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Tony Ferguson at the doctors office today....healing from his MMA injury a few months back... He believes in Powerball Healing, and so does his Orthopedic surgeon A. Mora M.D.

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CES 2013 DFX Sports and Fitness Powerball stood out for it’s innovation for handheld strength training

DFX Sports and Fitness Powerball makes a simple exercise seem fun and captivating. The Powerball is a colorful circular handheld gyroscope, which illuminates with use. A flywheel inside the device spins and generates a gyroscopic inertia that is felt while the user rotates his/her wrist. The ball only weighs 10 ounces making it easy to hold from child to adult. One reason the ball is fun is because with each use an attempt to spin the ball faster and faster is addictive. The enchanting lights create a visual playland. With each revolution of the ball the lights zip around the Powerball in a multi colored display. DFX Sports and Fitness Powerball An Incredible Handheld Fitness Device Benefits: Better Grip Toned Arms Increased Endurance Increased Power Non Impact

http://youtu.be/Z-DcuxF5qH4

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It's that time again, time to make your New Years Resolutions!

We all start off the new year with a resolution to exercise more, however, many of us use the excuse that we don't have enough time to exercise and within a few weeks of making our resolutions are back to square one. Sure, we're all busy handling multiple priorities and rushing around from here and there every day. it's time to have the "whatever it takes attitude," find that time, whether you have to wake up 30 minutes earlier in the morning and squeeze in a morning walk or commit to 15 minutes of physical exercise. It will make you have more energy in your day and it could even reduce your risk of premature death by 14% and increase your life expectancy by three years!  Also, remember that "working out" doesn't have to happen in the gym or last for an hour! Short 10-minute bursts of exercise, accumulated over the course of the day, can add up to big fitness and health gains, too. That's one reason fitness experts really love the DFX Powerball Gyro, as you can get a great little workout, in a short amount of time! Five or 10 minutes is enough to work your hands, wrist, arms, biceps, and shoulders and increase your circulation throughout your entire body! From all of us at DFX Sports and Fitness, We wish you a safe, happy, healthy, and blessed New Year!

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Improving Your Wrist Mobility

Mobility is at the foundation of our ability to rotate, extend, and flex our wrist. Do your wrist ache after long days at the office sitting behind a keyboard? You may have poor wrist mobility? If your wrists are bothering you, if they’re a constant, noticeable impediment to your enjoyment of an active life, that’s usually enough to know you have poor wrist mobility. One great Exercise is Wrist Rotations! Wrist Rotations - Lace your fingers together and, using plenty of push-pull oppositional strength, put your wrists through every possible range of motion. Rotation, flexion, extension – just make sure you’re fully extending and fully flexing and fully rotating. If you’re working at the computer with stationary wrists for hours upon hours, it’s a good idea to work the wrist rotations every few hours. Be sure to hold the extreme positions for a few seconds to get some static stretches going. Of course you have heard of the revolutionary DFX Powerball Gyro which allows you to work on your wrist mobility at your own pace. Simply set this rotor in motion using a cord or the new Power Starter and build its speed by subtle rotation of the wrist. It contains no motor or no batteries. All of the energy comes from you, the faster you rotate the Powerball Gryo the faster the inner rotor will generate more resistance. This will help strengthen your wrist mobility with just five - ten minutes a day. If you can take a few breaks a day to get away from your workstation and walk around and make sure you get circulation to all your joints and muscles...

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DFX Powerball Gyro Warm-up Exerciser for Guitar Players

Playing guitar can lead to injuries you may not notice until it is too late. The constant movement guitar players undergo puts stress on the wrists, as well as on the muscles in the forearms. This stress can cause severe damage that can later result in the inability to play guitar. Exercises designed to strengthen your wrist can help build up a resistance to injury as well as add muscle strength, which in turn will lead to longer, healthier years of playing guitar. The DFX Powerball Gyro exerciser involves a circular hand motion that is easily mastered, is addictive and fun! Basically, this is an almost zero impact exercise tool for your fingers, palm, wrist and forearm, with infinitely variable resistance, and involves a gentle hand motion. No springs or tense squeezing required! The hand motion, once learned, seems incredibly natural and easy. Musician Warm Up 1. Since we want to build endurance, agility and generally get the blood circulating we use the Powerball Gyro at relatively low speeds. This works great as a warm-up before playing your instrument, between sets, or on an off day when actual practicing isn’t likely. 2. Since we often practice our instrument for long periods of time, use the ball at lower speeds and for longer amounts of time as well. I doubt you will ever need to fully exert yourself in a musical situation, while swinging a 30 pound weight around at high speed. That is what using the ball at highest speeds simulates, whereas lower speeds apply much less force and do so quite gently. 3. Want to work on your grip? Hold the ball with your fingertips. Want to work more on your forearm and wrist? Hold the ball with your palm. Gripping it differently targets specific muscles. 4. If you are overcoming a hand or wrist injury, using the ball at very low speeds may gently recondition the damaged tissue. Of course, consult your physician before using the Powerball Gyro for this application. A few important things set this device apart from the competition, and make it superior to other hand exercise gadgets, especially those marketed to gullible musicians. The faster the ball rotates in the shell, the more force is applied to your fingers, palm, wrist and forearm. But, what is important here is that the opposite is also true; less ball speed equals less force, providing a gentler exercise! Also, you only need to hold onto the ball, not squeeze it excessively, or depress stiff spring-loaded buttons. The low impact nature of the hand motion involved, the lack of squeezing action, and infinitely variable resistance make this gyroscopic exercise tool both adaptable and safe.

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DFX Powerball Gamer

The DFX Powerball Gamer provides a smooth, non-impact workout that will help increase flexibility, quickness, range of motion, finger and grip strength. Not only will this improve your game, but it will help prevent the repetitive stress injuries that would mean Game Over. Simply start the Powerball using the included docking station, pick it up, and start spinning your way to stronger arms, hands and fingers.

Exercise device for gamers, musicians, and fitness enthusiasts

Competition – Increase endurance for extreme gaming

Coordination – Improve dexterity for high level gaming

Aircraft quality gyroscope inside a high impact polycarbonite sphere

Dynamic resistance is controlled by you, so set your own pace

Get up to 14,500 RPM and up to 40 lbs or torque

Feel the Power and take your game to the next level!

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How does the DynaMax Core Trainer work?

Spinning inside a crystal clear, high impact polycarbonate sphere is a technologically advanced gyroscope generating up to 200 lbs of variable dynamic resistance! As the it spins, you will experience a scientific effect know as "precession" or what call "dynamic resistance. " The faster the Dynamic resistance is generated. Sow it down...speed it up... progress at your own pace... it's up to you! Get beautiful abs, a strong core and toned upper body in just 5 minutes a day!

This what people are saying about the Core Trainer...

"Wow! The second I tried the Dynamax Core Trainer I could feel it working. Plus, it's FUN to use... my students willl love it!! - Rachael, Fitness Trainer, OC Fitness Boot Camp."

"DynaMax is spectacular! It can be used in any position, even sitting down! It starts working instantly on your core, while sculpting your upper body and arms!"-Robin Pledge-Storti, Fitness Trainer, CA

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If you are getting arm pump on a normal bike trail ride then body position and weight placement are some of the problem and anyone who says they can do downhill runs all day without needing some decent grip strength probably isn’t going very fast. Absolute statements like “arm pump is caused by too much weight/ too tight a grip on the handlebars” can be a bit misleading. We suggest spending just 5-10 minutes a day while your watching TV or on your lunch break working your hand, arm and shoulder muscles with the amazing two pound gyroscopic DFX Powerball.

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A Better Quality of Life for older Men

Stronger Grip = Better Later Quality of Life!  Research has now shown that Grip Strength has proven to be a reliable indicator for quality of life at an older age. For instance, in 1999 a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=188748 concluded:     “Among healthy 45- to 68-year-old men, hand grip strength was highly predictive of functional limitations and disability 25 years later. Good muscle strength in midlife may protect people from old age disability by providing a greater safety margin above the threshold of disability.” Muscles and connective tissues that are strengthened are more injury-resistant, and if injury does end up taking place, stronger tissue can usually recover faster so that you are back on top of your game.

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Powerball Gyro Training

As most in the Parkour community know, I managed to break my right wrist in a training accident back in November (let this be a lesson people, always check your landing surfaces). Most broken bones will heal up in 6 weeks, but the scaphoid bone is another matter. With a lousy blood supply, it’s not unheard of for this one to take 3 or 4 times as long to fix! 200+ bones in the body and I had to break that one! Still, better that than the skull I suppose . As it turned out, I was in plaster for about 2 months. My grip strength was 70kg before the accident; when I tested it after the plaster came off, it was down to 30kg. I had very limited mobility in my wrist and could hardly put any weight on it. What I needed was some serious rehab work, so when someone asked who wanted to test out the Powerball my crippled hand was straight up in the air! My routine was simple enough; spend about 15minutes a day keeping the Powerball at a decent amount of RPM and each week measure my grip strength and how fast I can actually get the Powerball to spin… WEEK 1: Training delayed due to one of my colleagues at Worldwide JAM managing to get the starting string caught up inside the mechanism and having to disassemble it to get it out again! Grip Strength: 34kg Max RPM: 8784 WEEK 2: Starting to get the hang of getting the Powerball spinning; don’t even need the string anymore. Does take a while to get used to these things at first, but once you’ve mastered the knack it’s pretty easy. Grip Strength: 41kg Max RPM: 10923 WEEK 3: Loving the pretty lights and computer on this thing! I had a Powerball briefly a few years back (until another Personal Trainer I worked with broke it trying to see where the batteries went, idiot), but my old one never had all the fancy gizmos that this one’s got! Grip Strength: 47kg Max RPM: 11081 WEEK 4: Girlfriend’s getting a bit annoyed with the Powerball. It does get quite noisy when you get it up to the high RPM ranges. It probably doesn’t help that I tend to use it while she’s watching boring girly stuff on TV. Grip Strength: 54kg Max RPM: 12020 THE VERDICT The Powerball has all the advantages of isometric exercise, the muscles are given an intensive workout but hardly any stress is put through the joint. Powerball work has also got the added bonus of gently mobilising the joint, making it ideal for injury rehabilitation. I thought the RPM counter was a bit gimmicky at first, but I found that trying to beat your best speed was a great motivator and made you work harder for longer. Because I haven’t been able put much weight on my wrist, the Powerball is the only real training I’ve done on it since the accident. In less than a month, I’ve managed to get over 20kg of my grip back. The Powerball will definitely be a permanent addition to my training.

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Amazing.... would you try this?

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The DFX Powerball Gyro is one of those products that adds so much potential value to a workout for the cost, it’s a ‘no-brainer’ to own one. Have you ever tried one? You would feel it start to work immediately in your hands, wrist and arms. Powerball Gyros are one of those uber simple cost effective products that simply works in an increasingly overly complicated world, but more on that shortly… Here’s a simple fact of life: if your back and legs can dead-lift 700lb, but your grip ends at 300lbs, your dead-lift is 300 lbs. Thus, your grip is truly the final link in the chain that dictates what you can pull off the ground or what you can hold onto in general, be it a chin up bar, barbell, or other objects. Your grip is your ultimate contact with the weights. For strength athletes, such as power lifters, strongman competitors, and others, grip strength is king. Without it, you are no place. When it comes to strength, you are only as strong as your weakest link and most strength athletes know that fact all too well. Grip strength is also a key factor in various martial arts, especially MMA. If you grab onto someone’s sweaty forearm and they easily pull away from your grip, it will make a big difference in the outcome of that MMA match. Various athletes from places one might not expect, from golf, the shooting sports, and others, know a strong grip plays either an important role – or a key role – to their success. That’s why the worlds top strength & conditioning coaches, and knowledgeable strength athletes pay attention grip strength.

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WISH YOU HAD GRIP STRENGTH?

Here's How to test your Grip Strength

The purpose of this test is to measure the maximum isometric strength of the hand and forearm muscles. Handgrip strength is important for any sport in which the hands are used for catching, throwing or lifting. Also, as a general rule people with strong hands tend to be strong elsewhere, so this test is often used as a general test of strength.

Equipment required: Dynamometer

The subject holds the dynamometer in the hand to be tested, with the arm at right angles and the elbow by the side of the body. The handle of the dynamometer is adjusted if required - the base should rest on first metacarpal (heel of palm), while the handle should rest on middle of four fingers. When ready the subject squeezes the dynamometer with maximum isometric effort, which is maintained for about 5 seconds. No other body movement is allowed. The subject should be strongly encouraged to give a maximum effort.

For Products to Strengthen your Grip Strength go to:

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Tennis elbow refers to pain on or around the outside of the elbow joint, usually due to damage of the tendon which connects the extensor muscles of the forearm to the humerus (upper arm bone). This can be caused by a single traumatic event, but is more usually due to repetitive over-use of the muscles. Playing tennis a lot if you are not used to it can lead to tennis elbow, but it may also arise from other causes such as using a computer mouse a lot. Conventional treatment for tennis elbow may involve anti-inflammatory medications, physiotherapy, and steroid injections. Resting the arm from the activity which has given rise to the problem is an important part of the recovery process.

Tennis elbow refers to pain on or around the outside of the elbow joint, usually due to damage of the tendon which connects the extensor muscles of the forearm to the humerus (upper arm bone). This can be caused by a single traumatic event, but is more usually due to repetitive over-use of the muscles. Playing tennis a lot if you are not used to it can lead to tennis elbow, but it may also arise from other causes such as using a computer mouse a lot. Conventional treatment for tennis elbow may involve anti-inflammatory medications, physiotherapy, and steroid injections. Resting the arm from the activity which has given rise to the problem is an important part of the recovery process.

DFX Powerball Gyroscope for sports and fitness, carpal tunnel, tennis elbow, tendonitis, wrist pain and grip strength.

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Improve Your Game!

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TourGrip our Gyro on a handle, especially created for Golfers! Endorsed by PGA Golf Pro's.

We our exhibiting today at the PGA Golf Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada! Come see our full line of Sports and Fitness Products.

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NRA National Pistol Champ Credits DFX Sports Powerball Gyro Training Tool for 11th Consecutive Title Win

ANAHEIM, California — August 13, 2012 Everyone loves a success story, and 11-time NRA National Pistol Champion Brian “Gunny” Zins has one that athletes everywhere are taking notice of. He recently recovered from “shooters elbow” using the all new DFX Sports Powerball Gyro dynamic training and rehabilitation tool available from Anaheim, CA-based DFX Sports & Fitness, just in time to claim his 11th consecutive title win. His latest win was earned at The NRA National Outdoor Rifle & Pistol Championships held in Camp Perry, OH last month. The retired Marine Sergeant, who hails from Girard, OH, broke his own record for highest number of titles as NRA national pistol champion. Post-win, Zins described his miraculous recovery using the DFX Sports Powerball Gyro with an enthusiasm that captured the attention of shooters as well as athletes of all types. "I started using a DFX Sports Powerball Gyro when I had a really bad case of shooters elbow. It played a major role in my recovery as well as my come-back after 18 months off of shooting to capture my 11th National Pistol Championship title. Now it has become a regular part of my training regimen." Recommended by doctors and professional athletes, DFX Sports Powerball Gyro is a fully dynamic training and rehabilitation product that takes the user’s wrist through the actual ranges of its motion while simultaneously adding resistance. The training tool has proven to be so effective that NASA Astronauts have used them on shuttle missions. Military endorsements as well as Law Enforcement entities across the country have supported the DFX Sports product line because they have proven ideal for any strength training or flexibility regimen, enhancing overall user health, improving performance while reducing the occurrence of illness or injury. Although shooting sports do not engage large muscle groups in the same manner as other sports, top-performing athletes like Zins know that the fine motor control and precision necessary for hitting their targets demands a certain level of fitness from smaller muscle groups. Not only does the DFX Sports Powerball Gyro address the exceptional physical demand for shooters, but the entire DFX Sports line provides a wrist, forearm, bicep- and triceps-strengthening system that can be used by anyone looking to improve dexterity, promote blood circulation, strengthen tone, and increase muscle mass with a low impact resistance training. The lineup of nine-ounce DFX Sports Powerball Gyro, originally designed for US Military Special Forces training use, can max out 45 pounds of resistance and are an excellent tool for even relief and prevention of carpel-tunnel syndrome and repetitive stress injuries. Proponents say the DFX Sports Powerball Gyro is a new fun and fast way to tone and build muscle, and work out core muscle groups simplifies training by without using large and expensive gym equipment. DFX Sports & Fitness made fitness history with DFX Sports Powerball Gyro, the only product on the market today that produces results that can be felt within the first 30 seconds. After three minutes of use, the DFX Sports Powerball Gyro can increase blood flow to the extremities by 35 percent. It has ease of use convenience in that can be used anytime, anywhere. With just minutes a day, Zins bettered his gun control with an increase in marksmanship, accuracy, and safety.

With his latest NRA pistol championship in hand, the former “Top Gun” Marine expresses gratitude to the DFX Sports Powerball Gyro and commends the entire DFX Sports Pro Gyro line.

For more information on DFX Sports Powerball Gyro, visit http://mydfx.com/ or contact the Anaheim, CA-based DFX Sports & Fitness distribution center at (714) 630-0909.