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  By Steve Edwards, Director of Results With hundreds of thousands of people running marathons and triathlons across the country, there’s a very good chance that some of your customers are going to be endurance athletes. And while it may benefit you economically to recommend P90X ®, you’re likely to […]

Endurance Athletes: Get Ripped in the Off-Season

Leading Thousands Starts by Leading One

By Carl Daikeler, Beachbody ® CEO & Cofounder The “Personal Development”  Message of the Month is  LEADERSHIP. In a recent National Coach Call, I talked about how leadership is in the doing. Leaders don’t quit (unless they want to lead people to quit). They teach perseverance by persevering. People have […]

Leading Thousands Starts by Leading One

Forever Young?

After spending years in the lab, I have come up with the formula for being forever young:   Regular exercise + good nutrition + positive lifestyle choices = forever young – or at least quality of life for a longer period of time than most people think possible.   You […]

Forever Young?

Fast and Furious

No, not the 2001 movie, not the 2009 movie and not the Operation Fast and Furious. I am a Team Beachbody coach and I don’t mix politics with anything and especially my blog. What is fast and furious is the pace at Beachbody Headquarters in Santa Monica and here is […]

Fast and Furious

Is Team Beachbody Match.com?

Isn’t it great having a partner to work out with? You seem to push a little harder, sweat a little more, and somehow find that extra gear to kick it up a notch. You motivate and inspire each other, keep each other accountable, and it can even produce a little […]

Is Team Beachbody Match.com?

McNuggets on Clearance

An article appeared from Reuters on Thursday about franchising picking up in the US and the first example that they gave is Robert and Dayna Penney: “(Reuters) – Robert Penney has seen his financial future and it involves heaps of frozen yogurt. Penney and his wife, Dayna, purchased a Menchie’s […]

McNuggets on Clearance

22 Times

If I had known that I was going to fail so many times in my life, I would have kept track. Maybe I could be setting some record. The P90X test version was first marketed in 2005 and bombed. Even people at Beachbody said that the project should be abandoned. […]

22 Times

The First Daily Contest Success Story Winner!

Meet Torri B.! She participated in The Beachbody Challenge’s Daily Contest and won the $500 Daily Prize for September 4th! “Before I started P90X, I was a lazy, depressed coach potato. I was so unhealthy from smoking, I couldn’t walk without using my inhaler. When my friend, an EMT, told […]

The First Daily Contest Success Story Winner!

Take the Beachbody Challenge!

  Win over $100,000!   Take The Beachbody Challengeâ„¢ for the motivation you need to get fit and you can win! It’s our health and fitness contest that will help you achieve your fitness goals and give you a chance to WIN some serious cash. If you want to get […]

Take the Beachbody Challenge!

Can 10 Minutes of Exercise Improve Your Health?

By Kara Wahlgren – from the Team Beachbody Newsletter No time? No problem. New research shows that exercising in 10-minute bursts can add up to big improvements in your health. Is your hectic schedule keeping you from working out? It’s time to cross that excuse off your list. According to […]

Can 10 Minutes of Exercise Improve Your Health?

Crash Diets vs. Discipline, Motivations, and Lifestyle Change

By Stephanie S. Saunders – from the Team Beachbody Newsletter Elvis Presley, the king of rock ‘n’ roll, pelvic thrusts, and peanut butter and bacon sandwiches, was rumored to have once heavily sedated himself for 2 weeks in an attempt to continually sleep and lose weight. While he might have […]

Crash Diets vs. Discipline, Motivations, and Lifestyle Change

Recovery Done Right: 8 Ways to Prevent Muscle Soreness

By Kara Wahlgren – from the Team Beachbody Newsletter Aching after a brutal workout? Delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS) can make you feel the burn while your muscles recover and rebuild. But, if you take the right steps after your workout, you can go hard without paying the price. Here are […]

Recovery Done Right: 8 Ways to Prevent Muscle Soreness

How to Be the Best Athlete That You Can Be

Beachbody has never used paid testimonials for their products or in success stories, but when Olympic athletes like Women’s Olympic Soccer Team goalkeeper Hope Solo step forward and say that one of their products will make you, “the best athlete that you can be”, they have to share it.  Widely […]

How to Be the Best Athlete That You Can Be

Foam Rolling: Your Tight Muscles’ Best Friend

By Dr. Mark Cheng, L.Ac., Ph.D., Sr RKC, FMS faculty – from the Team Beachbody Newsletter One of the biggest obstacles for a new fitness enthusiast to overcome is the soreness that comes with using muscles that haven’t been used in decades. During infancy, we’re learning to fire muscles all […]

Foam Rolling: Your Tight Muscles’ Best Friend

Mr. Big Stuff: A Q&A with Body Beast’s Sagi Kalev

By Rebecca Swanner – from the Team Beachbody Newsletter Are you ready to get  ripped? Beachbody ® has joined forces with Sagi Kalev, champion bodybuilder and former Mr. Israel, to create Body Beastâ„¢, the program that will help get you big and we mean really, really big in just three […]

Mr. Big Stuff: A Q&A with Body Beast’s Sagi Kalev

The Latte Lowdown: 10 Things to Like and Not Like About Coffee

By Steve Edwards – from the Team Beachbody Newsletter Depending on how you interpret statistics, coffee is the most consumed beverage in the world. Together with its brethren, tea, only soda measures up in a popularity contest. Because they all contain caffeine, they’re often lumped together in one group, which […]

The Latte Lowdown: 10 Things to Like and Not Like …

How Sarah Brakke Lost Over 115 Pounds

How did Sarah gain the weight? “I couldn’t control my eating. I used it as an emotional crutch. I was relieving my stress through my enjoyment of food, regardless of the consequences and emotional pain it caused. In addition, I  hated exercise. I did not want to put forth that […]

How Sarah Brakke Lost Over 115 Pounds

How to Build the Ultimate Home Gym in 3 Easy Steps

By Elena Sessa and Rebecca – from the Team Beachbody Newsletter One of the biggest benefits of the Beachbody ® programs is they allow you to ditch your gym membership and, with it, its monthly fees, gross showers, and the time it takes to travel there. That said, shoving your […]

How to Build the Ultimate Home Gym in 3 Easy …

Distractions and Excuses

On Tuesday, I was listening to a Chris Widener interview with Brian Tracy and at some point he was talking about distractions.  That set off a chain of thought that has been part of my thinking all week. I grew up on a farm in rural Central New Jersey and […]

Distractions and Excuses

Uncounted Blessings

My blessings have hatched over the last five years.  I never counted them before they hatched because I didn’t know what they were going to be.  I had taken a step of faith, rather a leap of faith, into a big unknown for me and it has become the source […]

Uncounted Blessings

Become the Most Popular Trainer at the Gym!

P90X Certification and Qualification Programs Love P90X ®? Then earn your P90X Certification and harness the power of America’s hottest extreme fitness brand. Your P90X Certification will add depth and breadth to what you can offer as a fitness professional, as well as help you deliver proven results to attract […]

Become the Most Popular Trainer at the Gym!

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Why I Don’t Watch the News

With such horrific things as the shooting in Aurora, CO happening all too frequently, why shouldn’t I be glued to the TV to learn more?  That’s a good question when so much of everyone’s attention is focused on those events and all of the bad news in the world.  My […]

Why I Don’t Watch the News

Accidentally Vegan with the Ultimate Reset!

Did you ever do a 360? We all do at times, but I recently did one with the way I eat! I tried the Beachbody Ultimate Reset, which when I first heard about it in January I had no intention of doing. But we all know how weird life is…the […]

Accidentally Vegan with the Ultimate Reset!

Ease into Exercise with a Routine

  I’ve been exercising regularly for years now, that it’s become a habit I don’t think about, I just do it! It’s a non-negotiable part of my day that I schedule 5 days a week.   I often don’t have the time, but I make the time for my health. […]

Ease into Exercise with a Routine

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