P90X Did Not Change My Life

Looking for something good to post this afternoon proved fruitless until I saw a comment in one of my Facebook groups.  It was from a friend that I very much admire who hasn’t been successful yet financially as a Team Beachbody coach.  That is not unusual to hear and that same refrain can be heard in a lot of different forums.  For example, lots of people say that, “I’ve been working out for ____________ and I haven’t lost a pound.”  Or, “This was supposed to be the best fishing spot ever, and I haven’t caught a thing.”  Or, “I’ve been practicing for __________________ and I still suck at ____________.”

If you measure success at something only based on a narrow criteria like how much money you made or how many fish you caught or what place you got, then you can often be disappointed.  Sometimes there are other things that you should be aware of that are broader and more significant measures of success.

When I got P90X on March 25th, 2007, it didn’t change my life.  I had been a personal trainer for years and knew how to work out.  I could have used other workouts to get in shape, we all know that.  But when I look back, the concept that Beachbody was using – with a funny and engaging trainer and a group of other people that you could relate to working out with you – that concept did change my life.  I knew then, that other people would enjoy Tony Horton as much as I did and would get results from doing P90X.

I was also, as a Team Beachbody coach, part of a larger picture of what was possible when I got involved in the Team Beachbody community.  People needed advice and I gave it.  People needed inspiration and I provided it.  People needed accountability and I was there for them.  I got a sense of accomplishment from helping other people that changed my life.  I also became a full time Team Beachbody coach and have been able to raise my children, never having to send them to daycare and being part of their lives in everything that they do.

I also began to meet other people in Team Beachbody – other coaches, members and even got to know most of the people at Beachbody because it is more like a family than a company.  They all changed my life in positive ways and over the last almost 6 years (January 8, 2013 is my 6th anniversary as a coach), they have enriched my life in so many incredible ways.

Jim Jacobsen, the coach who is disappointed in not making money yet, is no exception and I wouldn’t have gotten to know him and have him as a friend if it hadn’t been for Team Beachbody.

When I began this post, I was reminded of a SimpleTruths video entitled, “To A Child, Love is Spelled TIME”.  That video shares the same theme.  I would ask that you click on the image below and watch the 3:00 video and see if you don’t agree that what we do in life shouldn’t be measured by narrow criteria, but instead by the positive impact that it has that we may not even be aware of.  The man in the story found out many years too late what one day meant to his son.

To the father, the day was wasted because they didn’t catch any fish. To the son, it was the best day of his life.

Are You Ready to Start Your Own Revolution?

Two years ago, Richard Neal was 426 pounds and on the brink of a breakdown. Watch how, against all odds, he lost over 200 pounds, won $100,000, and is now leading the revolution to end the trend of obesity in Tennessee.

You can create a revolution to end the trend of obesity right in your own home, neighborhood and community by becoming a Team Beachbody Coach. Richard lost 242 pounds by starting with Power 90. You can change lives as a Team Beachbody coach with any Beachbody workout DVD. It just means saying yes to making a difference. If you are ready to join the fight to end the trend of obesity and give people new lives, then please click here.

Want to Chat With Tony Horton?

Mark your calendars.  On Monday, Oct. 31, 5:00PM PT/8:00PM ET (unless of course you are trick or treating!) you can chat live with Tony Horton.

The Team Beachbody Chat Rooms offer members an opportunity to chat with professional fitness trainers like Tony Horton, Shaun T, Chalene Johnson, Debbie Siebers and more as well as chatting with other members after their workouts.  To learn more, click here.

Don’t Just Build Your Body, Build Your Dreams

If you are only focused on your weight problems or image problems or health problems, then you are being selfish. Instead of just working on your body and building your body, you could be building your dream and building the dreams of others at the same time.

Are you just going to the gym or working out at home and solely thinking about your issues? Well what about the same issues faced by all of the people around you that you could be solving while you solve your own? If you could change a person’s life and give them the gift of health and fitness and better quality of life, wouldn’t you do it? And if you could help them take their dreams out of the closet and dust them off and help them make their dreams a reality, wouldn’t you do it?

Team Howtobefit and Team Beachbody have those solutions. You can lose weight, get healthy and feel great with Team Beachbody workout DVD’s and products. With Team Howtobefit, you can build your own business that will move you toward financial independence just by sharing your success with others.

Everyone around you has a story – whether they are fit and healthy and have good jobs, they still have something that they wish that they could change. Everyone wants either more money, more time or more recognition and Team Beachbody can offer you all three. Maybe the fit person is going to the gym all the time to work out. With Team Beachbody you can save on gym memberships, have more time and spend more time with your family. Maybe the person with the good job is working 60 hours a week and needs more time to spend with family and friends and just enjoying life. With Team Beachbody, you can build a business that will give you residual income and allow you to work less hours and make more money.

If you have passion, ambition and a dream, don’t just focus on problems that are affecting you because virtually everyone has the same problems, the same desires and the same dreams and you can reach out to them and help them change their lives while you change yours.

Wondering how much it costs and how you can start? There is a $39.95 one time sign up fee to start your Team Beachbody business and after 30 days, you will be billed $14.95 a month for the 3 websites that you are given to promote your business. You will need to purchase P90X and that will be $89.89 with your 25% business member discount.

So for an initial outlay of no more than $130.00 and then just $14.95 a month, you are the CEO of your own company, you have a workout program with a personal trainer, a nutrition plan and a personal coach to help you get fit and build your business. You have the ability to be the Jillians and Bobs of the world and you have the ability to change the physical condition of everyone in this country. You may have success now, but changing the life of someone by helping them lose weight, get in shape, improve the quality of their life and maybe in the process add a few years to their life will give you significance.

If you focus on helping someone else and building friendships and relationships in the process, your own problems will have less meaning and will be solved along the way as a byproduct of passionately reaching out to others in need.

C.S. Lewis said, ” A Friendship Is Born at That Moment When One Person Says to another, ‘What! You Too? I Thought I Was the Only One.” You aren’t the only one with problems and if you could solve other people’s problems while you solved your own, why wouldn’t you do it?

To start your own business today, just click here for a 30 day free trial. If it isn’t for you, you can get a full refund before the trial period is over. You have everything to gain and nothing to lose…

Chat with Tony Horton

Two weeks to go to the next chat with Tony Horton on Monday March 29, 2010 at 5:00 PM PT/8:00 PM ET.  Don’t miss this exclusive opportunity to chat live with the master of motivation. Use this special opportunity to ask your questions and get valuable advice from the creator of Power 90® and P90X®.  Also, don’t forget, you can also visit Tony’s Corner where he will help you improve your health, physique, and lifestyle with the perfect mix of encouragement, humor, discipline, and fun.  Available to Team Beachbody Club members only!  To join the Team Beachbody Club, click here.

I think that it is sad that they do business that way

Team Beachbody is an extraordinary company on so many levels and I can say that because I’ve been a Team Beachbody Coach since the very beginning.  It is great people with honesty and integrity doing their utmost to help other people reform their health.  This is a comment that I have to share because it is so disappointing and speaks volumes of the writer:

“I gotthe p90x for my birthday from my doughter dont know how she came by it but I dont have the nutrition plan either. I will try beachbody one more time then I will order the system on my own and return it as thay let you keep that aneyway
I think that it is sad that they do business that way.”

Dude, you have a bootleg version with no guides and you want Team Beachbody to send them to you.  You have the audacity to say, when they don’t want to give them to you, “I think that it is sad that they do business that way.”  But you are willing to order it and return it and keep the guides just to get them and rip them off even more?  I think that it is sad that you do life that way…

P90X Workout Sheets

The new Team Beachbody site doesn’t have the same scheduling capability that it did before in WOWY, so I recommend that you use the P90X Workout sheets to record your workouts and the earlier post that has the order of the workouts for the Classic Schedule: http://www.howtobefit.com/p90x-workout-sheets.htm

You can still log all of your workouts in WOWY and be eligible for the Daily Sweepstakes Prize by signing up for free here – http://www.howtobefit.com/join-team-beachbody.htm

Get the Most Out of P90X with WOWY the Virtual SuperGym

P90X, as you have found out or will find out, is an outrageously effective and fun program.  It works and you want to just keep doing it.

You can get even more out of P90X, though, by either becoming a free member or Club member of the Team Beachbody community.

Why, because either way, you have access to WOWY, the virtual SuperGym, which will actually schedule your workouts for you and every time that you log into the “gym”, do your workout and then log out, you are eligible to win that day’s prize for working out.  Six days a week the prize is either $300 in cash or merchandise like iPods or camcorders, etc. worth $300.00 and one day a week there is a $1,000 prize.  It is absolutely free to log into WOWY and if you want to try it as a free member, click here.

Another fun thing about WOWY is that you can meet other people at any time of the day or night who are working out and feeling great.  WOWY is like social networking for fitness and you are guaranteed to meet other people who share a common interest in fitness and health.  These are people of all ages, genders, races and nationalities from all over the country who have all said yes to being healthy.

You owe it to yourself to get the most out of P90X, so join us today.  Who knows, you could also be $300 or a $1,000 richer just for working out.  See you in the gym!