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Well, I survived my first week of P90X. I was kinda skeptical about the program, but after the first day, I knew I was in a world of hurt. The best way I can describe it? Well, my legs haven’t been this sore since two-a-day football practices when I was in college.

I have already seen improvement with the ab ripper X, and i can’t wait to see what my results are after the first month. It’s amazing, my workout before this was biking to the gym, lifting for about an hour, then swim for 45 minutes. Again, the P90X has made me more sore than my workout ever had.

With my work schedule it will be challenging to stick with the P90X regimine, but i’m determined to finish it through. Check in next week of how my progress is.

It is hard to describe the felling of accomplishment that one feels after finishing a 90 day round of P90X. As a Beachbody Coach many people ask me what they should do after they complete a round of the P90X.  I tell people that they should take a week off and start up another round or they should look into P90X One on One. For people that have finished a round of P90X and/or are in great shape and want to take their workouts to a whole new level P90X One on One is for you.  While I could keep typing and let you read about it, I am sure you would rather watch a short video on it.  Check it out below.

What is really nice about this P90X graduate program is that it is only $19.95!

Intrigued by what you see? Sign-up for a free Beachbody account and read more about it.

Firefighters have a job that demands a lot from them both  physically and mentally. While keeping a steady head, they need to be able to perform their job duties which involves carrying around heavy equipment while wearing heavy protective clothing and sometimes on hot summer days. While I always thought, and still do,  that firefighters need to be extremely brave and selfless, I was surprised to find out that most firefighters fatalities are from heart attacks. To combat this some fire stations, such as the one from Idaho that is featured in the video,  have made working out in their down time a part of their job requirements.  Check out the video below to see how they do it and how it has changed their lives.

This is another of many great stories about how the Coaching opportunity with Team Beachbody has helped a family transform their lives for the better.

Mike and Kelley Ryan’s jobs took a big hit when the real estate market crashed. This being an awful and life altering event, they chose to make the best of it and learn as much as they could about being a Beachbody Coach.

Beachbody likes to compare their business plan to that of the very successful McDonald’s business plan. Rarely do you see a McDonald’s restaurant going out of business. Why is that you might ask?  Because the McDonald’s corporation has a great business plan already put together for potential restaurant owners. All one would have to do it buy into the company and then they send you to hamburger university to learn about their business plan.

Well enough of McDonald’s. Beachbody has created a business plan of their own, they call it the Game Plan. They tell you exactly what you need to do to be a successful Beachbody Coach. The Ryan’s followed this Game Plan. Watch the video and see how well it worked out for them! Sign-up for a free Beachbody account and check out for yourself what it takes to be a successful Beachbody Coach.

There are a few places that you can buy the P90X cheaper than what Beachbody sells it for and couple of spots where you can even get it for free. But before I tell you where these places are I need to inform you of vital information that will save you money in the long-run and possibly a headache or two.

Downloading the P90X for free is possible, I just have no idea where you can find it at. Not only is downloading it for free extremely illegal, but it will also take up 55 gigs of your hard drive. Now some of you may be like ” Well I have a ginormous hard drive and 55 gigs is nothing!”.  Well you may be right, but do you know how long it takes to download 55 gigs? It takes days. And with computer virus’ being everywhere why would you want to take the chance of getting one in your computer. Are you really going to work out in front of your computer? If you do please be sure the webcam is off!

The first bit of information that you need to know is that when you purchase the P90X from Beachbody not only do you get a set of 12 workout DVD’s, but you also get a fitness guide and a nutrition plan.  Besides the workout DVD’s, the fitness guide is the most important piece of the package. The fitness guide contains the workout schedule for three tracks ( Classic, Lean, and Doubles). Classic is what most people do, Lean contains more cardio than the Classic track, and Doubles is basically the Classic track plus another daily cardio workout.  So my point is if you don’t have the fitness guide you’re as they say “up a stream without a paddle”. You will have no idea in what order to do the workout DVD’s.

The nutrition guide isn’t quite as important as the fitness guide, but it is a very close second. The nutrition guide helps you figure out exactly what your daily caloric intake should be if you want to maintain your current weight, lose weight slowly, or drop it like its your job. It takes it a step further by providing you with a detailed daily meal plan. It tells you exactly what to eat for the recommended 5 meals a day. 5 meals a day help to get and keep your metabolism going.

Beachbody is the company that created and that ONLY distributes the P90X. Period. If you purchase it through Beachbody you will get the entire package for $119.86.  My research has shown me that Beachbody does also sell the P90X through Amazon. However, the P90X price through Amazon is $145 plus shipping.  Amazon adds the extra $ to pay its affiliates their %15 referal fee.

I work a chat box on a site that gets over 100,000 visitors a month. Basically I answer peoples questions about Beachbody products. About 10% of the people I chat with are people that purchased the P90X from a site other than Beachbody or Amazon and they never received the fitness or nutrition guide. Most of them purchased it through a site that was offering it for something around $65.  They thought they were getting a great deal but they unknowingly just basically wasted their money. No fitness guide, no direction, no results.

What you should also know is that there is a good reason why these sites are selling it so cheap, that’s because they are selling you pirated copies of the P90X! Some are pretty good at it, but most are just downright pathetic and make no effort to hide the fact that it is a pirated copy. Most of them are based out of Asia so what do they care if you don’t like the fact that you bought an incomplete pirated copy.  A great example of how bad these cheap copies are unfortunately comes from a lady I work with. She went to one of these pirating sites and thought she was getting a great deal on the P90X. Paid something like $89 for it. When it arrived, a month later I might add, the DVD’s labels were all off center and hanging over the edge of the DVD! What crap! To make it worse, when she got the DVD labels fixed only half of the DVDs worked. This is bit technical, but burnable DVD’s come in -R, +R, or -+R formats.  Some DVD players only play certain DVD formats. The -+R DVDs are the best because all players play them. But they are also more expensive than the others so pirating companies try to make even more money by using the single -R or +R formated DVD’s. These companies make a lot of money at selling these pirated copies and have become very good at it. You need to be very careful if you decide to purchase from one of these sites.

Ebay is also a nice place to find cheaper copies of the P90X. However, pirating companies sell on ebay too so you need to be really careful. These companies really don’t care if you give them a bad rating. Even if ebay closes their account they will simply just open another one. SO yes, you can find legit copies on ebay but you just need to be really careful.

The last piece has to do with being financially vested. Only about 15% of the people that buy the P90X for dirt cheap finish it. Why is this you might ask? Well, the P90X workouts are tough and require a lot of commitment to complete. When people only spend $40 – $65 on the P90X there are more likely to quit and never complete it because they aren’t really losing to much. If you drop $119 on the P90X you are more likely to stick with it because you have a lot of money tied up in this.  If you’re wondering, around 60% of the people that pay full price for the P90X end up completing the 90 day journey.

So, is it possible to save some money on the P90X and buy it from a site other than Beachbody? Yes it is possible. But you are almost for sure purchasing a pirated copy where the DVD’s may not even work and you may not get the fitness or nutrition guide with it. So pony up the $119, buy a legit copy of it from Beachbody, and begin your transformation within 4 days of ordering it.