A Healthy and Inexpensive Holiday Gift Idea

It will be holiday shopping season before you know it, and this year people need to save money while they shop. I have a gift suggestion that is good for anyone, is healthy, inexpensive, and that people will actually use!

It is a healthy holiday gift basket containing fun items I have tested and researched for their health benefits:

• Epsom salts for men, aromatherapy bath salts for women
  
  
• All natural Burts Bees products like shampoo, conditioner, sun block, face wash, lip balm or lipstick (My favorite is their Milk and Honey Body Lotion)
  
  
• Dark chocolate covered almonds (both are good for you and together they make a guilt-free treat much better for you than cookies)
  
  
• Fitness Magazine of your choice tailored to man or woman like Men's Health, Woman's Health, Shape, Fitness, Prevention, Self, etc.
  
  
• A NikkiFitness DVD!
  
  
• Vodka and club soda or red wine (vodka/soda/lemon is the mixed drink with the least calories – way less  than eggnog - and red wine in moderation is healthy)
  
  
• Almond butter and blackberry jelly
  
  
• Wasabi dried peas (healthy, delicious and great for entertaining)
  
  
• Hand sanitizer
  
  
• Green Tea
  
  
• Honey
  
  
• Multivitamins
  

If you still have cash left over, throw in a yoga matt, exercise tubing, or free weights. Show your loved ones you care about them without wasting your money.

Fitness - Fit it in!

Nikki
Crunch Manhattan Group Fitness Instructor/Personal Trainer

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Nikki Fitness is a personal trainer, group exercise instructor, writer and publicist living in New York City. She started as a cheerleader at Syracuse University, but became certified in fitness before her beach wedding so that she could get back in shape. Laura, a graduate student, working mom, and military wife, inspired Nikki's Military Wife Workout (MWW) for all military wives. Find more articles by Nikki at her article archive. Learn more at www.nikkifitness.com. For more Nikki Fitness blogs, visit her blog archive.

Comments

[#1 Posted by: Tommy]

Hey, I found this great website for weight tracking www.bodytrace.com its free and has time-lapse video as well!
Take a look,
Tommy

[#2 Posted by: Jeff]

Nikki, how could you leave these out?:

-massages for your man

-A book by a genius: only $10
http://www.tomrancich.com/courage-founders/book01.php

-Lou Paget books or audios

-Under Armour bras for women 2 because 1 bra doesn't give enough support

-Under Armour support for your man http://www.underarmour.com/shop/us/en/search?search_text=jock+strap

-Desitin (only the type with cod liver oil in the ingredients) is the best for skin

-Silvadene cream (not the generic) in case he got or gets burned. By prescription

- great pillow http://www.costco.com/Browse/Productgroup.aspx?Prodid=11067716&whse=BC&topnav=&browse=

-yoga toes (wait until Labor Day and the price is half off.)

-rent or try Pilates on youtube. It rehabs both men and woman.

[#3 Posted by: Nikki Fitness]

There are so many more I can add, but one personal favorite that I did mean to mention originally is "Yoga Paws." I keep these in my carry on, and every time I travel I stretch out into down dog without a mat and without slipping on a hotel room floor, friends carpet or on the pavement outside the family patio. They are inexpensive and fit in your back pocket!
Fitness - Fit it in!
Nikki

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