I have spent most of my life in either the military or my present profession as a Facilities Manager. Although I have always made enough money to support my family and a good lifestyle, I have always worked part-time to make extra money to pay down debt or take that dream vacation, or buy some luxury I normally wouldn't be able to afford.
I also lived a conservative lifestyle and mostly below my means so I have been lucky and have extra spending capital to use as I please. This comes in handy when someone in your family has a need for money quickly and there is no one else to turn to. It is very rewarding to be able to support your loved ones when needed. My wife and I have always been able to give out of abundance and not worry about when the money would be paid back, if at all.
I have done all sorts of part time work, from working at a gas station, to plumbing, to carpentry. I never worked at a fast food resturaunt for some reason. Not that I wouldn't, but I always found someting else to do. I guess that work ethic has stayed with me from the beginning. I don't think I just wanted more money, I just wanted to have money to spend when I wanted it.
My mother raised six children alone after my father was killed in a car accident so there was never any extra money available unless we worked for it. I never felt a sense of lack in my life. We had the richness of love in our family and I know love will take you a long way unless you needed something material like a new pair of shoes or clothes. Then you had to go out and find some sort of enterprise you could do to make some cash to buy what you needed. I learned very early on that I had to rely on myself if I wanted to improve my lifestyle.
I know money doesn't buy happiness but over time, I also learned that money is a really good down payment to happiness because it takes away financial stress, incidentally one of the major causes of divorce in the US. Financial stress in the home magnifies other issues resulting in the breakdown of commmunication between the family unit. Once communicaton breaks down, the slope is pretty steep from that point. The negative words start to build up and soon, there is nothing left. Love is killed and the relationship dies. I have seen it hundreds of times. That doesn't mean people of great wealth don't have problems, they do. However, most of them are not related to financial issues unless they are irresponsible and living well above their means. It happens to us all if we are not vigilent. That's my take on it anyway.
Sorry for the digression.
So, as I have gotten older, I got tired of the physical labor at a relatively low return for the extra spending money. I was also knocked down by two heart attacks in 1999 and 2001, which caused me to slow down a lot and the recovery from those experiences have taken 12 years. But my desire to make "extra" income has stayed with me, I just had to find a different way to do it.
On Jan 2009 I started working on my health and fitness and as you know, I have been able to change my life dramatically using Beachbody in-home workout programs and following the nutrition guides they provide as well as drinking Shakeology, my favorite. My health has greatly improved and as I was going through my physical transformation (still on that journey by the way) I stumbled across their business opportunity as a Team Beachbody Coach.
When I started using the workout programs, I wanted to do P90X, which I had seen on the TV infomercials many times. But once I took the "Fit Test" I failed it and the company recommended I not purchase that program. So I looked at their "foundation" programs and started with the Power 90 Boot Camp DVDs. That turned out to be a good decision for me personally because I was really out of shape. Once I finished with P90, I moved to the P90 Master Series DVDs to continue to improve my health and fitness. At this time, I started using their Core Nutrition Pack, which was cheaper than the vitamins I was using from GNC, plus I got the Omega 3s and the Calcium for less than the GNC vitamins I was using. Taking it one step further, if I signed up as a coach, I would get my supplements and any other future product at wholesale prices and would be buying from myself instead of some other company. To me this was a "no brainer" since I had already made up my mind to continue the lifestyle anyway.
So, I made a decision to become a Beachbody distributor without being recruited by anyone. This could have been a disaster if you understand the Network Marketing business model. Fortunately, I was assigned to a team of active coaches and have great leaders who reach out and help you build your business. I never thought anything about doing the business to make money, but before I knew it, Beachbody was sending me commission checks every week and it has steadily grown over the past year and a half to a pretty good part-time income. Once I started seeing regular checks coming every Thursday, I decided to take the business a little more seriously.
I decided to at least try to build a "Diamond" business using the Beachbody "Game Plan" that is available to all coaches in the company. It is a step-by-step process for building a business from scratch. It is simple and easy to learn. The hard part is that you have to consistently do the actions the plan spells out for you if you want to make any money. On top of the corporate training, my team leaders are all successful business owners and teach coaches in their network how to do even better with weekly training and web training offered at your convenience. It is just up to me to do the work if I want to make more money. The bottom line is that the company has created millionaires in only 3 years using our business model.
Not all of them are founding members either. Many of them became coaches in the past year or two and have passed the founding members in income and organization size. This is one of the best things about the business model, you can pass your sponsor whenever you want to if you are willing to work harder for yourself than you do on your regular job. I have passed my sponsoring coach and built my Diamond business while she is still working on hers. Not a problem because the more successful I am, the more successful she will be because she bonuses on my effort as I do on the effort of my team. Everyone benefits by the success of the others on the team so it is the most progressive method to make a living than in any business model in existence. Everyone profits from the effort of each other. No one is better than anyone else. The individual can progress as fast or as slow as they want. Your personal results are directly related to your effort.
Think about this. In my present Facility Management career, I am pretty much at the top of my earning potential. Someone literally has to retire or die for me to make more money and then it is very cmpetitive to get the position. By starting my Beachbody business, I was able to give myself a raise of about $12K per year in just over 8 months of effort. Even if I got the promotion in my career, the pay raise would only be about 5 or 6 thousand a year! Plus more responsibility, stress, longer hours, etc. So working for myself has been a better decision for me personally and financially.
I can give myself a pay raise anytime I want. Nobody can fire me. I set my own hours. I can take off and go scuba diving in the Bahamas in May and I will still get paid on the Thursday I am down there! That is a great feeling because I am getting paid that day for the work I have done in the past that keeps repeating and growing over time. You can't find that in the traditional private sector work environment. This is why profit is better than wages!
Your wage, the money you get paid to work like a slave every day, pays your bills. When you make a profit, you are building wealth and finacial security and freedom. You have to work for both of them but profit will always win out over wages because you have all the control over your profit. You can work like a dog all day, every day at your job and never make one penny more. Increasing your profit in your business is directly related to how hard you are willing to work for yourself. You should always work harder for yourself than for someone else. Then you are making a better life for yourself and your family, not the president or owner of the company you work for now.
The bottom line is that network marketing is one of the best, if not THE best ways to build fiancial security for you and your family. There are opportunities in network marketing everywhere! I chose Beachbody as my tool to build my wealth because I know the programs work and I like to help other people realize their full potential. There are hundreds of network marketing companies out there. You should be able to find something you like to do and build your own business. It is the best way to go!
If you would like to find out more about the Beachbody Opportunity, you can either contact me at jimwyatt46@comcast.net or go to my web page and check out the become a coach tab HERE.
To your health and fitness,
jw
Friday, April 29, 2011
Tony Horton's 11 Laws for a Lifetime of Fitness
I have literally changed my life using various Beachbody workout programs including the Power 90 Boot Camp, Power 90 Master Series and finally P90X, which is the advanced workout program developed by Tony Horton and Beachbody.
Tony Horton has made a positive impact on my life and many millions of people from all over the world with his workout programs that people can do in the convenience and privacy of their homes. No need for a expensive gym membership and no room full of special weight lifting machines. You can achieve amazing results by using the workout program, the nutrition guide that comes with the program, your body weight, and a couple of dumbells and a pull-up bar.
Tony's passion and philosophy is that people will live a better quality of life if they practice some simple principles or "laws" every day that will enhance your lifestyle and help you live a happy and abundant life. I wanted to share with you his thoughts, so here they are; Tony Horton's 11 Laws of fitness to help you stay on track with your new fitness lifestyle.
1. Variety. Variety is the spice of life and fitness. A lifetime of health and fitness is achievable when you can think outside the box. You have to mix it up all the time. Stay curious, creative, and stick with the kinds of workouts that you enjoy. A variety of exercises, workouts, and sports will allow you to avoid injuries, plateaus, and boredom.
2. Consistency. Improvement and change occur when you do things often. Stopping and starting all the time will kill any momentum you need to succeed. You must find ways to stay in the game. Moderate forms of exercise, done consistently; provide far better results than the occasional full-body pummeling. A lifestyle that includes multiple forms of exercise five to six days a week guarantees results.
3. Intensity. YOU'RE TOUGHER THAN YOU THINK. The fear of pain or injury from working out is a mindset steeped in failure. You must learn to "Find the Line." Do the extra rep or two, increase your range of motion, and increase resistance as you get stronger. Intensity goes hand in hand with Variety and Consistency. The combination of the three work together as a triad that creates a platform for success. The programs provide variety. Your plan will keep you consistent.
4. Purpose. Your purpose is to have a better life. Exercise and eating right help you feel better. When you feel better, you do more. When you do more, you meet other people. A healthy lifestyle gives us the energy to be better than before. We want to participate, share, communicate, and build a community have purpose in our lives. If you had never found Beachbody, you might be right back where you were isolated, with nothing to share, no purpose, because you weren't doing anything with anyone.
5. Reality. Why do we want life to be different than it is? Why do we think about who we were and who we're going to be more than who we are? We certainly talk a good game about who we are now. Why do we try to predict the future with the hope that wishful thinking is enough to change it? Life is NOT the way it was. It's the way it is. Life is not our fantasy predictions of the future or our glory days of the past. Life is that thing that is happening to you as you read this. We fall into the trap of living in the past and future because right here is not good enough. Back then and up there are keeping you from right now.
6. Sports. Take the onus off of weight, inches, and body fat percentages and put the focus on MOVING - from dancing, rock climbing, and mountain biking to table tennis. I love that ping-pong! Think in terms of "can do" instead of "look like." Sports are fun and help develop balance and coordination which in turn accelerates your results. Jump, kick, run, spin, throw, skate, shoot, hit, score, compete . . . PLAY!
7. The Plan. SCHEDULE ALL WORKOUTS IN ADVANCE. This creates accountability. Plan an entire month ahead of time. Try to schedule as many workouts as possible with friends who have similar goals. WOWY was developed so that we could find an easy and effective way to stay accountable and work out together. Now we've got people in Trumbull, CT (my hometown), doing Power 90 at the same time with people in Hollywood. That is cool!
8. Sleep (and stress). Stressed out, sleep-deprived people don't eat right and exercise regularly. Stress depletes energy, strength, and desire, while poor sleep habits affect your moods and immune function along with cognitive and motor performance. Burning the candle at both ends makes it impossible to be fit and healthy.
9. Loving It. Exercise and workouts involve commitment, determination, planning, consistency, and intensity. If you don't like what you're doing, there's no way on earth you'll succeed. Enthusiasm is a very big piece of the puzzle. Get creative and stay curious. If you enjoy doing Power 90 exclusively and it works for you, then keep doing it until it doesn't. If you get part way through P90X and it's not your cup of tea, then stop, and do something else. Something's got to bring you back day after day, week after week. Love it (tolerate it) or leave it.
10. Flexibility. Flexibility is the fountain of youth. Flexible people are much less prone to injury. Yoga and stretching allow you to bring more intensity to your workouts. Flexibility is the key component to becoming less vulnerable and more durable. Aging has a funny way of making everything we do harder. Staying limber and flexible is the way to prevent that from happening.
11. Food and Supplements. You are what you eat! Food and supplements are your fuel. The right fuel supplies proper energy and recovery through balanced brain chemistry. The right supplements simply fill in gaps in your diet.
Tony Horton has made a positive impact on my life and many millions of people from all over the world with his workout programs that people can do in the convenience and privacy of their homes. No need for a expensive gym membership and no room full of special weight lifting machines. You can achieve amazing results by using the workout program, the nutrition guide that comes with the program, your body weight, and a couple of dumbells and a pull-up bar.
Tony's passion and philosophy is that people will live a better quality of life if they practice some simple principles or "laws" every day that will enhance your lifestyle and help you live a happy and abundant life. I wanted to share with you his thoughts, so here they are; Tony Horton's 11 Laws of fitness to help you stay on track with your new fitness lifestyle.
1. Variety. Variety is the spice of life and fitness. A lifetime of health and fitness is achievable when you can think outside the box. You have to mix it up all the time. Stay curious, creative, and stick with the kinds of workouts that you enjoy. A variety of exercises, workouts, and sports will allow you to avoid injuries, plateaus, and boredom.
2. Consistency. Improvement and change occur when you do things often. Stopping and starting all the time will kill any momentum you need to succeed. You must find ways to stay in the game. Moderate forms of exercise, done consistently; provide far better results than the occasional full-body pummeling. A lifestyle that includes multiple forms of exercise five to six days a week guarantees results.
3. Intensity. YOU'RE TOUGHER THAN YOU THINK. The fear of pain or injury from working out is a mindset steeped in failure. You must learn to "Find the Line." Do the extra rep or two, increase your range of motion, and increase resistance as you get stronger. Intensity goes hand in hand with Variety and Consistency. The combination of the three work together as a triad that creates a platform for success. The programs provide variety. Your plan will keep you consistent.
4. Purpose. Your purpose is to have a better life. Exercise and eating right help you feel better. When you feel better, you do more. When you do more, you meet other people. A healthy lifestyle gives us the energy to be better than before. We want to participate, share, communicate, and build a community have purpose in our lives. If you had never found Beachbody, you might be right back where you were isolated, with nothing to share, no purpose, because you weren't doing anything with anyone.
5. Reality. Why do we want life to be different than it is? Why do we think about who we were and who we're going to be more than who we are? We certainly talk a good game about who we are now. Why do we try to predict the future with the hope that wishful thinking is enough to change it? Life is NOT the way it was. It's the way it is. Life is not our fantasy predictions of the future or our glory days of the past. Life is that thing that is happening to you as you read this. We fall into the trap of living in the past and future because right here is not good enough. Back then and up there are keeping you from right now.
6. Sports. Take the onus off of weight, inches, and body fat percentages and put the focus on MOVING - from dancing, rock climbing, and mountain biking to table tennis. I love that ping-pong! Think in terms of "can do" instead of "look like." Sports are fun and help develop balance and coordination which in turn accelerates your results. Jump, kick, run, spin, throw, skate, shoot, hit, score, compete . . . PLAY!
7. The Plan. SCHEDULE ALL WORKOUTS IN ADVANCE. This creates accountability. Plan an entire month ahead of time. Try to schedule as many workouts as possible with friends who have similar goals. WOWY was developed so that we could find an easy and effective way to stay accountable and work out together. Now we've got people in Trumbull, CT (my hometown), doing Power 90 at the same time with people in Hollywood. That is cool!
8. Sleep (and stress). Stressed out, sleep-deprived people don't eat right and exercise regularly. Stress depletes energy, strength, and desire, while poor sleep habits affect your moods and immune function along with cognitive and motor performance. Burning the candle at both ends makes it impossible to be fit and healthy.
9. Loving It. Exercise and workouts involve commitment, determination, planning, consistency, and intensity. If you don't like what you're doing, there's no way on earth you'll succeed. Enthusiasm is a very big piece of the puzzle. Get creative and stay curious. If you enjoy doing Power 90 exclusively and it works for you, then keep doing it until it doesn't. If you get part way through P90X and it's not your cup of tea, then stop, and do something else. Something's got to bring you back day after day, week after week. Love it (tolerate it) or leave it.
10. Flexibility. Flexibility is the fountain of youth. Flexible people are much less prone to injury. Yoga and stretching allow you to bring more intensity to your workouts. Flexibility is the key component to becoming less vulnerable and more durable. Aging has a funny way of making everything we do harder. Staying limber and flexible is the way to prevent that from happening.
11. Food and Supplements. You are what you eat! Food and supplements are your fuel. The right fuel supplies proper energy and recovery through balanced brain chemistry. The right supplements simply fill in gaps in your diet.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Making Change
I started this blog all the way back in 2009. I've never really "blogged" and am not that computer literate as far as creating interesting copy or posts for people to read. My main reason for starting the blog was to post my accountability and have people follow my journey from recoverying from a couple of heart attacks to living a more healthy and fit lifestyle.
Well, 2 years have gone by and I have maintained a 41 pound weight loss for nearly 1.5 years and feel like I am in my mid thirtys again. It is an amazing feeling.
I was obese and on two seperate blood pressure medications and my doctor had just told me that I was borderline type-2 diabetic. He also told me that I would either have to lose weight and exercise regularily, or I would have to go on diabetes medication along with the BP meds I was already taking every day. The bottome line is that I found myself on a slippery slope to every declining health and a early grave. At this point, I had two choices, either take personal responsibillity for my health and fitness, or stay on the path I was on hoping someone would create a miracle pill or potion that would magically transform my body back to that of my youth. I could have done nothing and just stayed on the path I was on and possibly missed the birth of my first grandson or never seeing my loved ones again. I don't know about you, but I am not ready to give up and just lay down and die.
I made a decision that I would change my lifestyle and start living a better life. I had seen the P90X infomercial on TV numerous times but never thought I would be able to do such a intense workout program after having 4 heart attacks in my early 40s. But I decided I would at least do some research to see what it was all about. I took the "fit test" offered by the company and quickly failed and to make matters worse the website recommended I not purchase the program! Wow! I was so unhealthy that the company wouldn't even sell me their program!! They did, however, recommend I start with one of their foundation programs (they have over 130 different programs). I decided to start with a program called Power 90, or P90 for short. It is the basic bootcamp style program that helps build a solid foundation of fitness so you can go on to do more strenuous programs.
Around 3 Jan 2009, I got the P90 program and read all the literature that comes with it and started the next Monday. So, my day 1 for my health transformation started on 5 Jan 2009. Boy, the first day was a workout called Sweat 1-2. It is only 30 minutes long but by the time I finished it I was soaked with sweat and had to lay down on the floor I was so tired. I wasn't sure I would be able to do it but I decided I had to at least try my best so the next day I did Sculpt 1-2 and was really wiped out at the end of that one too. The one thing I realized right away is that it didn't kill me to do the workouts. As hard as they were to me, I managed to get through them and they were only about 30 minutes long. I figured I would do them for a few weeks and see how I felt.
Before I knew it, I was half way through the 12 week program and was feeling better and had lost a few pounds. My energy was improving and I was sleeping like a baby every night. This pushed me to continue to challenge myself and I worked even harder to see how far I could push myself. Pretty soon the 1-2 workouts were getting easier so I moved up to the 3-4 workouts. They are the same but they are 40-45 minutes long so my stamina would be increased. Plus, I was adding more weights on the Sculpt nights so my body was getting stronger every week. In the end, I completed the 12 week program and had lost 18 pounds of fat and increased my lean muscle mass by about 4 pounds. I was feeling great and knew I was on the right track and was ready for a more challenging workout. In hind sight, I never changed my diet while doing the program. I was still eating junk and fast food but still managed to lose the fat but I know now that if I had followed the meal plan that came with the workout program, I probably could have lost 25 pounds or more in those 12 weeks. But I can't change the past and I was on the journey forward but it is a lesson learned.
Even though I was feeling better, had lost some weight, my doctor wouldn't take me off blood pressure medications and told me that if I continued my exercise program and started eating better, he would consider removing my from the meds. I didn't feel like I was ready for P90X so the next program I decided to try was a program called the P90 Master Series. As it turned out, it was a perfect transition program for me from P90 to P90X. The master series tapes are a continuation of the P90 Program with Sweat and Sculpt 5-6, which was the same as the 1-2 and 3-4 tapes but each tape is about 50 minutes long. So my stamina would continue to improve as well as my strength and aerobic conditioning plus there were several new workout tapes included UML, Core Synergistics, and other programs that are related to the P90X programs. This is another 12 week program so I knew I would be in ever better shape by the time I finished my second "round."
I completed the MS tapes and was really ready for P90X. Over the course of 6 months I had gone from barely moving off the couch to working out 6 days a week and looking forward to my next workout. I finally got P90X and jumped right into it. On top of all this, I was taken off the Blood Pressure medications half way through my MS program and have excellent blood pressure now. I just had it checked yesterday at the dentist office and it was 113 over 65! Not bad for a old fart! By the way 120/60 is the median BP guage. Hopefully, I will continue to improve my fitness and can get the 65 below 60.
Anyway, I finished my round of P90X and was literally in the best shape of my entire life! I had leaned out, increased my lean muscle mass and stamina and lost a total of 41 pounds. I decided to enter the Beachbody transformation contest and won $1,000 in Sept 2009 for my transformation. I wasn't even finished my round of P90X by then! So, that motivated me to stick to my journey, which brings us to today, 29 Mar 11.
I am currently on day 16 of my 4th round of P90X. I feel pretty good and my goal is to continue to lean out and maintain my muscle mass and my overall health and fitness level. I also want to help 1,000 people lose up to 20 pounds or more. Why 20 pounds? Well, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) losing 10 pounds of fat can decrease your risk of heart attack by 35% and losing 20 pounds can reduce your risk of developing type-2 diabetes by a whopping 65%!! Those are two of the most serious risk factors of being overweight or obese.
I know I can't reverse the trend of obesity in the US by myself, but if I can just help 1,000 people get into better shape, mabye they will inspire others to do the same and we can start a grass roots movement to get our country back in shape starting with the individual. You have the power, and I can help you. All you have to do is ask.
Cheers
Well, 2 years have gone by and I have maintained a 41 pound weight loss for nearly 1.5 years and feel like I am in my mid thirtys again. It is an amazing feeling.
I was obese and on two seperate blood pressure medications and my doctor had just told me that I was borderline type-2 diabetic. He also told me that I would either have to lose weight and exercise regularily, or I would have to go on diabetes medication along with the BP meds I was already taking every day. The bottome line is that I found myself on a slippery slope to every declining health and a early grave. At this point, I had two choices, either take personal responsibillity for my health and fitness, or stay on the path I was on hoping someone would create a miracle pill or potion that would magically transform my body back to that of my youth. I could have done nothing and just stayed on the path I was on and possibly missed the birth of my first grandson or never seeing my loved ones again. I don't know about you, but I am not ready to give up and just lay down and die.
I made a decision that I would change my lifestyle and start living a better life. I had seen the P90X infomercial on TV numerous times but never thought I would be able to do such a intense workout program after having 4 heart attacks in my early 40s. But I decided I would at least do some research to see what it was all about. I took the "fit test" offered by the company and quickly failed and to make matters worse the website recommended I not purchase the program! Wow! I was so unhealthy that the company wouldn't even sell me their program!! They did, however, recommend I start with one of their foundation programs (they have over 130 different programs). I decided to start with a program called Power 90, or P90 for short. It is the basic bootcamp style program that helps build a solid foundation of fitness so you can go on to do more strenuous programs.
Around 3 Jan 2009, I got the P90 program and read all the literature that comes with it and started the next Monday. So, my day 1 for my health transformation started on 5 Jan 2009. Boy, the first day was a workout called Sweat 1-2. It is only 30 minutes long but by the time I finished it I was soaked with sweat and had to lay down on the floor I was so tired. I wasn't sure I would be able to do it but I decided I had to at least try my best so the next day I did Sculpt 1-2 and was really wiped out at the end of that one too. The one thing I realized right away is that it didn't kill me to do the workouts. As hard as they were to me, I managed to get through them and they were only about 30 minutes long. I figured I would do them for a few weeks and see how I felt.
Before I knew it, I was half way through the 12 week program and was feeling better and had lost a few pounds. My energy was improving and I was sleeping like a baby every night. This pushed me to continue to challenge myself and I worked even harder to see how far I could push myself. Pretty soon the 1-2 workouts were getting easier so I moved up to the 3-4 workouts. They are the same but they are 40-45 minutes long so my stamina would be increased. Plus, I was adding more weights on the Sculpt nights so my body was getting stronger every week. In the end, I completed the 12 week program and had lost 18 pounds of fat and increased my lean muscle mass by about 4 pounds. I was feeling great and knew I was on the right track and was ready for a more challenging workout. In hind sight, I never changed my diet while doing the program. I was still eating junk and fast food but still managed to lose the fat but I know now that if I had followed the meal plan that came with the workout program, I probably could have lost 25 pounds or more in those 12 weeks. But I can't change the past and I was on the journey forward but it is a lesson learned.
Even though I was feeling better, had lost some weight, my doctor wouldn't take me off blood pressure medications and told me that if I continued my exercise program and started eating better, he would consider removing my from the meds. I didn't feel like I was ready for P90X so the next program I decided to try was a program called the P90 Master Series. As it turned out, it was a perfect transition program for me from P90 to P90X. The master series tapes are a continuation of the P90 Program with Sweat and Sculpt 5-6, which was the same as the 1-2 and 3-4 tapes but each tape is about 50 minutes long. So my stamina would continue to improve as well as my strength and aerobic conditioning plus there were several new workout tapes included UML, Core Synergistics, and other programs that are related to the P90X programs. This is another 12 week program so I knew I would be in ever better shape by the time I finished my second "round."
I completed the MS tapes and was really ready for P90X. Over the course of 6 months I had gone from barely moving off the couch to working out 6 days a week and looking forward to my next workout. I finally got P90X and jumped right into it. On top of all this, I was taken off the Blood Pressure medications half way through my MS program and have excellent blood pressure now. I just had it checked yesterday at the dentist office and it was 113 over 65! Not bad for a old fart! By the way 120/60 is the median BP guage. Hopefully, I will continue to improve my fitness and can get the 65 below 60.
Anyway, I finished my round of P90X and was literally in the best shape of my entire life! I had leaned out, increased my lean muscle mass and stamina and lost a total of 41 pounds. I decided to enter the Beachbody transformation contest and won $1,000 in Sept 2009 for my transformation. I wasn't even finished my round of P90X by then! So, that motivated me to stick to my journey, which brings us to today, 29 Mar 11.
I am currently on day 16 of my 4th round of P90X. I feel pretty good and my goal is to continue to lean out and maintain my muscle mass and my overall health and fitness level. I also want to help 1,000 people lose up to 20 pounds or more. Why 20 pounds? Well, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) losing 10 pounds of fat can decrease your risk of heart attack by 35% and losing 20 pounds can reduce your risk of developing type-2 diabetes by a whopping 65%!! Those are two of the most serious risk factors of being overweight or obese.
I know I can't reverse the trend of obesity in the US by myself, but if I can just help 1,000 people get into better shape, mabye they will inspire others to do the same and we can start a grass roots movement to get our country back in shape starting with the individual. You have the power, and I can help you. All you have to do is ask.
Cheers
A Message from Tony Horton, Creator of P90X
Be Part of the Solution
Boys and girls,
I'm unaware of your financial situation but I do believe that you're reading this page because you care about your health and fitness. If you have plenty of income and love your job then what I’m about to tell you might not be for you. If you're not thrilled with the way you make a living, would like extra income, love Beachbody products, like the way they make you look and feel, enjoy helping other people feel and look better, enjoy setting your own hours, get excited about being the captain of your own ship as opposed to working for the man - then listen up.
The reality is, your health and fitness moves beyond you. It impacts the people around you. You (whether you like it or not) have the power to change lives based solely on your own personal transformation. Inadvertently you become a catalyst for change. This is how I got started. I was clueless, asked a few questions based on my need to be strong and healthy, stayed with it and people in my life wanted to know what I was doing. Simple yet powerful.
If you want to share what you've learned with people in your life who want better health (and could use extra income in the process) then you should consider becoming a Team Beachbody Coach. I felt so strongly about this program that I’ve encouraged many of my friends to become coaches, even my own sister. She is doing great (even though my contract with Beachbody won’t let me help her). She is a perfect example of someone who had plenty of doubt and hesitation regarding the coaching opportunity and still found a way to make it work for her. A busy working wife and mother with three very active kids doesn't sound like a good candidate to start an in-home multi-level marketing company. Did you say multi level marketing? What? Ick! You mean pyramid scheme right? Okay chill out. All these fears would be true if BeachBody were selling hats or kitty liter, but this is Beachbody people! The number 1 in-home fitness company on the planet! P90X is steadily becoming the most popular fitness system in US history. Shakeology is the revolutionary replacement meal on the market today. We sell life-altering change - not soap. Tens of thousands of regular folk around this country are doing something they love because of this coach opportunity.
The unemployment rate still hovers around 10% but it doesn't have to be that way if more people were willing to see that new opportunities exist all around them. The Team Beachbody Coaching opportunity is one of them. Health care companies, pharmaceutical companies and our government are not capable of solving this obesity crisis and we can't wait around for them to do it. The crisis is now and the answer is YOU! I know that sounds a bit Rah Rah but it's true.
Cynics don't need to apply, but if you're sick and tired of the status quo and want to make a difference in your own life and in the lives of those around you, then open the door. The two major issues of our time - the health care issue and unemployment rate could be resolved if a million more people in this country decided to get healthy and share the wealth. This is a brand new industry waiting to explode. It's not happening in boardrooms or factories – it’s happening in the homes of tens of thousands of Team Beachbody Coaches and in the homes of their customers. With a tiny investment (actually the company is waiving the enrollment fee through the end of 2010) and a willingness to help people the sky's the limit.
TH-
Boys and girls,
I'm unaware of your financial situation but I do believe that you're reading this page because you care about your health and fitness. If you have plenty of income and love your job then what I’m about to tell you might not be for you. If you're not thrilled with the way you make a living, would like extra income, love Beachbody products, like the way they make you look and feel, enjoy helping other people feel and look better, enjoy setting your own hours, get excited about being the captain of your own ship as opposed to working for the man - then listen up.
The reality is, your health and fitness moves beyond you. It impacts the people around you. You (whether you like it or not) have the power to change lives based solely on your own personal transformation. Inadvertently you become a catalyst for change. This is how I got started. I was clueless, asked a few questions based on my need to be strong and healthy, stayed with it and people in my life wanted to know what I was doing. Simple yet powerful.
If you want to share what you've learned with people in your life who want better health (and could use extra income in the process) then you should consider becoming a Team Beachbody Coach. I felt so strongly about this program that I’ve encouraged many of my friends to become coaches, even my own sister. She is doing great (even though my contract with Beachbody won’t let me help her). She is a perfect example of someone who had plenty of doubt and hesitation regarding the coaching opportunity and still found a way to make it work for her. A busy working wife and mother with three very active kids doesn't sound like a good candidate to start an in-home multi-level marketing company. Did you say multi level marketing? What? Ick! You mean pyramid scheme right? Okay chill out. All these fears would be true if BeachBody were selling hats or kitty liter, but this is Beachbody people! The number 1 in-home fitness company on the planet! P90X is steadily becoming the most popular fitness system in US history. Shakeology is the revolutionary replacement meal on the market today. We sell life-altering change - not soap. Tens of thousands of regular folk around this country are doing something they love because of this coach opportunity.
The unemployment rate still hovers around 10% but it doesn't have to be that way if more people were willing to see that new opportunities exist all around them. The Team Beachbody Coaching opportunity is one of them. Health care companies, pharmaceutical companies and our government are not capable of solving this obesity crisis and we can't wait around for them to do it. The crisis is now and the answer is YOU! I know that sounds a bit Rah Rah but it's true.
Cynics don't need to apply, but if you're sick and tired of the status quo and want to make a difference in your own life and in the lives of those around you, then open the door. The two major issues of our time - the health care issue and unemployment rate could be resolved if a million more people in this country decided to get healthy and share the wealth. This is a brand new industry waiting to explode. It's not happening in boardrooms or factories – it’s happening in the homes of tens of thousands of Team Beachbody Coaches and in the homes of their customers. With a tiny investment (actually the company is waiving the enrollment fee through the end of 2010) and a willingness to help people the sky's the limit.
TH-
THE HEALTH AND FITNESS WAR
Rare Arnold Motivational Speech from Allen on Vimeo.
There is an obesity epidemic sweeping the country. Research by the Centers for Disease Control reports that nearly two-thirds of the US population of over 300 Million citizens is overweight, obese, or morbidly obese. This is the result of decades of change from an agrarian society to a service industry where people no longer get outside and stress their bodies with labor to earn wages. With the advent of technology such as the micro-computer and the Internet, business in the US has moved the individual from working on the farm to sitting many hours in front of a computer screen.
To make matters worse, fast food has replaced wholesome nutrition as the mainstay of the US diet. The fast food industry has systematically replaced natural food grown from the ground with food substitutes designed to keep you hungry because of the low nutritional value of the processed food. This ultimately drives the individual to eat more to supply the body with the nutrients it needs and subsequently adding enormous calories to the daily diet and forcing the human body to gain weight. This vicious cycle keeps people going back for more food and enriching the fast food industry while the individual ultimately suffers from poor health and development of chronic health issues.
Unfortunately, the convenience of fast food has dominated people’s busy lives and our society has little time to properly prepare meals at home where family traditionally spent time reconnecting with one another after a long day of labor to provide for the family. Instead, we stop by the local fast food joint and pick up a bucket of highly processed junk and bring it home to throw it on a plate and serve to our children as we flop on the couch in front of cable television. We have become too dependent on an industry that is hurting us physically, psychologically, and financially.
People have allowed themselves to become so busy that there is not time to join a gym and workout the amount of time it takes to protect themselves from chronic health issues such as heart disease, high blood pressure, and Type 2 Diabetes. Over the past few decades, these health issues have taxed our medical industry to unsustainable levels and now the federal government is considering taking measures to reduce the level of healthcare one can receive in this country to control the ever increasing cost to artificially keep people healthy. This simply will not work if we keep doing what we have in the past with exercise and proper diet lacking in our society. We have to change.
So what do we do? To paraphrase Einstein, we know that to do the same thing over and over and expect a different outcome is a form of insanity. We also know that there are several things that an individual must do to be healthy and among those are exercise and proper nutrition. We, as individuals, have to break this cycle if we want to improve our health and quality of life.
Over the years, I have found myself gaining weight and suffering from high blood pressure, chronic fatigue, and other issues that have adversely affected my health and fitness level. I have turned to the health industry and tried every conceivable way to lose weight, including diet pills, special diets, exercise machines, and any number of books on how to lose weight and get into shape. None of them have worked or were sustainable for a long period of time.
I eventually learned that there are three pillars required and must be in place if one can hope to achieve a level of health and fitness necessary to improve our quality of life and have more energy and a feeling of well being that everyone deserves. These include a solid fitness program, proper nutrition and supplementation to support your health, and a group of people who will support you and help you become fit and remain healthy. You can achieve limited success by exercising alone, or going on a diet, or going to a support group to talk about your health but unless you combine all three of these elements, your chances for success are greatly reduced. Stay tuned…
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