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Two Principals for Financial Success by Brian Tracy

As Team Beachbody Coaches, we help other people achieve their health and fitness goals, while we achieve or maintain our own goals.   It is as simple as that and you could say that is our job description or our mission statement or simply, “This is what we do”. But […]

Two Principals for Financial Success by Brian Tracy

Dealing With So Called Failure

Here is an excellent article by Jeffery Combs – President of Golden Mastermind Seminars Inc – about how to view failure: “What makes the difference between ordinary and extraordinary, between average and excellent, mediocre and superb? Is it family background? Are achievers born into wealth? Is it better opportunities for […]

Dealing With So Called Failure

Leap of Faith For the Love of Our Family

Today marks a landmark in our family when we make the leap of faith from my wife, Christy, teaching and being a Team Beachbody Coach to being a full time stay at home and work at home mom and a full time Team Beachbody coach. Our daughter Grace is starting […]

Leap of Faith For the Love of Our Family

Shakeology Certified Low Glycemic

You know about the awesomeness of Shakeology ® – the ultra-premium health shake that Carl Daikeler’s wife helped formulate when she saw that her husband couldn’t eat a vegetable unless it was deep fried. Shakeology ® was recently tested and measured for its Glycemic Index (GI) and received the amazing […]

Shakeology Certified Low Glycemic

P90X One On One Contest

Do you love P90X?   Well there is a new P90X coming soon and you can be part of the making of P90X:MC2.   If you think you have a tough, original move worthy of being in the new P90X workout, then enter the P90X One On One contest!

P90X One On One Contest

The Science Behind TurboFire

TurboFire is the hot new workout program from Chalene Johnson, creator of Turbo Jam and Chalean Extreme.   Her newest workout DVD is based around a concept called High Intensity Interval Training, or HIIT, but what is it and what is the science behind it. We have a great new […]

The Science Behind TurboFire

The Human Side of a Team Beachbody Coach

To most people, April 1st is April Fool’s Day.   I will always think of it as the day my world came to an end.   Oh, I am still alive, obviously, and functioning, but the world that meant so much to me no longer exists.   It was replaced […]

The Human Side of a Team Beachbody Coach

Can you lend me $300.00?

I could use an extra $300.00 today.   How about you?   You could borrow it, hope for a bonus in your paycheck today, buy a lottery ticket or you could just log into WOWY and win today’s $300.00 Daily Prize! In addition, you will get 10% off on all […]

Can you lend me $300.00?

Plan Your Meals the Way You Plan Your Day

Chalene Johnson is always talking about her to-do-list and how important having one is to be successful.   Well, if having a to-do-list is so effective, why not have a to-eat-list?   Why aren’t you planning your meals and eating from a plan and not just making nutrition random or […]

Plan Your Meals the Way You Plan Your Day

Success Stories Come in All Shapes and Sizes

Beachbody has built a $400 million company on the success stories of the people who use their products and the Team Beachbody coach success stories of people helping people.   The choice is clear – be another Beachbody success story by using one of their time proven, cost effective workout […]

Success Stories Come in All Shapes and Sizes

Wouldn’t You Just Love to Win an Apple iPod Touch?

Probably as much as I would like you to do a workout today in WOWY to feel good and look great.   Every day that you log your workout into the WOWY SuperGymâ„¢ you will be automatically be entered in the Daily Sweepstakes.   Work out today and you could […]

Wouldn’t You Just Love to Win an Apple iPod Touch?

Who Won That Canon Digital Camera in WOWY?

Well that would be lucky Steve in Arizona.   He logged into WOWY, did his workout and won a Canon digital camera, not to mention getting in a little better shape to boot! Looking for a win/win situation?   Log into the WOWY online SuperGym, do the workout of your […]

Who Won That Canon Digital Camera in WOWY?

Looking for An Idea for Dinner?

Lean Lasagna Everybody loves lasagna, but we don’t love the fat that comes with that gooey mozzarella cheese. Here’s a great recipe that uses nonfat mozzarella for all the flavor without the fat, tofu for protein, and spinach for vitamins, minerals, fiber and Popeye-approved yumminess! 1 lb. soft tofu, drained […]

Looking for An Idea for Dinner?

Having A Hunger Attack?

What do you reach for when you have a hunger attack?   Will it satisfy your physical hunger or is it an emotional or convenience decision.   As a full time Team Beachbody Coach, I work at home and can just go out to the kitchen and make a snack. […]

Having A Hunger Attack?

Need a Little Extra Cash?

How would you like to have a chance to win $300.00, lose a little body fat and feel great?   Oh, you would.   Well just log into the WOWY online SuperGym, do the workout of your choice and you have a chance to win the Daily Prize! In addition, […]

Need a Little Extra Cash?

Want To Win An Asus Netbook?

Your gym may be offering great prizes today just for coming in and doing a workout, but if not and you would like to save yourself a trip and have a chance to win an Asus Netbook, then just click here to join the WOWY Online SuperGym! In addition, you […]

Want To Win An Asus Netbook?

Shakeology Recipe of the Day

Last night we made a vegan chick pea and kale soup that called for coconut milk.   Since there was quite a bit of the coconut milk left over, I decided to use it in the Shakeology that I have every morning to start my day off right.   I […]

Shakeology Recipe of the Day

Today’s Featured Product – TurboFire

TurboFire is the intense new cardio conditioning program from fitness innovator Chalene Johnson. She’ll help you get leaner with exercises that burn up to 9x more fat and calories than regular cardio does. And with more than 20 smoking-hot music remixes, TurboFire will pick you up and push you past […]

Today’s Featured Product – TurboFire

Today’s Featured Team Beachbody Coach

Team Beachbody Coach Amy Adams – I am 33 years old and have been working out for the past decade. Over the years I’ve become more interested in health, nutrition and fitness. I am not one of those people who can eat whatever I want and stay thin, but I […]

Today’s Featured Team Beachbody Coach

How’s Your Stress Today?

“Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.” – Natalie Goldberg Can you imagine the editor of the New York Times or even the editor of […]

How’s Your Stress Today?

Mi Casa Es Su Casa

Okay, who knows what that means?   Answer:   My House Is Your House. Why would I entitle a Team Beachbody Coach blog, “Mi Casa Es Su Casa”?   Because the acronym CASAS keeps ringing in my head.   In Spanish, casa is house.   To me, a house should […]

Mi Casa Es Su Casa

Leading You to the Living Water

These days, when someone wants to give you something for free to try or tell you about some opportunity that is great – regardless of whether they are friends, family members, co-workers, acquaintances or a total stranger – your discomfort level goes up and the wall of wariness creates a […]

Leading You to the Living Water

Beachbody Adds Veteran Chief Science Officer

SANTA MONICA, June 4, 2010 – Health and Fitness portal Beachbody.com, a division of Product Partners, LLC is pleased to announce that Dr. William E. Wheeler, Ph.D., has joined the company as its new Chief Science Officer (CSO).  Dr. Wheeler brings over 30 years of experience in the nutrition industry, […]

Beachbody Adds Veteran Chief Science Officer

How’s That Workin’ For Ya?

I have to share an email with you that I just sent to one of my beloved Team Beachbody members and now a new Team Beachbody Coach, Kristine Chiarappo.   This is what she wrote: “Wow…the ‘howtobefit‘ site is pretty amazing.   Did you have someone make that for you? […]

How’s That Workin’ For Ya?

P90X Helping To Save Lives

Warren Day was so overweight he had run out of numbers on his bathroom scale. When he found out his sister needed a kidney and he was too heavy to donate, he discovered the motivation he needed to get in the best shape of his life and help save his […]

P90X Helping To Save Lives

“Nothing Happens…But First A Dream”

Everything in life begins with a dream. As Team Beachbody Coaches, we all have dreams and they are being fulfilled with the Team Beachbody business opportunity. Do you have a dream? Are you fulfilling your dream… Enjoy these thoughts on dreams that will lift your spirits and warm your heart. […]

“Nothing Happens…But First A Dream”

Learn to Lead to Succeed

How do you know a leader?   Is it the smile on their face and their enthusiasm or their willingness to help out and find solutions?   Are you inspired and motivated to do your best when you are around someone that you know is a leader?   Would a […]

Learn to Lead to Succeed

Week 11 of P90X done! 2 more to go!

It feels like yesterday that I saw the UPS delivery truck back into my driveway on that Friday afternoon.   11-1/2 weeks ago my P90X was delivered.   I remember my excitement as the UPS man walked up my driveway with the Beachbody cardboard box.   Nestled inside, was another […]

Week 11 of P90X done! 2 more to go!

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P90X In Africa

Team Beachbody Coaches Brad and Alicia Crawford moved to Uganda to serve as missionaries. And they brought P90X along to share with fellow missionaries.   Enjoy this inspirational story of how Brad and Alicia are making a difference on a global level. You can make a difference, too,   right […]

P90X In Africa

Do you ever google, “What is…?

I am a compulsive googler and it seems like I am always thirsty for knowledge.   Oftentimes, I will actually begin a search with, “What is…? and Google will find the answer for me.   As of yesterday, though, there won’t be any need to google, “What is Team Beachbody” […]

Do you ever google, “What is…?

Team Howtobefit Accountability Journal

Okay, so you are thinking, “Not some new thing that we have to do to lose weight and be healthy”.   No, it isn’t something new, it is something quite old – writing things down, keeping a diary, having a training log, journaling – these are all old things that […]

Team Howtobefit Accountability Journal

Shakeology For (My) Life

In previous posts, I’ve mentioned Shakeology and its role in my health, fitness and fueling my now incredibly busy lifestyle.   I have correctly credited Team Beachbody with the complete turnaround in my health which took a precipitous fall in May of 1985.   You can read about those chapters […]

Shakeology For (My) Life

212 – The Extra Degree That Makes The Difference

In the “212, The Extra Degree” movie, it says, “To get what we’ve never had, we must do what we’ve never done”. The 212 Attitude is that, “The only thing that stands between a person and what they want in life is the will to try it and the faith […]

212 – The Extra Degree That Makes The Difference

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