Health & Fitness Advice

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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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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How Many Calories Are in Your Favorite Valentine’s Day Foods?

February 14, 2013
By Rich Dafter
How Many Calories Are in Your Favorite Valentine’s Day Foods?

From the Team Beachbody Newsletter – By Rebecca Swanner Do you love oysters on the half shell? Desire to nibble on a bite of dark chocolate? Or maybe you’re head over heels over the classic conversation heart. Whatever you fancy to devour on Valentine’s Day, take a look in the chart below to see...

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9 Aphrodisiacs to Heat Up Your Love Life

February 11, 2013
By Rich Dafter
9 Aphrodisiacs to Heat Up Your Love Life

From the Team Beachbody Newsletter – By Joe Wilkes Named for Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, aphrodisiacs have been the stuff of legend and song throughout history. Lovers looking for a leg up in the libido department have gone to their shamans, medicine men, and herbalists for centuries, searching for the magic ingredient...

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Chalene Johnson: What Keeps Me Motivated

February 10, 2013
By Rich Dafter
Chalene Johnson: What Keeps Me Motivated

Chalene Johnson isn’t just the creator and master trainer behind TurboJam®, ChaLEAN Extreme®, and TurboFire®. She’s also a mom, renowned motivational speaker, best-selling author, and the founder of her own multimillion-dollar enterprise, Powder Blue Productions®. That’s a pretty incredible resume, even for a woman as incredible as Chalene—which begs the question: How does she...

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10 Great Super Bowl Snacks for Sunday

February 1, 2013
By Rich Dafter
10 Great Super Bowl Snacks for Sunday

From the Team Beachbody Newsletter – Sign up for the Team Beachbody free membership to get more great issues! It happens every year, mere weeks after resolving to lose the love handles, we face a day devoted to filling our bellies with hot wings, nachos, and beer. Americans consume more calories on Super Bowl...

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Not Ready for the Ultimate Reset Vegan Diet?

January 27, 2013
By Rich Dafter
Not Ready for the Ultimate Reset Vegan Diet?

The 8-Week Transition Diet – By Steve Edwards If you aren’t ready to commit to the Ultimate Reset vegan diet quite yet, transition diets are one of the easiest ways to become a healthier eater. I’ve been doing them since the ’80s and, in fact, one of the first articles I ever wrote for...

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10 Ways to Ward off Excess Holiday Pounds

December 5, 2012
By Rich Dafter
10 Ways to Ward off Excess Holiday Pounds

Do you find that the scale moves up a few pounds during this time of the year? During summertime, we’re focused on our bodies, given we know we’ll be wearing the revealing clothing that goes with that season, but when fall and winter come around, that mindset falls away like autumn leaves. Maybe it’s...

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Do You Need Help Losing Weight?

October 21, 2012
By Glen

I have been overweight. It is not fun. There is no easy way out, and it takes time and effort to obtain or regain a healthy body. When there is a goal of losing weight, one of the hardest things to do is to reach out to someone and ask for help. What do...

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Are You Okay With Aging?

October 15, 2012
By Rich Dafter
Are You Okay With Aging?

The reason that I ask is that I am not.  When you are 61 and have a 7 and 5 year old and they are doing  running club at school and you are coaching, Girls Scouts and you have to be a Girl Scout to help out with all of their activities (please don’t...

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