Monday, November 29, 2010

Hang 10 Leaderboards: Only 33 Days Left!


We're heading into the final third of the Hang 10 Chairman's Challenge and there's movement in the top ten! Now is when we'll see who has the legs to finish strong!

For the second week in a row the top 5 remain unchanged -- for now. The rest of the list shows slight movement and fluctuation between ranks, with the new addition of Robert Lucido, who makes his leader board debut at #13. With 33 days left to determine who makes it into the all-important Top 10, here's where we stand:

First Last Points Rank Last Week's Rank
Wayne Wyatt 92 1 1
Hillary Kelly 82 2 2
Josh Spencer 64 3 3
Lee Ratterman 61 4 4
Barbie Decker 46 5 5
Monica Gray 39 6 7
Thomas Mygrant 38 7 9
Teri Walker 38 7 10
Maria Cappa 37 8 6
Christina Richardson 37 8 6
Norberto Hernandez 35 9 8
Dy Ann Parham 33 10 10
Craig Smith 31 11 14
Christine Dwyer 30 12 11
Steph Perez 30 12 14
Doug Fitzgerald 28 13 12
Robert Lucido 28 13 **NEW**
Rochelle Griffin 27 14 11
Nick Hussein 26 15 12
Michelle Moy 26 15 12

Here's the finest of the fine print: Be in the Top 10 as of 12/31, and you get a FREE cabin for two on the sweet Success Club Cruise in March 2011! You can dine with me, the rest of the top ten and the ship's Captain, plus you also earn a cabin for two for the top Success Club point earner among your direct line of personal Sponsorship Coaches!

If you've already qualified for your trip, continue to push hard and you can give your second cabin to family, friends or Coaches as an amazing Holiday gift! Generosity rules, Dude! First, qualify for Success Club 5 or 10 for at least one month in October, November, or December. Then, be one of the top 10 Success Club point earners between October 1st and December 31st, 2010, and you're in!

For full details and rules, go to www.grabyourboard.com and don't forget to check out the leaderboard here every Monday to see who's in the running. It's time to Grab Your Board and get ready to Hang 10 with me and the captain!

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Total Wellness Transformation: Hank's Journey - I'm Thankful

The Diary Of A 50lb Weight Loss Journey


Hank here!

I hope you are having a great Thanksgiving Holiday weekend with friends and family! The Holiday Season is officially upon us, which usually means temptation at every turn. Sugary sweets, rich, decadent treats and everything else that causes us ("me") to pack on the Holiday pounds. But it doesn't have to be that way.


You ("I") have the power to make healthy choices and to stay accountable. Last week, I talked about a new way of thinking and it certainly served me well. There was no Thanksgiving food coma for me, no second or third helpings of anything. Heck, I even avoided any Thanksgiving cocktails. Don't get me wrong, there were all kinds of food that I could have indulged in. But they just didn't appeal to me.

Not one bite of mac n' cheese, no mashed potatoes and gravy, no stuffing, no pies or cookies. I chose to enjoy some lean meat, some salad and most importantly, I chose to stay on track. I remind myself all the time that this is a marathon, not a sprint. I don't want to get obsessive about numbers on the scale or calories burned. For me, this is about a lifestyle change - hence the title of this blog "Total Wellness Transformation."

I'm eating clean and working out consistently. Each day I try to push myself a little harder, to do a little bit better than the day before. I keep focused and when I need a mental kick in the pants, I draw inspiration from the many Team Beachbody Coaches and customers who share their stories.

I feel better, I sleep better and I know I'm getting healthier, but sometimes it's only when someone else acknowledges it that it sinks in. This week, a coworker told me I need to get new pants, because mine were falling off after losing weight. The following day, I noticed that I had gotten to the smallest notch on my belt - and it still wasn't tight enough. Sometimes, it's the littlest things that make an impact. That's progress to me.

As I sit here and write this, having just completed a workout and downed a Shakeology, I'm incredibly thankful. I'm thankful for the strength and discipline to embrace a healthier lifestyle. I'm thankful to Carl and Team Beachbody for giving me the tools and support to help me succeed. I'm thankful for my progress. I'm thankful for my friends and family. And right now, as silly as it sounds, I'm thankful for all the Holiday sales going on, because I have to go to The Gap and buy some new jeans and a smaller belt - or two. Oh, I'm also thankful for this...the most food-centric, temptation-laden holiday came and went and I'm still down another 3.6 pounds!

Until next time,
Hank




Friday, November 26, 2010

Let's End The Trend

The trend in obesity is tragic. And while most admit the trend is only gaining in momentum, everyone agrees there is a solution; lifestyle change.

How do you get 200 million people to eat better and exercise?
In 2007, Santa Monica-based Beachbody, LLC launched an innovation that uses a financial incentive to motivate people to make that lifestyle change. Beachbody is paying people – now over 42,000 people - to promote exercise and proper nutrition, starting with their own transformation and every additional success story they inspire.

The most valuable question in weight loss: “How did you lose the weight?”
When a person loses weight, people notice and ask: “How did you do it?” That usually leads to a product recommendation. It is our belief that if your discipline to get healthy creates demand for our products, you should get paid for it. Now people can get paid for it, by becoming what we call a “Team Beachbody Coach.”

Give everyone an incentive to promote a healthy lifestyle!
Our coaches are not fitness or nutrition experts. These are regular people who understand that the solution to obesity is exercise and proper nutrition. Beachbody simply added a financial incentive to adopt that healthy lifestyle and spread the word.

Healthy behavior is the basis for all Beachbody programs including P90X, Slim in 6, TurboJam, Body Gospel, Insanity and a breakthrough nutrition product called Shakeology. Coaches use the programs to get healthy, and people notice.

An Unlimited Financial Incentive To Be Healthy?
The revolution that transforms these programs from top sellers into an end of the trend of obesity is the financial incentive to not just lose the weight, but keep it off and share the experience with others.

Team Beachbody Coaches are influencing the behavior of more people everyday by sharing their success on social media like Facebook and Twitter, holding community meetings to present the business and holding free weekly “fit clubs” in their neighborhoods.

But what about the kids?
Each time a parent makes healthy food and fitness choices, the behavior of the household changes with them. Healthier food in smaller portions is served at the dinner table. Water replaces soda. Less time is spent in front of the TV. Kids are learning by example. They overhear their parents “selling” the value of a healthy lifestyle to prospects as they work to grow their Team Beachbody businesses.

The end of the bake sale and the candy-drive
Non-profit organizations like churches, PTA’s, and other charities are using our business model to raise money in a way that actually improves the health and vitality of their constituents! Tables displaying Beachbody products and sign-up sheets inviting people to attend local fit clubs are replacing bake sales and candy drives.

We've paid over $40 million to our coaches in 2010!
Team Beachbody Coaches earn 25% commission every time someone buys a product through their websites. And as a coach expands their team, they earn bonuses on those sales as well. It’s a classic Avon style multi-level compensation structure, but it’s likely the healthiest expression of network marketing in history; good nutrition and exercise, packaged to be affordable with a unique financial incentive to be successful.

Beachbody makes it turn-key
Beachbody spends millions of dollars each week on TV, Radio, Print and web advertising. This introduces consumers to our in-home fitness solutions and creates demand for our products. We set-up a personal webstore for every coach. We handle the fulfillment, processing, and customer service. The coach doesn’t have to buy and hold inventory. Their job is to follow what we call the “Game Plan”, a 10-step outline that includes being active, eating better and sharing their story with two people a day.

And the more a person treats this like a business, the more successful they are
Some people get involved to earn supplemental income and others to create financial independence. In an economic environment of double digit unemployment, Team Beachbody has already created over ten new millionaires and thousands of part-time income earners– all promoting a system that helps people get healthy and fit.

How will this end the upward trend of obesity where other initiatives have failed?
Without Team Beachbody’s intervention, current projections show that in 25 years, an unbelievable 86% of the population will be obese or overweight and the increases in lifestyle diseases like type-II diabetes and heart disease will follow. That is not just statistics, it is a plague projected to shave up to ten years off the life-expectancy of Americans.

But with this business model, we’re already seeing the impact of thousands of coaches reaching into their communities to get people healthy. Success stories pour in every day – and it is just the beginning!

Team Beachbody is taking dramatic action with this breakthrough business model. We are convinced that a program that rewards people financially for helping each other get healthy is compelling enough that as it reaches critical mass, it will actually be THE solution.

In fact, it is our belief that this sort of entrepreneurial financial incentive is the ONLY solution that can affect dramatic acceptance of the lifestyle change required to turn this trend around.

Let’s end the trend of obesity by rewarding the people who do the best job of inspiring others to get healthy and fit!

Vive Le Bike! Chairman's Club Adventure Leaderboard



There's only 36 days left
in the race for The Chairman's Club Bike Adventure and the top 5 are clearly pulling from the pack.

This will undoubtedly turn into a battle to make it into the Top 10 and meet the qualification requirements so they can join me as we bike through France!


If we were sending out invitations to the Chairman’s Club Adventure right now*, we would be booking flights to France for the Top 10 below:

First Last Total SC Points Rank
Josh Spencer 289 1
Hillary Kelly 279 2
Barbie Decker 205 3
Lee Ratterman 175 4
Monica Gray 174 5
Mike Ryan 169 6
Thomas Mygrant 159 7
Jason Scheff 149 8
Monica Ward 146 9
Julie Schulte 129 10
Julie Voris 127 11
Christina Richardson 125 12
Mindy Wender 125 12
Traci Morrow 120 13
Christine Dwyer 120 13
Jimmy Nelson 109 14
Brad Gibala 109 14
Robert Hudgens 106 15
Brian Murray 105 16
Pete Pena 102 17

NOTE: these numbers are for January 1,2010 - November 21, 2010



These Coaches are doing whatever it takes to build their business and make the trip. What about YOU? Every exposure, every Coach you sign up, every Success Club point - they not only put you in the game, but they prove that you are helping someone new get healthy and fit!

Keep building and if you're in the Top 10 when it's all done, I'll see you
en La France! "Vive Le Bike!"

*To qualify for the Chairman’s Club Adventure bike tour through France, coaches must also be Elite, which means they:
• Must qualify for Success Club 5 or 10 for 9 consecutive months in 2010 or 8 consecutive months if qualified for Success Club 10 in May.

• Must be a paid 2 Star Diamond or higher by the end of the qualification period.
• Must have signed up 24 New Active Coaches. Coaches must achieve Active status at the close of the contest.

Must have produced an incremental Advancement Team Volume of 100,000 points for the 2010 qualification period compared to the 2009 qualification period.

So, of those who qualify for Elite, whoever generated the top ten most Success Club points is on the trip!

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Thanks




















I am always so filled with gratitude at this time of year.
Beachbody is on track for another record year, Team Beachbody is growing fast, and people continue to get real dramatic results from the products.

My family is healthy and happy. And we have the means to put our capital to use in ways that both build toward our goals, and help a lot of people.

It's like a dream, created on purpose with hard work and focus.


And speaking of gratitude, I got an email from Jack Rose from Raincatcher, who is deploying our first donation of water supplies in Haiti and Africa. His efforts are paying off and he is building momentum to have an even greater impact than any of us imagined. We will have video in the next few weeks to share showing our first Team Beachbody water tanks being installed in schools!

And don't forget, for every active coach as of 12/31/10, we will donate another $5 to help five people have access to water year round!


I truly am grateful for every coach who put their faith in this idea, from the founders to the people signing up to help us be ready for the big swell in January. You all are helping us lead the charge.

And I am grateful for all the hope and energy our corporate team and coaches put into growing this business every single day.

I love working alongside you guys!


Carl

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Weekly WOWY Winners!



We all have much to be thankful for, but this lucky group can give extra thanks for their winnings from WOWY! They won big and so can you - but you have to log in to win! So step away from that stuffing and get your sweat on!

11/14 Michael Koehn won an Apple iPod Touch

11/15 Rebecca Brosseau-Bickford won $300


11/16 Maurice Staples won $300


11/17 Nancy Schwertfeger won $300


11/18 Brian Del Gaudio won $1,000


11/19 Janice Brickwood won $300


11/20 Kevin Ownby won an Apple iPod Touch


These people signed into the WOWY Super Gym to lose weight, get fit and find support - and they won big for doing it! You could be next, but you've gotta log into WOWY to be in the game!

Monday, November 22, 2010

Hang 10 Leaderboards: Only 40 Days Left!

Want to spend some quality time with me and the other leaders who finished the year strong?

If you're in the Top 10 of my Hang 10 Chairman's Challenge, then you will be!

This week, we've still got ties and it's neck and neck for some key positions, with only a point or two separating the contenders. There's only 40 days left in the Challenge to make it into the critical top ten, and here's where we stand:

First Name Last Name Total SC Points Current Rank Last Week's Rank
Wayne Wyatt 85 1 1
Hillary Kelly 68 2 2
Josh Spencer 52 3 3
Lee Ratterman 51 4 4
Barbie Decker 46 5 5
Maria Cappa 37 6 8
Christina Richardson 37 6 6
Monica Gray 36 7 7
Norberto Hernandez 35 8 6
Thomas Mygrant 34 9 7
Teri Walker 32 10 10
Dy Ann Parham 32 10 8
Rochelle Griffin 27 11 9
Christine Dwyer 27 11 9
Doug Fitzgerald 26 12 10
Nick Hussein 26 12 10
Michelle Moy 26 12 10
Ginifer Nania-Cole 25 13 **NEW**
Craig Smith 24 14 10
Suzy Stauffer 24 14 10
Steph Perez 24 14 11
Gina Nelson 24 14 **NEW**



Here's the fine print: Be in the Top 10 as of 12/31, and you get a FREE cabin for two on the sweet Success Club Cruise in March 2011! You can dine with me, the rest of the top ten and the ship's Captain, plus you also earn a cabin for two for the top Success Club point earner among your direct line of personal Sponsorship Coaches!

If you've already qualified for your trip, BE THANKFUL and go for it anyway and you can give your second cabin to family, friends, or Coaches. Generosity rules, Dude! First, qualify for Success Club 5 or 10 for at least one month in October, November, or December. Then, be one of the top 10 Success Club point earners between October 1st and December 31st, 2010, and you're in!

For full details and rules, go to www.grabyourboard.com and don't forget to check out the leaderboard here every Monday to see who's in the running. It's time to Grab Your Board and get ready to Hang 10 with me and the captain!

Sunday, November 21, 2010

Success Story Of The Week: Wayne Wyatt


This is what some people mean when they say, "extreme"...

Meet this week's Success Story,
Wayne Wyatt:

"My name is Wayne Wyatt and this is my Team Beachbody success story...


For over a decade, I had been struggling with my health and fitness to the point that I gave up hope and resigned myself to the fact that I was over-the-hill and destined to be heavy for the rest of my life. Each year I'd try to get in shape. I made the typical New Year's resolution that would fade out within a month or two. I tried all the other stuff out there.

In February of 2010, I decided to take the plunge with P90X.
Little did I know that making this decision would forever transform my health, my fitness, my outlook, and my life! I dropped nearly 50 pounds, got totally RIPPED unlike any time in my life, and gained such a passion for my health and fitness that I couldn't help but tell others about it. I had finally found the REAL DEAL -- workouts/nutrition/supplements/convenience/a community of support -- and I realized this will work for EVERYONE!

I signed up as a Coach not to make money, but because I had such amazing success with Beachbody products that I wanted to help others do the same. And since I was telling everyone to use them, I might as well get a little commission for it! Well, it's turned into a lot more than that. Even though I have a very successful day job as an orthodontist, there is a huge appeal in the Team Beachbody business for me. I have the flexibility to do it when I want, from where I want, as much or as little as I want.

Thanks to my upline Coach, Josh Spencer, and the support and tools available, I'm now a Diamond rank Coach - after only 6 months! I don't plan on quitting my day job just yet, but I'd love to reduce my time in the office to 2 days per week while giving myself more time to focus on Team Beachbody coaching. It's truly a dream job!
And with the income I'm making as a Coach, this is a very real possibility!

Who would guess an orthodontist, with 11 years of schooling and residency to get where I'm at, could seriously consider walking away from a health care profession (at least in part) to coach people through P90X and Insanity!
Thank you, Team Beachbody!"


Submit your Success Stories Now at
CoachSuccessStories@beachbody.com!

Saturday, November 20, 2010

Total Wellness Transformation: Hank's Journey - A New Way Of Thinking



The Diary Of A 50lb Weight Loss Journey


Hey Everyone, it's Hank.

I've been making positive changes and enjoying the benefits. I
t's no secret that eating healthy, regular exercise and getting enough rest not only makes you feel better, but facilitates weight loss. Duh! But along with those changes, I've noticed another important change: a shift in my thinking.

For example, when meeting friends for dinner this week
, I found it much easier to make healthy choices. While everyone was ordering ginormous burgers with all the fixings and mounds of fries, I opted for some tasty chicken skewers and a salad. We still had great conversation and a ton of laughs, but I didn't feel like I was depriving myself of anything.

Did their food look good? Sure. But my thi
nking has changed and now I weigh the short-term gratification of such indulgence against the long-term outcome. I know that if I went that route, I would be that much further from my goal. It would be a setback and why would I do that to myself?

Eating out can sometimes be a problem and instead of exploring healthier options, it's easy to just "cave to the crave" and make excuses to overindulge. "They didn't have anything healthy on the menu." "It's a burger joint - they don't have salads." "French fries are vegetables."


I've discovered that if you don't see a
nything on the menu that keeps you on a healthy eating track, get creative. Make modifications. Make substitutions that make sense and make it healthier. If necessary, ask for what you want or need and they should be happy to accommodate you. Getting you a single grilled chicken breast with some balsamic vinegar on the side should not be a challenge to any professional chef. But you have to ask.

With Thanksgiving coming up, this new thinking will come in handy. I'm not going to get crazy. Some lean turkey, fresh cranberry relish, steamed green beans. Will I sample the mashed potatoes or mac and cheese
? Yeah, I know I'll have a taste, but not enough to derail me. Suddenly, those crescent rolls and gravy and pumpkin pie aren't so appealing. Especially when I think of how I'll be paying for it later.

Again, I don't feel deprived, and I am not sayin
g that the occasional reward treat is out of the question. The difference is, now I stop and think about it before making the choice - and that helps keep me on track.

Consistency pays off, as evidenced by the fact that I am down another 2.6 lbs! That's cool. Even cooler is that I just hit a total of 25 lbs lost since September - I'm giving thanks for that and for
the support and encouragement from Carl and the Team Beachbody Coaches! The journey continues...

Until next time,
Hank




Friday, November 19, 2010

"Vive Le Bike!" Chairman's Club Adventure Leaderboard














There's only 44 days left
in the race for The Chairman's Club Bike Adventure and it's getting interesting. The leaderboard is turning into a real horse race with no time to rest for those in the hunt! The Coaches who want it the most are fighting to make it into the Top 10 and meet the qualification requirements so they can join me as we bike through France! (The trip will be much more relaxing than the competition to get on the race, I assure you!)

If we were sending out invitations to the Chairman’s Club Adventure right now*, we would be booking flights to France for the Top 10 below:

First Last Total SC Points Rank
Josh Spencer 286 1
Hillary Kelly 268 2
Barbie Decker 204 3
Monica Gray 174 4
Mike Ryan 168 5
Lee Ratterman 166 6
Thomas Mygrant 159 7
Jason Scheff 147 8
Monica Ward 146 9
Julie Schulte 129 10
Julie Voris 127 11
Christina Richardson 125 12
Mindy Wender 123 13
Traci Morrow 120 14
Christine Dwyer 120 14
Brad Gibala 109 15
Robert Hudgens 106 16
Jimmy Nelson 106 16
Brian Murray 105 17
Pete Pena 102 18

The Top 10 remains largely unchanged, with the exception of Jason Scheff making his countdown debut at #8, nudging Monica Ward down one slot! Julie Schulte picks up a few points to move up into the Top 10! But if you think the rest of the Top 20 are going to stay content where they are, then you haven't been drinking your Shakeology! The competition is only going to get more intense from here on.

Best of all, your hard work means that every exposure, every Coach you sign up, every success club point - they are all a symbol that someone new is getting healthy and fit! Talk about a win-win!

Keep building and if you're in the Top 10 when it's all done, I'll see you
en La France! "Vive Le Bike!"

*To qualify for the Chairman’s Club Adventure bike tour through France, coaches must also be Elite, which means they:
• Must qualify for Success Club 5 or 10 for 9 consecutive months in 2010 or 8 consecutive months if qualified for Success Club 10 in May. • Must be a paid 2 Star Diamond or higher by the end of the qualification period. • Must have signed up 24 New Active Coaches. Coaches must achieve Active status at the close of the contest.

Must have produced an incremental Advancement Team Volume of 100,000 points for the 2010 qualification period compared to the 2009 qualification period.

So, of those who qualify for Elite, whoever generated the top ten most Success Club points is on the trip!

Thursday, November 18, 2010

Stop The Presses! Bloomberg Businessweek Profiles Beachbody!


















More Beachbody in the press!

Big things are happening for Beachbody...and Bloomberg Businessweek is taking note!

(It's a good thing I renewed my subscription or else I might have missed this!)

Check out the article that came out today -
Beachbody: Thinking Beyond The Infomercial!



"X"-Pose Yourself - Enter The P90X Marks The Spot Challenge



Have you gotten eXtreme and eXcellent results using P90X®?

Well, here's your chance to show the world eXactly how you "X"-pose yourself!


Enter the P9
0X Marks The Spot Challenge on Facebook!




Show us you're most creative, unusual, unique or awesome "X" pose - either as an individual or a group. Submit your photos by midnight, November 23, 2010 - then rally your family and friends to vote for you on Facebook!

The voting period eXpires November 30th at 11:59pm!




Eligibility:

Only people who are at least 18 years of age can enter.

Submission period:

From November 16, 2010, at 12:00 AM PT through November 23, 2010, at 11:59 PM PT.

Voting period:

From November 24, 2010, at 12:00 AM PT through November 30, 2010, at 11:59 PM PT.

Winners announced:

On or around December 6, 2010.

In addition to earning bragging rights for being recognized as the most awesome X-er on Facebook, winners will receive some awesome prizes, including:

Grand Prize:

  • 1-year supply of P90X Results and
    Recovery Formula®

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  • 30-Day Supply of P90X® Peak
    Performance Protein Bars

Other cool prizes:

  • 10 P90X® Aluminum Water Bottles
  • 25 P90X ONE on ONE™ DVDs
  • 25 P90X T-shirts
All these prizes will help you get your "X" on all year long, but if you wanna win 'em, you've got to BRING IT! Click HERE for full details and enter now!

Monday, November 15, 2010

Hang 10 Leaderboards: Whoa - We're Halfway There!

We're halfway through the challenge and the competition is heating up! If you want to win it, you better be ready to BRING IT. Clearly, these coaches seem to WANT it the most!

With just 46 days left, we are seeing some shifts in the Top 10 rankings! Wayne Wyatt maintains a healthy lead, hanging onto 1st place as Hillary Kelly moves into 2nd, while Josh Spencer drops a notch to 3rd. Lee Ratterman is in 4th place, while Barbie Decker advances to 5th. Christina Richardson and Norberto Hernandez are tied for 6th, with Tommy Mygrant and Monica Gray battling it out for 7th place. Maria Cappa and Dy Ann Parham are tied in 8th place, Rochelle Griffin and Christine Dwyer are duking it out over 9th place. We've got a 6-way tie for 10th place, including 4 new contenders, so this competition is about to get really interesting!

But we're only at the halfway point, so it's still up for grabs...do YOU want it?!? Keep helping people, keep building to prepare for the WAVE of activity come January 1st, and let's see how it all shakes down for next week!

First Name Last Name Total SC Points Rank Change
Wayne Wyatt 75 1 SAME
Hillary Kelly 51 2 UP
Josh Spencer 48 3 DOWN
Lee Ratterman 42 4 SAME
Barbie Decker 39 5 UP
Christina Richardson 35 6 UP
Norberto Hernandez 35 6 SAME
Thomas Mygrant 34 7 DOWN
Monica Gray 34 7 DOWN
Maria Cappa 32 8 DOWN
Dy Ann Parham 32 8 DOWN
Rochelle Griffin 27 9 UP
Christine Dwyer 27 9 DOWN
Doug Fitzgerald 24 10 DOWN
Craig Smith 24 10 ***NEW***
Suzy Stauffer 24 10 ***NEW***
Nick Husein 24 10 ***NEW***
Michelle Moy 24 10 ***NEW***
Teri Walker 24 10 UP
Steph Perez 23 11 DOWN

Why all the fuss? Be in the Top 10 as of 12/31, and you get a
FREE cabin for two on the sweet Success Club Cruise in March 2011! You can dine with me, the rest of the top ten and the ship's Captain, plus you also earn a cabin for two for the top Success Club point earner among your direct line of personal Sponsorship Coaches!

If you've already qualified for your trip - go for it anyway and you can give your second cabin to family, friends, or Coaches. Now that's generosity, Caribbean style, baby! First, qualify for Success Club 5 or 10 for at least one month in October, November, or December. Then, be one of the top 10 Success Club point earners between October 1st and December 31st, 2010, and you're in!

For full details and rules, go to www.grabyourboard.com and don't forget to check out the leaderboard here every Monday to see who's in the running. It's time to Grab Your Board and get ready to Hang 10 with me and the captain!

Improve Your Health, Improve Your Wallet! WOWY Weekly Winners 11/7 - 11/13












Who couldn't use some extra cash (or fantastic prizes!) around this time of year?!? Getting fit and healthy is more than its own reward with WOWY! Earn cash and prizes for being consistent and improving your health and fitness!


11/7 Brian Flatt won $300

11/8 Jennifer Penn won an Apple iPod Touch

11/9 Dan Finerty won $1,000

11/10 Paul Rhodes won $300

11/11 Sheila Warner won an Apple iPod Touch

11/12 Marisha Barber won $300

11/13 Alisha Crawford won $300

These people signed into the WOWY Super Gym to lose weight, get fit and find support - and they won big for doing it! You could be next, but you've gotta log into WOWY to be in the game!

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Success Story Of The Week: Lisa Gorrell Burleson


I'm going to be regularly featuring amazing Coach Success Stories as we encourage you and your team not only to be productive at building your business, but also to stay on track with your own health and fitness.

So, please submit your stories and those of the people you support so we can celebrate healthy success!
Success has the power to inspire others and change lives! Here is this week's Success Story, Lisa Gorrell Burleson:

My name is Lisa Gorrell Burleson and this is my Team Beachbody success story...













In 2004, I was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes, high blood pressure and diverticulitis. Three and a half years ago, I began experiencing numbness in my hand, chest and arm and was admitted into the hospital. They told me I had a stroke and sent me home with 11 different heart medications. The numbness got worse and I began to lose my ability to function. More extensive testing resulted in a diagnosis of MS (Multiple Sclerosis), which left me devastated with a bleak outlook on life.


Earlier this year, a friend sent me a video of Cammie Lusk, who was also dealing with MS, so I related to her. As I watched her describe how Beachbody and its products had changed her life, I cried. Inspired, I signed up as a Coach (really just to get the discount, at first) and started with Shakeology. After only 4 days, my daughter came to me and said, "Mommy, do you realize you have not had a nap since you started drinking this shake?" Soon, I began to see a change in how I felt and I was losing weight!


I began working out with Turbo Jam and it was tough at first, but I kept with it. Now I am walking/running 4 miles a day and I'm working out with P90X and I have my life back! My diabetes and blood pressure are in perfect range and my overall health has drastically improved. At this point, I've lost
63 pounds and best of all, I have had a complete reversal of all my MS symptoms!

Thanks to support from fellow Coaches Julie Schulte and Cammie Lusk, I achieved Diamond Rank in 80 days and I am working hard to build my business and add more Coaches each week. I hope my story can give encouragement to others, just like Cammie Lusk did for me. Thanks to Team Beachbody, I'm able to share my success story. My story is my business - it gives me the opportunity to show people that anyone can get healthy and help them on their own journey. As Carl says, "
this is about people helping people."



Submit your Success Stories Now at CoachSuccessStories@beachbody.com!

Saturday, November 13, 2010

Total Wellness Transformation: Hank's Journey - People Helping People



The Diary Of A 50lb Weight Loss Journey


Hey everyone, it's Hank.

It's been another good week. Crazy busy, lots going on, but I'd rather be busy than not. Barely a month ago, I wasn't able to get out of bed, I was so sick, and now I'm feeling back to full strength. Thank goodness!

I've talked about what I'm doing, what's working and all that. This week, I want to talk about motivation, support and inspiration - all things that Carl and Team Beachbody Coaches supply in generous quantities.

Like everyone else, there are days that I don't feel like working out or it's tough to make the time. But I find I'm much less likely to make excuses now that I am seeing results. I'm changing, my body is changing and my mindset is changing. I feel better when I workout. I'm more alert throughout the day. I feel better when I go to brush my teeth and my arms are sore.

I'm not going to lie, but some days that alarm goes off early in the morning and I think "I just don't have it in me today." Then I stop myself and I think of some of the Coach success stories I've seen. I think of Dallas Carter and Josh Spencer and Cammie Lusk. I've never met them, but I've seen their stories. And I've and been moved, motivated and inspired by their journeys.

I've literally thought to myself on those mornings, "If Cammie Lusk can do it, then I need to get up and do it." That gets me out of bed and into my workout clothes and into the zone. When I am trying to push myself, I think not only of the results I want to achieve, but I think of them because they've been there and they've succeeded. And that keeps me motivated and inspired.

Team Beachbody Coaches can have a profound impact on people's lives. Carl says all the time that it's about people helping people. I can personally testify that's true. I look at the inspirational stories, the challenges they overcome, the personal connection they bring to what can be a scary, uncertain and lonely journey to travel and I salute them for what they do every day.

They get out there, they connect with people, they share their stories and they share Beachbody products to help people make positive changes to improve their health and their quality of life. They are part of a huge community of support and inspiration that helps people get results. It's pretty profound when someone can see a Coach in an infomercial or in their before & after photos and say, "If they can do it, so can I. I want that for me." And that starts them on their journey.

I saw this picture from Coach Summit 2010 recently and it really sums it up:


I'm grateful to Coaches everywhere for providing inspiration and motivation, helping change my life for the better as I work and walk this path.






Stay consistent, and it pays off. I'm feeling good, I have more energy and I'm making progress - as of today, I'm down another 2 lbs, so I'll take it!

Until next time,
Hank





Friday, November 12, 2010

Team Beachbody Is Over 40,000 Strong!

Congratulations, Team Beachbody! Yesterday we crossed another milestone: breaking the 40,000 Coaches threshold! We are now 40, 278 Coaches strong! Everyone here at Beachbody headquarters was very excited to see these numbers updated this morning...


Thank you for all you're doing to build your Coach business and build Team Beachbody. We're on our way to 1,000,000 Coaches, baby! Together, we are changing lives and helping people and making our Core Purpose a reality:

"Help peo
ple achieve their goals and enjoy a healthy, fulfilling life."

"Vive Le Bike!" - Chairman's Club Adventure Leaderboard

Oh yes I do love to cycle. The fresh air, the pedals, the little tassels at the end of my handlebars...

There's only 50 days left
in the race for The Chairman's Club Bike Adventure and it's getting interesting! We're already seeing movement on the leaderboard as ambitious Coaches scrap it out to make it into the Top 10 and meet the qualification requirements.

So, how hard are you working to make it on the inaugural Chairman's Challenge Adventure trip?


If we were sending out invitations to the Chairman’s Club Adventure right now*, we would be booking flights to France for the Top 10 below:


First Last Total SC Points Rank
Josh Spencer 282 1
Hillary Kelly 255 2
Barbie Decker 190 3
Monica Gray 170 4
Mike Ryan 165 5
Lee Ratterman 155 6
Thomas Mygrant 154 7
Monica Ward 144 8
Julie Voris 127 9
Julie Schulte 123 10
Christina Richardson 121 11
Mindy Wender 120 12
Traci Morrow 120 12
Christine Dwyer 118 13
Brian Murray 105 14
Brad Gibala 104 15
Robert Hudgens 104 15
Jimmy Nelson 104 15
Pete Pena 102 16
Fran Patoskie 101 17

Yes, the Top 10 ranking remain unchanged since last week...for now. (But never count out the Yoopers) Mindy Wender is a fierce competitor, and Traci Morrow is no slouch tied for 12th. Christine Dwyer is in 13th and Brian Murray is in 14th. We have a 3-way tie for 15th, with Brad Gibala, Robert Hudgens and Jimmy Nelson. Pete Pena says "Aloha" to Fran Patoskie to round out the group at 16th and 17th place, respectively.

And the best part - all this effort, every exposure, every success club point, is a symbol that someone new is getting healthy and fit! That's how EVERYBODY wins in this game!

Keep building and if you're in the Top 10 when it's all done, I'll see you
en LA France! "Vive Le Bike!"

*To qualify for the Chairman’s Club Adventure bike tour through France, coaches must also be Elite, which means they:

• Must qualify for Success Club 5 or 10 for 9 consecutive months in 2010 or 8 consecutive months if qualified for Success Club 10 in May.
• Must be a paid 2 Star Diamond or higher by the end of the qualification period.
• Must have signed up 24 New Active Coaches. Coaches must achieve Active status at the close of the contest.

Must have produced an incremental Advancement Team Volume of 100,000 points for the 2010 qualification period compared to the 2009 qualification period.

So, of those who qualify for Elite, whoever generated the top ten most Success Club points is on the trip!

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

It Does NOT Pay To Steal P90X!

Proof again that it doesn’t pay to try to rip off Beachbody. Beachbody recently received a default judgment in excess of $2.1M ($2,150,000.00) against a counterfeiter. Several months ago, Beachbody began investigating a resident of New York, and learned that this individual had been dealing in counterfeit Beachbody products, selling more than 125 units of P90X. When we went after him, his lawyer foolishly told us to take a hike and asked us what we would really do.

Not being a company to allow its amazing products to be ripped off and then told to take a hike, we filed a complaint in the United States District Court seeking damages and injunctive relief. The judge noted the willful infringement and awarded Beachbody $2.15 million in damages to send a message (and even threw in an addition $5,600 for attorneys’ fees).
We intend to enforce the judgment and send a message that Beachbody will not tolerate any theft of our intellectual property.

This is just one of literally hundreds of investigations and complaints that Beachbody undertakes each month as part of its anti-piracy efforts, and hopefully will convince other counterfeiters that Beachbody simply will not rest when it comes to protecting its valuable products. We want the entire piracy community to know that will do everything possible to prevent counterfeiting, and will continue to take action against those that deal in counterfeit Beachbody products. Huge credit to our entire Legal and Anti-Piracy Teams who are dedicated to tracking down and nailing the counterfeiters and pirates out there trying to steal all of our hard work!

To report any pirated or counterfeit Beachbody products, please email: piracy@beachbody.com



Tuesday, November 09, 2010

Get Fit, Get Paid! Weekly WOWY Winners 10/31 - 11/6












Getting fit and healthy is more than its own reward with WOWY! Earn cash and prizes for being consistent and improving your health and fitness!


10/31 Norm Shaw won $1,000

11/1 Crystal Deaton won $300


11/2 Laurie Cabbab won an Apple iPod Touch


11/3 Lynn Davis won $300


11/4 Stacy Marsden won $300


11/5 Jennifer Edwards won $300


11/6 Brenda Davis won an Apple iPod Touch


These people signed into the WOWY Super Gym to lose weight, get fit and find support - and they won big for doing it! You could be next, but you've gotta log into WOWY to be in the game!

Monday, November 08, 2010

Hang 10 Chairman's Challenge Leaderboards - The Competition Heats Up!

You can't just put it on cruise control, you've get to get in the game and BRING IT if you want to win it! Clearly, these coaches seem to WANT it the most!

With just 54 days to go, we have a new leader! Wayne Wyatt leads the pack by a few lengths in 1st, while Josh Spencer and Hillary Kelly
are in a major battle for 2nd and 3rd. We are bunched up from 4th to 8th and it's anybody's race. Doug Fitzgerald and Christina Richardson are tied for 9th place and Michelle Moy is currently in 10th.

But look at the new entrants into the top 20! Wow! But this race is far from over. Keep helping people, keep building to prepare for the WAVE of activity come January 1st, and let's see who's still in the hunt this time next week!
First Last Total Points Rank Change
Wayne Wyatt 67 1 SAME
Josh Spencer 41 2 SAME
Hillary Kelly 40 3 SAME
Lee Ratterman 31 4 SAME
Monica Gray 30 5 SAME
Maria Cappa 30 5 SAME
Thomas Mygrant 29 6 UP
Norberto Hernandez 29 6 UP
Dy Ann Parham 26 7 DOWN
Barbie Decker 25 8 DOWN
Christine Dwyer 25 8 DOWN
Doug Fitzgerald 24 9 UP
Christina Richardson 24 9 UP
Michelle Moy 22 10 NEW
Rochelle Griffin 21 11 UP
Steph Perez 21 11 DOWN
Suzy Stauffer 20 12 UP
Gina Nelson 20 12 NEW
Joseph Petri 19 13 NEW
Amit Shah, MD 19 13 NEW
Jessica Georgia 19 13 NEW
Julie Wainer 18 14 SAME
Patrick Santiago 18 14 NEW
Wilton Waterman 18 14 NEW
Marcus Ochoa 18 14 NEW
Teri Walker 18 14 NEW
Tom Cox 18 14 NEW
Why bother?... Be in the Top 10 as of 12/31, and you get a FREE cabin for two on the sweet Success Club Cruise in March 2011! You can dine with me, the rest of the top ten and the ship's Captain, plus you also earn a cabin for two for the top Success Club point earner among your direct line of personal Sponsorship Coaches!

If you've already qualified for your trip - go for it anyway and you can give your second cabin to family, friends, or Coaches. Now that's generosity, Caribbean style, baby! First, qualify for Success Club 5 or 10 for at least one month in October, November, or December. Then, be one of the top 10 Success Club point earners between October 1st and December 31st, 2010, and you're in!

We've got some Coaches digging in and holding steady in their positions, plus a slew of new contenders as the competition heats up!
For full details and rules, go to www.grabyourboard.com and don't forget to check out the leaderboard here every Monday to see who's in the running. It's time to Grab Your Board and get ready to Hang 10 with me and the captain!