FitDeck Bodyweight & Instructional DVD

by FitDeck

Product Features

• 56 casino-quality playing cards with upper-, middle-, lower-, and full-body exercises pictured and described on the card faces
• 50-minute DVD featuring former Navy SEAL Instructor Phil Black demonstrating over 60 exercises and stretches
• FitDeck Cards come with a sturdy plastic cardholder for easy transport
• Shuffle the cards to get over 1 million workout combinations
• No equipment needed for any of the exercises

Product Description

FitDeck is a deck of custom playing cards that contains "bodyweight-only" exercises (so no fitness equipment is needed). Each card has three fitness levels to accommodate different abilities (beginner, intermediate, advanced). Cards are held in a convenient plastic cardholder making it easy to carry and draw cards while on the go. Shuffle the cards before every workout to get a random sampling of upper-body, middle-body, lower-body and full-body exercises. In addition to the exercise cards, FitDeck comes with several "Wild" cards, "Warm Up/Cool Down" cards and "Upper/Lower Body Stretching" cards. The 50-minute DVD features inventor and former Navy SEAL Instructor Phil Black demonstrating over 60 exercises and stretches. Never spend another minute trying to decide what kind of exercises or stretches to do - FitDeck does the thinking for you. Just shuffle, draw, and do it. Spice up your workout with exercises such as "chase the rabbits", "bear crawl", "superman", and "the tripod." Use FitDeck to workout at home, on the road, at the gym, in your hotel room, on vacation - anytime, anywhere. Improve your strength, muscle tone, flexibility, coordination and aerobic endurance.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 2.2 x 5 inches ; 7.4 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 7.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B0002Z3IZW
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #49,676 in Sports & Outdoors (See Top 100 in Sports & Outdoors)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding exercise product that actually delivers, June 17, 2005

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Y. Deshmukh "Yogibear" (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: FitDeck Bodyweight & Instructional DVD (Misc.)

These cards are for everyone, from the least fit to the most fit. You can do exercises for just particular parts of the body (as the cards are color-coded - e.g. blue for upper body, red for full body, green for middle body, and so on). Or you can do them all. Or some number in between. You can do the number of reps specified for basic, intermediate or advanced, or a combination of them for different exercises. Since you don't require any equipment at all to do them, you can take this deck with you anywhere and work out. Or, like me, you can use it at home, in between days at the gym. You can take it with you when traveling and never pay hotel gym fees again.

I first read about Fitdeck in BICYCLING magazine. Its review said something to the effect that even if you are very fit, doing all the exercises contained in this deck of cards at the advanced level would ensure that you could not even lift a pencil the next day.

I bought this deck and the DVD ten days ago and have since used the cards thrice, in different ways and at different levels. The third time around, I did all the 50-odd cards at an advanced level, and I definitely felt it the next day! I just shuffle the cards at the end of my workout, so that I have a fresh new workout for next time.

I agree with another reviewer Stephen Tobey here: these cards are addictive and fun, and because you can mix them up you will never get bored. Your muscles will not get used to the exercises and will therefore continue to grow stronger as you use the cards over long periods of time.

A word of advice - buy the instructional DVD (it's only $6 extra), even if you exercise regularly. It will show you the safe, correct way to do each exercise, as well as all the stretches.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The most versatile fitness system I've ever seen, February 13, 2005

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Stephen Tobey (Malden, MA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: FitDeck Bodyweight & Instructional DVD (Misc.)

I've been using FitDeck to supplement my usual workout program for the last month now, using it whenever I've had time to kill or when I couldn't get to the gym or didn't feel like going to the gym. Because I've been doing other stuff along with it, it's hard to say how effective it's been, but I have found it to be almost addictive.
A lot of people quit working out because they get bored. But this product solves that problem. You can use it for years and never do the same workout twice. You can do as hard or as easy a workout as you like. You can do exercises from the deck in the middle of cardio workouts. The only limits are your imagination.
I especially like how on his Web site and on the DVD the FitDeck's creator doesn't make any promises about what kind of results you can get. There's no foolishness about "melting off fat" or building a world-class athlete's physique in two weeks or anything like that. In this day and age, that is truly refreshing.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic, April 12, 2005

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Randy Given (Manchester, CT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: FitDeck Bodyweight & Instructional DVD (Misc.)

This deck of "playing cards" is fantastic. If you're like me, you're out of shape and there is no way you're going to pay the monthly fees of most exercise gyms. I got a (relatively cheap) yearly pass for centers at the city (exercise, pool, skateboard, basketball, etc.), but I ended up stopping most of that too. This deck of cards is great. Now, I can exercise all areas of my body at my pace and at home or away. No regimented set of exercises because I can change randomly and still get good workouts. I highly recommend this.

The DVD is worth the additional expense. It will get you started on your stretches and then excellent examples of each exercise. There also is a lot of helpful advice about why you are doing them and things to pay attention to.