Featured Success Stories - Chris and Tekoa Garrett

At Team Beachbody, we're all about people helping people. Unlike the other shake, pill, and gizmo companies, we have the tools and the support to help people transform their lives so they can inspire others to do the same. Some of the most inspiring stories come from people who find the first layer of support right within their relationship.

Check out this amazing husband and wife Success Story from customers-turned-Coaches, Chris and Tekoa Garrett:



Hi,we are Chris and Tekoa Garrett and this is our Team Beachbody Success Story...



In October 2009, my wife, Tekoa and I were in the worst shape of our lives. We ate horribly, lived a sedentary lifestyle and we were overweight, tired and weak. We were embarrassed by how we looked and never felt good about ourselves, but we were too lazy to do anything about it.

In Summer 2010, some friends were posting their P90X journeys on Facebook and that got me wondering, "What the heck is P90X?!?" I found Beachbody through researching P90X, which seemed a little too intense for us, so we purchased Power 90 as an impulse buy - and it changed our lives.

As we worked through the Power 90 program, we were seeing great results and we both wanted to try Shakeology, so I signed up as a Coach for the discount...initially. As friends, family and coworkers saw how drastically we were transforming our lives, we began sharing Beachbody, Power 90 and Shakeology. Our passion for helping others achieve similar success was ignited and Tekoa signed up as a Coach - and we've never looked back!

Every day, our passion for Beachbody's products and for inspiring, motivating and helping others grows by leaps and bounds. We have progressed to P90X and continue to see amazing results. I've lost 62 lbs and am ripped like never before and Tekoa has lost 35 lbs!

The Coach opportunity is not about the money for us - it's about the ability to do something we enjoy and most of all, the chance to guide others to a healthy lifestyle and provide inspiration and motivation along the way. The money is just an added bonus!

Thanks to the guidance of my Coach, Wayne Wyatt and my upline Coach, Josh Spencer, Tekoa and I continue to move up in rank and build our Coach business. The support tools, training and information shared between our fellow Team Beachbody Coaches have made it easier to transform not just our bodies, but our lives...and to help others do the same!

Thank you to Carl and Team Beachbody for helping us find our true potential and for giving us this opportunity to share it with the world!

Remembering A Great One

One day in 1981 I was a senior walking down the halls of North Penn high school, wondering where I would go to college. A poster in the hallway caught my eye. It featured a guy with "Dutch Boy" length hair balancing a trombone, heavy texts, science equipment, a football, spirit banner,and a large silver 35MM film canister in his arms. He was truly loaded down and the message was clear: "This school was a great place to party!" OK, actually the message was: "This school had everything, including film and TV."

That poster brought Ithaca college to my attention, and lead me to enroll. Beachbody founding coach Dick Comanzo and All-American diving champion was they guy featured in that poster.

I was informed by friends that Dick passed away peacefully, from an inoperable brain tumor, on November 29, 2008, surrounded by friends and family. Throughout his courageous three-year fight with brain cancer, Dick’s spirit, optimism, love of friends and family and passion for living never ended. That includes his desire to help people get fit and healthy with the products that he helped make famous, especially the program that gave him this transformation, the original, Power 90.

Dick was an exceptional human being who had a profoundly positive, lasting impact on everyone he met. He had an extraordinary capacity to bring the best out in those around him, and he used that gift every day of his life. This was most evident during his courageous battle with illness. He always strove to be independent and self-sufficient, serving as an inspirational example of how one should face life’s obstacles. I know everyone says that about people when they cross-over, but in this case, Dick was a "poster boy" for facing life with positivity, hope, and an incredibly good attitude. He taught me much in that way.

I actually never knew Dick in college except for his image on that poster. But his commitment to getting back in shape with Power 90 in 2001 brought him back to my attention when he sent his success story in to be considered for the trip to Hawaii as a Power 90 success story. Once again, "SqueakyD" as he became known on the message boards, he was poster boy material and a star testimonial in our Power 90 infomercial.

Dick was very involved in the Southeast Brain Tumor Association and their annual Race for Research, raising awareness and donations for the fight against brain cancer. When he could no longer run or walk in the Race, he cheered his teammates from the sidelines.

Dick is survived by his son, Dean Comanzo; his partner of 14 years, Shawn Purcell; his parents Ralph and Gail Comanzo; his brother Douglas (Amy) Comanzo; his sisters, Diane (Michael) Jones; his special angel Amy Gail Comanzo; his grandmother, Ann M. Comanzo and his nieces and nephews: Nicole, Matthew, Timmy Comanzo and Daniel and Katie Jones.

A celebration of his remarkable life will be held at 3:00PM, Friday December 12th, at the Rich Auditorium-Woodruff Arts Center: 1280 Peachtree Street NE, Atlanta, GA 30309.

Dick’s family asks in lieu of memorials and or flowers that donations be sent in Honor of Dick Comanzo to the Southeastern Brain Tumor Foundation.

Dick, you will be missed by me and so many others, and in honor of your contribution to our lives, your example and inspiration will be celebrated for decades.