5 Great Belated Gift Ideas for Your Favourite Meathead

There’s Always Next Year

It’s the holidays and everyone is looking for gift ideas for their special gym rat. Here are a few ideas to get you going…

1. Plate Mates

These small magnetized weights easily attach to dumbbells or plates and can help any athlete or serious lifter power through plateaus with the tiniest of increments.  Available in micro increments ranging from 5/8lbs to 5lbs.

Small weight, huge benefit.

2. Fat Gripz

Increasing grip size does wonders for the forearms. It requires the forearms recruit more motor units and thus increase the force used to lift the weight. Fat Gripz are a MUST for any serious lifter who wants to get hand-crushing grip strength.

Spinach not included.

3. Captains of Crush grippers

Not your cheap Weider gripper your dad bought at Sears 30 years ago, Captains of Crush grippers will test any serious lifter’s resolve with a variety of grippers at various tensions.  Available in Guide, Sport, Trainer, and No. 1 through 4. The No. 1 gripper has a tension of 140lbs and ranges all the way to the almost improbable No. 4 (a tension of 365lbs).

A grappler’s friend.

4. TRX Suspension Straps

This portable piece of exercise equipment can train virtually every body part and put your body through hell. All you have to do is bring your body….

Train anywhere, anytime.

5. Skipping Rope

Every athlete should know how to skip. Not only does it develop eye-hand-foot coordination, but it also is a great conditioning exercise. It’s versatility is what makes this old stand-by so good. You can pick one up at any sporting goods store.

Good enough for the best boxers.

Now if you didn’t have time to get out to the malls and snag one of these for someone you know, there is always next year!