18:

By James McPartland, principal of the JMac Performance Group, a management consulting firm in Coto de Caza, Calif.

In my line of work, I spend a considerable amount of time with CEOs, executives and entrepreneurs who are working to unlock the potential in their people and business. On occasion, I get to spend time with leaders who have an infectious passion and commitment for their work, primarily because it aligns with their life’s purpose. When I come across this type of a person and company, I find myself wanting to spread the word and support their work.

The company Total Gym is the consumer market’s longest running fitness product infomercial, with $1.5 billion in sales in just over a decade. Their commercial business has an incredible following in the physical therapy, personal trainer and studio segments. It’s a global business. What impresses me most is the man behind Total Gym, Tom Campanaro, and the story behind his amazing journey. To meet Tom is to observe a man who truly walks his talk of taking personal responsibility for health. Every person who takes one of Tom’s personal development seminars, which are geared toward creating an amazing life, leaves the session touched and inspired.

Of course, no one person does this kind of thing alone, and Tom is the first to point to his incredible wife, Joy, as deserving the real credit for the success of their business. And with an eye to the future, the addition of a seasoned executive in Randy Bergstedt will continue to help propel Tom further forward in completing his life’s mission.

Tom embodies the type of leader who is in this business for a higher purpose — he’s a man of strong faith who understands that he was put here to serve a purpose and promote the platform of getting people personally involved in leading healthy and productive lives. Take a look at what he is doing, glean some lessons from his entrepreneurial journey, and consider his expanding product line when looking at doing something special for your customers or even for yourself.

To see the article as it appeared online, click here: Athletic Business Newswire – Blog: Total Gym Has My Total Respect.