Insanity+Shakeology - Price Lowered For April!

Promotion Ends April 30, 2013

Have you wanted to try Insanity or Shakeology, but $205 was a little out of your price range?

You can try it now!

Team Beachbody has lowered the price for an Insanity Challenge Pack to $180!!!!  This includes FREE shipping, so you'll only have to pay whatever taxes your state/country charges.

This is the LOWEST pricing for the Insanity Challenge Pack - ever.

What is a Challenge pack you ask?  Well, I'll tell you.

A Challenge Pack consists of a workout, a 30 day supply of Shakeology (The Healthiest Meal of the Day), and a 30 day free trial of Team Beachbody's Club Membership.  If you use the Insanity Challenge Pack to sign up as a Coach, you also get the Game Plan Tools Kit and the Business Essentials Starter Program - for the same price.

Becoming a Coach doesn't mean you have to be all "you gotta do this, you gotta do that".  If you just want it for the huge discounts, well...that's ok.  But, if you are really, really into helping yourself and other people, and you're just a natural motivator, there is a HUGE potential for you to actually make money as Coach.  I very, very rarely post about the Coaching Opportunity, or about the amazing benefits of Shakeology and why you should replace one meal a day with it.  But I couldn't resist this promotion, because it's showcasing two products that I KNOW work.  And I stand behind these two products 100%.

Anyways, I got off track.  That happens a lot.  :P

In the Insanity Challenge Pack, you get:

• The complete Insanity workout program featuring the one and only Shaun T.
• A 30 Day supply of one of four Shakeology flavors.
• A 30 Day Free Trial membership to the Team Beachbody Club.  Club Membership gives you support, fitness tips, healthy recipes to try, and a 10% discount on products. 

So, what's the big deal right?  $180 is still a lot for anyone right now, but I'll break down the pricing for you.

• Normal Insanity Challenge Pack pricing: $205.  (Ouch!)
• If you bought all the products separately: $270.  (Even more Ouch!)

So, $180 doesn't seem all that bad.  It was worth it for me, if they had offered this when I got Insanity last year.  You can check out my Insanity Results and Shakeology Review to see for yourself.  I should mention...since it's not in my initial review of Shakeology, once I finished Insanity last year, all I did was drink the shake once a day.  I lost an additional 11 pounds, just by replacing one meal a day with it.  Just saying.

This promotion ends on April 30, 2013 so get yours today and let Shaun T kick your butt for a while.  You'll love him and hate him all at the same time.  And with summer coming, it's the perfect time to look even better in those swimsuits that have been hanging out in the closet all winter.  :)

If you are interested, you can click on any of the "Insanity Challenge Pack" links or the Shaun T picture above and get all the details.  This is one deal I just HAD to pass on to anyone who reads my ramblings.

If you have questions, please ask in the comments.  I'll leave the comments turned on for this post and hope that I don't get too many spam posters.  :)

Focus T25 - The New Workout by Shaun T!

Image from Focus T25 Facebook Page

The creator if Insanity and Insanity: The Asylum is back with a new program.  This program is focused on a fast, hardcore workout in only 25 minutes.  Quoted from here, Shaun says:

INTRODUCING FOCUS T25™

The only thing that stands between you and the results you want is time. That's why I experimented for the last year to see if I could create the same kind of results you'd expect from an hour-long program, in under 30 minutes.

The result is FOCUS T25–and the name implies the intent: If you focus your intensity for 25 minutes, and you do it 5 days a week, you WILL get results.

Yes, you are working out for less time. But since you have your shorts on, since you have your sneakers on, and you managed to Push Play, I'm just asking you to give it everything you've got, for ONLY 25 minutes. You focus, and you go! 25 minutes. 5 days a week. 100% results.

And there are major university studies out there that prove the value of shorter, more intense workouts. But I'll save that for later. The only question now is, do you want to be one of the first to see these routines and what kind of results you can get? The answer is yes, because these routines were created at the specific request of Beachbody^® CEO Carl Daikeler. The guy's got no time, and he personally reviewed every detail so he could make T25 HIS personal program.

Don't miss the biggest breakthrough in health and fitness since Insanity. Join our email list and I'll make sure you don't miss out on the latest news about FOCUS T25.

So what does this mean?  It means "YES!!!!!!" in really big bold letters and lots of exclamation points.  I've been trying hard to get figure out which workout I wanted to tackle next, but with the energy and excitement that I felt for Insanity.  When I saw this pop up on my Facebook wall, I was like "Oh hell yeah!".  Even TH is excited about it, as he has limited time each day (seriously, he works like 14 hour days with an hour drive each way).  This is perfect for him, as he just didn't have the time to commit to the 45 minutes to almost two hours that Insanity has. 

Right now, the date they are estimating for release is Summer 2013.  And since spring has decided to take it's sweet time getting here, we can only hope that summer gets here sooner than spring has.

Head over to the Focus T25 Facebook page, and click "Like".  Once you do that, if you then click on the "Be The First!" image under the cover photo, you can enter your email address and be informed when they release Focus T25 for sale.

Alternatively, you can follow this post or the Nerfing Flab, Buffing Life Facebook page and I'll let you know when it's available - which I hope is sooner than summer, but one can wish.  :)


NOTE: All the images on this posting are from the Focus T25 Facebook page.  I do not own them in any way, shape or form. 

Time Flies...

So, it's been a while.  And I just realized today I never really updated anyone on the status of the "final" goal weight once my birthday hit this past December.  There's just been way too much ... stuff ... going on lately.

Found at beautyandbedlam.com.

I do believe I updated that I finally got a job - one I enjoy very much.  The company is great and the people I work with are awesome ... even if 9 times out of 10 they all have some kind of germ they keep spreading around.  :)  I've been lucky that I haven't yet caught this germ, because it doesn't like humans very much.  *knock knock knock*

Anyways, if you remember from my My Fitness Goals post, my goal weight to hit by my birthday in December was 180 pounds.  I didn't make it.  :(  I was ten - yes TEN - pounds from reaching it.  But, going from 221 to 190 the RIGHT WAY (with a complete eating habit over haul and exercise), in just over a year is absolutely amazing.  I'm so happy I was able to "mostly" stick to my goals during last spring and summer, and that I was also able to maintain the healthier habits during the holidays.

I say "mostly" because I gained about five pounds back during the holidays, but can you really blame me?  There's multiple family functions and everyone makes such yummy, not-good-for-you-at-all-but-you-have-to-eat-them-because-you-only-get-them-once-a-year foods.  And birthday cake.  There is A LOT of birthday cake between September and January 1, at least for my family.  So, I really don't think five pounds is all that bad, considering the alternative.

I've also stuck with my breakfast and water goals.  I always, always eat within 45 minutes of waking up.  I always drink my 8 glasses of water a day, with Thursdays getting special attention on the water intake due to 'Thirsty Thursdays", where we drink water, and only water, all day.  My average water intake on Thursdays is around 128 ounces...not shabby if I say so myself!

The exercise part ... well, it's kinda fallen to the way side.  I feel bad about that, but at the time, I didn't have a choice.  I'm considering Brazil Butt Lift now, simply because I've heard so many excellent things about it, and hey...everyone wants a great butt!  LOL!  I have to wait a bit longer before I can start a new program, but summer's coming and I've still got a ways to go before I can say I've hit and exceeded my goals.

All in all, last year was excellent, and I'm hoping this year will be better.  Look for more posts from me soon!  :)

Beachbody Holiday Sale!

I know I haven't posted anything in like forever, but I saw this in my back office today and had to share.

Beachbody is having a great sale on workout programs.  If you've been waiting for the price to drop or just putting off purchasing a program, now's a perfect time for you to start transforming your lifestyle.

P90X and TurboFire are included too!

Insanity As A Raid Boss

For you non-geeks out there, you may not understand this, but for those of you who play video games, you're totally going to get this.

I have tried three times, yes THREE, to do Insanity for a second time.  I had such fantastic results with it the first time, that every time I try to do it again, I'm super excited, motivated, and ready to get my sweat on.  This last time, I even re-made my goals, started to line up meals with my Team Beachbody Club Membership (that I thought I cancelled but didn't), set my workout schedule in the SuperGym, and received a pair of workout shoes from a friend of mine.

Then something weird happens.  I completely and utterly lose interest in doing the workouts by the end of Week 1.  It's like something just clicks off in my brain and I get bored.  I half-ass the workouts, or do something incredibly stupid, like thinking I can power through the warm-up stretches and end up hurting myself.  By the way, don't power through anything - hurting yourself because you're being stupid and think you're awesome isn't fun.  Just ask TH.  He had to listen to me whine about my back for about a week after I pulled it doing a freaking Hip Flexor stretch (the one where you have to put your arm up in the air).

Anyways ... I think I finally figured out why I do this.

I've always looked at Insanity as a raid boss.  I even split each video into "phases", which I mentioned in a previous posting.  For those who don't know what a raid boss is, it's a big bad meanie you and 9 to 24 of your online guild mates have to go kick the crap out of to get item upgrades to make your character better.  It can take weeks (or months) to kill the baddest of bad, which would be the "end boss".  Insanity is an "end boss".  I spent 2 months working to kick the crap out of myself and Insanity, to make me better.  And once I did, it was the best feeling in the world, just like when my guild mates and I kick the crap out of the "end boss" in a World of Warcraft raid.

But, just like in WoW, once we beat that raid boss, the subsequent kills are less engaging after a while.  Pretty soon, the big bad meanie is "just another boss" and you really don't have to put as much focus or effort into it.  You can be drunk as a skunk and STILL beat the raid boss that initially took you two months or more to kill.

So, what do I do about this?  I tried making each "phase" longer, meaning I couldn't stop for a rest or grab a drink of water until that phase was over.  I tried convincing myself that I had never ever heard of Insanity before, and this was the first time I was ever doing it.  I tried pulling a reverse psychology on myself by telling me I couldn't do it because it was too hard and I was a puny wimp.  Then I tried the opposite of that - telling myself how awesome I was and Insanity was the puny little wimp.  :)

Sadly, nothing worked.  Which really sucks for me, because I actually love Insanity.  I need no equipment besides myself, I don't have to dance around or look like an idiot in front of the cats (I swear, they laugh at at me).  It's just "Do this as quick as you can without using bad form.  Now GO!".  I love it. 

So, I would love some suggestions on how to make Insanity all shiny and new again.  A never-before-killed raid boss.  Maybe I should get my Guild Master to demand I do it again.  LOL! 

Or, maybe you know of workout program that uses no equipment but yourself and is kinda sort of like Insanity.  I say kinda sort of, because there can only be one Insanity.  And yes, that was a really lame reference to a Robot Chicken reference in their parody of "Highlander".  :)

3 Easy Football Exercises

As you know, it's football season! 

YAY!  GO BEARS!

TH and I are Chicago Bears fans (as if you couldn't tell yet), and I was thinking today that it'd be awesome if I could somehow incorporate some easy exercises based on how the games going.  I devised a simple, yet effective way to get some decent exercises in during each game.

Feel free to use these and a link back to me on your own blogs and/or pages would be appreciated!  :)


Football Game Exercises


Munchies: Carrots and Water  

- 10 Push-Ups when the other team scores a touchdown.

- 5 Push-Ups when they scores a field goal.
- 10 Squats when The Bears score a touchdown.
- 5 Squats when The Bears score a field goal.
- 5 Crunches for each flag flown - for either team.  It doesn't matter if the flag is later declined, flag goes out, you do the crunches.

Regarding Munchies
I started out with just carrots, but as I kept doing the exercises, I got more hungry.  I had some rosemary & feta chips, a small glass of Almond Coconut milk, and some yogurt.

I also missed my beer (football staple duh!), but I made a Sobe Lifewater (coconut) with a shot of Malibu.  It's not beer and beef, but it's more healthy.  :)

It's half-time now, and so far I've done:

- 20 Push-Ups
- 35 Squats
- 45 Crunches

And that was only the first half AND it's not a very high-flag-throwing game!  I have a feeling the season will get more interesting with these in mind.  My legs and stomach muscles are killing me.  :)

Happy Football!  Go Bears!

Insanity:R2 - Week 1, Day 5

Make up workout number 1 done.  I still have to make up Saturday's workout of Plyo, but there's no way I'll get it today.  I'm going to do it on Thursday with Cardio Recovery, because it'll be easier and still give me my rest day on Sunday.

I almost didn't make it through Pure Cardio.  I was only able to do about 30 seconds of each exercise, and that was pushing it.  Level 2 Drills and Suicide Jumps or Drills or whatever the hell they are can kiss my receding butt.  Love me some Mountain Climbers though.

And I'm going to stop writing now because my whole body feels like head cheese.