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5 Ways to Break Through Dreaded Weight Loss Plateaus

By Justine Holberg – from Team Beachbody Fitness Tips You’re tracking calories, working out each day, then bam! For a week or two, the scale refuses to budge…and you realize you’ve hit a dreaded weight loss plateau. Now what? Even though it’s completely normal to hit a snag in your […]

5 Ways to Break Through Dreaded Weight Loss Plateaus

Are You Ready to Get Back in Your Game?

  Meet Naima.   This former college athlete is back on her game after losing 30 pounds – and she participated in The Beachbody Challenge and won the $500 Daily Prize for March 6th! Tell us about your life before you started the program. How did you feel about yourself […]

Are You Ready to Get Back in Your Game?

7 Real World Tips to Get More Sleep

By Denis Faye – from the Team Beachbody Newsletter About a year ago, I decided to take back my night. It had been three years since my divorce, a hellish experience that had completely robbed me of my ability to sleep. 3 hours was an average night. 5 hours was […]

7 Real World Tips to Get More Sleep

Test Your “Big Easy” Booze and Food IQ!

By DeLane McDuffie – from the Team Beachbody Newsletter With Mardi Gras beginning today, many of you will be experiencing   some of that Cajun/Creole/Louisiana flavor.   Test your knowledge of the following Louisiana staples. What cocktail is reported to be America’s first? Creole pharmacist Antoine Peychaud invented the Sazerac […]

Test Your “Big Easy” Booze and Food IQ!

How to Bust Your 6 Biggest Excuses

By Kara Wahlgren – from the Team Beachbody Newsletter When you’re feeling overworked or overwhelmed, it’s easy to find an excuse to skip a workout…or two…or a whole week’s worth. But don’t let bad excuses get in the way of good intentions. Here’s how to keep them from derailing your […]

How to Bust Your 6 Biggest Excuses

Beat the Second-Week Slump

By Kara Wahlgren – from the Team Beachbody Newsletter Last week, you were feeling gung ho and ready to tackle your weight-loss goals head-on. This week? Not so much. You’re tired, you’re hungry, and you’re aching in places you didn’t even know existed. But before you lose all motivation, take […]

Beat the Second-Week Slump

How to Boost Your Metabolism

By Zack Zeigler – from the Team Beachbody Newsletter Which do you want first the good news or the bad news? The bad news? You got it, glass-is-half-empty exerciser. Here it is: There is no magical way to speed up your metabolism. So all the mystical pills and potions that […]

How to Boost Your Metabolism

20 Snacks Under 260 Calories for Super Bowl Sunday

From the Team Beachbody Newsletter Super Bowl Sunday is the first real challenge to your New Year’s Resolutions. It’s the day when it’s normal to chow down on fried foods smothered in cheese and bacon…and then wash it with a few beers. In fact, Americans consume more calories on Super […]

20 Snacks Under 260 Calories for Super Bowl Sunday

What’s Your Favorite Beachbody Program?

Here are the top Beachbody programs that I’ve done in numerical order.   I’ve provided my review and feedback on each one and a link so that you can learn more.   Or you can just email me at phaseonefitness@gmail.com. 1.   Insanity review –   It pushed me to […]

What’s Your Favorite Beachbody Program?

30 X 3 Challenge – Are You Up For It?

I’m challenging you to give yourself 30 days to develop a positive habit and to see what type of life change you can achieve in 30 days.   Among the benefits, you will: Lose weight Get in shape Feel great Wear clothes that fit better Have more energy Have better […]

30 X 3 Challenge – Are You Up For It?

Why Shorter Workouts Work!

Tony Horton and Shaun T help us break down all the benefits of shorter workouts in this article from the January Team Beachbody Coach Newsletter. Want to get ripped and do a workout that you are much less likely to quit? Spend less time working out. Yes, you heard that […]

Why Shorter Workouts Work!

What a Difference a Year Makes

What a difference a year makes.   At the end of 2013, my left knee hurt too much to run (or I would have to walk to warm up and then could run a little and then walk and run a little and walk).   I thought that the pain […]

What a Difference a Year Makes

Can You Make Your New Year’s Resolution Stick?

By Kara Wahlgren – from the Team Beachbody Newsletter Want to lose weight? Get a promotion? Take over the world? Here’s how to make sure your New Year’s resolution becomes a reality. First, the bad news: The odds are stacked against you. A few years ago, psychologist Richard Wiseman conducted […]

Can You Make Your New Year’s Resolution Stick?

Insanity is the Best Part of My Day!

Not many people would admit that unless they meant the same Insanity that Kristen did.   What an amazing physical and emotional transformation and she is $500 richer, too!   Here is her story in her own words… “From the 6th grade on, I have NEVER weighed less than 200 […]

Insanity is the Best Part of My Day!

Reducing Stress Could Just Be Mind Over Matter

By Denis Faye – from the Team Beachbody Newsletter Like many a poor sap trying to make the most of this hectic world, my mind tends to churn like a washing machine filled with ferrets. Even in the most tranquil of moments, dozens of thoughts scrape and bite to get […]

Reducing Stress Could Just Be Mind Over Matter

Do You Really Need A Rest Day?

You want it all, so you work out intensely day after day after day.   What does Tony Horton or Shaun T or Chalene know.   You don’t need no stinking day off.   But then, oops, you are a little tired and don’t feel like working out.   You […]

Do You Really Need A Rest Day?

5 Tips for Not Getting Sick this Winter

By Zack Zeigler – From the Team Beachbody Newsletter As the weather gets colder, it forces us to do things like wear clothing that covers our midriffs and spend more time trapped indoors with people who have runny noses and hacking coughs. To stay out of the infirmary, we need […]

5 Tips for Not Getting Sick this Winter

Is Cardio or Weight Lifting Better For Losing Weight?

Ask the Expert: Steve Edwards – From the Team Beachbody Newsletter If you’re looking to lose weight, you might be wondering: Should I focus on doing cardio or should I weight train? The answer, for those of you not interested in hanging around for the “why” part of the answer, […]

Is Cardio or Weight Lifting Better For Losing Weight?

10 Popular Diet Tips to Ignore

By Kara Wahlgren – From the Team Beachbody Newsletter If you’ve ever tried to lose a few pounds, you’ve probably been inundated with diet tips. But take them all with a grain of salt some advice may sound legit but can actually derail your diet. Here are 10 tips you […]

10 Popular Diet Tips to Ignore

Shakeology No-Bake Cookies

One of these delicious chocolate and nut butter cookies will satisfy your sweet tooth without wrecking your diet. Total Time: 10 min. Prep Time: 10 min. Cooking Time: None Yield: 25 cookies Ingredients: 1 cup all-natural peanut butter (or almond butter) 1 cup quick cooking oats ½ cup raw honey […]

Shakeology No-Bake Cookies

Ten Pounds Lighter, $500 Richer!

Even though Christine only lost 10 pounds, she still entered The Beachbody Challenge, took before and after pictures and documented her 21 days of the Ultimate Reset.   Everyone who enters the Challenge is a winner because you are bound to be healthier even if you aren’t richer. Meet Christine […]

Ten Pounds Lighter, $500 Richer!

Three Powerful Tools for Losing Weight

By Rebecca Swanner – from the Team Beachbody Newsletter Losing weight and keeping it off isn’t always easy. Just ask Jessica and Andy, the two $100,000.00 Grand Prize Winners of the 2012-2013 Beachbody Challengeâ„¢ Contest. Though their journeys and the workout programs they followed (Andy worked out regularly with INSANITY […]

Three Powerful Tools for Losing Weight

Remembering and Remembering

Today is a day of solemn remembrance of the events of September 11th, 2001.     Eleven days earlier, we had moved into our new home and I remember sitting having breakfast and watching the TV with my family on KOAT here is Albuquerque.   Being from NJ, I was […]

Remembering and Remembering

Is Your Football Team Making You Fat?

Nothing like an exciting game which your team is winning, but if your team loses, it could be bad for your waistline.   The post below is from the Team Beachbody Message Boards, a great source of advice on everything Beachbody and more! “Cheering for your favorite football team this […]

Is Your Football Team Making You Fat?

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