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Is Team Beachbody Match.com?

Isn’t it great having a partner to work out with? You seem to push a little harder, sweat a little more, and somehow find that extra gear to kick it up a notch. You motivate and inspire each other, keep each other accountable, and it can even produce a little […]

Is Team Beachbody Match.com?

McNuggets on Clearance

An article appeared from Reuters on Thursday about franchising picking up in the US and the first example that they gave is Robert and Dayna Penney: “(Reuters) – Robert Penney has seen his financial future and it involves heaps of frozen yogurt. Penney and his wife, Dayna, purchased a Menchie’s […]

McNuggets on Clearance

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If I had known that I was going to fail so many times in my life, I would have kept track. Maybe I could be setting some record. The P90X test version was first marketed in 2005 and bombed. Even people at Beachbody said that the project should be abandoned. […]

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The First Daily Contest Success Story Winner!

Meet Torri B.! She participated in The Beachbody Challenge’s Daily Contest and won the $500 Daily Prize for September 4th! “Before I started P90X, I was a lazy, depressed coach potato. I was so unhealthy from smoking, I couldn’t walk without using my inhaler. When my friend, an EMT, told […]

The First Daily Contest Success Story Winner!

Take the Beachbody Challenge!

  Win over $100,000!   Take The Beachbody Challengeâ„¢ for the motivation you need to get fit and you can win! It’s our health and fitness contest that will help you achieve your fitness goals and give you a chance to WIN some serious cash. If you want to get […]

Take the Beachbody Challenge!

Can 10 Minutes of Exercise Improve Your Health?

By Kara Wahlgren – from the Team Beachbody Newsletter No time? No problem. New research shows that exercising in 10-minute bursts can add up to big improvements in your health. Is your hectic schedule keeping you from working out? It’s time to cross that excuse off your list. According to […]

Can 10 Minutes of Exercise Improve Your Health?

Crash Diets vs. Discipline, Motivations, and Lifestyle Change

By Stephanie S. Saunders – from the Team Beachbody Newsletter Elvis Presley, the king of rock ‘n’ roll, pelvic thrusts, and peanut butter and bacon sandwiches, was rumored to have once heavily sedated himself for 2 weeks in an attempt to continually sleep and lose weight. While he might have […]

Crash Diets vs. Discipline, Motivations, and Lifestyle Change

Recovery Done Right: 8 Ways to Prevent Muscle Soreness

By Kara Wahlgren – from the Team Beachbody Newsletter Aching after a brutal workout? Delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS) can make you feel the burn while your muscles recover and rebuild. But, if you take the right steps after your workout, you can go hard without paying the price. Here are […]

Recovery Done Right: 8 Ways to Prevent Muscle Soreness

How to Be the Best Athlete That You Can Be

Beachbody has never used paid testimonials for their products or in success stories, but when Olympic athletes like Women’s Olympic Soccer Team goalkeeper Hope Solo step forward and say that one of their products will make you, “the best athlete that you can be”, they have to share it.  Widely […]

How to Be the Best Athlete That You Can Be

Foam Rolling: Your Tight Muscles’ Best Friend

By Dr. Mark Cheng, L.Ac., Ph.D., Sr RKC, FMS faculty – from the Team Beachbody Newsletter One of the biggest obstacles for a new fitness enthusiast to overcome is the soreness that comes with using muscles that haven’t been used in decades. During infancy, we’re learning to fire muscles all […]

Foam Rolling: Your Tight Muscles’ Best Friend

Mr. Big Stuff: A Q&A with Body Beast’s Sagi Kalev

By Rebecca Swanner – from the Team Beachbody Newsletter Are you ready to get  ripped? Beachbody ® has joined forces with Sagi Kalev, champion bodybuilder and former Mr. Israel, to create Body Beastâ„¢, the program that will help get you big and we mean really, really big in just three […]

Mr. Big Stuff: A Q&A with Body Beast’s Sagi Kalev

The Latte Lowdown: 10 Things to Like and Not Like About Coffee

By Steve Edwards – from the Team Beachbody Newsletter Depending on how you interpret statistics, coffee is the most consumed beverage in the world. Together with its brethren, tea, only soda measures up in a popularity contest. Because they all contain caffeine, they’re often lumped together in one group, which […]

The Latte Lowdown: 10 Things to Like and Not Like …

How Sarah Brakke Lost Over 115 Pounds

How did Sarah gain the weight? “I couldn’t control my eating. I used it as an emotional crutch. I was relieving my stress through my enjoyment of food, regardless of the consequences and emotional pain it caused. In addition, I  hated exercise. I did not want to put forth that […]

How Sarah Brakke Lost Over 115 Pounds

How to Build the Ultimate Home Gym in 3 Easy Steps

By Elena Sessa and Rebecca – from the Team Beachbody Newsletter One of the biggest benefits of the Beachbody ® programs is they allow you to ditch your gym membership and, with it, its monthly fees, gross showers, and the time it takes to travel there. That said, shoving your […]

How to Build the Ultimate Home Gym in 3 Easy …

Distractions and Excuses

On Tuesday, I was listening to a Chris Widener interview with Brian Tracy and at some point he was talking about distractions.  That set off a chain of thought that has been part of my thinking all week. I grew up on a farm in rural Central New Jersey and […]

Distractions and Excuses

Uncounted Blessings

My blessings have hatched over the last five years.  I never counted them before they hatched because I didn’t know what they were going to be.  I had taken a step of faith, rather a leap of faith, into a big unknown for me and it has become the source […]

Uncounted Blessings

Become the Most Popular Trainer at the Gym!

P90X Certification and Qualification Programs Love P90X ®? Then earn your P90X Certification and harness the power of America’s hottest extreme fitness brand. Your P90X Certification will add depth and breadth to what you can offer as a fitness professional, as well as help you deliver proven results to attract […]

Become the Most Popular Trainer at the Gym!

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Why I Don’t Watch the News

With such horrific things as the shooting in Aurora, CO happening all too frequently, why shouldn’t I be glued to the TV to learn more?  That’s a good question when so much of everyone’s attention is focused on those events and all of the bad news in the world.  My […]

Why I Don’t Watch the News

Accidentally Vegan with the Ultimate Reset!

Did you ever do a 360? We all do at times, but I recently did one with the way I eat! I tried the Beachbody Ultimate Reset, which when I first heard about it in January I had no intention of doing. But we all know how weird life is…the […]

Accidentally Vegan with the Ultimate Reset!

Ease into Exercise with a Routine

  I’ve been exercising regularly for years now, that it’s become a habit I don’t think about, I just do it! It’s a non-negotiable part of my day that I schedule 5 days a week.   I often don’t have the time, but I make the time for my health. […]

Ease into Exercise with a Routine

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Happy Mother’s Day to all those amazing women who expand and enhance our lives with their love, embrace, wisdom, and kindness. Please celebrate the women in your life today and let them know how much you appreciate and cherish them. Mom always told us we should eat our vegetables and […]

Redefine what EATING means to you

May 5th was my 44th birthday and a time for reflection. Looking back to when I was 18, my self-image was that of a pudgy young man, too embarrassed to go shirtless in public, too embarrassed to dress out for gym class. In fact, the image below is one of […]

A Time for Reflection | Changing Self Image

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The Ultimate Reset

The 8-Week Transition Diet – By Steve Edwards If you aren’t ready to commit to the Ultimate Reset vegan diet quite yet, transition diets are one of the easiest ways to become a healthier eater. I’ve been doing them since the ’80s and, in fact, one of the first articles […]

Ultimate Reset Vegan Diet – Are You Ready?

Reset Your Body?

When Beachbody product development puts their mind to something, they do it as well as it can be done. With the release of Ultimate Reset two weeks ago today, they have done just that and I am testing it right now! Why reset your body? Let’s see what Beachbody has […]

Reset Your Body?

Turn Up the Burn with TurboFire!!

If you’re looking for an effective, powerful and fun home fitness program that will fire your metabolism, burn mega fat, strengthen and tone every muscle and challenge your body into fabulous shape, TurboFire will deliver!!   TurboFire includes High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) as one of the most energetic, entertaining, […]

Turn Up the Burn with TurboFire!!

Do People Really Get Results from Beachbody Workout DVD’s?

Sean sure did with P90X… Heather sure did with Insanity… These people sure did by entering The Beachbody Challenge… Do people really get results from using Beachbody workout DVD’s? A video is worth a 1,000 words. You be the judge…

Do People Really Get Results from Beachbody Workout DVD’s?

Five years ago, I began a journey with no destination. It was an adventure of sorts that became a business venture.   Yet at no time in the last five years did I feel like I was “working” and, in fact, I derived a lot of happiness and success from […]

Are You Passionate?

How and What to Eat to Lose and Maintain Weight

You have to eat often to lose and maintain your weight!   It sounds crazy, but it’s true… Feed your body at regular 3 hour intervals with high-quality foods containing proper portion sizes and you will lose and maintain your weight, have more energy and look and feel your best. […]

How and What to Eat to Lose and Maintain Weight

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Chocolate Milk as a Recovery Drink?

I have heard a lot of people say that they use chocolate milk as a recovery drink for their P90X , Insanity, or other Beachbody workout. Chocolate milk is not necessarily a terrible thing to use after a workout, but is it the best thing to put in your body […]

Chocolate Milk as a Recovery Drink?

Are You Going to Accept Table Scraps by Default?

We challenge you to change with our Challenge to Change 2012.   Will you choose what you want or accept table scraps.     Click here to accept our challenge. The following is from Goals…The 10 Rules for Achieving Success by Gary Ryan Blair Success is the intentional, premeditated use […]

Are You Going to Accept Table Scraps by Default?

Whether it was a seed that was meant to be planted or just something that has stuck with me over the years, I don’t know for sure.   But when I was a sophomore in college, I took an aptitude test and the results showed that I should be either […]

What is Your Destiny?

5 Excuses that Keep You Unhealthy

I am an avid reader of Leo Babauta’s Zen Habits blog and he just featured a guest post from Matt Frazier of No Meat Athlete that I just have to share it in its entirety because it is so good… Each and every one of us, as a human being, […]

5 Excuses that Keep You Unhealthy

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Many people ask me about the effects of Shakeology, and I’m happy to share, but until you actually experience the benefits of this superfood it’s hard to believe how amazing it can make you look and feel!   It is not a “regular protein shake”, rather exceptional nutrition containing 70 […]

What Can Shakeology Do For You?

As I was vacuuming today, I was really taken aback by how much I enjoyed the task lately. Weird, right? But recently my husband and I decided enough was enough with the less expensive vacuums always letting us down. We decided to bite the bullet and invest in a Dyson. […]

You get what you pay for!

Kids and Healthy Habits Lead to a Great Life!

I love watching how my children have developed healthy habits in nutrition, fitness and health.   I teach them all about food groups, portion sizes, what and when to eat, reading labels, and so forth.   We encourage physical activity with exercise, sports and dance, and promote good habits for […]

Kids and Healthy Habits Lead to a Great Life!

How Many Choices Will You Need to Make to Change Your Life?

Team Howtobefit has now surpassed a million dollars in earnings because people just like you, from every walk of life and across the nation have made a choice to change their lives and the lives of other people through health and fitness. We are a team of highly successful Team […]

How Many Choices Will You Need to Make to Change …

Don’t Just Build Your Body, Build Your Dreams

Instead of just working on your body and building your body, you could be building your dreams and building the dreams of others at the same time. Are you just going to the gym or working out at home and solely thinking about your issues? Well what about the same […]

Don’t Just Build Your Body, Build Your Dreams

Food for Thought: Eating Organic

  To eat organic, or not? That is the question on the minds of many Americans. Personally I try to eat an organic diet most of the time. It seems a little difficult to eat strictly organic all the time for a few reasons though. One reason is the vast […]

Food for Thought: Eating Organic

Valentine’s Day is approaching fast! And we only have about 100 days or so until Memorial Day weekend! Where does the time go? So who wants to get their “SEXY” back? The holidays have a way of plumping us up and the end result is we start feeling sluggish, bloated, […]

Get Your Sexy Back!

It’s Not A Pyramid Scheme

Want to know why the Team Beachbody relational marketing opportunity is not a pyramid scheme? This is a very accurate, simple and hilarious explanation of network marketing with explanations of the benefits of this kind of opportunity and well known business people and financial experts who support the concept of […]

It’s Not A Pyramid Scheme

Get Out Of Debt (Stress/Silent Killer)

Stress is the silent killer. Financial pressure causes a massive increase in stress, which leads to disease. There are several organizations that can assist you in managing, reducing, and eliminating your debt. When you free yourself from financial worry you are more likely to be happier and healthier.

Get Out Of Debt (Stress/Silent Killer)

Portion Control: Tips and Cues for Mindful Eating

The key to maintaining a healthy weight is all about portion control.   It’s not about giving up foods you enjoy, but rather controlling the portions and being mindful of how much you consume.   The healthiest way to eat is combining proper food groups, in appropriate sizes, every 2-3 […]

Portion Control: Tips and Cues for Mindful Eating

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Yoshuda Compact Spin Bike – Just $170.00

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