11/10/2022 0 Comments Beachbody 3 week yoga retreat reviewYou can take your workouts anywhere! Outside, while you're traveling, stream it off your phone at the gym so you can use heavier weights or tack on an ab workout (ChaLEAN Extreme Abs is my favorite!) You can search for a program by trainer, ability level, type of workout (dance, cardio, strength, etc), or length of workouts, and you get the complete workouts, plus step-by-step program guides, workout calendars, nutrition plans, and more-all online! What I love about Beachbody On Demand I was familiar with the names of programs like Insanity and P90X, but I didn’t know anything about the company until I met my friend Deidre who was a “Beachbody coach.” Wait a second, I could create a side job that actually paid me money for sharing my at home fitness obsession? I had been successfully running my Etsy shop for over a year at that point, so I was confident in my ability to turn my hobbies into small businesses, signed up as a coach, and haven’t looked back. I can't even type that without laughing, oh good times.Īfter college I discovered Blogilates and Tone It Up, and eventually Beachbody. It was my first introduction to fitness classes and pilates, and I discovered I could actually do these things! I discovered that fitness could….actually be fun? Say whaaaat! I discovered that I was capable of a lot more than I thought, I just hadn’t found the right fitness outlet for me.įast forward through a weight training class senior year (another comfort zone busted, another surprise discovery that I loved lifting weights and feeling sore), and into college where I started to run, ended up joining the track and cross country teams (a story for another day!), and carried my Pilates and workout video loves with me into senior year, when my roommates and I would spend weeknights on our living room floor cursing and laughing our way through Buns of Steel. Patty created units around classic videos like Billy Blanks Tae-Bo, step aerobics, and Mari Winsor Pilates. (I almost typed Workout DVD 101, but we were still using VHS tapes back then, ha!) It was basically Workout Video 101, and it ended up being one of my favorite classes in my entire high school experience. No more group sports and games, YES! I chose “personal fitness” because it looked the least intimidating, didn’t involve balls flying at my head, and it also fit the schedules of my best friends. In my junior year of high school, after paying penance by surviving a gazillion years of PE, we were finally allowed to choose an elective gym class. We can do pretty much anything we want, if we aren’t afraid to go outside our self-created “comfort zones” and try something new. Sidenote: isn’t it funny how labels and identities that we adopt in GRADE SCHOOL determine our choices, behaviors, and how we view ourselves all the way through to adulthood? What I’ve learned though is that we can redefine ourselves. The other kids saw me as the “good student” or teacher's pet, and that was the label I was comfortable with, because I knew what to do to make my parents and teachers happy. At some point around 5th grade when we started playing official team sports, I simply decided that I wasn’t strong, athletic, coordinated, or good at that stuff, so I put limits on myself by accepting my story! I did band, jazz band, and scholastic bowl as my extra-curricular activities. The funny thing is that I was never ridiculed or ostracized for being unathletic, I was never overweight, and I don’t have emotional scars from being picked last for teams. I'm sure some of you reading this can relate: I dreaded PE class, lurked in the back of the line when we were forming teams for kickball, “The Mile” was the worst day in my life every year, and PE was always the lowest grade on my report card, an A- or (gasp!) B blemishing my otherwise perfect line up of straight A’s across the board. Before then, growing up, I’d describe myself as a sedentary bookworm. My obsession with home workouts began in high school. I am SO excited to share my official review of Beachbody On Demand, but first this post deserves a semi-embarrasing backstory.
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