Share Currently still in development, Body Beast™ is the first Beachbody® program dedicated to maximum muscle gains and fat loss. Created by champion bodybuilder, Sagi Kalev, it uses a combination of old- and new-school bodybuilding techniques to build muscle without using expensive gym equipment or harmful steroids. (A friend of mine knows someone who was [...]
No Comments. Continue Reading...Share When I look around, I see so many people around me who sacrifice their health ambitions – knowing that they are doing so – because living a healthy lifestyle is a genuine challenge. I am young enough to not be cynical about work-life balance, but old enough to have had good and bad experiences to [...]
1 Comment. Continue Reading...Share As you may have heard, the second P90X program, called Power 90 Extreme 2, or P90X2 for short is coming this fall. (If you see the name P90X: Muscle Confusion (or MC) 2, that was the working title earlier.) Update (Dec 11, 2011): P90X2 is available on Team Beachbody! Steve Edwards has been sharing [...]
3 Comments. Continue Reading...Share If you attended school in the United States, I understand that you probably had to take the Presidential Physical Fitness Award test. (I only attended college and graduate school in the United States, and read about this award in Greg Critser’s book Fat Land, in the context of the demise of gym class.) This [...]
No Comments. Continue Reading...Share Yesterday was Beachbody’s 2011 kickoff Super Saturday – a simultaneous set of meetings all over the country with coaches where a number of announcements were made. I hadn’t really met any of the other local coaches here so I was really excited about that! It was great to meet them, especially because it seems [...]
No Comments. Continue Reading...Share I’m an Independent Team Beachbody Coach. That means I’m here to help you reach your fitness goals – whether that’s taking some first steps toward better health or gearing up to address your fitness weak spot that’s holding you back from a goal like running a marathon. Beachbody calls their reps coaches, and while [...]
No Comments. Continue Reading...Share Just saw this on Team Beachbody’s site – when you buy P90X from a coach (rather than Beachbody corporate by calling the 1-800 number), you get two bonus DVDs that are a $40 value (and really great): Fountain of Youth, a shorter yoga DVD than Yoga X (Yoga X is 1.5h!), and Mammoth Upper-Middle-Lower, [...]
No Comments. Continue Reading...Share I’ve never been one to trust what I see in advertising. In fact, had I seen the P90X informercial before my husband told me about it, I would probably have been actively opposed instead of passively worried it’d cut into my running time. (Luckily for me, I didn’t.) So coming across this blurb about [...]
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