May 17th, 2012
Today’s Success Story is from Denise B and is a classic example of how Team Beachbody organically enters lives and permanently changes them for the better. There’s no quick fix, no magic pill, no easy route – just hard work, peer support, sound nutrition, and great products. This is more than fitness, it’s about saving lives. Denise will tell you, in her own words:
Tell me about your life before you started ChaLEAN Extreme. How did you feel about yourself and your body? I was like a lot of other full-time working mothers. Busy working, getting three children to and from after-school activities, and juggling a home with a 12, 9, and 7 year old. I was busy taking care of everyone else and not myself. The pounds slowly crept on. My clothes kept getting tighter and before I knew it I was completely out of shape and wearing bigger clothes to hide the extra weight. It got to where I never wanted to get dressed up or have pictures taken of me because I didn’t feel good about myself. I had no energy and plenty of excuses not to work out. I was depressed, which only continued this cycle I was on. In short, I had bad eating habits, didn’t exercise, and lacked energy or enthusiasm for the things that used to be fun to me.
What inspired you to change your life and begin your transformational journey?
I used to always be excited to go to the beach and on vacation, but I was at the point where the thought of putting on a bathing suit made me not look forward to these things. I realized I needed to find a way to get back in shape and renew my energy. Around this time my brother, Chris Rutter, became a Team Beachbody coach. He explained to me how Beachbody products helped him and encouraged me to get started. And so my journey began.
Why did you choose ChaLEAN Extreme?
My brother explained how muscle burns fat and I definitely needed to burn some fat. After watching the first video (Burn Basics, Healthy Eats and the Kitchen Makeover), I really liked how Chalean walked me through everything and motivated me to WANT to change. It doesn’t hurt that she’s in amazing shape, either. I also used the Slimming Formula, which really helped curb my appetite and kickstart my weight loss. The way her program is divided into different phases is awesome. I never got bored doing the same thing day after day. The different phases push your body so you are focusing on different muscle groups and don’t plateau like you would by just doing the same workout over and over. Chalean is also very encouraging, motivating, and fun to workout with. I still look forward to her workout!
Tell us about the greatest challenge you faced. How did you overcome that challenge?
The greatest challenge I faced in the beginning was making time to workout. I would take care of everything else and put off time for exercising until I was too exhausted to do anything. My Coach was my motivator to overcome that excuse. He made me understand that I deserved to take a few minutes everyday to take care of myself and that it would change my life. He was right.
Describe the results you achieved with your Beachbody program. What achievements are you proud of? I have gotten back to the weight I was when I was 20 years younger and I feel 20 years younger. I have muscle definition in my arms, back, legs, and abs. My “love handles” are gone. I have energy that I need to keep up with my three very active kids. I was never able to run even a mile before without nearly passing out. Now I take my dog for a 1-2 mile run every day without getting winded. I just ran my first 5k at the age of 44 and came in 4th place in my age bracket! It is very exciting and empowering to be in shape and feel strong. I know I will never go back to that powerless person I was before my transformation. I am a completely different woman than before I started my Beachbody program.
How did your TeamBeachbody Coach support you on your journey?
I don’t believe I would have achieved the results I have at this point without my Coach. He encouraged me to begin my journey by trying Beachbody products. I saw the improvements he had with the workout programs so I thought it was worth a try. I still had excuses in the beginning, but he didn’t let me off easy. Once I started seeing results, then I was hooked.
How did Shakeology support your transformation ? What are the biggest benefits ?
Shakeology has been an important part of my journey. I use it as a meal replacement for breakfast each morning. It is filling and gives me energy to start my day. My job is very physically demanding and stressful so it’s a great feeling knowing I’m getting tons of vitamins and nutrients that would otherwise be very difficult to supplement.
Denise, you inspire me to work hard every day to continually develop products that can make your story a reality for everyone. This is what Beachbody is all about and Team Beachbody is what makes it happen. You heard it from Denise herself – without her Coach (her brother!) she wouldn’t have been able to achieve the same level of success. The peer support is huge!
Congratulations Denise!
If you have a story like Denise’s please email our Success Stories Team with your story and before/after photos.
May 4th, 2012
DO YOU WANT TO BE FEATURED ON THE BIG STAGE AT SUMMIT?
Deadline is Friday, May 11th, 2012 at 11:59 PST!
We want to feature your videos of great Coach success stories on the big screen at our 2012 Coach Summit in the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas.This year’s theme is COMMIT and we want to hear your story!
We are looking for two short (90 seconds or less) video testimonials. Feel free to submit one of each or both.
• The first is a quick statement from you discussing the commitment you’ve made in the past year and what you are committing to in the upcoming year. It can be about personal goals, business goals, family goals, etc. Creativity and diversity is encouraged. It should be fun and is a great way to help you focus goals you’ve already made or establish new ones.
• The second part is your personal success story as a Coach. You can discuss obstacles you overcame, actions you took to enhance your commitment and anything else that helped grow your business. Again, feel free to let your freak flag fly and get innovative and creative.
If you DECIDE to make a video, COMMIT to making it entertaining and successful, you will SUCCEED in touching thousands of lives at Summit.
You can download detailed instructions here for shooting and submitting videos. There is also a release form attached which must be signed and submitted along with your video.*
*Important note: All entries must be submitted via yousendit.com to iCommit@beachbody.com. You can sign up for a FREE 14 day YouSendIt account to submit your video and signed release form. (Please use YouSendIt – direct submissions will bounce back).
I’m looking forward to seeing your creativity and ingenuity on display, so fire up those flipcams! See you in Vegas, baby!
April 30th, 2012
“Ultimate” is for both the experience, the outcome, and also the level of effort I put into finishing my 21 day Ultimate Reset.
My wife Isabelle has been designing detox programs for some of the biggest stars and professional athletes for over two decades. So when I told her that some people were using Shakeology as a 3-day cleanse program, she said “That’s not a cleanse. That’s just a shake diet. I don’t advise it.” Then since I had never done a cleanse, I asked her what the fundamentals of cleansing are and she didn’t miss a beat. “Let me and Darin (Olien) work something up and we’ll let you take a look at it.”
That was two years ago. And now I am proud to announce that just like Shakeology raised the bar on great tasting meal replacement shakes with unprecedented nutrition, the Beachbody Ultimate Reset they created now raises the bar on the concept of giving your internal organs a real fresh start, of flushing out toxins, of gently and naturally cleaning out years of waste blocked in the intestinal tract, and of revving up your metabolism with 21 days of healthy eating.
Get ready for the clouds to part, and a ray of sunshine to hit you as you experience a burst of vitality like you never thought was possible. You are about to get reset!
It is a three week program, with 3 phases, first cleaning up the diet and preparing the body to cleanse. By week two we have taught you how to eat Vegan (and like it!) while you have a week of cleansing and detoxification. Finally, in week three you restore the healthy flora to the GI tract and let the body completely reset itself from years of pollutants, caffeine, junk food and toxins.
If your experience is anything like our first 200 people in test groups, by the halfway point your eyes will see more clear, your energy will be through the roof, and you will feel healthy. You will feel stronger, more alive, and more vital than you can imagine.
I had an amazing experience: Down 10lbs in 21 days. Cholesterol dropped 42 pts. LDL (bad cholesterol) down a whopping 35%! Yes me, a devoted meat-eater, have had fruits, vegetables, and healthy grains every day for the past three weeks, and am currently eating vegan at least two days a week to maintain my results. I have discovered foods and particularly vegetables and grains that I never tried before. I feel healthy, a whole lot of healthy.
While going through the process, and now that I see the comments and feedback from the 3,000 people who are in their second week doing the reset since we launched it, I noted the top five reasons the Beachbody Ultimate Reset is a game changer for Team Beachbody:
I have been impressed by how this process has helped me get to know the participants in our reset group.
We followed the program together on a private Facebook page we set-up. You will find that incredible friendships are created when you go through this, as you help each other stay with it, show your compassion balanced with support. Not many opportunities build relationships. This one does and that’s good for your life, and good for your business.
#4. Healthier Home
Isabelle and I did the Ultimate Reset at the same time. She always eats the way it’s outlined in the reset recipe guide. But for this 3 weeks, we were both eating this way. She was helping guide me through it, and we both were talking about our experience with the program. It was really nice to share this together, and I think other couples who are doing it are having the same “walk through fire together” experience. And the kids are seeing this and asking questions/trying the foods too. Nothing better than a good example set at home. My daughter is eating vegan with me on my vegan days, and cutting out red meat. I have even spoken to coaches who sold old clothes they had not worn in years, taken up cooking for the first time in their lives, even redesigning their entire kitchens around a healthier lifestyle!
#3. You Transform Your Diet First
By week two I had literally transformed my diet, and my understanding of how to eat to lose weight without starving. If I had done this before Power 90 and P90X, my results would have been even better, but I also know I would have had even healthier outcome. The Ultimate Reset is a great way to do the hardest thing about transformation from my perspective; change the way I eat. People who follow this program will be so primed to do one of our fitness programs, and they will get such amazing results that the flood of success stories will be unprecedented.
#2. Not a Victim Anymore!
Some people like the freedom of living at the mercy of circumstances. Not me. And not our best coaches or success stories. These are people who, once the discover the reality that well-being is in your control… it’s not about drugs, surgeries, big bones, or “society,” but that our health and well being is a direct result of our choices, our emotions, and the willingness to learn from past choices to instead produce a better outcome. There’s no such thing as making the same mistake twice, because the second time is a choice when you become aware. That means YOU are in control of you. The trick then is accepting that responsibility, and working toward making improvements like you will achieve with the Ultimate Reset without putting yourself down in the process. It’s an exciting tight rope. And it’s waiting for anyone willing to step up and take it on!
#1. 21-Day Beachbody Challenge Groups lead to even more groups!
The number one reason the Ultimate Reset is worthy of the “Ultimate” name is the dramatic impact it will have on you and the people around you. And that means it will affect your business just as dramatically. If I was a coach my goal would be to build a new Beachbody Challenge group around the Ultimate Reset every week. I would support each group in its own private Facebook page. I would build those groups around these top reasons to do the reset. And I would ask everyone in those groups to let me know when someone they know is interested, because you can’t do a 3-week lifestyle change like this without people noticing and asking questions. I suspect over the course of 3 weeks, each group would generate enough prospects to build another group of 6-10, and each group would lead to at least one person seeing the value of being a coach to lead groups of their own. And going into the second half of each reset, I would transition interested participants into a fitness program to start gradually after the third week. Once you start feeling this good, you get motivated to feel better, and that’s when it’s time to do a 90 day challenge with one of our fitness programs and Shakeology.
With our mission of helping people achieve their goals to lead healthy fulfilling lives, we never pulled punches. We are challenging people to take on something incredible, to overcome their own obstacles and truly achieve their own magnificence. The Beachbody Ultimate Reset not only brings it together, it achieves it in only 21 days.
I never expected all that, but I have come to expect these unexpected positive outcomes once we take a bold step toward living a healthier lifestyle. And that’s the Beachbody difference. The ULTIMATE difference.
People improving their own lives. People enhancing the lives of the people they touch. It’s the perfect business model if you ask me!
April 25th, 2012
Check out Mark’s transformation story and killer results! He’s one of the first P90X:2 success stories to submit his results…
When Mark M. submitted his success story he told us the first time he saw the P90X infomercial back in 2008, he laughed and discarded it as “just another one of those silly workout commercials.” C’mon Mark!
Then, about a year later, Tony Horton appeared once again in his living room and Mark thought, “What the heck? I can do anything for 90 days.”
Mark purchased P90X and started his journey a few days later.
Fast forward to 2012 and Mark has since completed three rounds of P90X and one round of P90X:2 and call me crazy, but I think we made a believer out of a skeptic… there’s no denying these results!
Prior to starting X:2 Mark admittedly had hit a bit of a plateau. Overall he was feeling good, but would skip workouts and was looking for something to re-energize him. Shortly thereafter he joined Wayne Wyatt’s X:2Crew and benefited tremendously from the accountability of a Challenge Group.
Mark’s main goal with X:2 was lowering his body fat percentage from 9% to 7%. By the end of his 90 days he measured in at 6.8%! He also upped his consecutive pull-ups from 21 to 30 and his pushups from 68 to 88!
This is definitely one of our best P90X:2 success stories and it really displays how X:2 can take your fitness to a new level. It also illustrates all the elements that make Team Beachbody the best there is:
Effective fitness and great nutrition combined with peer support and rewards for all your hard work.
It’s also great to see how Wayne paid it forward after he got amazing results from P90X. Without the Team Beachbody Coach Network and Beachbody Challenge Groups, Mark may have never been able to reach such this ELITE level of fitness.
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April 20th, 2012
I just realized my mom’s new book, “MESSAGES: FLOWING WITH SYNCHRONICITY” has been released on Amazon, and I didn’t even know it!
And alas, this close to Mother’s Day? Worst son of the year… I need to make it up to her.
So I just bought ten copies. One for me, and here’s what I’m doing with the other nine:
On May 1st I will ask our operations team to pull all the names of people who have ordered the Beachbody Ultimate Reset.
I’ll pick 9 names at random from that list, sign the books personally to the customer, and send them out. (You’ll know you won if you get the book!)
Congratulations Mom!
