Given the abundance of delicious foods and marathon couch-reclining sessions that tend to accompany the holiday season, this is always a good time of year to include a few fitness-related gifts in your giving plans—even if they are, at least until the ginger snaps are all gone, still mostly aspirational. For the diehard fitness nuts on your list, though, who grouse when the gym is closed on Christmas morning and bang out push-ups during present-opening and meticulously monitor their starch intake at dinner, some of the more obvious gift ideas may be of little use. Never fear—in the wide world of fitness gadgets in 2017, there is truly something for everyone. Sometimes, you just have to look a little harder.

LEVLhome

Your gift recipient: Loves to burn that fat, baby.

Yeah, but: Do they know how much fat they're burning, though?

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This oblong white box about the size of a Bluetooth speaker can track your level of ketosis—the metabolic process by which your body burns fat—using your breath. You exhale into an inhaler-like mouthpiece and drop it in the device, and a few seconds later, this thing spits back a quantified measurement of just how hard your body is working on your New Year's resolution. No, it isn't cheap, but if you think of it as adding $58 and change to your monthly gym membership for the ability to tell whether what you're doing with that gym membership is actually making a difference, that price tag suddenly isn't (quite as) bad.

LEVLhome device, $699, buy now at LEVLnow.com

Stealth Core Trainer

Your gift recipient: Can do a plank for 10 minutes. With you sitting on their back.

Yeah, but: Can they play a video game in the process?

Courtesy Stealth Body Fitness

Launch the companion app on your accelerometer-enabled smartphone and plop it in the Stealth Core Trainer's groove, and suddenly the balance board on which your forearms are resting becomes your method of steering crosshairs to little targets that appear on your phone's screen. The requisite tilting and twisting provides a more dynamic workout than the regular old plank, and random target placement and sequencing ensures that no two workouts are the same. There is also a community leaderboard, so your psycho friend can compete against their psycho friends everywhere.

Stealth Core Trainer, $199, buy now at stealthbodyfitness.com

Gravocore

Your gift recipient: Looks like a damn trapeze artist on the gym's TRX machine.

Yeah, but: Should they really have to go to the gym to do it?

Suspension-based workouts are all the rage, but if the gym is too far away or too crowded or involves too much trekking through the cold right now, this over-the-door system delivers the same type of workout, along with a built-in back support that TRX doesn't provide. Pro tip: The box includes a handy hotel-style doorknob hanger that instructs would-be room-enterers to refrain from opening the door that is supporting some or all of your body weight. Do not throw that door hanger away.

Gravocore, $279, buy now at amazon.com

SportsArt Eco-Pwr cardio equipment

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Your gift recipient: Pays for electricity, and never misses cardio day.

Yeah but: How high is their bill?

You burn calories while exercising, right? Calories, my friend, are a unit of energy, and your consumption of energy is what makes your utilities bills so damn high. Plugging this machine into a standard outlet uses the energy generated by a workout to knock a few dollars off the electric bill. If they're the type of person who simply must have a fancy piece of cardio equipment in their home, they might as well get one that saves them some money in process.

SportsArt Eco-Pwr upright bike, $3000, buy now at gosportsart.com

FlexiSpot standing-to-bike desk

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Your gift recipient: Won't shut up about all the amazing health benefits of their amazing standing desk.

Yeah, but: Does their amazing standing desk also allow them to complete a low-impact cardio workout whenever they're so inclined?

If using a regular elevated workspace isn't enough to counteract the processes by which sitting for hours every day is slowly killing the person for whom you're shopping, consider presenting them with this standing desk built on top of a stationary bike. The workspace slides forward and backward to expose or hide the pedals, depending on which mode in which you're using it, so standing won't involve awkwardly straddling the bike as they work intently on their latest batch TPS reports.

FlexiSpot Deskcise Pro V9, $499, buy now at flexispot.com

MostFit Core Hammer

Your gift recipient: Swears by the hammer-and-tire workouts they learned at Crossfit. (Have they mentioned that they do Crossfit?)

Yeah, but: Does their lease prohibit the storage of industrial-grade tools and gigantic muddy old truck tires in their apartment?

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The Core Hammer is a modified sledgehammer topped with a hard rubber ball, instead of the more typical iron hammer head that would put a dent in your hardwood if you do anything other than set it down gently atop a stack of blankets. It's still probably not a wise choice to use it on nice flooring, but on an asphalt street or a cement driveway or some other sturdy surface, it will allow the recipient to take their favorite Crossfit workout just about anywhere. (Whether this is a good thing, of course, is up to you.)

MostFit Core Hammer, $199, buy now at most-fit.com

Jay Willis is a staff writer at GQ covering news, law, and politics. Previously, he was an associate at law firms in Washington, D.C. and Seattle, where his practice focused on consumer financial services and environmental cleanup litigation. He studied social welfare at Berkeley and graduated from Harvard Law School... Read moreRelated Stories for GQGift Ideas