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5 Great Grilling Recipes You’re Going to Love

From the Team Beachbody Newsletter Shorts and sandals weather is officially here. The sun is shining, but it’s not meltingly hot yet, and I, for one, am itching to spend the entire weekend outdoors. It’s time to dust off the barbecue, fire up the grill, and chill out in the […]

5 Great Grilling Recipes You’re Going to Love

Wanting It So Bad It Hurts

Are you suffering in your life right now?   Do you want your life back so bad that it hurts?   Janet did and she did something about it – even working out in secret when she started.   Below is her story from the Team Beachbody Success Story contest. […]

Wanting It So Bad It Hurts

Happily Married and Fat?

Before doing P90X I was completely miserable. I was 25 years old, stood 5′ 7”, had high cholesterol, and weighed in at 225 pounds. With those stats, I wasn’t fat, I was obese. I knew I needed to workout but kept putting it off until tomorrow. And when “tomorrow” finally […]

Happily Married and Fat?

Escaping From Solitude

I have been heavy throughout my whole life and have lived in solitude, escaping to my games, which got very lonely at times. I have been on food stamps for at least 2 years because I have been unemployed and was forced to live out of my car while I […]

Escaping From Solitude

  Question: What’s different in the new Greenberry Shakeology formula? Answer: Reduced calories from 140 to 130 per serving Reduced Sugars from 11g to 6g per serving! (5 grams less than before!) Reduced Total Carbs from 19g to 13g per serving Increased Protein from 16g to 17g per serving Fiber […]

New and Improved Greenberry Shakeology

Life’s Too Short to be Entombed in an Unhealthy Body

Kristjan won the Team Beachbody $500 Daily Prize for May 6th! My whole life I’ve BEEN big, and LIVED big spent my teens and 20’s in the 300+ club. Though overweight, I was still a happy-go-lucky kind of guy. I loved life and overindulged in things that brought me immediate […]

Life’s Too Short to be Entombed in an Unhealthy Body

10 Moves to Improve Your Basketball Game

By Zack Zeigler – From the Team Beachbody Newsletter Once you’ve mastered basketball’s fundamentals how to properly dribble, shoot, pass, and trash talk you can improve your game by fine-tuning the way you train off the court. This exercise collection, courtesy of former basketball coach, veteran baller, and Beachbody’s Director […]

10 Moves to Improve Your Basketball Game

You can save $25.00 when you purchase the Tai Cheng Challenge Pack in May (offer ends May 31st) and you save over $90.00 if you were to buy everything separately.   Whether for yourself, a Mother’s Day gift or even planning ahead and buying it for Father’s Day, Tai Cheng, […]

Challenge Pack of the Month – Tai Cheng

From a Bad Place to a Happy Place!

Ashley participated in The Beachbody Challenge and won the $500 Daily Prize for April 29th! Before I started ChaLEAN Extreme, I was in a bad place, mentally and physically. I had NO energy, no confidence and an extremely negative self-image. I was disgusted by looking at pictures of myself. And […]

From a Bad Place to a Happy Place!

Real People, Real Commitment, Real Success

An open letter to my team of Beachbody Coaches: Coaches, you can change your body in eight weeks, you can change other people’s bodies in eight weeks and you can change lives forever over the next two months. I am proof of how successful you can be changing people’s lives […]

Real People, Real Commitment, Real Success

30 Ways to Relieve Your Stress By Sarah Stevenson

From the Team Beachbody Newsletter Back in Paleolithic times, stress and its associated hormone release was an important survival tool. Things like adrenaline gave us the juice we needed to dodge a famished cheetah, while cortisol helped out should that cheetah decide to pursue us for a long, long time. […]

30 Ways to Relieve Your Stress By Sarah Stevenson

What’s In Your Fast Food?

When I started doing a TurboKick class, two awesome things happened. I found out that I loved TurboKick, and my instructor and Team Beachbody Coach introduced me to Shakeology when she gave me a packet to try. I loved it so much, I went onto her site and ordered a […]

What’s In Your Fast Food?

We had an extraordinary month of growth as a team in March and April is turning out to be equally as good.   We added 28 new team members to our staff in 30 days and we are so blessed to be able to have a team that is growing […]

March Madness and April Insanity

Last Reminder:   There are now only 36 hours left to save $90.00 on the Insanity Challenge Pack.   Act now or say bye bye to the $90.00 you wish that you had saved on the Insanity Challenge Pack by purchasing it before 11:59 pm ET tomorrow, April 30th! Want […]

Insane Not to Save $90.00!

How Many Calories Are in Your Favorite Valentine’s Day Foods?

From the Team Beachbody Newsletter – By Rebecca Swanner Do you love oysters on the half shell? Desire to nibble on a bite of dark chocolate? Or maybe you’re head over heels over the classic conversation heart. Whatever you fancy to devour on Valentine’s Day, take a look in the […]

How Many Calories Are in Your Favorite Valentine’s Day Foods?

9 Aphrodisiacs to Heat Up Your Love Life

From the Team Beachbody Newsletter – By Joe Wilkes Named for Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, aphrodisiacs have been the stuff of legend and song throughout history. Lovers looking for a leg up in the libido department have gone to their shamans, medicine men, and herbalists for centuries, searching […]

9 Aphrodisiacs to Heat Up Your Love Life

Chalene Johnson: What Keeps Me Motivated

Chalene Johnson isn’t just the creator and master trainer behind TurboJam ®, ChaLEAN Extreme ®, and TurboFire ®. She’s also a mom, renowned motivational speaker, best-selling author, and the founder of her own multimillion-dollar enterprise, Powder Blue Productions ®. That’s a pretty incredible resume, even for a woman as incredible […]

Chalene Johnson: What Keeps Me Motivated

10 Great Super Bowl Snacks for Sunday

From the Team Beachbody Newsletter – Sign up for the Team Beachbody free membership to get more great issues! It happens every year, mere weeks after resolving to lose the love handles, we face a day devoted to filling our bellies with hot wings, nachos, and beer. Americans consume more […]

10 Great Super Bowl Snacks for Sunday

After I Broke My Back in Iraq, Brazil Butt Lift Got Me Back on Track

Shawneen participated in The Beachbody Challenge and won the $500 Daily Prize for January 10th! I was fat and miserable, too ashamed to look at myself in the mirror, too heavy to keep up with my kids. Because of a war injury I broke my back serving in Iraq and […]

After I Broke My Back in Iraq, Brazil Butt Lift …

I Dare You!

Over the past week, I’ve experienced some life changing moments. Early New Year’s Day, on a cold morning as the sun was coming up over the Sandia Mountains, I took one step, heard a crack in my knee and couldn’t take another step. By 8:00 am, I was in the […]

I Dare You!

The Fast Track to Losing BIG with Chalene Johnson

Giving You Hope – from Team Beachbody Success Stories After struggling with her weight her entire life and auditioning for The Biggest Loser and not making the cut, Jessica took her health and fitness into her own hands and lost well over 100 lbs on her own with Chalene Johnson’s […]

The Fast Track to Losing BIG with Chalene Johnson

Now I hold up my size 4 pants and say: I did it!

Meet Lana D.! She participated in The Beachbody Challenge and won the $500 Daily Prize for December 19th! As a nurse, I’m really good at taking care of other people. But I’m not so good a taking care of myself. I think it started back in nursing school when all […]

Now I hold up my size 4 pants and say: …

Celebrating a Milestone

From Team Beachbody Success Stories Rebecca just reached a massive milestone in her weight loss journey.  With the help of TurboFire, Les Mills Pump and Shakeology she has lost 150 lbs in a little over a year!  Join us in celebrating her massive accomplishment! My weight loss success continues on […]

Celebrating a Milestone

Seasonal Stress Relief

25 Ways to Relax & Rejuvenate over the Holidays – from Team Beachbody Holiday shopping. Meddling relatives. Taxing travel. The season to be merry can easily turn into the season of stress! But all the holiday hustle doesn’t have to bring on anxiety or keep you from reaching your goals! […]

Seasonal Stress Relief

10 Ways to Ward off Excess Holiday Pounds

Do you find that the scale moves up a few pounds during this time of the year? During summertime, we’re focused on our bodies, given we know we’ll be wearing the revealing clothing that goes with that season, but when fall and winter come around, that mindset falls away like […]

10 Ways to Ward off Excess Holiday Pounds

Adventures of Superfood Man

Shakeology ® was featured in Bloomberg Businessweek! “The Adventures of Superfood Man” Bloomberg Businessweek reporter Peter Heller travels to Malibu, CA, to get the inside scoop on exactly what Shakeology is, and to learn more about the fascinating life of Darin Olien who he deems may be “the most aggressive […]

Adventures of Superfood Man

Great Deals on Holiday Muscle Gain!

You don’t have to stand in line to get these Black Friday through Cyber Monday deals!   Introducing the 2012 Team Beachbody Black Friday thru Cyber Monday Sale Extravaganza! The fun begins this Friday, November 23rd, around 9:00 AM PST/12:00 PM EST and ends on Monday, November 26th around 9:00 […]

Great Deals on Holiday Muscle Gain!

How Are You Going to Spend the Next 30 Days?

First of all, let me start by saying Happy Thanksgiving to each and every one of you. It has been an especially rough month for many of you dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy and a rough year for virtually all of us. But things will get better as […]

How Are You Going to Spend the Next 30 Days?

If Your Why Is Larger Than Your Reasons Not To

Last night, I sat in church and listened to Alistair Begg talking about Mark 14:3-9. In verse 3 it says, “While He was in Bethany, reclining at the table in the home of Simon the Leper, a woman came with an alabaster jar of very expensive perfume, made of pure […]

If Your Why Is Larger Than Your Reasons Not To

Two Pictures are Worth a Thousand Words

“I lost about 20 lbs using Shakeology and walking everyday after I was released from the hospital. Once I was medically cleared to exercise, continuing to use Shakeology and completing the full P90X program, I lost a further 52 lbs, countless inches and 28% body fat. I am truly most […]

Two Pictures are Worth a Thousand Words

It’s Stupid to be a Team Beachbody Coach…

Just a little while ago, I had a revelation that I needed to be receptive to receiving and acting on.   That epiphany was that it is stupid to be a Team Beachbody Coach and at almost 62 to still think in my head that I am a runner.   […]

It’s Stupid to be a Team Beachbody Coach…

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My Secret Weapon is My Why

Alli hit rock bottom in 2010. She was broke, confused and on the verge of homelessness. “Between my student loans, credit card bills and my car, I was $100,000 in debt,” says Alli. On top of her personal debt, Alli’s family was in financial ruins (her Dad was a custom […]

My Secret Weapon is My Why

Pirate Pumpkin Grog Shakeology Recipe

Avast, me hearties! You moms and dads have been dealin’ with your scurvy crew of kiddos all Halloween long with nary a concern for yerselves! You, too, deserve a share of the treasure, but if nutrient-poor spoils like candy and booze make ya want to walk the plank, fill your […]

Pirate Pumpkin Grog Shakeology Recipe

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