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Optimism and Your Health

5 Ways to Break through Dreaded Weight Loss Plateaus

By Justine Holberg

You’re tracking calories, working out each day, then bam! For a week or two, the scale refuses to budge…and you realize you’ve hit a dreaded weight loss plateau. Now what? Even though it’s completely normal to hit a snag in your fitness journey, a perceived setback like this can send even the most dedicated dieter off course, away from healthy eating and toward cookies, cake, and pizza. But you can be strong and start getting back on the weight-loss track again. Try at least one of the following techniques, and there’s a good chance you’ll burst through your plateau in no time. Here are five important things to know about hydration and exercise:

1. Zigzag your daily calorie intake. In theory, you’ve got to eat less to lose more, but this isn’t always the case. Sometimes you just have to shake things up. Here’s one way to do it: If your average daily intake is 1,400 calories, try dropping to 1,200 one day, going up to 1,800 the next day, and then dropping back to 1,400. The idea is to keep your metabolism guessing. There’s no magic number that works for everyone, so you’ll have to experiment until you find the right calorie levels for you. According to Beachbody Director of Results Steve Edwards, what happens when you zigzag is that you force your body to choose how many calories it needs to recover from the rigors of your exercise program. “Most people who hit a plateau are undereating. If you are indeed undereating, adding calories for a few days, then lowering them again, will help you force your body into a hormonal response that will not only help you break out of a plateau, but—as you learn to recognize the signals—will teach you how much food you should be eating.”

2. Switch up your exercise routine. If you do the same workout each day, eventually it can start to become less challenging, and (unfortunately) less effective. If you push yourself to new levels of strength or exhaustion, you’ll almost certainly see a shift. Here are some ways you can challenge your body:

  • Swap your jog for a bike ride.
  • Try weights with your cardio routine. (ChaLEAN Extreme® or RevAbs® can help you do this.)
  • Add intervals of high intensity to really make you sweat. (INSANITY® is a great workout for this.)
  • Drop to the floor for 10 push-ups right now!

The idea is to try something different. According to Edwards, “The better you get at something, the easier it becomes. That’s why we’re always telling you to add more weight as you get stronger, and to move faster and jump higher as our programs progress. But it’s also why all of our programs have phases of training. As your body adapts to stimulus, you need to change that stimulus in order to keep results happening.”

3. Eat some almonds. Almonds are a great snack, plus there’s some research that indicates that they can help you burn fat. That’s because they contain fiber and fatty acids—the good kind of fat that helps you lose weight. A study published in the International Journal of Obesity compared two groups of people who ate a 1,000-calorie-a-day diet. As part of their daily diet, one group ate 3 ounces of almonds every day. The other group ate a mix of complex carbs. What happened? The group that ate the almonds lost more weight. So next time you grab a snack, try a small handful of almonds, or as Edwards says, “Any nut, really. While almonds are one of the better nuts, all of them have a similar nutritional profile and make excellent snacks. That research probably would have turned out similarly if they’d used walnuts or filberts or whatever.”

4. Get more sleep. This may seem like the opposite of number 2, but the truth is is that you could be training too hard, which is about the quickest way to hit a weight loss plateau, because an over-trained body holds on to weight as if it were starving to death. There’s no better way to test this than to try and sleep more. The reason is that your body recovers much more quickly from exercise while it’s asleep, and if you’re burning the midnight oil while trying to do INSANITY, you could easily plateau from lack of recovery time. In a recent study at the University of Chicago Medical School, researchers found that during a period when study participants were deprived of sleep, they metabolized glucose less effectively. Additionally, they had higher levels of the hormone cortisol, which has been shown to impair memory, increase insulin resistance, and slow recovery in athletes. “There’s a good reason why five-time Tour de France winner Eddy Merckx said, ‘The Tour is won in bed,'” says Edwards. Your body’s recovery response during deep sleep is only rivaled by performance-enhancing drugs. When you’re on the borderline of overtraining, getting more sleep is the first thing anyone should try.”

5. Relax. Believe it or not, the one big thing besides diet and exercise that can cause you to plateau is stress. When you’re stressed, your body sends out higher levels of the hormone cortisol that, as stated in number 4, can encourage your body to hang on to fat. “Cortisol is actually a performance-enhancing hormone,” says Edwards. “But it’s gotten a bad rap because we’ve begun living our lives at too high a volume. Cortisol is released at times when the body is in an emergency state. It increases performance, but only over a short period of time. When cortisol is released and forced into action at regular intervals, it causes your body to wear down and switch to more drastic means of survival, like holding on to excess amounts of body fat. Your life shouldn’t feel like one big emergency. As a society, we need to learn to be more tranquilo, as the Spanish say.” We get stressed for many reasons, almost all of which are influenced by the society around us. One of the best ways to combat stress is to get some alone time to chill. If you’re the type who can’t let go, try some forced relaxation techniques, of which yoga seems to be one of the most effective. There’s something special about the mind/body interaction of yoga that forces a relaxed state even from the most stressed of us. If you feel you need a lot of help, dig into an intense course, like P90X Yoga X. For others, something lighter, like Yoga Booty Ballet® Pure and Simple Yoga, will do the trick. If you’re not into yoga, then consider at least adding some stretching into your schedule. Most of Beachbody’s programs have at least one stretching session. TurboFire® even has two!

Original Article:http://www.teambeachbody.com/get-fit/fitness-tip/-/ftip/140026045/all/0/75

December 18th Newsletter

CoachGShort Weekly Newsletter December 18th

Making Your New Year’s Resolutions

I love a new year.  It almost seems like we can start all over, finally become that wonderful, productive, healthy, happy person we’ve always wanted to be. The trouble is, the enthusiasm to make changes, especially with exercise and diet, tends to fade once we realize we can’t change everything overnight.  If you want to make lasting changes, there are three things you can do to make your resolutions work all year long: Adjust your attitude, change your lifestyle and come up with a plan for success.

Adjust Your Attitude

If you have the wrong attitude about fitness, you’re already setting yourself up for failure.  Most people look at exercise as:

  • Punishment for bad eating
  • An obligation
  • Painful
  • Time consuming
  • Impossible to sustain over a long period of time
  • Boring

If any of these sound familiar, how long do you think you’ll stick with your program?  Nobody wants to do something painful, boring or obligatory.  Before you throw yourself into weight loss, suss out your attitudes about exercise and figure out whether these attitudes are true or just lies you’ve been telling yourself for years.  Then, try a different perspective and look at exercise as:

  • A break from a stressful workday
  • A way to boost energy and mood
  • The only time you’ll have to yourself all day
  • A chance to get totally physical and let your mind rest
  • A chance to reward your body for working so hard
  • A way to improve your quality of life immediately

And here are some more key points about exercise that you must understand:

  1. Willpower won’t work.  Willpower is for short-term success.  Long-term success requires planning, discipline and finding ways to motivate yourself every day.
  2. Motivation will not magically happenWhat motivates youwill change from day to day.  You have to recommit to your goals each day, tweak them to fit changes in your lifestyle and attitude and find new ways to motivate yourself over the course of your life.
  3. You will not always want to exercise and eat healthy.  Even the most committed exerciser doesn’t always want to do it.  Know that you will have to work on it every day.
  4. Diets don’t work.  Stop wasting your time following someone else’s plan for you.  Make your own plan based on realistic changes–if you can’t follow your chosen diet for the rest of your life, you’re wasting precious time.

Adjust Your Lifestyle

The facts about being overweight:

  • You can’t be overweight unless your lifestyle is set up to encourage it.
  • You can’t be overweight if you haven’t allowed yourself to eat too much.
  • You can’t be overweight if you’ve made a daily schedule that doesn’t allow time for exercise.

Never forget that losing weight and maintaining that weight loss is a lifetime prospect.  You will never stop working to maintain your fitness and weight.  So, before you start that same old diet or exercise program, ask yourself this question:  Can I sustain this diet for the long term?  Is this exercise program something I can do every day?

Once you recognize the gravity of permanently losing weight, you’ll need to change your lifestyle to accommodate this goal.

  • Figure out your bad habits.  Keep a food/activity journal for an entire week.  Do it without judgment or shame–you’re simply trying to figure out what you’re doing every day that may be hurting your weight loss goals.
  • Replace those bad habits, one at a time, with different habits.  Experts know that you can’t break bad habits without forming new ones.  If you take away your daily Egg McMuffin and don’t replace it with something else you’ll drift right back into the old McDonald’s habit.

This may sound simplistic, and it is.  Giving up something yummy for something healthy isn’t easy.  You have to change your environment to make it impossible to have or even want that Egg McMuffin.  Get started with these ideas:

  • Decide what you’ll eat instead of fast food.  Stock up on breakfast foods you like, keep meal replacement bars in the car or try healthy fruit shakes or smoothies.
  • Eat before you get in the car so you won’t be starving and, therefore, tempted to hit the drive thru.
  • Change your driving route to work so you don’t even pass by McDonald’s.
  • Don’t carry cash in the car (even if you DO have the urge to indulge, you won’t be able to), write down your weight loss goal and tape it to your steering wheel or your glove compartment so, when you’re reaching for your wallet, you’re immediately reminded your goals.

Make a Plan

You’ve figured out how to change your bad eating habits by replacing them with good ones and you’ve learned to create an environment that doesn’t allow those bad habits to exist.  Now, you need to make a plan for what you really want.

Set Your Goals

Write down specific goals you have (not just ‘I want to lose weight.’).  List everything, for example:

  • How much weight you want to lose.  Make sure the amount of weight you want to lose is reasonable for your height and frame.  This Ideal Weight Calculator will give you a starting point for setting your goals.
  • A target date to reach your goals.  Make sure you’ve given yourself a reasonable time to reach that goal – (a safe bet would be to lose a pound a week)
  • Why you want to lose this weight (i.e., I want to look good in a bathing suit for summer)
  • What you think will happen if you reach your goal
  • How you’ll maintain your weight loss once you reach your goal (remember, it’s a lifetime thing–even when you reach your goal, you can’t quit!)

For more, check out Setting Realistic Fitness Goals or How to Set Weight Loss Goals to make sure you’re setting goals you can really reach.

Set Up Your Program

To set up a good routine, you’ll need to know the basics of a complete program.  You’re program will involve cardio, strength training and stretching.

For help choosing a program contact me and we will find the right program for you!  You can find my contact information at the bottom of the newletter or visit my site www.beachbodycoach.com/coachgshort to look at the different products that BeachBody has!

Ensure Your Success

Success involves using every resource you have to keep you going.  Do whatever it takes to be consistent including:

  • Enlist all family members to get involved.  If everyone eats healthy, you won’t have to fight to avoid that bag of chips your spouse munches on every night
  • Join a BeachBody Challenge
  • Get a friend to exercise with you
  • Take time every week to schedule your exercise routines
  • Keep a workout bag packed so you don’t have to scramble for your gear
  • Keep a fitness journal to track your workouts and progress
  • Reward yourself often with massages, new clothes or a vacation
  • Change your program every 6 weeks to avoid plateaus
  • Re-visit your goals every three months and gauge your progress.  If you’re not reaching your goals, maybe you should change them to something more accessible

The important thing to remember is that losing weight requires that you change your lifestyle.  You have to change the way you think about exercise and eating, change the way you schedule your day and how you prioritize your tasks. It’s easy to lose a few pounds, but it’s hard to keep them off for good.  Being prepared for what’s ahead is your first step in the right direction.

Using Meal Replacements For Weight Loss

Information & Research:

Do you find that losing weight is difficult because you are eating on the run with no time to shop, cook, or plan meals? Do you eat out or get take-out food a lot and then eat restaurant portions that may prevent you from losing weight and keeping it off? These are some of the reasons people who want to lose weight often consider using meal replacements.

What Is A Meal-Replacement?

A meal replacement is a portion-controlled, prepackaged meal, shake, drink or bar that contains approximately 100 to 200 calories and is used to replace an entire meal or snack to help you reduce your total calorie intake and thus lose weight. These include nutritionally fortified diet protein shakes, snack bars, and low-calorie meals.

The weight loss shakes and bars are usually low in fat and calories, with about 100 to 200 calories, 2 to 5 grams of fat, about 10 to 15 grams of protein, various vitamins and minerals, and up to 5 grams of fiber.

How Do Meal Replacements Work?

Meal replacements help people lose weight by providing a controlled amount of calories, protein, carbohydrates and fat in a prefixed portion. They simplify meal planning because they are convenient — easy to store, and requiring little preparation. They are also reasonably prices, usually costing less than the meal they replace.

Meal replacements reduce the number of decisions you have to make about what to eat and reduce your exposure to tempting foods that might result in overeating.

Many effective weight loss plans that use meal replacements recommend either using them in addition to eating 1 or 2 healthy “grocery” foods meals, or replacing 2 or 3 meals and several snacks per day to lose weight, and then replacing 1 meal per day to maintain weight.

Using a meal replacement instead of an entire meal or snack can help you to reduce your calorie and fat intake and your blood sugar levels. When you first start using meal replacements, you will likely notice an immediate reduction in your blood sugar levels because you will probably be consuming fewer calories and less carbohydrates than you would with your usual meal.

How Effective Are Meal Replacements?

Recent studies show that meal replacements have an important role to play in the diet of anyone who wants to lose excess body-fat and build healthy lean muscle.

A good example comes from a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Researchers from the University Hospital of Ulm in Germany assessed the effects of low-calorie diet combined with meal replacements on weight loss in a group of 100 obese patients.

Half of the group followed a self-selected diet of 1,200 to 1,500 calories per day, which included three meals and two snacks. The other half followed a similar self-directed diet except that they replaced two snacks and two of the three meals with meal replacements (shakes, soups or hot chocolate).

After three months, the people on the
self-selected diet lost an average of 2.9 lbs., while the people using meal
replacements lost an average of 15.6 lbs.

After the first three months, everyone was asked to replace one meal and one snack per day with a meal replacement. Over the next 24 months, original self-selected diet group lost an average of nine additional pounds, and the original meal replacement group lost an average of another seven more pounds. At the end of the study, the self- selected diet group had a 5.9 percent weight loss, whereas the original meal replacement group had an 11 percent weight loss.

Another study by researchers from the University of Nevada report similar results. Women using meal replacement supplements were able to maintain a far greater weight loss over the course of a year than those using other methods to control their weight.

For the full articles and more studies please click here: Using Meal Replacements For Weight Loss

I truly believe in this product! I recommend giving this product a try and with the Beach Body Bottom-of-the-Bag guarantee if you are not totally satisfied in the first 30 day you can return it for a full refund (less s&h). If you are interested in trying a sample please either message me on teambeachbody.com or send me an email at gshort@shortfam.com

Beach Body Coaching Team!!!

 

What are you doing to fight obesity?

Who else is looking to spread the word of health and ready to “END THE TREND”?

Contact me @ me@coachgshort.com for details on how you can spread the word, get in shape and help your finances!! Together we can end the trend!!

Success Story Of the week!!

Please contact with any questions.
Gregory Short – Independent BeachBody Coach

October 22nd Newsletter

CoachGShort Weekly Newsletter October 22th

Metabolic Efficiency: Working Hard or Working Smart?

By Dr. Mark Cheng, L.Ac., Ph.D., FMS

If you’re involved in fitness, health, or the pursuit of a lean, toned body, you’ve undoubtedly heard the word “metabolism.” You’ve probably also heard that the more highly your metabolism functions, the better your results as far as fat loss and maintaining a slim, trim body. But “metabolism” is actually defined by Wikipedia® as “the set of chemical reactions that happen in living organisms to sustain life.” Simply sustaining life isn’t that challenging a goal to aim for. If you’re engaged in doing a Beachbody® home fitness rogram, mere survival shouldn’t be your standard. Thriving, growing, exceeding, and surpassing should be what you’re working toward!

So let’s take a closer look at your metabolism to see how to optimize it.

The human metabolic process is broken down into two parts: catabolism and nabolism.  Catabolism is the “burning” or digesting of food or fuel sources to provide cells with energy. This is the part of metabolism that provides muscles with the energy to maintain posture and create movement. Anabolism, in turn, uses energy to link chemical compounds together to produce larger molecules, like muscle mass.

For catabolism to be efficient, you need to give your muscles the maximum number of opportunities to burn fuel like fat, carbohydrates, and sugars. So it stands to reason that if you’re training your body for the purpose of burning off excess weight, you want to engage the maximum number of muscles in the most efficient and safest manner possible.

One way to think of your body’s muscles is as their having two main functions: stability and mobility. Most of the big muscles people develop for cosmetic reasons, with prime examples being the quadriceps muscles of the thighs, the pectoral muscles in the chest, and the deltoid muscles of the shoulders, are centered around dynamic mobility. In other words, they’re muscles that allow you to go through a full range of motion. The stabilizing muscles, however, are generally those muscles that are deeper and closer to the joints. These are smaller muscles that include the spinal multifidi, the rotator cuff of the shoulder, and the core musculature of the midsection, and if they’re doing their job properly to stabilize your body while you’re in motion, they also play a major role in energy consumption.

Don’t be fooled, though. While some fitness coaches argue that it’s better to focus on the bigger mobility-oriented muscles because they burn more calories, any weakness or poor functionality in the smaller stabilizers can force the prime movers to pull double duty, making them attempt to both stabilize and move at the same time. This kind of inefficiency can overload one muscle group (prime movers) while robbing another group (stabilizers) of training. This scenario can lead to joint dysfunction and pain, which your body reads as a stressor. When it’s under stress, your body dumps the stress hormone cortisol into your bloodstream. And cortisol keeps packing the flab on around your midsection.

The bottom line is pretty simple. If you want to look good, you’ve got to move well. In order to move well, you have to feel good. In order to feel good, your body has to function well. So to get the most out of your metabolism, both in catabolic, fat-burning reactions and anabolic, muscle-building processes, your training has to involve both dynamic, explosive, gross movements and slow, controlled, precise movements—without pain. Pain is a silent enemy that constantly undermines the effectiveness of our workouts and hampers our metabolic efficiency. So to improve the functionality of your training, make sure you incorporate stability and postural training in addition to your dynamic, high-intensity workouts.

The correct mix of stability and dynamic motor control exercises along with explosive, high-output routines can give your body an incredible boost. By training muscles to perform their correct functions, you work more muscle groups with your exercises, perform those exercises more safely, and dramatically drop your risk of injury. Coordinated functioning of both your stabilizers and your prime movers is the essence of metabolic efficiency. As the stabilizers kick in and increase your caloric burn, not only do they consume more calories through their own action, but they also help the prime movers operate more efficiently with more powerful contractions, creating stronger movement and burning even more calories than ever.

If you want to get past the hump of “those last few pounds,” “the bulge that won’t go away,” or “the little spot I’d love to just tone up a little,” giving your stabilizers a chance to play in concert with your prime movers will set the stage for great movement. And when you move well, you’ll be happy to move more often. As you move more often with metabolically efficient movement patterns, you’ll be able to handle higher-intensity fat-sizzling workouts like P90X® without the cortisol setting you two steps back for every step forward you take. You’ll love how your athletic movements improve, how your quality of life blossoms, and how your lean, healthy, toned body evolves!

Why shakeology?
Just look at the results BeachBody got from an internal 90-day research study where they replaced one meal per day with Shakeology:
By the end of WEEK ONE
  • Improved digestion and regularity
  • Reduced cravings

By the end of WEEK FOUR

  • Increased energy and stamina
  • Lost weight
  • Improved mental clarity

By the end of WEEK TWELVE

  • Lost 10 pounds and 2 inches off waist on average
  • Reduced risk for heart disease and other degenerative diseases
  • Lowered cholesterol on average by 30% and even up to 70%
  • Healthier skin, hair and nails

I truly believe in this product! I recommend giving this product a try and with the Beach Body Bottom-of-the-Bag guarantee if you are not totally satisfied in the first 30 day you can return it for a full refund (less s&h). If you are interested in trying a sample please either message me on teambeachbody.com or send me an email at gshort@shortfam.com

 

Beach Body Coaching Team!!!

Someone asked me why did you become a BechBody Coach? I didn’t hesitate to tell them the reasons why. It is the feel that you get when helping others. The best way I can explain it is when you do a service project for the needy you get that great feeling. But after the service project you may ask about the people that you helped but in most cases that is the only time you have contact with them, where as when you become a BeachBody you help people though their program for 30, 60, 90 and beyond.

Have you ever thought about the people around you that you could help by sharing a BeachBody product?

Who else is looking to spread the word of health and ready to “END THE TREND”?

Success Story Of the week!!

Please contact with any questions.

Gregory Short – Independent BeachBody Coach

October 9th Newsletter

CoachGShort Weekly Newsletter October 9th

This weeks article comes about based on the fact that we have a new team thread and with a new thread comes new team members.

10 Common Mistakes Made by Individuals Who Engage in Stretching Exercise

1. Not warming up before stretching. Because stretching cold muscles increases your chances of injury; you should always warm up before stretching (i.e., perform activities that will increase your body temperature enough to “warm” you up sufficiently to safely begin exercising). Contrary to popular belief, stretching is not a warm-up.

2. Not stretching the muscles you’re trying to stretch. Too many people don’t stretch what they think they’re stretching because they don’t perform their flexibility exercises properly. More often than not, either they don’t know how to do a particular exercise properly, or they make an inappropriate adjustment in their body position while stretching.

3. Not watching how much pressure you place on your ligaments. Unfortunately, some people stretch their ligaments too much (rather than stretching their muscles) when performing stretching exercises. As a result, they develop excessive ligament looseness. As such, when you’re stretching, you should always avoid holding your joints in a position that places too much weight or pressure on your ligaments.

4. Not watching how much weight you place on your joint capsules. While stretching, if you place more weight on your joints than they can safely stand, you increase the likelihood that you may damage them. Accordingly, you should avoid activities that can injure your joints, such as standing toe touches.5. Not performing a balanced stretching regimen. To avoid the consequences of stretching unequally (e.g., the muscles that receive inadequate attention tend to tighten and shorten, causing such notable conditions as rounded shoulders), it is essential that you don’t stretch in one direction without balancing out that effort by also stretching in the opposite direction.

6. Not performing each stretching exercise slowly and smoothly. You should avoid using fast, jerky, or bouncing movements when performing stretching exercises. Doing so may force your muscles to stretch to an unsafe range of motion before your nervous system has time to protect them by signaling your muscle(s) to contract.

7. Not stretching to the point of maximum extension. When you stretch, you should move your body or body segment at a controlled speed through its maximum range of motion. You reach this point when you place a mild – but not painful – stretch on the muscles. On each subsequent repetition, you should attempt to go a little bit farther, while again avoiding pain and overstretching.

8. Not performing an appropriate amount of stretching exercise. A certain degree of subjectivity exists concerning what constitutes too much or too little stretching exercise. As a rule, it is recommended that you perform stretching exercises for each of the major areas of your body. ACSM recommends that individuals perform static stretches with each stretch being held for approximately 10 to 30 seconds each. Generally, static stretches are preferred because the risk of injury is low, and they require minimal time and little assistance.

9. Not stretching often enough. At a minimum, most fitness experts recommend that stretching exercises should be performed four to five times per week, and preferably daily. As a rule, because most flexibility gains are (far too) easily lost, the basic rule of thumb is that you should stretch often.

10. Not understanding that being flexible is not synonymous with being in good shape. Flexibility is just one of the essential components of physical fitness. As such, you should combine aerobic exercise, strengthening exercises, and adherence to sound nutritional practices with your stretching exercises in order to “attain and sustain” a desirable level of fitness.

Why shakeology?
Just look at the results BeachBody got from an internal 90-day research study where they replaced one meal per day with Shakeology:
By the end of WEEK ONE
  • Improved digestion and regularity
  • Reduced cravings

By the end of WEEK FOUR

  • Increased energy and stamina
  • Lost weight
  • Improved mental clarity

By the end of WEEK TWELVE

  • Lost 10 pounds and 2 inches off waist on average
  • Reduced risk for heart disease and other degenerative diseases
  • Lowered cholesterol on average by 30% and even up to 70%
  • Healthier skin, hair and nails

I truly believe in this product! I recommend giving this product a try and with the Beach Body Bottom-of-the-Bag guarantee if you are not totally satisfied in the first 30 day you can return it for a full refund (less s&h). If you are interested in trying a sample please either message me on teambeachbody.com or send me an email at gshort@shortfam.com

 

 

Beach Body Coaching Team!!!

Someone asked me why did you become a BechBody Coach?  I didn’t hesitate to tell them the reasons why.  It is the feel that you get when helping others.  The best way I can explain it is when you do a service project for the needy you get that great feeling.  But after the service project you may ask about the people that you helped but in most cases that is the only time you have contact with them, where as when you become a BeachBody you help people though their program for 30, 60, 90 and beyond.

Have you ever thought about the people around you that you could help by sharing a BeachBody product?

Who else is looking to spread the word of health and ready to “END THE TREND”?

Success Story Of the week!!

Please contact with any questions.

Gregory Short – Independent BeachBody Coach

9/11 Remembrance

Where were you on this day 10 years ago? I was driving to work when I first heard that a plan had hit the World Trade Center (I can show you the exact spot). The first thing that I thought of was the B-25 that crashed into the Empire State Building in 1945. When I got to work I walked into the Help Desk call center I asked if they had heard about it and they told me that another plane had just hit the second tower. I have never had a feeling like that before or since. At the time I was working on F.E. Warren AFB and for almost the rest of my time left on base the security was heightened but not once did we complain for the life of those and all those that server this country should be held with the utmost respect.

Remember this day 10 years ago, remember those that have given their lives since then tragic day, remember those families that have lost loved ones, and remember those that are in service of our country today and never stop praying for each and every one of them.

 

P90X2 Pre-Order

September 1st, 2011 @ 9 AM you will be able to pre-order the most anticipate home workout video ever!!  P90X2!!!

This is expect to sell out for Christmas so order your now!!!

Order Site

Checkout some of the sample videos:

P90X2 Base Kit:

  • 12 workouts on 13 DVDs or 4 Blu-ray discs
  • Fitness Guide
  • Nutrition Guide
  • 90-day Workout Calendar

P90X2 Deluxe Kit:

  • Includes everything in the P90X2 Base Kit, plus:
  • 2 Bonus Advanced P90X2 Workouts
  • 1 Foam Roller
  •  2 8-lb Medicine Balls

P90X2 Ultimate Kit:

  • Includes everything in the P90X2 Base Kit, plus:
  • 2 Bonus Advanced P90X2 Workouts
  • 1 Pro-Grade Foam Roller
  • 1 55cm Premium Stability Ball
  • 2 8-lb Medicine Ball

August 28th Newsletter

CoachGShort Weekly Newsletter August 28th 2011

So all those looking for support please
come to our TEAM Thread!!! Most of the team is doing P90X but
there are people who are moving on to Insanity, Hip Hop Abs, and Turbo
Fire!!! So come get the support that you deserve!!!

Many of you have heard that I have three keys to a successful workout.  This is for any workout whether it is P90X, Insanity, or walking  around the block every night after dinner.  First is the exercise, this is the easiest of the three (even if it is P90X or Insanity).  Next is nutrition, this is hard but a lot of this is education.  The third and in my opinion the hardest of all three is motivation!  Without motivation you won’t eat right and you won’t workout.  In this weeks article by Andrew Lock (www.helpmybusiness.com) he discusses famous people who failed before they became the success that we all know.

Don’t give up!

 OFTEN LIFE DOESN’T go in the direction we want it to.  Does that mean our lives are doomed and we can’t achieve the success we dream of?  Let’s be realistic: Everybody fails.  Consider the following.

Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor because “he lacked imagination and had no good ideas.”  Disney went bankrupt several times before he built Disneyland.  In fact, the proposed park was rejected by the city of Anaheim, California, on the grounds that it would on attract “riffraff.”

Thomas Edison‘s teachers said he was “too stupid to learn anything.”  He was fired from his first two jobs for being “nonproductive.” As an inventor, Edison made more than 1,000 unsuccessful attempts to invent the light bulb.  When a reporter asked him how it felt to fail 1,000 times, Edison said that he didn’t fail all those times, but that the light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps.

Albert Einstein did not speak until he was 4 years old and did not read until he was 7.  His parents thought he was “subnormal,” and one of his teachers described him as “mentally slow, unsociable and adrift forever in foolish dreams.”He was expelled from school.

Every cartoon that Charles schulz, creator of the comic strip Peanuts, submitted to the yearbook staff at his high school rejected.

After Fred Astaire‘s first screen test, the memo from the testing director of MGM, dated 1933, read, “Can’t act. Can’t sing. Slightly bald. Can dance a little.”  Astaire kept that memo over the fireplace in his Beverly Hills home.

Decca Records turned down a recording contract with The Beatles with this fascinating evaluation: “We don’t like their sound. Guitar groups are on their way out.”

 A friend of mine in the music industry personally auditioned a singer by the name of Reg Dwight in the 1960s.  He unceremoniously shoved the singer out of his office for wasting his time.  That singer is now better known as Elton John.

Imagine if these individuals had given up, believing they were doomed to failure and would never achieve success.  Do you think they ever felt down and depressed?  Sure.  But they didn’t allow a gloomy state to overtake them, to overpower their desire to succeed.  in every case they did succeed – in a huge way, far greater than their wildest dreams.

Bad experiences can be viewed as positive in hindsight.  They can be stepping stones rather than stumbling blocks.  It’s your choice.  But be determined to never give up.

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