I always associated Beachbody workouts with losing weight, getting fit, and bringing out the inner athlete in all of us. When I thought about Tai Chi, I thought about those skinny sliver haired women in the park moving slowly together like synchronized swimmers on land. Now, I appreciate the fluidity of movement, strength, balance, flexibility and mental focus. I appreciate Tai Chi’s martial arts and self-defense background. I appreciate Beachbody for introducing me to Dr. Mark Cheng and his Tai Cheng program.
While there are many forms of Tai Chi and several movements, Dr. Cheng brings together 18 basic movements to introduce you to the practice of Tai Chi. Unlike other fitness programs, you won’t have to learn a lot of moves or choreography all at once.
Tai Cheng starts with learning one move per day for six days. In the next week, you learn how to put two moves together each day you work out. In the third week, you practice putting together the six Tai Chi movements you’ve learned into a single sequence.
Then, you begin to learn new moves in subsequent days until you’re moving through all 18 Tai Chi poses with strength and poise. It’s quite amazing how you feel as you start to transition from a learning mind and uncertainty to focused and fluid Tai Chi movement.
I bought the Tai Cheng program because I secretly wanted to try Tai Chi, but you never would’ve found me in a group of other people trying this art…especially if it was outside for everyone to see! I thought maybe Tai Chi would be a good weekend workout for when I just wanted to chill out or a workout to do when I was feeling under the weather. You know what? I got my socks knocked off! I actually look forward to doing Tai Cheng!
I’ve found that during the Tai Chi movements, stress melts away. My mind becomes so focused that I feel incredibly productive once I’ve finished my workout. I feel so relaxed after a workout that I feel like I’ve just spent an hour in my massage chair. I don’t feel any stress in my neck, shoulders, or back.
And you know what else surprised me about Tai Chi? It really does work on your strength and balance. I was totally surprised to have muscle aches in my hip flexors, back, butt, and shoulders. You might react differently, but those were my weaker muscles apparently.
You’ll see me writing more about Dr. Cheng’s program. I’ll get to meet him in June at the Beachbody Summit in Las Vegas. I can hardly wait to do a group workout with him and a few hundred other Tai Chi fans. He made Tai Chi understandable and fun for the new learner like me!
I love Beachbody products because they support my personal mission of helping other people get fit and healthy. First, I fell in love with the Beachbody workouts. Later, I fell in love with chocolate Shakeology, a superfood powerhouse that fuels my mornings. Beachbody just boldly stepped forward again in their efforts to help people get healthy by introducing a 21 day detox diet called Ultimate Reset.
Ultimate Reset is a three week program that gradually helps you do a master cleanse to alleviate cravings, eliminate toxins from your body, and nourish your body healthy foods. Ultimate Reset is designed to help move your diet from processed foods to whole natural foods.
Throughout our lifetime, we take in toxins from our environment. They’re in the air we breath and the food and water we consume. Ultimate Reset helps cleanse your body of a lifetime of toxic build up in a 21 day period.
Why is this important? Because when your body cannot readily eliminate toxins, they’re stored in fat. It’s your body’s way of trying to protect you since these toxins clog your cells and slow down your body’s functions . Indeed, the presence of toxins contributes to poor health and disease and may even interfere with your efforts to maintain a healthy weight.
Ultimate Reset isn’t just another detox diet. This is a program that will help you learn how to shop for and prepare healthy foods. It will help you rely less on processed and packaged foods that contribute to poor health. You will learn how to restore your body while eating real foods.
Ultimate Reset is not a colon cleanse. It’s not a starvation, juicing, or fasting cleanse. It provides six supplements to help you detox, eliminate, and reset your body and metabolism to ulimate levels:
Alkalinize – To help balance the alkalinity in your body.
Oxygenize – To help optimize oxygen in the body.
Mineralize – To add natural minerals to your body.
Detox – To remove toxins and waste from your body.
Revitalize – To help reset flora in the digestive tract.
Optimize – To promote a healthy metabolism and bodily functions.
Ultimate Reset is backed by Beachbody’s 30 day money back guarantee. If you’ve ever wanted a master cleanse, a way to reset your body to its optimum levels, this 21 day program might just be what you’re looking for. While this program isn’t designed for weight loss, you just might be pleasantly surprised at shedding a few pounds as your body comes into a nutritional balance. Order Ultimate Reset here and get started on your new journey to ultimate health.
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Is Turbofire too hard for you because of the high impact exercises? If the high intensity interval training (HIIT) routines are just too much for you right now or you need to lighten up on your joints for a while, you’ll be pleased to know Chalene Johnson and Beachbody have your back…and hips, knees, and ankles. Two new low impact HIIT dvds will be released on April 4, 2012.
The two new workouts will be sold separately from the base Turbofire package and will be available in your Team Beachbody store. The new workouts are low impact. Chalene put together some completely new choreography to keep these HIIT workouts low impact. One of the dvds is 20 minutes in length while the other one is 25 minutes.
The new Turbofire workouts are called Fire Starter. The name seems somehow appropriate considering they can be used as an “on ramp” to the longer and more difficult 45-60 minutes workouts. Fire Starter will be good for anyone new to Turbofire or who has injuries or fitness limitations. They’re a good place to begin according to Chalene.
If you’re not new to Turbofire, you’ll enjoy the variety that these low impact high intensity interval training routines will add to your library. Let’s face it, some days you just don’t feel like jumping high on those high lows.
Speaking of Turbofire, Chalene’s program has become the number one selling Beachbody Challenge Pack. What is a Challenge Pack? It’s a way to combine a fitness program, nutrition plan and accountability while saving money.
You can check out all the Challenge Packs in your Team Beachbody store. The Turbofire Challenge Pack is $205 and includes the Turbofire program (reg $119.85), a 30 day supply of Shakeology on Home Direct (reg $119.95), 30 days of Club Membership, Free Shipping (shipping varies, but you this could save you around $20), coach support and online accountability.
I included the prices of Turbofire and Shakeology just so you can see the incredible savings of almost $60 just by getting these two items in a Challenge Pack plus, you get the club membership which gives you a 10% on all purchases while you’re a club member.
One more thing about Challenge Packs – if you’ve ever thought about becoming a coach like me, you can sign up with the purchase of a Challenge Pack and your coach sign up fee will be waived. That’s another savings of almost $40. Becoming a coach allows you to earn commissions and bonuses on Beachbody’s popular products plus get a 25% discount on anything you purchase as a coach. (Learn more about the Beachbody business.)
I get excited about those Challenge Packs, but back to the original announcement. You’ll be able to find the Fire Starter low impact HIIT Turbofire workout dvds in your Team Beachbody store on April 4th, 2012. You want Turbofire results? You now have an on-ramp to get those Turbofire results without high impact HIITs.
I’m studying to be a board certified Holistic Health Coach at the Institute of Integrated Nutrition. Health Coaching is not new, but it is certainly a growing profession. Health Coaching addresses more than just nutrition. It’s true what they say…that you are what you eat, but there are other things in life that feed us, too. The purpose of this post is to introduce you to how a Health Coach can help provide the support and guidance you need to reach your health and fitness goals.
In addition to basic nutrition (macro and micronutrients), the digestive system, and metabolism, we’re covering over 100 dietary theories and ways of eating. No one diet works for everyone because everyone is different. We’re learning about how different foods affect our bodies as well as the harmful affects of pesticides, genetic modification, additives, and man-made ingredients such as high fructose corn syrup and hydrogenated oil. From Adkins to Macrobiotics, from Veganism to the Paleo Diet….we’re learning the theories and philosophies of well-known nutrition experts, so we can help our clients understand the pros and cons of each method.
We take the thought of you are what you eat a little further though. The school teaches that there are things in life that feed us that you won’t find on a plate. These are the areas of our lives that can produce stress, happiness, health, or sickness. In the school, we refer to these areas as “primary food” because if these areas are out of whack, we can have poor health no matter how we eat. Primary food includes our career satisfaction, our relationsips, our spiritual connection, and physical activity.
I spend a lot of time on this blog talking about physical activity. It’s not important what you choose for physical activity. What is important is you choose something you like and will maintain consistently. That’s what I personally like about Beachbody workouts. I can workout in the privacy of my own home, wearing whatever I want and at any time I want.
Career satisfaction is also an important aspect of our lives. Are you happy with your current occupation? What is your passion? Are you doing what you love or is going to work each day draining? Is it a struggle? Does it affect your time with other people and interfere with your close relationships?
Relationships are critical to good health. Close friends and family members form a support net when needed. They also help us laugh and experience life to the fullest. On the other hand, toxic relationships can have a negative impact on our health by bringing us down, putting us in a negative mood or building up anxiety.
We also think some form of spiritual connection is necessary for good health. I’m not advocating any form of religion here – only that you can focus, reflect, and connect with a power greater than yourself.
My goal as a Health Coach is to help my clients explore all five of these areas. Health coaching is more than nutrition. It is more than just physical exercise. Health coaching is about listening and helping other people on their journey to improved health and well-being.
Do you love P90X? Have you experienced good results with P90X or another Beachbody workout program? If so, check out this list of ten reasons you want to be a Beachbody coach.
1. You Want to Be a Beachbody Coach for Shakeology
One of the top reasons to sign on as a Beachbdoy coach is to enjoy a significant savings on Shakeology. You’ll save about $30 off the price of Shakeology and even a little more on the new vegan Shakeology.
2. You Want to Be a Beachbody Coach to get a Discount on Results & Recovery
As a coach, you’ll also enjoy a 25% discount on the P90X Results and Recovery Formula drink. If you haven’t tried it yet, I recommend trying the Results and Recovery after a hard workout. It really helps with recovery right after the workout and helps reduces soreness that slows you down the next day.
3. You Want to Be a Beachbody Coach to get a Discount on Energy & Endurance<
You are a P90X fan…or maybe a fan of Insanity or Turbofire. This pre-workout drink was made for you. Energy and Endurance helps give you energy during your workout so you can maximize your efforts. As a Beachbody coach, you’ll also get a 25% discount on E&E. As a matter of fact, you’ll enjoy a 25% discount on all Beachbody nutritionals and products.
4. You Want to Be a Beachbody Coach to get Discounts on Fitness Program like P90X2, Turbofire, LesMills Pump, and Insanity
Are you looking for your next challenge after crushing P90X? Another top reason you want to be a Beachbody Coach is to snag that 25% discount on all the fitness programs. Have you ever salivated while checking out a recently released workout program or wanted the Deluxe or Ultimate version but had to settle for the base package? Wouldn’t that discount help you get that upgraded package you’re contemplating? Or maybe you’ve wanted to get your wife or husband a particular Beachbody workout as a gift. They don’t have to know you got a discount!
5. You Want to Be a Beachbody Coach to Earn 25% Commission
Not only will you get 25% off of your purchases, as a Beachbody coach, you’ll earn a 25% commission on ALL products. The great part about all this is Beachbody does a lot of advertising and people talk about their results. Share your results with P90X or another Beachbody workout program. Pocket about $30 on programs like Shakeology, P90X, Insanity, and Turbofire.
6. You Want to Be a Beachbody Coach to Earn Bonuses, Trips, and Prizes
Not only do Beachbody coaches earn a 25% commission on all of their customer sales, they also earn bonuses on their team sales. Beachbody also provides a fun environment with contests that offer trips and prizes for outstanding performance. Watch this video to learn more about the income producing benefits of coaching.
7. You Want to Be a Beachbody Coach to Help Other People Get Fit
Becoming a Beachbody coach is a nice way to compliment or fill in a income gap for Personal Trainers; however, you do not have to be a Person Trainer, group exercise trainer, or fitness expert. Beachbody has a staff of professional trainers and complete work in home programs that include fitness instruction, meal planning, and support. All you have to do is to have a desire to help other people get fit and plug into this proven system. The Beachbody business system supports all of these critical elements to promote your success: high demand, value, limited competition, affordability, continuous need, and products backed by a guarantee.
8. You Want to Be a Beachbody Coach to Own Your Own Business
There are several reasons people want to own their own business. Maybe you’re tired of working for someone else who tells you what days and hours you want to work. Maybe you would like the tax advantages of a home business. Whether want something full time or part time, becoming a Beachbody coach is an expensive way to get started with your own business right away. Plus, you get to take vacations whenever you choose. You set your own schedule. You have control of your time.
9. You Want to Be a Beachbody Coach Because You’ll Have a Low Start Up Cost for Your New Business
If you’ve ever looked into starting your own business, you’ll understand how incredibly inexpensive it is to start your own Beachbody coaching business. There is an initial set up fee of just under $40 and a monthly fee of $14.95 to host your websites, take care of your ordering process, shipping, returns, and customer service. You customer will be able to check out with a credit card without a service charge to you like you would normally get with a merchant account or PayPal type of service. It’s really a pretty good deal.
10. You Want to Be a Beachbody Coach Because Beachbody Gives You Customers
You read that right. Once you reach the Emerald level, Beachbody GIVES you actively purchasing customers. With all the advertising they do through infomercials, social media, their website, magazines, and talk shows, they have a tremendous leads system. These aren’t just any leads though. These are customers who have responded and actually purchased a product through Beachbody. Many of these customers purchase again. Did I mention you don’t pay to have these customers added to your team?
My first Beachbody program was P90X. I loved it so much I inquired about how to sell the product on eBay. While I learned I couldn’t sell these incredible fitness programs on auction sites, I was introduced to this unique home business opportunity. Do you like the results you’ve had with P90X or another Beachbody workout program? Do the ten reasons you want to be a Beachbody coach listed above resonate with you?
Check out this video to see some inspiring results from the ChaLean Extreme in home fitness program. ChaLean Extreme is one of my favorite Beachbody workouts.
If you have not joined Team Beachbody, you are most likely not taking advantage of every opportunity to reach your fitness goals. Did I mention that it's FREE? So is browsing in our Online Store!
