Now that I’m a Beachbody Coach this seems like an old hat to me but a few years ago it wasn’t so easy. I haven’t really posted all of these pictures publicly before so this is really putting it all out there. Let’s start from the way way back.

Here is a picture of me in late 2007 soon after my daughter Isabelle was born. This was one of those times where you and your spouse decide “Ok, we had a child let’s lose this baby fat we have gained” *FAIL* I don’t have a finished picture because we didn’t finish P90X.

This next picture is basically Deja Vu because the same thing happened. In the fall of 2008 we again said, “Ok, we failed last time but this time we’re going to do it” *EPIC FAIL #2*

I searched and searched and could not find anything related to 2009. We didn’t even have the ambition to start any fitness program that year. *EPIC FAIL #3*

FINALLY in 2010 something kicked in. I remember in January there was a “biggest loser” competition at school where I teach. The scale said 195 pounds and I was freaked out that I was so close to 200 POUNDS. That was probably what kicked me into high gear. My wife, Nikki, also decided that we didn’t need to start something, we needed to PLAN what we were going to do. We picked a day to start and mapped out 90 days of eating the best we knew how and working out 6 days a week like the program said. This is a picture of my half way point *WHOA*

We had finally finished P90X. I have NO clue how much weight I lost but I do know that I grabbed 2nd place in the “biggest loser” challenge even though I started P90X half way through the competition.

From there it was a little up and down with injuries, surgery and just plain not giving it my all. No matter what though, ever since that first successful transformation with P90X in March of 2010 I have been able to start and complete any program that I have decided to do. Here are a couple of my SUCCESSFUL transformations.

I wasn’t totally committed quite yet so in the fall of 2011 I went through another round of P90X and this time we started to drink Shakeology. I started at about 175 pounds and finished near 160 pounds. This is probably the first time over the past 18 months that I knew 160 pounds was about where I needed to be. This is the picture where my wife has said, “That’s when the old Brian disappeared”. HA, just look at that face.

In 2012 Beachbody really came out with some new products that I jumped on board with to see what was possible. Like I mentioned earlier by this time I was committed and able to start and finish any product thrown at me. This first picture is after I went through 21 days with The Ultimate Reset. This requires ZERO physical activity and only eating a strict meal with supplements. WOW

Soon after the Reset I jumped on board with building muscle. Thanks to Body Beast I was able to gain about 12 pounds of muscle. You really see the transformation with Body Beast after I was WAY TOO SKINNY.

2013 must have been a bland type of year for me. I remember staying active and fit and going through programs but I mostly just stayed around that 160-165 lb. area. Something happened during the first semester of the 2013-2014 school year and I almost quit working out entirely. It was not good and when the new year came something had to be done.

So in 2014 from January 1st – March 1st the only liquids I put in my body was water and milk. That along with working out dropped me about 10 pounds and then I hit another Beachbody program called The 21 Day Fix. This is much different than The Ultimate Reset. This program has you eat what I call “normal food” but it’s a portion control. I dropped another 10 pounds and was happy to be back to where I was.

As you can see I go up and down a little like anyone else and need support from some one, usually my wife. Very few people can transform their bodies alone and that’s why there are Beachbody Coaches. I’m here to help and would love to help you get started with your transformation.

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“PiYo gives you hardcore definition, intense calorie burn, and allover strength—without weights, without jumps, and without destroying your body.”
-Chalene Johnson, creator of PiYo

Chalene Johnson brought the group dance workout programs in your home through beachbody. These three amazing programs, Turo Jam, TurboFire and ChaLean Extreme created a sort of cult following for people that wanted in-home workout programs to be fun and energetic. I’ve had the opportunity to workout in a group setting with Chalene leading the charge and it was electric.

How do I become a Beachbody Coach?
The basic answer is you sign up by clicking HERE. That’s not what you want to hear though. You become a coach because you’re passionate about health and fitness or you want a discount on your shakeology.

Shakeology is your Daily Dose of Dense Nutrition and I’ve been drinking mine since the Fall of 2011. Shakeology will cost $129/month which is less than $5 a day. By signing up as a coach you get 25% taken off so as you can see you’ll save almost $400 a year on Shakeology alone. This is a good enough reason to sign up as a coach right when you decide to fuel your body with what it needs everyday.

Earning Money
The second reason for becoming a team beachbody coach is to earn money through commissions and bonuses. Once you start working out, eating right and drinking shakeology people are going to notice. Those people will ask you for tips or help so that they can become healthier. There is no better feeling than helping friends and family becoming a better version of themselves.

When people start to ask about programs and Shakeology you can refer them to your Team Beachbody profile and earn commission. The great thing about this is you never have to “sell” to anyone, you simply share what you’ve been doing with your life. People will notice what you have been doing and when they are ready to become a more fit healthy person they won’t need you to try and talk them into it.

Coaching Fees?
There is a $40 sign up fee and a low monthly fee of $15.95 for being a coach. This is typical for any type of business and if you think about it how many businesses do you know have a monthly expense that low? This fee is put towards the multiple websites that you’ll be able to send your customers to. You will not have to purchase product and then sell it. All products that customers buy will be online so you don’t need to empty out that third bedroom to store all of the products. ***WAVE THE FEE*** – There is an important option where you can wave the $40 sign up fee. This cane be done by purchasing a workout program and Shakeology. Please CONTACT ME about this option.

Join a Team
One of the strongest aspects of becoming a Beachbody coach is being on a team of like minded people. You’ll have mentors, like my wife and I, that well guide you from day 1. We will show you how to become a successful Beachbody coach at your own pace. We will never push you to work more than you want to. There are a variety of coaches on our team. We have coaches that do not work the business and randomly earn commission because a friend bought a workout program. We also have coaches that make this their in-home business and earn enough money to “retire” their spouse from work. This is another great aspect of Team Beachbody. You set your hours and the results can be limitless.

Connect with Me
There is so much more to being a Team Beachbody Coach than what I can put in this blog post that I would love for you to connect with me on Facebook or leave a comment below.

Some history about me though first. I’ve been through a lot of beachbody programs ie: P90X, P90X2, Insanity, Asylum, Asylum Vol. 2, Body Beast, Ultimate Reset and others. I also teach Insanity once a week at my local gym. So why would I try the 21 Day Fix program? I got a little chubby during the winter.

Through all of these programs I feel the best when I’m hovering around 160 pounds and during the winter I got back to the 170 range and was feeling it in my clothes and my workouts. My nutrition was bad and you know that nutrition is at least 80% of whether you succeed or not.

Since my wife and I are both Beachbody Coaches we always jump at the chance to try out the new products so we’re familiar with them. The 21 Day Fix program’s master trainer is Autumn Calabrese a fitness instructor and model. This does not appear to be the manly program I’m used to like P90X and Body Beast.

When we got the program we set a date that we would start and a few days before that sat down and planned out our meals. This is key to any successful journey with beachbody products. Plan, plan and plan some more. If you don’t plan there is that chance you’ll run to the fast food joint because you didn’t have your lunch planned out.

The 21 day fix containers seemed a little small but once I read the nutrition guide you find out that you’ll be eating 4 of the green ones and 3 of the red containers and so one. You do not go hungry on this plan. I actually had to adjust my meals the first 3 days so I made sure I ate all of the food I had planned.

After 3 weeks of eating right and working out for 30 minutes a day I finally lost those ten pounds and feel so much better. I also dropped back down to 10% body fat which is another part of my goals for myself.

If you’re a male or female and want to know more about the 21 day fix I’d love to talk to you one on one. Please comment below and/or friend me on facebook – fb.com/browie

In 2007 I learned about Affiliate Marketing and absolutely loved it. I was passionate about this new hobby I found where I could make money on the internet. Over the years I tried a lot of different ways to make money online and it was a fun right. I don’t sit at the computer and work on campaigns over and over like I used to anymore. Now I’ve taken most of my free time and turned it into becoming healthy.

Fast forward to March 2010 my wife and I made the commitment to get through the P90X program no matter what. Previously I had done a few of the workouts but never stuck with it. This time we set a date to start and even planned out how were were going to eat better to get the best results. Finally going through the entire program fueled me and my wife to make working out and becoming healthy, not our hobby, but our new lifestyle.

Since then it’s been my wife that has really changed and running with this new lifestyle. I still like to have my burger here and there and some ice cream once in a while but there is no way I’ll ever be back to 195lbs. again.

While working out over and over and finding new programs to do I suggested to my wife that she become a beachbody coach and share her passion with others and who knows maybe make a few dollars while doing it. That’s what happened and that is what her full time job is now. She has quit her in-home daycare and become a full time beachbody coach.

Now she helps people pick programs to use to get into shape and coach them on nutrition and how that is such a huge part of becoming successful when getting fit and healthy. Since we were both changing our lifestyle I also became a coach but just not to the level of passion my wife has.

Affiliate marketing and being a beachbody coach are very similar but also very different. As an affiliate I’m not really worried about making connections to who I’m selling too. I just want to make sure my ad spend is below my affiliate commissions. With beachbody coaching the point is to make connections with people and help them through their lifestyle change.

I only posted on my blog 5 times in 2012, which is ridiculous but it was because I was changing my life. I am not ingrained in the affiliate marketing scene anymore. I am engulfed in the workout scene though, going through program after program and changing my body and helping others.

Here is a run down of how I’ve gone through change in the past 3 years. In March 2010, like I mentioned, I went through P90X fully for the first time. I then went through Insanity during the summer. I wasn’t hooked on all of this during the 2010-2011 school year so I was completing random workouts from P90X. Then the summer of 2011 I was sick and had surgery and it was a crappy summer.

August 2011 is when this change really began to take shape. That summer my wife had ordered Insanity: The Asylum and received a free week long packet of Shakeology: The healthiest meal of the day (It literally is). From there she was absolutely sold on Beachbody and becoming a coach. I recovered from surgery and the start of the 2011-12 school year I hit the track running.

I also started to drink Shakeology everyday and went through P90X, Insanity The Asylum, P90X2, Les Mills Pump and a hybrid of Asylum and P90X to get ready for a mud run (Warrior Dash) at the beginning of June 2012. By this time I was getting really fit. In July I did the hardest thing to change my body I had ever done. I went through beachbody’s The Ultimate Reset. This was a 3 week strict plan of specific eating and supplements that dropped me down to near 145 pounds. I had shed a total of 50 pounds since March 2010. Granted 145 is probably not a good weight for me and I jumped back up to 150 and looked healthy soon after.

To start the 2012-2013 school year off I started a brand new product called Body Beast. This is a new program designed for you to bulk up. I followed the plan to a “T” and gained 10 pounds of muscle while keeping myself near 8% body fat. Right after bulking up I got Asylum Volume 2 and now I’m in the middle of the newest program Les Mills Body Combat. I already have planned to bulk up again with Body Beast and go through The Ultimate Reset in May to get ready for the summer months.

Looking back now it’s been a long journey but that is what it takes if you want to change your lifestyle. I hover around 160 pounds right now and know what it takes to drop 5 if I need to or gain muscle if I want to. I now have the knowledge on how to make changes the right way.

If you’ve read or even skimmed through this update post of my personal journey and are interested in any of the health and fitness information I have talked about I welcome you to contact me so I can help you make the healthy lifestyle change that I did.

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Body Beast

The newest workout created by the company that brought us products like P90X, Insanity, Turbo Fire and even Brazil Butt Lift. No, I have not gone through Brazil Butt Lift but my wife has and it works. This was obviously created with men in mind although plenty of women have started the program too.

What Makes Body Beast Unique?

The three phases. Body Beast has three specially designed phases, with corresponding nutrition phases, to help you Build, Bulk. Build, the first phase, focuses on creating a strong foundation physically and nutritionally, while getting your head in the game for Phase 2. Bulk, the second phase, is where size begins to show and your body really begins to change. And the final phase, is where you cut up, get chiseled, and get ready for competition. In just 90 days, you truly can become a Beast.

What’s in Body Beast?

Body Beast comes with 12 DVD’s, nutrition guide and calendar to walk you through your 90 days. If you have done P90X before this is a little different. If you go through P90X a little different you can gain muscle but Body Beast was specifically designed to build muscle. There are also different packages you can buy. The standard DVD package costs around $90 and then you can “bulk up” by adding the supplements that will ship to you every month so after 90 days you gain that 10 pounds of muscle. Huge stack comes with Base Shake and Fuel Shot or buy the Beast Stack and along with the previous two supplements you get M.A.X. Creatine and Super Suma.

Who is The Beast?

Sagi Kalev is his name and let me tell you he is huge, just take a look at the picture. Sagi served in the Israel army for a short time during Dessert Storm and then resumed his passion for body building. A few “Mr. Israel” titles later he moved to the United States to expand his career. Sagi Kalev has been on numerous covers of magazines while making a few TV appearances as well. Sagi graduated from the University of Central Florida in physical education with a minor in nutrition.

The Supplements

Base Shake – Simply put, Beachbody Hardcore Base Shake is a whey protein isolate formulation that maximizes muscle growth while reducing muscle breakdown. Each serving contains 18 grams of protein and is free of added flavoring, colorants, or artificial sweeteners.

Fuel Shot – Beachbody Fuel Shot is a dextrose- and maltodextrin-based energy drink designed to maximize your pre-, during-, and postworkout performance, while replenishing the glycogen and electrolytes lost during workouts. It’s free of added flavoring, colorants, or artificial sweeteners.

M.A.X. Creatine – Creatine naturally occurs in our bodies and can be found in meat, poultry, and seafood. However, you’d need to eat pounds and pounds of meat to get the same amount of creatine you’ll find in one serving of this supplement. Our pure creatine monohydrate contains no fillers, preservatives, wheat, corn, sucrose, starch, salt, yeast, or added flavor.

Super Suma – Suma root, also known as Brazilian ginseng or para toda (which means “for all things”), has been used by the indigenous peoples of the Amazon region for generations as a general cure-all, as well as a tonic for helping with strength, energy, rejuvenation, and sexual prowess.

Why is this so Effective?

One word: Testosterone. It’s the primary hormone your body calls upon to develop muscle mass, and Dynamic Set Training is designed around enhancing your production of it. The more testosterone your body makes, the faster you get big. With Body Beast, different training strategies are employed—from Prefatigue Sets to Drop, Force, and Tempo Sets—creating greater time under tension and a faster and more effective workout.

Why did I post this?

Over the past two years my lifestyle has changed into a fitness and mostly healthy one. Yes I still enjoy a pizza and Dr. Pepper here and there. Since I’ve dropped over 35 pounds and feel amazing I see how I want to continue my life. Body Beast is the next step in what I want to do with my fitness. I’ll be starting July 29th and if you’ve read through this and want more information please comment below or contact me. I’ve become a Beachbody Coach and know a lot about their products. Enjoy the “trailer” below.

Body Beast

Author: Brian Johnson

Category: Body Beast

Yes it does.

I have to laugh at myself. Back in March of 2008 I think I tried my 2nd round of P90X. It’s hard to remember but I have “before” pictures in October 2007 but then I have no records of anything after that. I never completed 90 days of P90X it until May of 2010.

P90X Round 1

In January of 2010 I got in the “biggest loser” competition at work. The first month and a half I didn’t lose a pound and wasn’t really trying much. Then my wife and I decided it was time to get fit and healthy. I had gotten up to 194 pounds. I know this because I remember my “biggest loser” weigh-ins. The #1 thing we did was set a date and planned out what we were going to be eating for all 3 meals. We decided on about 12-15 different big meals we would have at night so that way there was no question on what we were going to be making.

This was the first time we finished a full 90 days of P90X and had great results. I lost 20 pounds and was feeling good in the 175lb. range. That summer right we decided to try Insanity. That was a bad choice because I guess we still weren’t quite that committed and did not complete it.

During The Next Year

From August 2010 until August 2011 I really didn’t do much. My wife took off and completed P90X 3 more times. I did work out here and there by using the Cardio X DVD after work sometimes. So basically for 12 months I didn’t do anything AGAIN. What a waste of a good 3 months I had early on. On my wife’s 4th P90X run I stared with her and then “life happened” and I had to stop midway.

Round 2

August 2011 I was ready to commit and finish what I started. Since then my wife became really interested in being a Beachbody Coach. Through this she got excited about Shakeology and so she got me into it as well. After this 2nd round I’m a believer that Shakeology helped me get over the hump of getting rid of the extra fat around my muscles.

I started around 175 and finished this round at 160 and as you can see in the pictures I lost a lot of the fat that was on top of my muscle. All of my 34″ work pants are now to big and so I had to go buy new pants for work and new jeans. Sometimes a medium shirt fit if was made big but now I’m pretty much buying all mediums.

What’s Next?

Just a few days ago I started Insanity: The Asylum and hope that after 30 days of this program I’ll lose the final portion around my belly. You can see the top part of my trunk is tight but the bottom is still pretty loose. When the new year starts my wife and I will go through P90X2 together and see where that takes us. My basic goal is to get through the next 4 months without missing workouts and everything should fall into place.

2012 is coming up and it’s the biggest time of the year to get started with your fitness. I can’t wait to continue with my programs and see where I can get by April 1st. What about you? Do you need to set some health goals?

Category: P90X

In 2011 I decided that SEO was a method that I really needed to work on and build some long term websites that produce money. This new plugin Easy Azon was created by Chris Guthrie, an internet marketer and blogger. I’ve been reading his blog even before he switched it over to the site he has now. Previously Chis created a great program called Niche Profit Course where he taught the basics of making money being an Amazon affiliate.

I’m pretty tech savvy and my helper, my wife, is not as savvy with creating links or even adding images to our blog posts. I will say she’s getting better with the images though. Easy Azon plugin makes creating links and adding images from amazon so easy for the newbie. While you’re creating a post about a specific product you don’t have to open a new window or tab to build your links. Hence the name Easy Azon.

Easy Azon Features

I think the best quality of Easy Azon is the unlimited site licenses. Use the Easy Azon WordPress plugin on as many sites as you want and start profiting from the Amazon affiliate links the day you purchase it. Even if you are not a niche site creator you can use Easy Azon on any wordpress blog to start earning some cash.

Guthrie thought of everything even for the huge site owner. You can use Easy Azon on your multi-author blog and not have to go back and edit your contributor’s content. Now they can create affiliate links on the fly while they build posts and pages. Another great idea is the international traffic portion. Even this small blog I have here I get visitors from Australia, UK and plenty of other countries. If I was only a US amazon affiliate I could be missing out on a lot of commission. In Easy Azon just add your ID to the settings and no matter where your visitors come from you can earn money.

Easy Azon wordpress plugin is selling for $47. I personally think it’s a steep price to pay for a plugin but there are a lot of features the make it worth while. There are a lot of plugins that have tier pricing for 1 license or multi-licenses. There is also lifetime updates after you purchase. If you’re already creating Amazon niche sites it’s probably an obvious decision that this will save you quite a bit of time when creating your sites. If you want more info or maybe some discount you can hit me up.

Category: Easy Azon

In 2011 my wife and I have decided that we need to get an seo process going so that in 18 months we will have some great passive income coming in. We don’t want to start from scratch after she stops her daycare and now is the time to get going and building our network of websites. In 2010 we purchased a few domains that looked promising and figured we would do minimal work to get them ranking. We were wrong! We did not have an seo process when building those websites.

There are tools and blogs and forums and ebooks on how to plan your own seo process and I was a little overwhelmed to say the least. Affiliate marketing with paid traffic now seems simple but I’m sure going after free traffic is going to seem simple in about 18 months. So, we sat down and literally scribbled out a plan of attack.

Our SEO Process

The first thing we did was take the niche research equation out of the plan. I paid a guy to give me random keywords that were “easy” to rank in google according to the many tools that are out there. I’ve done plenty of keyword research before and used many tools but this time after paying for a few leads I feel like we really have to focus because we’ve invested a few dollars already.

Next in our seo process was to create the websites. Since I’ve used wordpress in nearly every domain that I have that was an obvious choice. To make things even easier I went ahead and used the azon theme from Chris Guthrie’s course “Niche Profit Course”. The theme is very clean and has some very simple features with ad placement and featured articles. A plugin that we’re using on all of our blogs is SEOPressor. I don’t want to fill this post up with how it works, you can check it out. But it’s awesome (maybe another post later).

During these 2 phases my wife was hard at work writing articles for the websites. She went ahead and made 5 for each and a few extra for some of the keywords that she could continue to write about. Her first real input in our seo process is next time we’ll choose topics that she won’t mind writing about. There was one in particular that’s just tough to write for. At this time we do not want to shell out more money for articles.

We have now come to the point of our seo process in which we are at currently. Link Building! This is painstaking work especially if you’re doing the work yourself. I won’t go through all of the details but there is one part that is pretty important, random links. To get random one-way links we go to article directories and post some articles. One of the best places is to use The Keyword Academy own network called PostRunner. This is not one of those automated link builders. These are blogs that real people own and real people approve or disapprove the articles. You will be banned from using this service if you are caught using spun content.

Category: SEO Process

Are you a blogger and struggling to make money online, are you spending hours researching keywords for your headlines for each blog post you do? It is known that if your headlines have the right keywords you can rank your pages to the top of Google in literally hours.

Keyword Winner allows you to have full easy control right inside your blog dashboard to get all the right stats and information at once saving you time and headache and most of all giving you the keywords you need to get clicks and of course make money.

This tool has seriously revolutionized the way we do SEO today. With this tool you can type in a keyword right in your blog post dashboard as what you normally would do and right under your fingertips you will have results displayed telling you what has low competition and a continued high search trend over the months and what the overall search percentage is over the current month.

Less then 1 minute to find keywords for your headlines.

To have all this information there you are now able to get highly searched non competitive keywords for your headlines skyrocketing your pages to the 1st page in no time.

Here is an overview of Keyword Winner

1. Competition & Search Trends Clear as Crystal
As you type to create a headline in your blog post, results automatically display making it easier for you to get instant information so that you can choose the best headline based on its competing pages, search trend and backlink competition.

2. Keyword Winner Suggestions for Low Competition Headlines
Keyword suggestions are there at your finger tips making it easier to target the right headlines and rank to the 1st page easily.

3. Colors Highlighted to Target Specific Search Terms
Less competitive phrases are highlighted green, and more competitive phrases are highlighted red.

4. Rank Checker
You can find what position your ranking for your blog posts and monitor and improve the rankings very easily.

5. Awesome Bloggers SEO Tool
Bloggers can now write reviews on money making products to get to the top of Google and make sales conversions.

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So I don’t think I need to go on and explain any more, as I think it is very clear how this program can benefit you and your online business. But one thing we already know is time is money and money is time, let’s get the ball rolling and start making money today, the longer you wait the longer you will lose out, take action get the results your online business needs and purchase this plugin at the one time price with no ongoing fees and unlimited support and updates.

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Category: Keyword Winner