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Our first ever Campout at Petco Park was a success! San Diego Padres season ticket holders received the opportunity to campout on the field at Petco Park on August 8th following the game against the Philadelphia Phillies.

Everyone who attended received a bedgear Padres Themed BG-X Performance Pillow with Dri-Tec® and Air-X® technology and had the opportunity to get a personalized bedgear pillow fitting.

Fans had a blast hanging out on the field, meeting the Padres Mascot, the Swinging Friar, and watching Despicable Me on the big screen!

We even held a raffle where one lucky winner was able to sleep on a mattress for the night!

If you couldn’t make it this year, we hope to see you there for next year’s event! You can purchase our Padres themed performance blanket and Padres Themed Fusion Performance Pillow right on our site or at the Padres Team Store in Petco Park!

When you wake up bright and early after getting your sleep fuel and the birds are chirping, you haven’t checked your phone yet, and you have a moment of peace before your hectic day starts. This is your opportunity to get a great, energizing start to the day. It is commonly known that breakfast is the most important meal of the day, but not that many people realize how important your morning exercise routine is to prepare for your daily tasks and feel rested all day long. A great way to wake up and focus yourself is by doing yoga, even if you only have time for 10 or 15 minutes.

A 15 minute yoga routine centers the mind, balances the body, and jolts you awake with more lasting energy than any coffee drink can provide you with. Even on those mornings when you can barely get out of your bed, force yourself to go to your mat or even on your rug to do a short yoga session. See the below poses for a sequence that anyone can do to feel good, perk up, and open your hips, shoulders, and lengthen your spine. If you do these poses every morning you’ll go to work feeling focused, centered, and ready to take on the day with ease and joy.

1.  Child’s Pose

From kneeling, bring your chest down onto your thighs and your forehead to the floor with your arms stretched out in front of you as far as they can go. Take at least 5-10 slow breaths in through your nose, letting your chest expand. The further your hands reach out and the further down your thighs meet your calf, the greater the stretch for your back and shoulders

2. Cat/Cow Pose

Move into a tabletop position with your hands beneath your shoulders and knees beneath the hips. As you inhale, look forward or up reaching your tailbone towards the sky. Exhale as you tuck the chin to the chest and reach your tailbone to the floor. Continue through this movement for 5-10 breaths

3. Downward Dog Pose

Widen your palms a little wider than shoulder width, tuck in your toes and lift your hips into the air. Your chest should move back towards the thighs, your arms out straight, and roll your shoulders away from your ears for another 5-10 breaths.

4. Standing Forward Bend

Stand up straight with your knees locked and bend your torso down forward as far as it can go, letting it hang. Keep your neck and head relaxed and bend your knees if you have to but make sure there is tension in your back so you know you’re getting the stretch you need in your back and hamstrings. Do this for about 10 breaths and you’ll feel more awake, relaxed, and about a foot taller.

5. Standing Side Stretches

Standing up, inhale the arms up straight and exhale and let one hand slide down with the other hand still raised to go up and over your head. Allow your head and neck to relax while you feel a stretch in the ribs and side of your body. Slowly inhale back to center and continue with the opposite side.

6. Tree Pose

Keep feet hip distance apart and bring the hands to the center of your body while you inhale and bring one foot up, placing it either on the calf or thigh above your knee and exhale reaching your arms up to the sky. Stay in this position for at least 5 rounds of breath before your switch with your other leg. This position stretches out your back as well as balances and centers you for the day.

7. Triangle Pose

From a standing position, widen your leg stance really far and turn your right foot out to the side to make sure the heel is aligned with the center arch of the left foot and take the arms parallel to the ground and reach out to the right side, keeping both of your legs straight. Then pivot your arms, moving in opposite directions, keeping the chest open and lengthening your torso.

We absolutely love it when customers send in testimonials about how much they love our product! Finding the right pillow to fit you is so important. Check out this great testimony below.

Dear Eugene,

Pillow size really does matter! A few weeks ago, I went into a store nearby and purchased a Bedgear side sleeper pillow. The sales professional asked me whether I slept on my side or my back and chose the pillow based on my response. When I took the pillow home to use, it was too big. The new Bedgear pillow you gave me based on my size is perfect. I was very comfortable, and yes, I was cool. Using the incorrect pillow whether it was too soft or too wide caused severe neck pain, so choosing the right product for me is key to a good night sleep. Thank you for taking the time to find the right Bedgear pillow for me!

This past Wednesday bedgear sponsored the Tigers Road Trip on the Fox Fan Express Sports bus that left from Comerica Park in Detroit to Progressive Field in Cleveland Ohio to watch the Tigers take on the Indians.

The bus was filled with about 40 Tigers fans that had won tickets via social media contest. Everyone on the bus received a bedgear BG-X pillow, which they all loved! A video was shown on the way about the Tigers history and we also played some trivia games that included prizes of Tigers memorabilia. 

  Even though the Tigers lost 8-2 it was still a fun day and a few of the fans on the bus even won the chance to go on the field before the game started!

After a long day, everyone enjoyed getting some #SleepFuel and resting on their bedgear pillows on the way back.   

Everyone who attended the Citi Field sleepover this past Saturday night received a bedgear reversible performance Mets blanket with Dri-Tec® and Air-X® technology. Not only did every fan at the event receive a blanket but everyone had the opportunity to get a personalized pillow fitting.

 Even though the weather wasn’t what we had hoped for, fans still had a blast watching the Mets play the Braves on the big screen, being entertained by The Lego Movie and the complementary snacks

John Franco even stopped by the bedgear table to take photos with fans and there was a bedgear pillow fight between Mr. and Mrs. Met that you could not miss!

 Everyone had a great time at the event and the amount of people that went was almost double the amount of people from last year! The lucky fans that attended were also given tickets to the Mets game against San Diego on Tuesday July 28th, 2015.  

Did you know that you are actually less attractive if you don’t get enough sleep fuel? This is just another reason why you can’t cheat your sleep. Yes, beauty sleep is real; if you don’t want to look like a hot mess in the morning then you better be getting the recommended 7-8 hours. Studies show that getting a good night’s sleep really does improve the overall appearance of your skin. Getting enough sleep fuel doesn’t just keep dark circles from under your eyes away but it also helps you look younger and happier.

While you’re snuggling up with your pillow and snoozing away, your body is making sure that your skin is repairing itself. Damaged tissues get fixed with new skin cells that grow, restoring and rebalancing your skin. Without enough sleep fuel your stress levels also increase, which makes you look tired, angry, and definitely older. People with poor sleep routines not only have increased signs of aging but also have uneven pigmentation, reduced skin elasticity, and slower recovery from things like sun exposure. You know what that all means right? Wrinkles. That’s, right, if you’re cheating your sleep then you’re increasing the amount of wrinkles you have and making them appear faster and we know no one wants wrinkles!

Sleep fuel is the most powerful and natural beauty treatment. It makes your skin look radiant if you get enough of it, and dull if you don’t. The health and beauty products you use are also more effective overnight because they work better when you are at rest. So the more time you spend in bed the more you will see the benefits of the products that you use. You know what that means? Enhanced beauty and actual results! Try sleeping longer with your hair mask or face treatment and just see how much more effective it is. Indeed, beauty sleep is real, so if you want to get prettier, stay pretty, or not look a little bit, uh, off, then make sure you’re getting your sleep fuel and not cheating your beauty rest.