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The 5 must-follow influencers for a healthier life, without the BS

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Working out, eating well, and getting into the habit of prioritizing your health is challenging – there are thousands of workouts to explore, countless brands targeting your “wellness,” and an infinite amount of health and wellness influencers pushing content created to grab your attention, to use their discount codes, to preach their routines.

If you want to try working out for the first time, creating a healthier diet, or improving your relationship with food, navigating this space can be extremely challenging between the new science, the multibillion-dollar supplement industry, and conflicting information about what’s best for our bodies.

Keep reading below to the fold for our top five influencers worth your time when getting acquainted, or reacquainted, with your own health regiment – without the bullshit.

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The only thing you need to do to make working out a consistent, joyful experience

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Exercising and getting into the habit of prioritizing your fitness is challenging – there are any number of infinite reasons that working out might take a back seat to the rest of your life – keeping up with kids, your career, feeling run down by the news cycle, body insecurities – take your pick.

It is difficult at first, to be sure, and takes work to stay motivated. There are many steps you can take to implement fitness into your every day, but the key to consistency, I have found, is cliché – and it is really the only thing that matters. You have to find something that you love.

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Meta Quest 3 review: Fitness edition

The Meta Quest 3 is finally here. I’ve been testing it out through various workouts in both virtual and augmented reality. Now, I’m ready to come back to the real world to share my thoughts on it.

This review will likely be a bit different from most. While most of the improvements will be covered, it will all be through the lens of how the Quest 3 holds up as a fitness device.

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Echelon EX-5s-10 smart fitness bike races down to new all-time low of $661 (Reg. $1,200)

Amazon is offering the Echelon EX-5s-10 Smart Connect Fitness Bike for $661.04 shipped after the on-page coupon has been clipped. You’d more regularly pay $1,200, with today’s offer marking the best discount we have ever seen. It amounts to 45% in savings while also undercutting our previous mention by an extra $54. We’re big fans of Echelon at 9to5, and have previously walked away impressed from hands-on experiences over at Connect The Watts.

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Nike bulks up, debuts Nike Strength

Nike this week introduced Nike Strength, a collection of home gym equipment intended for all athletes. The iconic fitness brand’s collection includes a wide berth of equipment for your at-home workouts, including dumbbells, kettlebells, barbells, squat racks, and more. Keep reading below the fold to see what Nike Strength has to offer.

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Fitbit Charge 6: In-depth review [video]

Today, we’re taking an in-depth look at the brand-new Fitbit Charge 6, the latest in Fitbit’s most popular line of fitness trackers. It offers a wide range of premium features at a very reasonable price of just $159.

As the first Charge model to be released after Fitbit was acquired by Google, the Charge 6 also introduces new integrations. These include route navigation with Google Maps, music control with YouTube Music, and direct access to Google Wallet.

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Lululemon x Peloton apparel collaboration debuts in Chicago

With the new five-year partnership between the two fitness conglomerates announced on September 27 of this year, we have already seen some changes with both Lululemon and Peloton, including the cancellation of Lululemon’s Mirror sales and the transition from the Mirror companion app to Peloton’s digital content.

Now, at an event called “Peloton on Tour Chicago” from October 5-7 at the Lululemon Lincoln Park experiential Store, members got a first look at the new Lululemon x Peloton apparel drop.

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Echelon Reflect smart connect fitness mirror falls to one of its best prices yet at $400 (Save $600)

Amazon is offering the Echelon Reflect Smart Connect Fitness Mirror for $399.91 shipped. Starting off the year at its regular price tag of $1,000, through the first half of 2023 we saw markdowns to lower and lower prices before ultimately jumping back to its highs mid-summer. With the arrival of fall, discounts have also begun to increase once more, with today’s deal dropping down to the second-lowest price we have tracked, coming in just $10 above the all-time low. It also comes with an included 30-day Echelon premier membership valued at $12.

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Speediance improves design of Adjustable Bench

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The Speediance Gym Monster and Speediance Gym Pal both promise to deliver an affordable, full-strength gym utilizing digital weight resistance. (You can find links to our reviews of both below.) Overall, most of the included accessories with Speediance’s packages are well designed. The only real problem I had was with the unstable adjustable bench.

Luckily, Speediance has now fixed the stability of the bench, and I have been able to test the new design out.

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