As I am reading and learning for my Personal Fitness Trainer Certification there is one topic I did learn about also in my P90X certification that I think most people don’t really understand.  That is the process of how your body produces energy to support your workouts and your daily “living”.  The reason I wanted to educate a little bit is because I was reminded recently how I USED to think that just downing whey protein was going to help me with my fitness goals.  In fact as I have learned and you will see your body uses protein for energy only as a last resort, and in fact uses it for muscle re-building.  I will try to keep this as short, yet interesting as possible.

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I wanted to share a note from one of someone who is not only a friend and colleague, but also a Shakeology customer and P90X program participant.

“Rock on for Shakeology and the P90X Peak Performance bar. These two have been very helpful in reducing my weight. Chris asked me to talk a bit about my experience with both as a diabetic and would like to give a little background.

I’ve had insulin dependent (Type 1) diabetes since 1984 and for most of my life have been very able to maintain a toothpick figure.  Lot’s of workouts, volleyball, softball, skiing, snow boarding, … (read more…)

NEWLY UPDATED WITH TWO NEW CHALLENGE PACKS!! For months you have heard Julie and I talk about how awesome the deals are when you decide to get a Challenge Pack.  Even if you are not in a Challenge Group yet, but you want to get your program and your nutrition, the Challenge Pack is the best way to go.  You can see all the options below based on the various options but here they are broken down.  They are in different “Buckets” of price points and they all have some things in common, but most importantly is the savings on the DVD Base Kit’s that are included.  For example the $160 Challenge Pack includes $129.95 worth of Shakeology and the base kits in this program are retail priced $59.95. … (read more…)

For the last six weeks I have been doing the ‘Official’ Les Mills Pump and Combat Hybrid program and I wanted to give a little insight to how it’s been going.  This has been part of my 2013 plan do to something new each workout round during the year.  Although I already did Combat, technically adding Les Mills Pump to the mix was the new program.  However I can tell you it works out perfect because of the way the Les Mills Pump is structured.  So with that let me give you the rundown on the way this hybrid works and I think you will like it.

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This week we chat about something that is a challenge for everyone and that is tracking your caloric intake that you figure out during your various programs.  Each Beachbody program has different methods of calculating the calories, but it’s a fine line between being too far under or too far over.  You need to balance the see-saw and we wanted to talk about a couple of tools we use and how you can “Dial in” the nutrition aspect of your program.  Tracking to your goals is very important for sure but you can use some of these tools to help you get there.  They have worked for us, maybe they will work for you.