You should be able to work out anywhere in the world at any time of the day. You don't need a massive gym full of equipment (although that can be nice), and you don't need a full hour to get something accomplished. In this video, our fitness expert Fitz explains the function of the chest muscles and offers a variety of methods for training, using equipment, partners or nothing at all.

To view more innovative training videos, visit Fitzness.com.

The fitness equipment Fitz uses in the video can be found at Power-Systems.com

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It's a bird! It's a plane! It's ... a celebrity flying through the air! Check out this video to see who Fitz is training with and take your training to new heights.

To find out more about this celeb, read on!

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The treadmill is a great tool for walking and jogging, but have you ever tried to use it for anything else? (Besides drying clothes on it.) You might be surprised to learn about all of the things you can do on a treadmill to get a tremendous upper body and abdominal workout. Check out this video of my wicked workout partner Anthony Field of The Wiggles and me as we take your training to the next level.

This type of innovative training is so fun and effective, it may just get you past working out because you "have to" and take you to working out because you "want to." Those are two completely different things. For more cool videos, recipes and other fun fit tips ...

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Yesterday I rejoined one of the most athletic guys I know, and he taught me both the most insane and brilliant exercises I've ever tried in a gym. His name is Anthony Field, and yes ... he's the Blue Wiggle from the children's TV show The Wiggles.

Anthony and I have trained together before, and he's impressed me each time. But yesterday ... I have a hard time finding words to describe. He started doing pull-ups almost two years ago, and he lost about 40 pounds. Then he added rings to his routine, which made things more fun. And now, well, the average person would just think he's lost his mind.

He is addicted to strength training while using nothing but his body weight, and his physique is proof that this strategy works like a charm. We spent a ton of time in a hotel gym shooting a bunch of fun and exciting fitness segments, which I'll be airing here soon. We giggled through it, but mostly because he doesn't speak "American" and I'm not so good at "Australian."

A few weeks ago, I received one of my favorite fitness tools to date. I'm a massive proponent of training with our own body weight. For most of us, it's the heaviest weight we will ever lift. From my eyes as a fitness trainer, we are all just a bunch of massive dumbbells. Isn't that nice of me to say? So my little dumbbells ... I have a cool new tool for you! The Lebert Equalizer will add some fun and give you a bunch of neat things to do with that delightfully heavy body of yours.

The Lebert Equalizer is perfect for pull-ups, push-ups, dips, decline rows, scull crushers, planks and tons of other fantastic strength and cardiovascular training exercises as well. It's light-weight, portable, versatile and not too pricey. For $99.99 you'll get a set of Equalizers along with a free training DVD and a poster to guide you while you train.

Much to their delight (or disgust), many of my personal training clients ages 16 to 62 have been subjected (tortured) with the Equalizers. I kid! The typical exercises one would do with these tools are hard though -- in a good way. My intermediate/advanced fitness level clients have loved the challenges put forth to them each session. I would not allow someone with very little strength to use them though, because without great balance, the Equalizers wobble a bit. Having said that, people wobble on the BOSU, stability ball, and lots of other fitness tools. Balance is an integral part of functional fitness training. I don't reference the wobble to deter you. I just want you to be extra aware not to allow Great Aunt Sue to use them.

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The world has come a long way in the area of helmets over the years, both in how important we understand them to be and in our ability to make technologically advanced and more effective kinds. We now specialize helmets for the specific sport or activity, for age, and of course for size. But that's not all! We have helmets out there that are "green" and made of bamboo, helmets that do nothing but give great head massages, and even ones that will electronically monitor and record impacts and potential head injuries during a football game.

Very, very cool.

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One of my favorite recent additions to our awesome slew of fitness tools is the Gliding Disk. Gliding Disks look like a cross between a Frisbee and a paper plate. Simple as they may be, they're really quite clever. The woman who created them, Mindy Mylrea is a saucy little thing who uses a variety of household objects in a clever way for fitness training. After a previous relationship was formed with QVC, she introduced to them "her paper plate training". In love with Mindy and her fresh ideas the Gliding Disk was born. Sweet story, aye?

I took my first Gliding class at a fitness conference a few years back from Mindy...and then I took a few more. Not only was I sore, I was impressed and eager to share my cool new tool with my own clients.

Gliding Disks are great for cardio, strength and flexibility training. They're also a lot of fun. As Mindy demonstrates in about seven million videos, you can use them in infinite ways. What I like most is that they actually improve my clients form. It's impossible to lunge backward and have my front knee shoot over my ankle (which is a bad thing to do). I've tried to lunge incorrectly on the disks, but I can't. And that's great! They also force/allow the user to go through their full range of motion, which is helpful in growing both strength and flexibility.

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My kids are on a mission to try to out-do Mommy in the neat recipe contest, and I think they're winning. Almost every time I put a meal down on the table, they ask to change it up in some way or add something else to it. Often, my first thought is Eww!, but I never say that. As long as their requests are healthy I say "sure, let's give it a try!" Then...after they've done the taste test first and have given their approval I give a try myself. I've loved it all.

I think it's cool that they're not slaves to social pressure or traditional meal planning. They like what they like and they have oodles of new ideas. Maybe they'll spawn their own recipe book with this stuff, but for now....here are a few of their innovative and healthful treats. Enjoy!

Nutty Nana: Peel one entire banana and smear reduced fat peanut butter on it. Sometimes we put cherries on top of the peanut butter.

Yodelaheehoo Yogurt: Open a cup of your favorite yogurt and add any of the following ingredients: grapes, yogurt raisins, raisins, broken pretzels.

As first reported on our sister site, engadget, Panasonic has come up with this innovative fitness equipment, which I imagine is similar to a personal mechanical bull, except not nearly as rough. The machines are meant to mimic horseback riding, which I happen to know can be a great workout, especially if you haven't been anywhere near a horse in almost a decade. Although why one would want to get one of these instead of going near a horse is beyond me -- the best part of horseback riding is being out in nature and interacting with the animal you are on. Riding one of these bizarre-looking machines in my living room has absolutely no appeal for me. What about you?

These Japanese-made contraptions will set you back about $2500 which, as one reader pointed out, is far more than the cost of, say, a personal trainer. And while it won't buy you a horse of your own, it will get you a number of horseback rides on the real deal -- a horse. That is far more worthy of your money in my opinion.

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