One of the benefits of having an economy that’s in the crapper, is that since most people are at home on Black Friday using their 401K statements as toilet paper, after relieving themselves of their large Thanksgiving Day meal, those of you with any money left can benefit from retailers’ desperation by getting some very good deals on anything you might want! Not to mention, you will not have to deal with the typical long lines of past Black Fridays.

I have the attention span of a gnat, and am one of the few females on the planet who thinks shopping is more of a chore than the relaxing form of recreation that most women think it is, so the idea of braving the stores on any Black Friday ever is less appealing to me than Chinese water torture.

So it is only out of pure devotion to my *f.a.t. readers that I have researched shopping information and hunted down the sources for finding a host of fitness bargains! Feel free to thank me in the form of lovely blog comments about your magnificent purchases.

At BlackFriday.info you can search any word to find deals by retailers in that category. A quick search of “fitness” brought up some great deals on weights at Sears, ab and weight benches at Sports Authority, and a golf club set at Dick’s Sporting Goods, to name a few. Another good site to find deals is BlackFridayads.net.

Sports Authority stores open at 5:30 and will be giving out special coupons worth up to $100.00 for purchases made before noon. You have to be one of the first 100 in line to get one.

If you are in the market for a gym membership, 24 Hour Fitness is having a sale. 

Now go spend so my favorite stores don’t go out of business!