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Wanting It So Bad It Hurts

May 10, 2013
By Rich Dafter
Wanting It So Bad It Hurts

Are you suffering in your life right now?  Do you want your life back so bad that it hurts?  Janet did and she did something about it – even working out in secret when she started.  Below is her story from the Team Beachbody Success Story contest.  She entered The Beachbody Challenge and won...

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Happily Married and Fat?

May 9, 2013
By Rich Dafter
Happily Married and Fat?

Before doing P90X I was completely miserable. I was 25 years old, stood 5’ 7”, had high cholesterol, and weighed in at 225 pounds. With those stats, I wasn’t fat, I was obese. I knew I needed to workout but kept putting it off until tomorrow. And when “tomorrow” finally did arrive, I’d exercise...

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Escaping From Solitude

May 8, 2013
By Rich Dafter
Escaping From Solitude

I have been heavy throughout my whole life and have lived in solitude, escaping to my games, which got very lonely at times. I have been on food stamps for at least 2 years because I have been unemployed and was forced to live out of my car while I was in Oregon because...

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New and Improved Greenberry Shakeology

May 7, 2013
By Rich Dafter
New and Improved Greenberry Shakeology

  Question: What’s different in the new Greenberry Shakeology formula? Answer: Reduced calories from 140 to 130 per serving Reduced Sugars from 11g to 6g per serving! (5 grams less than before!) Reduced Total Carbs from 19g to 13g per serving Increased Protein from 16g to 17g per serving Fiber increased from 3g to...

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Life’s Too Short to be Entombed in an Unhealthy Body

May 6, 2013
By Rich Dafter
Life’s Too Short to be Entombed in an Unhealthy Body

Kristjan won the Team Beachbody $500 Daily Prize for May 6th! My whole life I’ve BEEN big, and LIVED big—spent my teens and 20’s in the 300+ club. Though overweight, I was still a happy-go-lucky kind of guy. I loved life and overindulged in things that brought me immediate gratification. But sadly, all those...

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10 Moves to Improve Your Basketball Game

May 5, 2013
By Rich Dafter
10 Moves to Improve Your Basketball Game

By Zack Zeigler – From the Team Beachbody Newsletter Once you’ve mastered basketball’s fundamentals—how to properly dribble, shoot, pass, and trash talk—you can improve your game by fine-tuning the way you train off the court. This exercise collection, courtesy of former basketball coach, veteran baller, and Beachbody’s Director of Fitness Steve Edwards, will increase...

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Challenge Pack of the Month – Tai Cheng

May 2, 2013
By Rich Dafter
Challenge Pack of the Month – Tai Cheng

You can save $25.00 when you purchase the Tai Cheng Challenge Pack in May (offer ends May 31st) and you save over $90.00 if you were to buy everything separately.  Whether for yourself, a Mother’s Day gift or even planning ahead and buying it for Father’s Day, Tai Cheng, Shakeology and the Team Beachbody...

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From a Bad Place to a Happy Place!

April 29, 2013
By Rich Dafter
From a Bad Place to a Happy Place!

Ashley participated in The Beachbody Challenge and won the $500 Daily Prize for April 29th! Before I started ChaLEAN Extreme, I was in a bad place, mentally and physically. I had NO energy, no confidence and an extremely negative self-image. I was disgusted by looking at pictures of myself. And I used food and...

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Real People, Real Commitment, Real Success

April 15, 2013
By Rich Dafter
Real People, Real Commitment, Real Success

An open letter to my team of Beachbody Coaches: Coaches, you can change your body in eight weeks, you can change other people’s bodies in eight weeks and you can change lives forever over the next two months. I am proof of how successful you can be changing people’s lives and I want all...

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30 Ways to Relieve Your Stress By Sarah Stevenson

April 11, 2013
By Rich Dafter
30 Ways to Relieve Your Stress By Sarah Stevenson

From the Team Beachbody Newsletter Back in Paleolithic times, stress and its associated hormone release was an important survival tool. Things like adrenaline gave us the juice we needed to dodge a famished cheetah, while cortisol helped out should that cheetah decide to pursue us for a long, long time.   The problem is,...

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