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Hey Team! Welcome to the month of April! We are now less than 2 months from the start of summer – hard to believe, I know… How many of you are already thinking about your plans for the summer? What you are doing now will determine your results once the pool season is here! I […]
Double Your Weight Loss With One Easy Trick It may sound too good to be true – but simply tracking what you eat can help you lose weight. In fact, a 2008 study found that, when combined with a regular exercise program and a nutritional plan, keeping a regular food journal could help you lose […]
One of my favorite Shakeology Recipes Most days I stick with my standard Peanut Butter & Chocolate Shakeology recipe and for the most part that is the same recipe I use day-in, day-out, it definitely feels like a cheat as I am enjoying it. However, when I’ve got a bag of Vanilla Shakeology on hand, […]
Getting Started is Easy! Want to show off the body you have work so hard for and possibly earn some prize money just for working out? With the Beachbody Challenge contest, you can do just that. I’ve won both the daily ($500) and the monthly ($1000) contest in the past and I know that you […]
My Experience with Body Beast As most of you know, I’ve been a big fan of the Body Beast program since my first round, way back in the summer of 2012 and I got some great results in just 90 days with the program. Since then, I have gone through the program a couple of […]
Hey Team! This is it, the final week of P90X3! This last week is really more of a recovery week than anything else, with some Yoga and Pilates and Dymanix missed throughout. I am not sure that I will follow this recovery week per the schedule; I might hit some additional workouts here and there […]
Focus T25 or Insanity: The Asylum? Recently I was asked about how a couple of Shaun T’s fitness programs (Focus T25 & Insanity: The Asylum) compared to each other. I felt that this was great question and perhaps on that many others might have as well. Note: A comparison could be made with the original […]
Hey Team! Half way through the month of March already, whose ready for the NCAA basketball tournament? To be perfectly honest with you, I haven’t watched a lot of college basketball this past year. My team, the Purdue Boilermakers, was not that good and they hovered around the bottom of the conference standings pretty much […]
P90X3 – Complex Lower – Review Like Ab Ripper and the Complex Upper routines, Complex Lower is part of the Elite series of workouts and it definitely lives up to the name of Elite! Complex Lower is a fairly basic, straight-forward workout that is only comprised of 5 different exercises that you perform consecutively for […]
P90X Increased Don’s Self-confidence! I’ve got to share this inspiring story with you! Meet Don. Don isn’t a 20-something guy that just woke up one day and started to change his lifestyle and start working out and eating better. Don is a husband and fully employed dad just like me, so time isn’t just something […]
Hey Team! Hang in there; spring is just around the corner! It’s finally starting to feel like there’s an end in sight here in the Midwest. This weekend we put the wraps on the first 21 Day Fix challenge group and while we are still waiting for those that participated to share their final results, […]
Hybrid of all Hybrids? If you have been following me recently, you’ll know that I am planning to run my first Tough Mudder race in early June. In preparation of that event, I decided to put together a hybrid of workouts from some of my favorite Beachbody Programs that will get me ready. The schedule […]
P90X3 Ab Ripper – Review Anyone who has heard of P90X is probably familiar with the Ab Ripper X routine. “I hate it, but I love it!”. I remember the first time I tried that routine back in 2009 and I felt like I was a failure. I think I got through the workout, but […]
Hey Team! The final month of my first round of P90X3 is here! There is just 4 weeks left, which means I’ll be finishing up on 3/30/2014. I’ve already starting putting some thoughts into what I want to do next. I’ll have about 10 weeks to prep for my Tough Mudder race on June 7th. […]
P90X3 – Eccentric Lower – Review Want a challenging lower body workout that isn’t just a bunch of squats and lunges? Eccentric Lower is a great routine that will introduce you to some exercises that you may or may not have seen before. Focusing on the negative portion of the lift, you’ll be feeling the […]
A New Challenge Here’s a little challenge for all of you! I didn’t come up with this one, but I had to give it a try. My first attempt was on 4 medicine balls and I failed at the 2:25 ish mark. Check out the video below and see if you can count how many […]
Hey Team! Today I am starting the final block of P90X3. This block is actually 5 weeks in length, compared to the first two blocks, which were four weeks. In block #3, I’ll get a chance to revisit some workouts that I haven’t seen for over 4 weeks, so it will be kind of fun […]
Hey Team! So, I’m a day late here – my apologies. We had a lot going on this past weekend and I didn’t plan well enough to allow myself time to get this week’s Check-In done. Who has been catching the Winter Olympics? While I’m not a big Winter Olympics fan, it is fun to […]
21 Day Fix = Simple Nutrition Losing weight is generally a pretty simple concept; burn more calories than you consume. The tricky part for a lot of people is determining what the proper calorie in take should be and the most effective deficit they should be at to ensure maximum results. A deficit that is […]
