Behold the daily stress. It can be all-consuming and even unhealthy. Certainly, we want to lose a few pounds, kick ourselves into gear and feel simply awesome. But, we get up early and dreary eyed; we commute through the chaos; we work hard and punch the daily clock. The next thing we know, we’re melted into the couch after a long day, bundled up against winter chill, watching Jersey Shore while devouring giant, artery clogging tacos. We pay for a gym membership that never gets used, and our home fitness equipment collects dust in the corner. If we could just lose ten pounds, we’d feel better, less stressed, and could sing at the top of our lungs in the shower and smile at our reflection in the mirror.

If you’re ready to set fire to your stress, feel more agile, and burn fat like a raging inferno, then losing that first ten pounds is the perfect benchmark. All you need is time, commitment, and effort. You don’t even need an expensive fitness center membership, a personal trainer, or some program that seemingly has the “secret” to weight loss. It all begins with a ferocious and dogged mental approach. This means finding a healthful and tasty nutrition plan that works for you and sticking to it. It means coming home from a hard day, skipping the couch in favor of pushing yourself further and sweating away on your home fitness equipment. It also means that you need to be patient. Ten pounds for some people will fall away like melted butter. For others it takes significant effort.

We’re not professional nutritionists, but we do know fitness equipment. And through persistent effort, tenacity and a commitment to de-stress, have fun and change your mental game, you can safely and effectively reach that wonderful benchmark of losing ten pounds. If your goal is more than that, that first ten will be a fantastic catalyst to help you burn off the next ten, and ten more after that. Don’t wait. Get started incinerating the pounds today!

Losing weight shouldn’t be a chore. Certainly, you need to eat right, exercise frequently and stay motivated and dedicated to your weight loss goals. Yet, most people find ways to torture themselves. The torment of extremely mind-numbing and repetitive work combined with less-than-stellar results can prove quite frustrating for some. It is then when all the agony, boredom and hard work of getting fit and shedding pounds begins to erode one’s commitment, which often ends up lasting about as long as a drunken New Years Eve resolution. The fitness equipment sits in the corner slowly collecting a solid layer of dust as potato chips slowly begin to replace fresh vegetables. Perhaps what makes the difference in the success of an exercise program is having an enjoyable experience and producing tangible results.

Whether you want a body resembling a Greek God or Goddess, or just one where you feel good walking along the beach, burning fat should be fun and you should easily be able to observe yourself making progress. At Nexersys, our iPower Trainer is more than just a piece of fitness equipment. We designed this machine to become a part of your healthy lifestyle. You don’t need to train like a mixed martial arts fighter to use one, but you will get the fat shredding experience that those warriors use to stay lean and healthy. Intense cardio and core training with the iPower Trainer will definitely make you sweat and burn calories. More importantly, you will interact with your training experience. It is like a high quality and challenging video game and a personal trainer all rolled into one. With over 80 technique, cardio, core and striking rounds, as you follow along or spar with your Avatar, you will not only watch the pounds fall away, but your endurance, speed, agility, strength and power will increase as you move from level to level.

Feedback is an important part of any fitness equipment. The iPower Trainer gathers key measurements, including heart rate, calories burned and your striking accuracy, among others. Not only will you know that you’re incinerating fat, the feeling of enjoyment you receive will keep you in the game, helping you to reach and maintain your fitness goals.

Training should be fun. Yet, for many entering into the world of mixed martial arts, the excitement and enthusiasm of conditioning and exercise can easily go from an energized full head of steam into disastrous derailment in the blink of an eye. Sore muscles and sheer exhaustion can turn motivation into frustration. You might wonder what the professionals know that you don’t. Is mixed martial arts training just a recipe for punishment, or can it be pathway to muscular enlightenment? The key to success may not be as difficult as you think. If you are beginning a mixed martial arts (MMA) training regimen, and you are finding the lifestyle to be tedious and overly challenging, then you might use these three steps to get back in the game.

1. Experiment and Learn New Techniques

Practice makes perfect, or so they say. While repetition is the pathway to perfection, lack of interest may well be the enemy. Spice up your training regimen by learning new techniques. Giving yourself something new to practice can bring new life to your mixed martial arts training routines and reinvigorate your motivation. Most of all, document your progress. Seeing results will likely help you to focus on meeting new challenges.

2. Mix Up your Conditioning

For some, running five miles daily and jumping rope for hours is fun. Yet, for others, it all becomes like some sort of dreary Groundhog Day routine. Don’t let your practice sessions become mind-numbingly boring. Make it fun by adding in workouts on fitness equipment or bring a new sparring partner into the mix.

3. Step Back and Study

Putting a little pizzazz back into your training regimen doesn’t always mean doing something physical. Sometimes the study and visualization of performance can add to your training while giving your body a physical break. Watching and examining mixed martial arts techniques can provide you with valuable tips and motivation to enhance your training.

With little ingenuity and some creative thinking, you can breathe new life into your mixed martial arts fitness routine.

Perhaps you have watched the videos, read the articles, sparred with your shadow and worked on your boxing technique in the mirror. You run, jump rope, do hundreds of crunches. Yet, you still feel like something is missing and that you’re not getting to the fitness level you need. Your little brother isn’t quite big enough to take some soft punches and your buddies would rather drink beer than train. If that sounds like your workout regimen, then maybe buying some boxing equipment is in order.

There are so many varieties of boxing equipment available on the market to help you punch harder, faster and work on your stance and technique. Yet, without a personal trainer to guide your efforts, you could be only gaining minimal benefits from your training. After all, speed bags and heavy bags – while giving you something to strike at – don’t provide feedback on your performance. You may knock a virtual opponent out and even sweat playing the boxing game on Wii Sports, but as far as boxing or fitness equipment goes, one real life instance of sparring would probably find you on your behind.

However, when it comes to boxing equipment, the marriage of technology, gaming and personal training is our forte. When you can’t make it to the gym, your friends are off having their libations, video games are calling your name and your home is absent of personal trainers, then the Nexersys iPower Trainer can be your solution. You’ll perfect your technique, strike, spar, and make those crunches look sissy like when you power through rounds of video, avatar and gaming with the iPower.

Besides, not all those different pieces of boxing equipment will interact with you the way a virtual personal trainer will. Spar with your real virtual self instead of your shadow by checking out the Nexersys iPower Trainer today. We’re sure you will meet your match.