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Team Beachbody #6 on Top Network Marketing Companies List!

Wow, according to Matt Morris, author of “The Unemployed Millionaire” in his list of the top of the Top 80 Network Marketing Companies:   February 2010, Team Beachbody comes in at #6!   You can check out the list, which we just qualified for (you have to be in network […]

Team Beachbody #6 on Top Network Marketing Companies List!

Seeking Church For Fitness Ministry

That sounds like a newspaper ad, but if you are a pastor, this post is for you.   At any given time, as you look out over your congregation, you will see the same percentage of people who are overweight or obese.   Churchgoers are no more healthy than non […]

Seeking Church For Fitness Ministry

What Runners Should Know About Shakeology

Runners, the most important thing that you should know about Shakeology is that you should be drinking it every day.   How would I know, you ask?   First of all, I’ve been a competitive runner for almost 44 years.   In my 30’s, 40’s and 50’s, I was running […]

What Runners Should Know About Shakeology

What’s Your Performance Formula?

No, I’m not going to give away my training secrets, but I am going to tell you about a product that I use every day to   help me train more effectively and recover from my workouts faster, allowing me to train 7 days a week.   Team Beachbody Performance […]

What’s Your Performance Formula?

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Boring Game.  Final Score 70 – 0!

When you shell out your hard earned money for lunch or dinner, how would you rather spend your 4 – 5 bucks?   Do you want to be a winner and get the 70 healthy ingredients in Shakeology or virtually no healthy ingredients in your $4.00 to $5.00 fast food […]

Boring Game. Final Score 70 – 0!

“I got P90X without the guides.  Now what do I do?”

This is an oft repeated question and here is the perfect answer: “You can’t get the guides separately because there is a bootleg operation in China that is selling the DVD’s only. People are saving $40.00 on eBay but getting ripped off and supporting the Chinese economy. To get the […]

“I got P90X without the guides. Now what do …

“I lost 100 pounds and it didn’t cost me a dime!”

Would you like to be able to say that?   You can. “How?” No gimmicks, no pills, no gym membership, no surgery – just an effective exercise program and good nutrition. “Okay, this is stupid already.   I have to buy a workout program and they cost money.” That’s true, […]

“I lost 100 pounds and it didn’t cost me a …

What’s the Big Deal About Shakeology?

Cool banner, huh.   But is the product any good? You could ask Mary Ann Kobes, who says that she drinks it every day.   Being a winner in the Shakeology weekly contest (ends March 25, 2010) and winning $1,000.00 might make her more inclined to keep drinking it, though. […]

What’s the Big Deal About Shakeology?

What Puts the WOW in WOWY?

YOU – sharing your love of fitness.   WOWY is social networking for fitness and you have not only a virtual gym to work out in every day from the comfort of your own home, but you can also share your passion for health and fitness with 1,524,724 active other […]

What Puts the WOW in WOWY?

Your Belly Fat Has a Mind of its Own

The original titles of this post was, “Hormonal Changes and Visceral Fat”, but who would have read it.   Nobody is interested in what doctors and researchers have to say.   That’s why so many people choose to live lives devoid of physical activity and chow down on the worst […]

Your Belly Fat Has a Mind of its Own

I’m Fat, So What?

I received an email over the weekend with this information, “An alarming new study shows that health care costs increased last year at the fastest rate in more than a half century.   Health care spending rose to an estimated $2.5 trillion in 2009, or $8,047 per person — and […]

I’m Fat, So What?

Succeeding In Life By Helping Other People

Until a couple of weeks ago, I was blogging almost every day.   Then on a run one morning, I started thinking about the Whole Foods marketing campaign (I run on trails in front of their store – this is Albuquerque remember) that says, “Buy Local, Support Local” and embarked […]

Succeeding In Life By Helping Other People

Are You Still Waiting for a Life Changing Moment?

True story.   I was a personal trainer for years in NJ and I would like to tell you about one of my most memorable clients.   His name was John (no, that wasn’t his real name) and he was an obese chain smoker before I met him.   He […]

Are You Still Waiting for a Life Changing Moment?

Why Eric Haitz Signed Up to Be a Team Beachbody Coach

“I signed up for Team Beachbody mainly as a commitment to a new me (though the discounts are nice…).   For years I’ve been just packing on the fat. Then a couple of years ago I had knee surgery which was a great excuse for why I couldn’t do even […]

Why Eric Haitz Signed Up to Be a Team Beachbody …

Who Will Work for “Health Equality” and Be the Present Day MLK?

In an inspiring segment on Beliefnet.com, it says, “Martin Luther King Jr., was a father, a husband, a reverend, a civil rights leader, and a resilient man with a clear vision to end segregation in America during the 1950s.   On Monday, January 18, we honor a revolutionary man who […]

Who Will Work for “Health Equality” and Be the Present …

Is There a Link Between Obesity and the Devastation in Haiti?

On Tuesday as we all know, there was a devastating earthquake in Haiti.   Is it connected to the floor that collapsed in a building on Wednesday?   No, that was the floor in the Weight Watchers weigh in room and the 20 people there thought that it was an […]

Is There a Link Between Obesity and the Devastation in …

Watching and praying with the rest of the world

I’ve learned from other natural disasters while I’ve been running an online business, that the world watches and that e-commerce should respect the victims and their families by doing the same.   September 11th, the 2004 day after Christmas tsunami, Katrina and now the disaster in Haiti means stopping to […]

Watching and praying with the rest of the world

Prayers for the People of Haiti

All thoughts and prayers should be focused toward the island of Hispaniola where the tragedy of the earthquake near Port-au-Prince is unfolding.   It is a major catastrophe and the Haitian people need all of our prayers today and in the coming days and weeks and months as they try […]

Prayers for the People of Haiti

At 104, Joe Rollino Could Bend a Quarter Between His Fingers

It’s all too common that bad people are featured more often and more prominently in the news for what they’ve done or haven’t done.   Good people don’t make headlines that most people want to read.   They just live exemplary lives. So it is with Joe Rollino.   I […]

At 104, Joe Rollino Could Bend a Quarter Between His …

Too much TV may mean earlier death

If you read my post from earlier today, you may have thought, yeah, yeah.   What a coincidence that CNN has an article this afternoon entitled, “Too much TV may mean earlier death”. It says, in part, “Watching too much television can make you feel a bit brain-dead. According to […]

Too much TV may mean earlier death

Why Do People Give Up So Easily?

This isn’t going to be one of those, “In my day” rants, but honestly, years ago, people prided themselves in never giving up and never quitting.   I don’t live in some parallel universe and come up with these commentaries.   I see people give up, I hear about people […]

Why Do People Give Up So Easily?

Running and Swine Flu

Having been a runner for almost 44 years, I know my body.   I am very consistent in my training and performances as well as nutrition and lifestyle habits, so when I start to not run well, I know that my body is fighting off something.   On Thanksgiving Day […]

Running and Swine Flu

It is hard to believe, but today is the anniversary of the day three years ago when I decided to click on a link in an email from Neil Evans from Beachbody that gave me the opportunity to sign up as a Team Beachbody Coach. I had the gotten the […]

3 Years Today as a Team Beachbody Coach

Why Do We Need a Fat Acceptance Movement?

Yesterday I read an article in CNN Health entitled, “Is the fat acceptance movement bad for our health?”   Why do we need a fat acceptance movement?   Who cares if you are fat or thin or somewhere in between.   What difference does it make if you are tall […]

Why Do We Need a Fat Acceptance Movement?

How to Save 3 Cents a Pound on Your Ground Beef

According to the article in WalletPop, “As recently as 2004, school lunch beef contained as much as 15% of this ammonia-treated filler as a means of saving a whole three cents per pound.”   When you read the article, it says that, “Beef Products began to blast its filler product […]

How to Save 3 Cents a Pound on Your Ground …

Are You Discouraged?

Is 2010 starting out as bad for you as 2009 ended?   It is for me and the very least of the problems that I am facing is still trying to get over the effects of the swine flu.   Am I discouraged?   No, I’m defiant and I will […]

Are You Discouraged?

What’s Your Driving Force?

Today is the first work day of the New Year and also the starting day for many resolution driven fitness programs and weight loss programs.   But you can’t just start your engine with a resolution, you have to have something that will keep driving you forward toward your destination. […]

What’s Your Driving Force?

We’re All Fish in the Sea of Fitness

Let’s face it, we’re all just like fish in the sea of fitness, and just like all people who work out, we thrive in different environments.   Basically, we can be divided into the people who go to the gym and the people who would never work out at the […]

We’re All Fish in the Sea of Fitness

Not Just Another Reason to Drink Shakeology

You know by now that I’m no Billy Mays.   I’m not trying to pitch something or convince you to do something that you absolutely have to do.   I’m just a coach who tries things and uses things before he recommends them to his athletes. Whether it was a […]

Not Just Another Reason to Drink Shakeology

Inspiring You Inspires Me

It was 15 years ago today that I started the website Howtobefit.com, so I want to take this opportunity to not only wish you a Happy New Year, but also to thank you for your continued interest and support over all those years. Howtobefit.com was conceived from a desire to […]

Inspiring You Inspires Me

Understanding the Team Beachbody Game Plan

Team Beachbody has a game plan for you.   It’s not, buy this or take that, but a well thought out plan that will take you from where you are to where you want to be.   Whether you are 360 pounds and need to lose weight to get in […]

Understanding the Team Beachbody Game Plan

What, No Post Yesterday?

Running comes as easily to me as breathing, but coming back from more than a month long illness which included a bout with swine flu is presenting a challenge. I ran for just over 25:00 and then did 8 reps of 5 upper body exercises and was really quite tired […]

What, No Post Yesterday?

How I Overcame the H1N1 Swine Flu Virus

Since my Dad was a farmer, I saw him working every day.   Because I do something that I love to do, I’ve adopted his lifestyle and don’t think a thing of it.   Between Thanksgiving and Christmas, though, I battled the H1N1 virus and working every day became quite […]

How I Overcame the H1N1 Swine Flu Virus

Americans spend more energy watching TV than on exercise

Okay, I googled, “minutes spent exercising in U.S.” and the second article was from an analysis by researches at the University of California, Berkeley.   Since I want to give them full credit and a link back to their article, you can find it here.   But just in case […]

Americans spend more energy watching TV than on exercise

Robert May and Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

I get an inspirational email every day from Insight of the Day, and yesterday was no exception.   On Friday, it is called, “Friday Story” and instead of being a quote, it is an inspirational story.   Relying on their honesty, this is supposed to be a true story and […]

The Inspiring True Story of Bob May and Rudolph the …

A Christmas Wish For You

Two of my biggest heroes are George Bailey from the movie, “It’s A Wonderful Life” and John Beresford Tipton from the TV series, “The Millionaire” (yes, I used to watch it). As you read this, don’t be disappointed if Michael Anthony isn’t knocking on your door, because right about now […]

A Christmas Wish For You

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The Shakeology Healthy Value Meal for $3.49

You may or may not have seen the ads for Shakeology on the Internet and if you did, you may have just passed them by. Frankly, healthy food does not have the same lure as a Deluxe Value Meal for $2.99 but for $3.49, Shakeology is a highly nutritious meal […]

The Shakeology Healthy Value Meal for $3.49

The Lure of the $2.99 Deluxe Meal

A lot of Internet sites have been featuring an ad on their homepages for a $2.99 Deluxe Meal and I was so lured to the idea of getting a deluxe meal for $2.99 that I had to click on it. The meal comes in two versions, the Double Junior Cheeseburger […]

The Lure of the $2.99 Deluxe Meal

Napoleon Hill with Andrew Carnegia

Napoleon Hill was in his early 20’s, a young journalist, when he was given a 3 hour interview with Carnegie. The following was written by Napoleon Hill. This is all in the archives of the Napoleon Hill Foundation. This is the story as told by Bob Proctor. Fortunately, I was […]

Napoleon Hill’s 60 Seconds to Decide

Expressions of Gratitude on Thanksgiving

Last evening, we went to a service of gratitude at our church and the pastor related the story of Corrie Ten Boom.   I did some research this morning and created her story of gratitude below. The Ten Boom family was sent to a concentration camp by the Nazis who […]

Expressions of Gratitude on Thanksgiving

Let’s Face It, Some People Can Afford to be Obese

They say that by 2018, an obese person will pay about $2,500 more in health care costs so they probably pay maybe $1,500.00 more now.   The cost of a good Team Beachbody workout ranges between $59.85 and $119.85 and the Team Beachbody Club membership is just over $150.00 a […]

Let’s Face It, Some People Can Afford to be Obese

Test Your Fruit ‘n’ Vegetable Rainbow IQ!

Team Beachbody has great articles on health, fitness, nutrition and a wide range of other subjects that will improve your quality of life.   Here’s a fun article bound to improve your diet by Valerie Watson. We used to think a healthy diet was all about the “Big Three” food […]

Test Your Fruit ‘n’ Vegetable Rainbow IQ!

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Yoshuda Compact Spin Bike – Just $170.00

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