Forget Black Friday -- A Better Gift Idea

We had a very well-attended event in the Philadelphia area this weekend, including coaches from all over the North East and even as far away as Texas!

I am always so grateful to the people who attend these functions and bring such positive energy. I am especially grateful this time to my brother David and his employer, Byer's Choice, who provided the facility for us to meet. The Byer's family is one of the most philanthropic I have ever witnessed, and it shows in their hospitality to our Beachbody Coaches and prospects. For them to get involved with us means the Beachbody Revolution has been recognized by another group of people who truly care about helping people.

During the event, a coach asked about the best way to facilitate giving Beachbody products as gifts, perhaps through the use of gift certificates. We've avoided gift certificates because accounting for the cash is not simple within a network marketing comp plan. But in the meantime, we came up with an idea not to give products away, but to ask for others to get fit as their gift to you!

"Ask friends and family to exercise for at least 30 days starting in January as their gift to you this year."

Instead of writing out a Christmas list filled with more "stuff" that you want, tell people that the gift you want is something that will help you both:

(1) They purchase a fitness program from your coach website - for THEMSELVES.
(2) You earn the commission on it
(3) They promise to follow it for at least 30 days.

Everybody wins, and it's the kind of gift that doesn't get forgotten or taken for granted.

This is people working together. This is a gift that pays you both dividends all year. What other gift can enhance and add energy to your relationship, and make people feel good about helping you and helping their own health in the spirit of keeping their holiday promise? This is it!

This would be a great occasion to sign up to host a ChaLEAN Extreme Launch Party and invite family members. Helping them add muscle to build their metabolisms back up in 2009 can be the gift you all give each other - starting with the Launch Party January 3rd.

And don't forget to subscribe to the Tony Horton One-On-One series as a gift to yourself! Here's an image from that DVD I was talking about a few weeks ago. It's only available to December subscribers of the series.

Dreams do come true...

Click to play the preview

ChaLEAN Extreme Launch!

For Coaches Only -- The ChaLEAN EXTREME Launch Party sign ups for Saturday Jan 3rd got over 100 sign-ups in the first few hours after we opened the site!

Here's how it works: Chalene Johnson will be hosting a nationwide launch party on January 3rd. She'll have her party at her house, while coaches who sign up have their party at their house. EVERYONE will upload photos and videos to party-central to celebrate the hottest product of to meet the New Year's Resolutions of 2009.

Space is limited; Only 1,000 coaches will be accepted for the launch party. Sign up and you get two of the first units of this new product shipped by mid-December plus the special launch party-pack. (I would suggest keeping one of the units for yourself, and either giving the other away to someone as a prize at your party, or awarding it to the first person to sign up to be a new coach at your party.)

We'll also pick two participating coaches at random who will win one of the giant 42" high definition TVs used ON THE SET of the workout videos -- a Chalene fan/collector's dream!

And the Coach who signs up to host a Launch Party and sells the most ChaLEAN Extreme kits from Dec. 1st to Jan. 10th will win a workout session with Chalene—IN PERSON! She'll come to your town and you can throw the biggest fitness party ever!

This is a great event to kick off the new year, and get people you know in on the workout system that is all about one single thing: MUSCLE BURNS FAT!

Reservations are being taken now! If you're a coach, click here to get yours!

And if you're not a coach -- sign up now so you can participate in the Beachbody Revolution that is going to take off in 2009!

PEOPLE MAGAZINE

P90X does it again!























Here's the story of Without a Trace's Poppy Montgomery, as seen in People Magazine. I love it when stars, who can have anything given to them with a phone call, see P90X on TV and buy it for themselves. There's proof it's the real deal, and that there are no freebies! Everybody has to work for it!

Poppy Montgomery was always open about the 70-pound weight gain that occurred during her pregnancy last year with son Jackson Phillip Deveraux, now 10 ½ months old. "I ate with no guilt!" the Without a Trace star tells PEOPLE. "I loved every second of gaining that weight. All that food made me so happy!"

Though giving in to cravings for avocados or Häagen-Dazs Dulce de Leche ice cream was fun, Poppy, 36, knew that she'd have to return to camera-ready form eventually. So three weeks after giving birth to Jackson, the actress signed up for meal-delivery service Sunfare, which restricted her diet to 1,200 calories per day. She exercised at home six days per week using the P90X total-body workout DVD program, and by this past September, she was back in her size 27 jeans. "All the hard work paid off," she shares. "It was hard, but worth it."

Jackson, whom Poppy describes as the "happiest baby ever" is the first child for the actress and her boyfriend, actor Adam Kaufman. Poppy's show, Without a Trace, airs Tuesday at 10 p.m. on CBS.

Collector's Alert: A Beachbody First!

While subscribers are receiving Tony Horton's 1-on-1 this month, his soft and fluffy “Upper Body Massacre”, the biggest 1-on-1 anticipation is building for next month’s issue: “The Fountain Of Youth”

Tony put together an incredible hour of yoga, exclusively for the 1-on-1 program, and I think it’s one of his best DVD’s in the first volume.




But that's not what the hubbub is about... That disc will be shipped with another DVD, a first-of-its-kind Beachbody collector’s special for the holidays! Remember how the Beatles used to put out a special holiday message record for fans and collectors? That’s what this is, but Tony is the Beatles, and a little light-hearted fitness is the message.)

“Holiday Horton” and his two little helpers are shooting a special holiday-themed Ten Minute Trainer workout for December 1-on-1 subscribers only! It won’t be available for sale separately. It won’t be available after December. It will be shipped with the December “Fountain of Youth” yoga 1-on-1 shipment to subscribers.

So if you're a subscriber and you enjoy a little exclusivity, you'll love this holiday special.

Until then, enjoy the Upper Body Massacre (if that’s possible) and get ready for one of the most exciting months in the 1-on-1 series!

Lazyman's Loophole

I have been trying to get my morning workouts going since Danny was born and sleep routines got all crazy... I think I found the loophole which worked for me this morning!


Since we got back the hour of sleep Saturday night, my body clock is still on daylight savings time. That means I have what it takes to workout at 5AM -- which feels like 6AM!



I've got one in the bag, so I am going for another Tuesday morning. If you can make it, I'll see you there!

Plan for New Years, NOW!

This post is about you taking "just enough" action to become a coach and making sure that you are part of the revolution as a coach who can get fit and earn; not just a spectator watching everyone else.

For some, becoming a Beachbody Coach can look intimidating. They are the people that usually watch opportunity pass them by. They cruise around social networking sites and see a ton of other coaches milling around the same groups and think that it's going to be hard to compete in a crowded marketplace.

First - it just isn't crowded. Second - You won't find out unless you sign up and see that it only takes a little effort to see things start to happen.

Right now we have less than 14,000 coaches - great number in some respects, but merely a drop in the ocean of opportunity. There are hundreds of millions of people in this country. You can connect with many of them every day in so many ways. Hundreds of millions of people, and less than 2% of them have ever bought a Beachbody product.

But ALMOST ALL of them will justify over-indulging from now until New Years thinking they will start working out January second. "I'll start right after New Years"... (That's a familiar voice!)

Every year, this is the dance. And every year, this is the opportunity.

As a coach, your job is to stake your claim to that opportunity now - maybe not to make a million dollars a year, but maybe to simply get your share: If someone you know is going to buy a Beachbody product in 2009, they need to know that you are a distributor so they come to you to pick the right program and get the best results.

Tell people you are going to do P90X. Tell hem you love Turbo Jam. Tell them when ChaLEAN Extreme launches, you are going to kick it off with a group of people for a three month boot camp. Create the enthusiasm so people have something to commit to this January -- YOU!

But they won't know unless you ARE a coach, and unless you tell them that WHEN they are ready, you have the solution. THAT'S HOW YOU ARE A FORCE OF CHANGE - by increasing the decibel level of how easy it can be to get started and succeed! And then simply being there to help them get started!

It's as easy as reposting blogs like this on MySpace or Facebook. Give it your own flavor and add your coach web store address, but the message is worth repeating from one friend to another until it shows up on every profile on the Internet: These products work, and together we are the best source for success through peer support and motivation!

We priced this coaching concept low so as many people as possible would get involved and get the word out - not just about Beachbody, but about how this trend of obesity and all these health issues can be solved by supporting each other!

Get involved. Stake your claim. And let's build the momentum of the Beachbody Revolution together!