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How to choose your exercise program this year by your “Fitness Personality”

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Right now you are deciding on those “exercise” and “lose weight” goals for the year. You are seeing a ton of advertisements for promising gadgets, magic gizmos, and can’t refuse offers. I’m so proud of you for setting the goal to become healthier. So how do you decide what with work for you to help you reach your goals? This is how to choose your exercise program this year!

You and I both know that no matter what, it will take dedication and commitment to show up for yourself and put in the time and work. It’s a must. No magic pills will do it. No crazy drops (don’t get me started on this!). No wild, “scientifically engineered” gadgets.

Eat right and exercise. Simple in concept. Tough to do. But you’re worth it. And you know what? By the time it takes to devote energy to things that won’t work, you could have done what you have always known (eat right and exercise) and gotten healthier than the day before. Do this for 20 out of 30 days each month this year and you will make strides toward your goals. Use one of our eat right and exercise programs, and you may surpass your goals! Perhaps in a few short months. Still, you have to develop a life time mindset. So, let’s talk about those goals for a second.

What are you wanting to achieve by the end of the year? Why? What’s that reason? Seriously! “I want to drop 30 pounds” doesn’t mean much unless you can tell your reasons and what it will enable you to do. Give that thought first. Write it down. Then continue reading.

This year I want to achieve __________________ with my fitness and nutrition.
My biggest reason why is __________________________ because it will enable me to _______________________. I plan to start on ____________________.
My 30 day goal is:
My 90 day goal is:
My 6 month goal is:

Now, let’s chat about that fitness personality of yours. You want to find something that you know will get your results. Something you know you’ll stick with. Something fun! And Something at your current level!

I would love to recommend getting a gym membership somewhere as I know of several that have state of the art facilities and classes that are off the charts. Making sure you use the membership often to justify costs can be a struggle for some. I have seen too many of my friends get stuck doing monthly payments for years on end. If you are one who regularly goes… then good for you. Go find the one with all of the features you need to show up for yourself!

If the gym, health club or rec center isn’t for you, then I recommend some workouts that you can do from home. They take little space and minimal equipment. As a matter of fact, all of the equipment you need to get started comes with each of these programs.

Another perk… each program comes with it’s own nutrition plan. And to add more fuel to the fire to get you better results, I’ll list some bundle options that adds in a customized meal planner, support tools and an optimal nutrition meal replacement that is off the charts and have you looking for a new wardrobe!

Let’s define your “fitness personality.” What program trips your trigger? Weights? Dance? Kickboxing? Cardio? Are you just getting started, or looking for something more advanced? You can see descriptions of programs below.

  • Getting Started – Turbo Jam, Body Gospel, Slim in 6, Rockin’ Body, Power 90, Les Mills PUMP
  • Cardio – Brazil Butt Lift, Insanity, Turbo Fire, Hip Hop Abs, Turbo Jam, RevAbs, Power 90, Insanity The Asylum
  • Weights/Strength – Les Mills PUMP, P90X, P90X2, ChaLEAN Extreme
  • Advanced – P90X, P90X2, Insanity, Asylum, ChaLEAN Extreme, Slim Series, RevAbs, LesMills Pump
  • Perry’s Recommendations (these got me lean and ripped) – P90X, Insanity, Asylum, Les Mills Pump & P90X2

Bundle it with a Challenge Pack! Save $25-$45 and get free shipping! Each pack gives you an awesome fitness program, Shakeology Home Direct, 30-day Trial to Team Beachbody Club. So that means Fitness + Nutrition + Support Tools = Results Plus! I will be your coach every step of the way. My gift to you for putting yourself first! :)

THE TIME TO START IS NOW!

Challenge Pack orders click here and click “Commit To Get Fit” and then choose your bundle!

Browse the Entire Library of workout programs here!

WORKOUT PROGRAMS

Les Mills PUMP
Les Mills Trainers 15-50 minutes Engineer your perfect body with Les Mills PUMP. This barbell-based rapid weight loss and accelerated strength-training program incinerates calories to help give you the ultimate tight, toned, and lean body you want. The secret is  “the rep effect,” which requires that you use lighter weights at a higher rate of repetition so you can burn up to 1,000 calories per workout and get leaner faster.

INSANITY
Shaun T 30–60 minutes Transform your body in 60 days with the most intense workout program ever put on DVD. MAX Interval Training—you perform long bursts of maximum-intensity exercise with short periods of rest.

P90X
Tony Horton 45–60 minutes Advanced total-body training program focused on abs, legs, chest, back, and arms. Twelve routines that keep introducing new moves and challenging your muscles to get you absolutely ripped in 90 days.

TurboFire
Chalene Johnson 10–55 minutes Burn up to 9x more fat and calories than with traditional cardio. High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) ignites your metabolism and helps your body burn calories for up to 48 hours after your workout.

RevAbs™
Brett Hoebel 15–45 minutes Fat-burning cardio, muscle-building and sculpting focused on abs and core. Abcentrics™, Capoeira, cardio intervals, strength training, and ab/core work to get you six-pack abs in 90 days.

Body Gospel
Donna Richardson Joyner 10–45 minutes Calorie-burning cardio, core exercises, and strength training to tone and tighten your entire body. Inspirational gospel music powers you through cardio and light resistance workouts to help burn fat and reshape your body.

Turbo Jam®
Fat Burning Elite
Chalene Johnson 30–50 minutes Advanced kickboxing and body-sculpting moves focused on core, thighs, and upper body. More intense targeted workouts to maximize your fat-burning and sculpting results.

Power 90
Tony Horton 35–45 minutes Fat burning and total-body sculpting focused on abs, thighs, and upper body. 90-day boot camp featuring fast and effective circuit-training workouts to transform your body in as little as 35 minutes a day.

Brazil Butt Lift
Leandro Carvalho 30–50 minutes Reduce your hips, slim your thighs, and lift your butt while you burn fat and melt away saddlebags. Combines Brazilian dance, cardio, and signature sculpting moves with Leandro’s proven TriAngle Training method that works your butt from multiple angles.

ChaLEAN Extreme
Chalene Johnson 30–45 minutes Advanced circuit training program develops lean, sexy muscle to help you burn up to 60% of your body fat for overall body transformation. The proven 3-phase circuit training technique is guaranteed to give you results every 30 days—the more muscle you build, the more fat you burn because Muscle Burns Fat®!

Slim Series
Debbie Siebers 60+ minutes Advanced body slimming and toning focused on abs, thighs, butt, and hips. Combines intense cardio with greater resistance to continue slimming and toning your body.

INSANITY:THE ASYLUM™
Shaun T 45–60 minutes Get stronger, faster, and quicker in just 30 days. Unleash your inner world-class athlete through plyometrics, speed, agility, strength, and core workouts in a jaw-dropping series of progressions. In just 30 days, you’ll push yourself to the next level of game-day readiness with dramatic, measurable improvements in your athletic performance.

Hip Hop Abs
Shaun T 25–45 minutes Calorie-burning cardio and total-body sculpting focused on abs and core. Fun hip hop dance moves set to hot music to burn fat and sculpt lean sexy abs.

Rockin’ Body
Shaun T 15–45 minutes Calorie-burning cardio and full-body sculpting moves. Party off the pounds as you dance and sweat to the hottest hits of all time.

Brazil Butt Lift
Leandro Carvalho 30–50 minutes Reduce your hips, slim your thighs, and lift your butt while you burn fat and melt away saddlebags. Combines Brazilian dance, cardio, and signature sculpting moves with Leandro’s proven TriAngle Training method that works your butt from multiple angles.

Be a Biggest Loser! Have your own finale!

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Be Your Own Biggest Loser

Here’s how to be your own Biggest Loser and have your own finale!

This past week has been one of winners …. American Idol, Celebrity Apprentice and of course The Biggest Loser. In case you aren’t familiar, The Biggest Loser is a television show. Overweight contestants attempt to lose the most weight to fight for a cash prize. and contestants leave home to stay at a Biggest Loser ranch and work with celebrity trainers hoping to transform their bodies, their health and their lives. Each week contestant go through a series of challenges and there’s a weigh-in at the end of the week. The goal is to lose the highest percentage of weight (or most weight) to become the Biggest Loser.

The season of The Biggest Loser lasts 20 weeks. That got me thinking. What could you accomplish with your health and fitness in that same time frame?

Here’s a few things I know that will help you celebrate your own Biggest Loser Finale in just a mere 13 weeks. Of course you’ll be pushing forward once you’re done and can compare your results with the contestants. Now, before I recommend a plan, just know, your results can be measured in many many ways.

  • Belt Loop notches (inches lost)
  • Clothing Size
  • Photos taken every 30 days
  • Amount of Energy you’re gaining
  • Confidence
  • Physical ailments subsiding
  • Better sleep
  • People commenting on your progress
  • Strength and Endurance each week

OK, here’s my recommendation for becoming your own contestant and success story!

  1. Make the decision you want to commit to a fitness and nutrition program for 13 weeks. Identify why you want to accomplish this? What will you be able to do when you are done? For example, if you are wanting to lose the beer gut, or 30 pounds, ask yourself why??
  2. Choose a workout program that fits your fitness personality, then shop at the link below
  3. Commit to following the program. Get your free account so you can check in with me every day to keep you on track and ask questions.
  4. Follow the nutrition plan and tap into my insights for more tips!

That’s it! Before you know it, 13 weeks will blow by (it’s going to any way) and you’ll be celebrating your results! Feel free to go out and buy confetti ahead of time!

Who knows? By tracking your results and taking the photos, you could be one of those people entering our Million Dollar Body game and win big cash like they do on the Biggest Loser!

Be A Biggest Loser

Insanity Asylum Review, so far

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Insanity The Asylum

I have a whole new respect for athletes on professional sports teams. Just when I thought it was OK to complain that they are overpaid, I get a dose of their training regimen. Enter, the asylum. Insanity Asylum.
Many of us have been anticipating the release of Asylum for quite some time now. It’s a follow-up program of the original Insanity, which is the hardest workout program I have ever done.

Two weeks ago Asylum arrived at my door.  Shaun T signed my copy as I won it because of my success as a Team Beachbody Coach. Three of us have decided to do the workouts so we needed to get a few extra pieces of equipment (2 more agility ladders and an extra speed jump rope) and make use of our clubhouse for space.

I’ve posted videos of my first week below. Here’s my Insanity Asylum review so far!

Asylum is a sports performance based workout and helps you improve your over all athletic performance as opposed to the endurance performance in Insanity.
I started with Speed and Agility and instantly discovered that there’s a lot of work to be done! Very creative moves intermixed with the speed rope and agility ladder had me questioning my coordination constantly. Still, the challenge is there and it really is fun working to improve. You use the agility ladder like crazy and the in and out ab progressions along with moving pushups has one begging for mercy! The bear crawl is a beast! The warmup is a workout in itself! As a matter of fact, all of the warmups in Insanity Asylum are killer.

We love the Strength workout where you hold dumbbells and do plyometric moves. That workout really torches my legs and glutes. The Back to Core workout puts a spin on your typical core workout. All of the moves are focused on the back even though your whole body is engaged. I know my shoulders and arms felt it as well as my legs.

Vertical Plyo has been the toughest so far for me. The agility ladder is used here again and you add in stretchy bands on your arms and legs doing plyo pushups, x jumps, moving pushups, long jumps, one legged jump knee tucks and more. Just when you’re hoping to get a drink of water or grab a breath of air, Shaun has you doing the speed rope as a recovery.

All of these workouts are kicking our butts and we have to break often. Some workouts have even gotten tougher the second time around.

On the nutrition front, we are eating many of the recipes in the eating plan (we love avocados!), which is easy to follow! The other items working for us is Recovery Formula and Shakeology.

I love the fact that this is a 30 day program as our bodies are screaming right now. Inside the box is also a plan where you can do a hybrid of P90X and Asylum or Insanity and Asylum. How slick is that?

Here’s to going thru the training of being an athlete!

Ready for one of the toughest workout programs out there?
Click below to buy Insanity Asylum!

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Videos

Insanity Asylum – Shaun T’s sports performance will get you results!

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Insanity Asylum

Insanity The Asylum by Shaun T has now been released and it’s time to jump in and go. The whole program, created by Shaun T, looks to be a blast. You should see all that comes with it!
I started the year doing Insanity. That is probably the hardest workout I have ever done. I got great results though. This new program is different, where you use your body weight for resistance, this program incorporates some weight training. There’s also a pull-up bar for back training. I’m pretty excited to start the new Insanity Asylum.

This will be pretty fun to turn the living room into a sports complex! It really focuses on sports training and conditioning (which leads me to believe there will be other volumes down the road!). From the web site, it appears that  Asylum will help you improve your agility, speed, jumps, flexibility, and core strength, all very important for sports! Personally, I am looking forward to seeing where I can take my performance level to. I am not one who is involved in sports, but I like having the body and skills of an athlete all the same.

I think if you are a P90X and/or Insanity graduate or even an athlete wanting to take it up another notch, Asylum should be next on your radar! Besides, this workout just looks like a lot of fun and a program where you can constantly set benchmarks to improve!

I am starting Asylum now and will be video blogging my journey. Please join me and get your copy! When you buy Insanity Asylum from this site, you will get me as your coach. Then I will be able to help support and guide you through the program. We can motivate each other!

To buy Insanity Asylum, click on the button below, or click this link!

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Power Blast Podcast – Episode 179: Insane Abs

I find it totally interesting how many different ways there are to work various muscle groups. Over the past month I have been incorporating an ab workout from Insanity Deluxe. It’s called Insane Abs and many, does it test your patience and strength!

Get Insanity Deluxe at CoachTinsley.com

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Middle-Aged and Feeling Better than High School Days

I “want” to say I am middle-aged. I mean, I’d hate to think I am beyond that because I certainly don’t feel like it. You see, I hide my true age through plastic surgery and Photoshop (Just kidding. Photoshop does work wonders though! Look at magazine models!).

Actually, I learned to reverse the age thing by revamping the way I treat my body and changing the way I look at life. I am 45 years old and continue to improve as each decade passes. I’m proud of that.

It’s not easy to stay consistent at something, but treating yourself by taking good care of YOU is a must. An absolute must.

There are so many things working hard to keep us from making that happen. So, retooling your mind to decide who is in control is the first step. It’s easy for others and circumstances to seemingly make our decisions for us, but at what cost?

Now, I’m not going to get on my soap box and tell you to get off the “poor me” bandwagon. You know you can do the things to get yourself healthy and fit. And, if you’re subscribed to this newsletter, you know how. You’ve seen and read testimonies. You’ve seen the tools I’ve suggested and the nutritional products to get results!

Hard work? Yes! Just tell yourself “bring it on!” Because you know what? You are surrounded by tons of support and know it can be done one day at a time. Ignoring it and doing nothing should not be an option. I don’t believe people set goals to treat themselves poorly, but you know what? I think it happens when people don’t put themselves first. Ignoring what needs to be done is similar to consciously deciding not to take care of yourself. (I hear my car and house applauding that statement when they are in need of repairs. Noted!)

It took me almost 40 years to figure that out. I let things slide for way too long. I’m just fortunate that I got clued in and took action. Each day, every day, a little bit better. And now, I am proud to be middle-aged and feeling better than my high school days!

What are you waiting for?

OK, so you got inspired in the wee hours of the morning when an infomercial for P90X, Insanity, Turbo Jam or Brazil Butt Lift came on the tube. The program was filled with energy and grabbed your attention. As you watched and listened to the amazing success stories you began to think, “I want that! I want that now! I can do that!” So… you ran to the phone because you didn’t want to call after the timer on the TV ran out or you’d miss out on the free gift! Plus… free shipping… well gotta love that.

Then you waited. A few days passed and you eagerly got your workout program. You began to panic a bit, but were also excited. “This could be life changing,” you thought. “Can I really do this?” you began to question.

You opened and ready the materials. Seemed to make sense, but somehow you figured you’d start “next week.” That way you could really read over the materials. You even decided to watch a few of the DVDs to see what they were really like. On a few you got up and did a few moves, but sat back down and skipped through the rest of the DVD.

The weekend came. You took measurements and embarrassingly took the dreaded Before photo. Day 1 came and you worked out. It was WAY HARDER than you thought. You hit pause a few times and skipped a few moves. Then Day 2 came. You were way sore, so only did a little. Day 3 was sore, so you skipped and thought you’d catch up on your rest day. The pattern repeated for a week or so before halting the sporadic workout schedule because of a small cold. The product sat there glaring at you well after the time you recovered. You thought about starting over again, but that’s as far as it went.

You shelved the product. Eventually you came to the conclusion that it didn’t work for you. Time went on and you kept growing and feeling less and less energetic.

How did doing nothing work for you? It wasn’t the program that didn’t work. You just didn’t give yourself a fighting chance. The time is NOW to turn it around!

You can do it! What are you waiting for? Dig out the videos, make a plan and stick to it for at least 6 weeks. Just 6 weeks! The soreness is short lived. The benefits are HUGE and the confidence immense.
You DESERVE it.

I am here for you and have an entire community of friends to help you as well.

So, start pushing play again! If the program you have didn’t match your fitness personality, then let’s get you something that does! Email me and we can talk. OR check out any of these amazing workouts. I’ve done them all so you know results can happen.

Insanity

Insanity was the the hardest workout program I have ever done. Your personal trainer, Shaun T,  pushes you past your limits with 10 workout discs packed with plyometric drills on top of nonstop intervals of strength, power, resistance, and ab and core training moves. No equipment or weights needed. Just the will to get the hardest body you’ve ever had.

Get INSANE results!

The secret to these mind-blowing results is something called Max Interval Training where Shaun T took traditional interval training and flipped it on its head—you perform long bursts of maximum-intensity exercises with short periods of rest. Each workout keeps you constantly challenged as you alternate between aerobic and anaerobic intervals performed at your MAX. The result: burn up to 1,000 calories in an hour and get the most insane body in 60 days. I thought I might spontaneously combust!

You can get Insanity here!

A Totally New Body One Year From Now

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Often when I was in my 20s and 30s and getting fatter and fatter I had had visions of going away to a fat camp or fitness camp or some sort of retreat where I could live for a year and work hard to totally transform my body and my health. I often pictured the scene as people would barely recognize me and would ask lots of questions or statements like, “What’s your secret?” “What Have you been doing” or “Man, you look awesome!”

Well, I never made it to that get away and years passed without any progress in the health arena. Guess what! I kept growing bigger and feeling weak, tired, lethargic, and crumpy. Yep. Me…Grumpy. I was edgy a lot of the time.

Well, as you know I discovered that infomercial that changed my life and didn’t need to get away to change my body, health or life. Now I feel energized, happy and look pretty darn fit!

So, I was thinking. We are heading into a new decade. How can I help others with their own “fat camp” without leaving home?

Easy! Connect with me and let’s formulate a plan for one year. I’ll coach and motivate you for FREE!

We will break down the entire year into 3 month sections. I have a few tracks in mind. I know everyone has a different fitness personality, but I’ll share one here.

Month 1-3 Power 90 / Turbo Jam
Month 4-6 Chalene Extreme
Month 7-9 P90X
Month 10-11 Insanity
Month 12 – Whatever you want. You’ll be a whole new person!

Contact me on starting your one-year fitness journey. Also, save on shipping for any of the workout programs listed to save major bucks on shipping. Plus you’ll be automatically connected to me for your coach!

You will succeed and a new year is one day at a time away!!

SUCCESS STORY


Don Pettinger, a superintendent of schools in southern California, took on this challenge starting in May of 2009. Here’s what happened in Don’s words:

I started using Power 90 after seeing first hand the results my daughter had with P90x. When I started using Beachbody products I was spinning the scale 3 plus times coming in at 303lbs. 45 days into the program, I had gone from wearing a size 42 to a 36 and from 303lbs to 265 lbs. See update below

I am no different then each of you, I have a very busy life and between work, church and family commitments I never thought I could fit anytime for a workout into my schedule. After reviewing the Power 90 program, I saw I would only need to make about a 30-minute commitment for each workout, so I decided to give it a try. I thought this was less time then it would take me to get ready and to go and come back from the gym.

I am so glad I pushed play that first day. I can’t remember the last time in my life I have felt so good.

I have completed Power 90, ChaLean Extreme and now weight 222 lbs and down to a 34inch waste. On January 22, 10 I started my first round of P90X.

Don was a $1000 monthly winner in one of Beachbody’s contests. Here’s his story and video. I’m so proud of you, Don!

 

One Year From Now – A Totally New Body

Often when I was in my 20s and 30s and getting fatter and fatter I had had visions of going away to a fat camp or fitness camp or some sort of retreat where I could live for a year and work hard to totally transform my body and my health. I often pictured the scene as people would barely recognize me and would ask lots of questions or statements like, “What’s your secret?” “What Have you been doing” or “Man, you look awesome!”

Well, I never made it to that get away and years passed without any progress in the health arena. Guess what! I kept growing bigger and feeling weak, tired, lethargic, and crumpy. Yep. Me…Grumpy. I was edgy a lot of the time.

Well, as you know I discovered that infomercial that changed my life and didn’t need to get away to change my body, health or life. Now I feel energized, happy and look pretty darn fit!

So, I was thinking. We are heading into a new decade. How can I help others with their own “getaway transformation camp” without leaving home?

Easy! Connect with me and let’s formulate a plan for one year. I’ll coach and motivate you for FREE!

We will break down the entire year into 3 month sections. I have a few tracks in mind. I know everyone has a different fitness personality, but I’ll share one here.

Month 1-3 Power 90 / Turbo Jam
Month 4-6 Chalene Extreme
Month 7-9 P90X
Month 10-11 Insanity
Month 12 – Whatever you want. You’ll be a whole new person!

Contact me on starting your one-year fitness journey. Also, save on shipping for any of the workout programs listed to save major bucks on shipping. Plus you’ll be automatically connected to me for your coach!

You will succeed and the 2010 will be the start of an amazing decade!!

PT out