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A Little More Obsessed

  The obsession continues!   Autumn Calabrese and her cast are back with A Little More Obsessed: six more workouts designed to you guessed it carve toned abs and sculpt firm, round glutes while strengthening your entire body. A Little More Obsessed launches on Beachbody On Demand in January 2019, […]

Introducing A Little More Obsessed!

2B Mindset Dinner Recipes

  With this collection of  2B Mindset dinner recipes you’ll never be tempted to order takeout or grab something unhealthy. The  2B Mindset  nutrition program with Ilana Muhlstein, you’ll learn how to  eat healthy without feeling deprived, without counting calories, and without cutting out whole food groups. It’s a win-win-win! […]

2B Mindset Dinner Recipes

Tips for Eating Healthy on a Budget

Eating healthy on a budget versus what you hear, “Healthy food is expensive.” It’s an excuse we’ve all heard (or told ourselves!), but cost more than what? A gym membership that you never use? Juice cleanses? Packaged foods and fast food? Eating out every day? Buying food  any  food can […]

Eating Healthy on a Budget

Stay Motivated to Lose Weight - Believe in Yourself

We want to stay motivated to lose weight but we often look at past failures and that makes us see things through a pessimistic lens, such as: “I want to lose 20 pounds (or more), but I haven’t been able to do it in the past and keep the weight […]

How to Stay Motivated to Lose Weight

10 Foods for a Strong Immune System

    The immune system helps you stay healthy, and the food you eat helps to support it. At the end of the day, it is always best to get the molecular building blocks for a strong immune system from the foods you eat, and nature absolutely provides us with […]

10 Foods for a Strong Immune System

P90X3 Streaming on Beachbody On Demand

Stream P90X3 on Beachbody On Demand Today, you can stream P90X3 on Beachbody On Demand for free.   It is a 90-day fitness program that is designed to get you results. Each one of 16 30-minute workouts has been uniquely designed to change your body in the most effective way […]

Stream P90X3 on Beachbody On Demand

Weightlifting Myths

From the Beachbody On Demand Blog – July 9, 2018 | BY: Carrie Anton What do Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, “The Mountain” from Game of Thrones, and Arnold Schwarzenegger (circa 1975) have in common? They all built brick-house bodies thanks to a little thing called weightlifting. But they also pursued […]

Fitness Myths You Should Just Ignore

Karen Lost 148 Pounds at 62

From the Beachbody On Demand Blog – July 10, 2018 | BY: Beachbody Karen lost 148 pounds at age 62 and is living proof that’s it’s never too late to achieve your health and fitness goals. We’ve all had those moments when we’ve thought, “I could do it, but it’s […]

Karen Lost 148 Pounds at Age 62

Stephanie Lost 110 Pounds with CIZE

From the Beachbody On Demand Blog – June 2, 2017 | BY: Beachbody Stephanie Scott, age 48, lost 110 lbs with CIZE. She entered her results into The Beachbody Challenge and won $1,000! Tell us about your life before you started the program. How did you feel about yourself and […]

Stephanie Lost 110 Pounds Doing CIZE with Shaun T

81 Shift Shop Approved Recipes

From the Beachbody On Demand Blog – June 26, 2018 | BY: Beachbody Welcome to the  SHIFT SHOP! This program from Super Trainer Chris Downing will help you get leaner, stronger, and fitter in just three weeks and the nutrition plan is an important part of you achieving the best […]

Free, Downloadable Shift Shop Recipes

Why Weight Lifting is Great for Women

From the Beachbody On Demand Blog – July 2, 2018 | BY: Whitney Provost Many women believe the only way to lose weight is to do cardiovascular (aerobic) exercise, but without adding weight training to their workout routine, they are missing a key component to  weight loss. If you’re serious […]

Why Weight Training Is Great for Women

From the Beachbody On Demand Blog October 11, 2017 | BY: Rachael Schultz and Kristy Alpert   Crush your daily INSANITY or P90X workout, and the pounds will melt off. But that doesn’t mean gentler workouts, such as yoga, can’t help you lose pounds, too. The Beachbody  5-Day Yoga Body […]

Does Yoga Work for Weight Loss?

Shift Shop from Chris Downing

July 26, 2017 | BY: Hannah Rex SHIFT SHOP is anything but your average home workout program. Created by Super Trainer and former athlete Chris Downing, SHIFT SHOP, available on Beachbody On Demand,  was made with athletes in mind by challenging your agility, coordination, endurance and more. It was created […]

Shift Shop Will Get You Leaner, Faster, and Stronger

The good news: You can get great abs by eating healthy. The bad news: No matter how much physical effort you put into sculpting a smokin’ six-pack crunches, planks, squats, cardio, HIIT no one’s going to see them if they’re covered by a layer of flab. 7 Ways to Eat […]

7 Ways to Eat Your Way to Great Abs

How to Stop Making Weight Loss Excuses

Truth time: The biggest barriers standing between you and successfully losing weight are the weight loss excuses you make that keep you from getting started. We know how it goes… I should do a quick workout… but I have three seasons of “Game of Thrones” to catch up on. I […]

Weight Loss Excuses and How to Stop Making Them

Nicole Betschman and Irene Markulik both took on the challenge on the TODAY Show and these are their 80 Day Obsession results – they lost more than 17 inches EACH! If you’re not familiar with Autumn Calabrese’s latest program, here’s the 411: It’s 80 days of obsessive focus on fitness […]

80 Day Obsession With Autumn Calabrese

Run 1,000 Miles in 2018

I Committed to Run 1,000 Miles in 2018 Just an FYI – I don’t drink, ever.  You may wonder then why I commented in a post in Mark Zuckerberg’s “A Year of Running” group on New Year’s Day that I was going to try to run 1,000 miles in 2018. […]

Run 1,000 Miles in 2018

Intermittent Fasting

Should You Try Intermittent Fasting? From the Beachbody On Demand Blog, October 11, 2017 | BY: Denis Faye, M.S. The Short Answer: Ah, intermittent fasting! Yet another attempt by modern humans to suffer the way our ancestors did in hopes of becoming more awesome. Technically, intermittent fasting has been around […]

Should You Try Intermittent Fasting?

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Do you need to eat breakfast to lose weight?

Some people can’t start their day without eating breakfast.  Others can’t stand the thought of eating breakfast.  If you needed to eat breakfast to lose weight, I wonder if it would change their mind? From the Beachbody On Demand Blog,  November 4, 2016 | BY: Kara Wahlgren Breakfast is the […]

Do You Really Need to Eat Breakfast to Lose Weight?

7 Healthy Habits of People Who Lost 30 Pounds or More

From the Beachbody On Demand Blog,  December 15, 2017 | BY: Trinh Le, R.D. Lasting weight loss is about figuring out what works well in your life and making it into a habit. So who better to learn healthy habits from than highly successful people who have lost 30 pounds […]

7 Healthy Habits of People Who Lost 30+ Pounds

80 Day Obsession Pre-Workout Meals

From the Beachbody On Demand Blog,  December 21, 2017 | BY: Kirsten Morningstar If you’ve ever bonked during a workout because you didn’t eat enough, or  gave new meaning to the word “burpees”  because you ate too much of the wrong thing (we’re looking at you, chili cheese fries), then […]

80 Day Obsession Pre-Workout Meals

The new Team Beachbody website

Our new Team Beachbody site that went live on Monday has all new links that I want to start sharing with you. I am starting with the best deal in fitness and health, the Annual All-Access Beachbody On Demand & Shakeology ® Challenge Pack.  With it, you get unlimited streaming […]

Annual All-Access Beachbody On Demand & Shakeology ® Challenge Pack

weight gain, holiday weight gain

6 Tips to Avoid Weight Gain at Holiday Parties Ilana Muhlstein, Registered Dietitian Nutritionist,  is the author of “6 Tips to Avoid Weight Gain at Holiday Parties” and it appeared in the Beachbody On Demand blog on December 8th.  She is also the creator of  2B Mindset.  The 2B Mindset […]

6 Tips to Avoid Weight Gain at Holiday Parties

rise above your limits, rising above your limits

I was rising above my limits for months, but now it has become rising above my challenges and just surviving Ever since I did the Polar Global study this past summer, I started keeping a detailed training log again. That’s how I know that on October 29th, I had a […]

Rising Above My Challenges

clean week, clean week change

Are you ready for a clean week?  How about a Clean Week Challenge?  Thanksgiving is over and so is Cyber Monday.  Now you can focus on dealing with maybe a few pounds that you put on or a few workouts that you missed.  Maybe you just feel out of sorts […]

Clean Week Challenge with Megan Davies

heart rate, polar m600, m600, shift shop, chris downing

Shift Shop Speed: 25 is one heck of a workout.  I work out in an unheated sunroom, and even though it is almost the end of November, I worked up a sweat from doing half of my workout between Zone 3 and Zone 5 according to my Polar M600. What […]

Shift Shop Speed 25 – The Challenge du Jour

I'm Thankful for my Family

Happy Thanksgiving!   I hope and pray that you are having a joy filled day and that you are finding ways to give thanks.   I am thankful to be a member with you of the Team Beachbody community. Last night at Calvary Albuquerque, we had our annual Thanksgiving banner […]

Happy Thanksgiving – I’m Thankful For…

Beginner's Guide to Losing Weight with Beachbody

From the Beachbody On Demand Blog,  November 21, 2017 | BY: Rebecca Pardess My name is Rebecca and I love cheese. I’m also a digital marketing professional, freelance writer, wife, dog mom of two, and I drive 70 miles round-trip to work every day. So you could say I’m a […]

The Beginner’s Guide to Losing Weight With Beachbody

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Wasted time.  At my age, every minute counts and I want every one of them to be productive and to bear fruit. Washing dishes is wasted time unless I do something at the same time and that means watching running videos on YouTube.  In their selection for me this afternoon […]

Wasted Time

Double Time - Family Fit Family Fun

Double Time is the new family fun and fitness program from Tony Horton Wouldn’t you love to spend more quality time with your family? Doing something that’s fun, but can also make fitness part of your everyday life? Now, you and a partner can get in shape and have a […]

Double Time for Family Fit Family Fun Workouts

Autumn and Bobby Calabrese Fixate Cooking Class

Autumn Calabrese and her brother, professional chef Bobby Calabrese started the Fixate cooking classes so you can get more creative with your healthy, portion-controlled eating plan. With the Fixate show on Beachbody On Demand, you’ll also learn nutrition fundamentals and get a lot of great new recipes too.   Who […]

FIXATE Cooking Classes on Beachbody On Demand

Tony Horton One On One

Tony Horton One On One is actually one of his workout series that he did after P90X for which he is best known.  The workouts are filmed in his home and you get the feeling that you are working out just with him and that he is your personal trainer. […]

Tony Horton’s One On One

Is the Sugar in Fruit Healthy or Unhealthy?

I just got an email from Forks Over Knives and want to share this article, “Is the Sugar in Fruit Healthy or Unhealthy?”  Forks Over Knives “empowers people to live healthier lives by changing the way the world understands nutrition”.  That’s why I want to share this article.  It is […]

Is the Sugar in Fruit Healthy or Unhealthy?

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