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

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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!

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.

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!

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!

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.

Click here to watch 5 Minute Workout – demonstrated by the guy who started it all, Total Gym creator Tom Campanaro.

Today, we are excited to announce that we are going back to our roots as Total Gym – named after our flagship incline bodyweight trainer – a globally recognized brand for over 35 years! So long efi Sports Medicine …

Total Gym has been moving YOU for nearly four decades – in rehabilitation, commercial fitness, athletic training and in the home. By reclaiming our name, we are leveraging the strength of our Total Gym brand that has achieved huge success across multiple markets, as well as being sold in over 80 countries worldwide.

Coinciding with our rebrand as Total Gym, we will introduce a new line-up of Total Gym bodyweight trainers! Introducing the innovative, all-new Total Gym GTS and Total Gym PowerTower along with our newest model for small footprint facilities and home training, the Total Gym Sport. Improved function, usability and style have been designed into all models, each of which can be utilized with our versatile, turnkey GRAVITY fitness program.

Here’s a sneak peak:

We’ll debut our new Total Gym equipment at the APTA Combined Sections Meeting in New Orleans, February 9-12, at the IHRSA International Convention & Trade Show in San Francisco, March 16-19, and internationally at the FIBO Trade Show in Germany, April 14-17. Come see our NEW Total Gym booth!

Club Industry magazine broke the news of our rebrand early. Here’s the article http://clubindustry.com/news/total-gym-rebrand-campanaro-20110201/.

Join us for the functional future of Total Gym!! Stay tuned for more information or call us at 858-586-6080.

Tom Campanaro

President and CEO of Total Gym

“My father purchased the Total Gym 25+ years ago. I used it in high school. He again purchased a new Total Gym 7 years ago. In January 2010, I started using the Total Gym once again. I started at 378 pounds [and] today I am 276 pounds. Thank you for this wonderful Total Gym. I am now ready to get one for my house.” Edward Marsh.

Yesterday our CEO Tom Campanaro did an interview on BisTalk Radio AM 1000 KCEO to talk about the past and future of our company (BIG announcement coming February 1). Turns out the host Bob Ryan (pictured below) has owned a Total Gym for 10 years, which he still uses today. He also shared an interesting Chuck Norris story. Bob actually sparred against Chuck Norris when he was a teenager and a green belt in karate. At the end of the match, Bob walked away with a swift sidekick to the ribs and a broken bone in his right hand. To this day he is proud to say he went up against Chuck Norris (no hard feelings)!

Total Gym CEO Tom Campanaro (bottom left) on BisTalk Radio in San Diego