Tuesday, April 8, 2014

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Thursday, September 19, 2013

Beachbody Coach Home-Based Business

 
5 Ways Personal Trainers Can Benefit from a Beachbody Coach Home-Based Business


 
 
 
Five Ways Trainers and Gym Owners Can Benefit from a Beachbody Coach Home-Based Business

If you’re a personal trainer or a gym owner, have you ever considered a Home Based Business like Beachbody?
I know it’s very easy for personal trainers or gym owners to blow home fitness programs or a home based businesses off.  I’m here to ask you to re-consider.
I am a Beachbody Coach.  We have several personal trainers, figure competitors, and gym owners on our team.  I’m not trying to teach what they know or even trying to pretend I know what they know about Fitness & Nutrition.  However, many most trainers/gym owners don’t know what I know as a successful Beachbody Coach! 





Here are Five Reasons why I believe you should give being a Team Beachbody Coach a chance.

Expand your territory

Personal trainers and gym owners generally draw clients from a 2 – 10 mile radius, depending how large their city is and where the next gym is.  The competition could be fierce.  How many gyms and personal trainers are there in a major city?  How many personal trainers are in a mega-gym like LA Fitness?   I see a lot of personal trainers walking around my former gym (now LA Fitness) and looking for clients.  There seems to be a lot of extra time on their hands, and I seriously doubt most trainers are filling up an entire 40 – 60 hour work week with back to back clients.   So, wouldn’t it be nice to use Social Media like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc to be able to expand your territory? Think about it, how many people can you reach with your services just inside your gym?  How many people can you reach on Social Media?  Your territory on social media is unlimited. And having Products available to you like Shakeology, P90X, Insanity, Hip Hop Abs,  FOCUST25, a meal planner, protein bars, supplements, etc at your disposal will allow you to provide a service to your clients that you wouldn’t otherwise meet.  Trust me, you won’t lose your existing client base.  Don’t think like that.  Have a Producer mindset and look at the opportunity to expand your client base.

Learn how to motivate your clients better

Whether we are Beachbody coaches or personal trainers, we want our clients to have success.  However, no matter what products we have to offer or what $5,000 piece of gym equipment we teach people to use, if they don’t have the mindset to succeed, they won’t.  As far as I know, personal training focuses more on training people physically.  We (Beachbody Coaches) work on people mentally as well.   Ask any successful Beachbody coach and they will tell you we are in the People business rather than the product business.  As our CEO says “without our Beachbody coaches as a support system, we’re just another company selling fitness sh**.”   We teach our Coaches how to be Leaders and how to learn to motivate others by getting to their “WHY.”   We have to be good leaders to motivate people to work for themselves, and lead them to their dream life.  We’re not paying people like in a regular J.O.B. where the boss pays you and you do what they say.  Even as Trainers, your clients pay you, so ultimately they are the boss.  However, our job as successful Beachbody Coaches is to learn what motivates someone to want to achieve their goals.   Most of what we teach in our Coach training is all about people skills and personal development, not physical training or product training.   This enables our coaches to be better people on their J.O.B. and even better Trainers because of better relationships with their clients – which ultimately leads to more results for their clients.  As gym owners, you will even learn to have better relationships with your employees and clients thus keeping everyone happy!
Diversify

As a career, being involved will enable you to diversify in your career.  Do you want to put all your eggs in one basket?  If you are a trainer at a gym, have you noticed how many gyms in your area have come and gone since you have been in the field?  Have you noticed how many managers have come and gone inside your gym?  How many trainers themselves have come and gone?  This is an extremely competitive, risky, and high-turnover field.  That means you should protect yourself and diversify your income base.  By creating a personal training online business, you can be fully diversified and create a residual income stream through our products like Shakeology and the supplements and also by creating a team that pays continually growing bonuses.  As a Gym Owner, what if you have Trainers that are continually jumping around from gym to gym, or move?  They leave and they can take their clients with them.  There goes your income stream from that client and that trainer.  I’m sure the bulk of income is made by just a few of the trainers.  If you are a gym owner, like the gym owners on my team have done, sign up as a Beachbody Coach and then sign up your trainers as Beachbody coaches.  Encourage team building and use of the products.  Then, if anybody leaves, they also have built their own business, and wherever they go, you will be attached to them.  You continue to receive residual income from that trainer and his/her clients!   I think that’s a no-brainer!!!

 Add Value to your clients and to the Gym

With a Beachbody business, you can bring in additional revenue to the gym and add additional value to your clients.  As a trainer, you can have your clients take advantage of all the nutrition programs that Beachbody has to offer – something that you probably aren’t currently able to offer them through the gym.  The Ultimate Reset Program, for a cleanse, Shakeology, and a Meal Planner which provides a service that most trainers can’t (nutrition advice).  Through our Challenge Groups, and the online virtual gym, you’ll be able to track your clients progress 24/7 – more often than the typical 2 – 3 times per week that they get to see you.   As a Gym Owner, you’ll be able to draw trainers that have a P90x Certification or Insanity Certification, and start running additional group fitness programs.   Eventually Beachbody will be offering even more certification programs, I am sure.  In addition, the gym can carry a full line of Supplements, Shakeology, protein bars, etc.   I know many gyms now have a smoothie bar.  Why not serve up Shakeology?    Plus, you can sign up your clients for home delivery of products through your business and make 25% commissions when people order without even visiting your gym!  Imagine if 100 of your gym members decided to buy Shakeology Home Delivery from you every month??  WOW!!  Let me do the math.  That’s an extra $32.50 commission for each person each month so $3,250 per month sounds a lot better than a $2 profit on each smoothie sale.

Increase Your Income

Finally, the fifth reason, but not the last reason, is it simply comes down to the ability for people to increase their income by helping additional clients.  All of us are in the business to help people.  Some of us are in the business to help people and make a substantial income.  When you help a lot of people, you will make a substantial income.  In the gym, as a Trainer, you are probably stuck to a certain hourly work week, and a number of sessions per week, for which you get a certain commission.  So your paycheck is directly proportionate to the number of hours you can work and people you can see.  My personal research indicates that the average personal trainer makes somewhere in the range of $25,000 to $45,000 per year.  Certainly some are less and some are higher, but the majority are somewhere in that range.  Let’s face it, that’s not going to create wealth, but it might provide some ability for you to do what you love.  As I said, income is directly proportionate to the number of people we help.  As Beachbody Coaches, you have the opportunity to expand your presence and help thousands of people at once.  It’s kind of like going from a one on one model to a group training class, but you multiply that group class by hundreds, because you can teach hundreds of people at once through social media!  Imagine if all these people were paying you just a slice of their revenue, and you getting retail commission from ongoing clients buying Shakeology, supplements, fitness programs, Ultimate Reset, etc.    Just as an example, and you can check the Beachbody official statement of earnings, but the AVERAGE Star Diamond Beachbody coach in 2012 made $90,700.  Can you, as a Gym Owner or a Personal Trainer, make an additional $25,000 – $100,000 per year doing what you are doing now?   I have friends in Beachbody making $50,000 a year, $100,000 a year, $500,000 per year, even $1.0 million per year!   This doesn’t happen overnight!  We invest extra hours into it, but how many extra hours would you have to invest to get that type of raise with what you’re doing now?  How much additional income could you use?  An extra $1,000 per month?  An extra $500 per month?  How about $10,000 per month?  Whatever you want, it’s entirely up to you and your efforts.  If you love Fitness and helping people, and are Coachable, I am sure you can succeed.  And I hope you are coachable, after all, you’re asking your clients to listen to you, so I hope you would listen to professional Beachbody Coaches to help you get the lifestyle/benefits you deserve!!

Is it worth it to you now to reconsider all the benefits of a Beachbody Coach business?   I look forward to speaking with you.  Please contact me through here or connect with me on Facebook!

 


Monday, June 24, 2013

Team Beachbody Coach Summit 2013 - Viva Las Vegas


This weekend I attended my first Team Beachbody Coach Summit. There were about 7000 coaches in attendance from all over the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico.

I started as a Beachbody Coach in late February and was looking forward to meeting other coaches at Summit to get business tips and do some networking. It was all I expected and more!! We attended business meetings, breakout sessions, group workouts, and partied, partied, partied! 

The highlights were the early morning, live workouts with people like Tony Horton, Shaun T, Chalene Johnson, and many more. I, mistakenly, thought the workouts would be easier because of the size of the groups and the fact they were live. Boy, was I WRONG!  Each trainer discovered a new muscle I hadn't used in a while. My hotel mates and I groaned everytime we moved after each workout. It was a BLAST and I can't wait for next year!

Below are pics and videos in no particular order and unedited so you can get a real feel for the weekend.
 


 


















 






 
 

 
 
Links to various videos from Beachbody Coach Summit 2013. Check out the contestants for and winners of the $100,000 Beachbody Challenge!
 
Beachbody Challenge Contestant 19-29 yrs female
 
 
 
Beachbody Challenge Contestant 19-29 yrs male
 
 
Beachbody Challenge Contestant 30-49 yrs female
 
 
Beachbody Challenge Contestant 30-49 yrs male
 (In Spanish, but the video says it all!)
 
 
Beachbody Challenge Contestants 50 yrs and up male and female
 
 
Beachbody Challenge 2013 Winners
 
 
 
Shaun T - DO NOT QUIT
 
 
Beachbody Challenge Inspiration Award 2013 - Stuart Scott
 
 
Beachbody Coach Summit 2013 - Group Workout
 
 
Beachbody Coach Summit 2013 - Closing Celebration
 
 
 Beachbody Coach Summit 2013 - Shaun T Performance
 
 
Beachbody Coach Summit 2013 - Celebration Party
 
 
 
 
 

 

Friday, June 14, 2013

Be Still

Today I went on a solo hike to Andreas Canyon Hiking Trails. As I took in all the beautiful scenery, all I could think of was, "Be still." Each of us needs to find the time each day to simply be still and take in the beauty around us.

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Changing Our Sickcare System

For quite some time I have been giving a lot of thought to the condition of our healthcare (really sickcare) system and what needs to be done to truly fix it. Here are some of the things I feel must be done to create a new paradigm:

1. Stop rewarding bad behavior.  By this I mean stop giving free healthcare benefits to people who make bad choices.  Many states have inacted laws to perform drug tests on welfare recipients in order for them to maintain their benefits (a really good idea). They also encourage "works" programs and provide daycare vouchers so people can go to school to better themselves and get off of  welfare.  Why can't people who are receiving disability benefits be encourged to stop being disabled?  Instead of continually covering medications, treatments, and doctors visits for years and years, why not also cover nutritional counseling, gym memberships, and give incentives for getting off of disability. People have no incentive to get better when the government (really the people) continues to foot the bill. Granted, not everyone can get off of disability, but I bet a whole lot of people could get off of it if they improved their lifestyles.  It always disturbs me when a patient tells me they are unable to work because of their weight as their family brings them in McDonald's and other fast foods. The other one that gets me are the people who can't work due to respiratory problems yet they continue to smoke and collect benefits...they then have the nerve to get upset when we tell them they have to pay for their prescriptions. Benefits should be reviewed twice a year and people have to provide proof that they are taking steps to get better.

2. Clearly outline what constitutes an "emergency" and penalize people for abusing emergency rooms. Make people pay for non-emergency visits to the ER...even if it is just $10 (it adds up).  ER's are not primary care physicians nor are they free clinics.  They do not provide continuity of care.  Instead, fund clinics and urgent care centers so they can have later hours so people have options and provide care on a sliding-scale basis to those who truly can't afford it are still able to get care.  However, this must be monitored and people have to provide proof that they truly cannot pay.  We have to eliminate the people who are continually abusing the system and driving up costs for everyone else.  Encourage people to use those clinics instead of running up bills in the ER for non-emergent illnesses.  Constipation is not an emergency unless your bowel is dying as a result. Neither doctors nor nurses went through their training to unblock your bowels. We also did not go to school to rehydrate you because you didn't have enough sense to not get drunk or because you were too cheap to buy Tylenol or Motrin for your fever but could still buy your cigarettes.

3. Require medical schools to start teaching students about diet and nutrition as part of their medical training.  Pills and surgery are not the only answer to treating illness. How about providing funding and training on teaching people how not to get sick. Not everything can be prevented with a better diet and nutrition, but many things can.  Doctors and all healthcare professionals should be about promoting health and not just about treating illness.  We have to change the medical paradigm of closing the barn door after the horse is already out.  We need more upstream thinking as it relates to healthcare vs sickcare.

4. Give people more options in regard to their terminally ill loved ones. Some states have innacted assisted suicide. People with terminal illnesses should be able to make their own decisions about quality of life.  Families should be able to also make decisions about the quality of life for their loved ones.  Our nursing homes are overflowing with elderly people who can't eat on their own, can no longer walk, have no cognative ability, have no control of their bowel or bladder. Essentially, they are simply a human shell being kept alive because people either aren't ready to or are unable to let them go. Most Americans don't want to accept that dying is part of the life cycle.  We all must die sometime and we owe it to our elders to give them a good death and not one of humiliation and suffering.  Many people never see the inside of a nursing home or acute, long-term care facility. I think if more people were aware of what really goes on in those facilities, they might have different thoughts about sustaining the lives of loved ones who are alive, but no longer living.

5. Provide more funding for school lunch programs to allow them to provide children with truly healthier choices so we aren't creating sick, overweight adults. Part of prenatal care classes should cover nutrition for mother and baby that will actually promote health over the long haul.  Have comprehensive nutrition classes as part of the curriculum in all public schools.

I believe that all of these recommendations are doable.  They will just take some legislators having the courage to go against the status quo and realize that for our country and our economy to survive some drastic changes must be made that will benefit everyone.

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Are you getting your vegetables and fruits?!

With our busy schedules, most people find it impossible to eat all the recommended fruits and vegetables required to maintain a healthy diet. I have found a way to make it happen all in one meal! Contact me for more information.

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

A new prescription

Not all doctors are about writing prescriptions. There are doctors who are now actually promoting health and wellness. They are no longer focused on treating disease over preventing disease.  One hundred doctors speaking out in a new way:

Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Treatment vs Cure


Last night a 59 yr old man comes in having a stroke. He had just finished dinner and was talking with his wife and friends when he suddenly stopped making any sense. He was talking but his words were all jumbled.  He was the picture of health. He worked out twice a day and kept a journal of what he ate.  His wife waited 20 minutes before calling 911.
 
 
First lesson, time is cells, time is muscle.  Never, ever wait if you think someone is having a stroke.  The faster you can get them to help, the faster interventions can be taken. Those 20 minutes could have cost him his life.  Fortunately, his symptoms resolved and his speech returned to normal, but this is not always the case.  I work at a Stroke Center so we are all trained on the protocols for stroke.  If your nearest hospital is not a Stroke Center, then they will have to transfer you to one, which takes time.  The longer you wait to get in, the less likely it will be that the medical staff will get you to help in time.
 
 
Second lesson, never believe you are doing everything you can.  There will always be room for improvement as new information is found about health and what promotes it.  Keep your mind open to things even when they may seem strange because they could mean the difference between illness and health.  Don’t get so settled into a diet routine that you develop tunnel vision.  
 
 
After speaking with him about what he felt was the “perfect” diet, I found that he was eating white rice and white potatoes almost every day.  He was eating very few leafy greens or various colored veggies because he believed that lots of meat protein and carbs were the answer.  He was taking commercial protein powders in large amounts.  He had no idea that his diet had created the environment for the clot that broke free and caused his stroke.  He also thought the medications he was on for high cholesterol and high blood pressure were protecting him, which leads me to the third lesson.
 
 
Third lesson, medication IS NOT A CURE!  Medication is only and always will be a treatment…like putting a band-aid on a cut.  The band-aid does not heal the cut.  It only covers it up.  Medications treat symptoms but do not correct the problems that led to the disease.  You must do your part to create health.  Very few doctors will do what is necessary to cure you.  They will do everything to treat you.  Treating you keeps you coming back for follow-up visits and medication refills.  Curing you is bad for business.
 
 

Monday, May 7, 2012

Do You Know Where Your Milk Comes From?

Through my recent research, I have been learning a lot about American farming and how our food is produced.  As a result, I no longer recommend mass-produced milk products as good sources of calcium and protein.  Why?  The mass-produced milk in America is riddled with pus, hormones, and antibiotics.  You can get an inside look into how your milk is produced by watching the movie Farmageddon.

The cows in the majority of dairy farms stand knee-deep in manure, which is a breeding ground for e. coli.  They are fed corn meal that includes ground cow bones and other parts of dead, infected cows.  When the cows are slaughtered, their bodies are crusted with the e. coli-containing manure.  Is there any wonder why they have to be shot up with antibiotics.  To add insult to injury, any ground beef that is made from these cows is washed with an ammonia solution to kill the e. coli.  Just makes me want to run right out and buy a hamburger. 

Back to the milk...as history goes, the pasteurization and homogenizing of milk began as a result of industrialization and "modernization".  The run-off from the new factories was contaminating the water and food sources of the dairy cows. So, to make the milk safe to drink for we humans, they started treating the cows/milk.  Most people blame the cows for the bad milk when the blame falls completed on modernization/industrialization.  Basically, the more technologically advanced we became, the more crippled we became in other areas.

Some people may not be aware that there is a movement to make raw milk legal in this country.  It is "legal" in some states, but that message does not always reach the government. (read the article below) Other countries have been drinking raw milk all along.  The government tries to scare you away from raw milk by saying that it is unhealthy and diseased.  They are partially right.  If you get raw milk from the government-backed, diseased cows, it certainly is bad for you.  However, if you buy raw milk, cheese, butter, etc from farmers who raise their cows responsibly on chemical-free farms where the cows eat grass and don't wallow in their manure, then you have the opportunity to get all the health benefits from milk as nature intended.

People have to stop believing what the government-back agencies are telling us about our food.  Their motives are suspect.  Just look at the history of the FDA and their hiring practices for higher positions.  There is so much conflict of interest in that agency that it would take 60 Minutes 10 years to sort it all out.

To be truly concerned about your health, you must educate yourself about what you are putting in your mouth.  You must know how your food is being raised/produced, its country of origin, and how it was treated prior to it reaching your table. 

You ARE what you eat!

http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/omkara/2011/aug/6/rawsome-foods-raided-sad-day-america/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jan/31/food-industry-environment

http://www.polyfacefarms.com/principles/

Saturday, January 28, 2012

To Your Health

I recently learned about and started reading a very important book.  It is called, "Guide to Better Bowel Care," by Dr. Bernard Jensen.  Everyone who is embarking on a journey of better health must read this.  Dr. Jensen brings to light some very interesting facts about health attitudes.  To quote him, "The American Cancer Society has expressed the idea that it may take 20 years or more for some cancers to develop. With due appreciation of the progress being made with cancer medications and surgical techniques, I'd like to ask where the doctor was 20 years ago when the cancer was starting?  Why is our healthcare system placing so much emphasis on treatment and so little on prevention?"  It is better to educate than medicate.  This is something I try to do in my practice of nursing.  I actually take the time to teach my patients about their diets. I teach them non-medication ways to treat their pain.  I talk to them about stopping the behaviors that have lead them to repeated visits to the doctor and the ER.  I hold them responsible for their poor health, which is how it should be.

Think about the dollars that are spent on studying diseases and the statistics that are being kept on those diseases.  Do you think the same amount of money is spent on educating people on how to prevent those diseases in the first place.  During this election process, how many times have you heard people talk about Obama-care?  How many people have put it down, but have not come up with a better idea?  I do not believe that giving people free insurance is the answer to our broken hearlthcare system.  The answer is to stop making people sick in the first place.  People think I am crazy for not having health insurance.  I stopped paying for it a few years ago when I realized the only time I was going to the doctor was for my annual physical.  Why was I making the insurance companies rich when I could be putting that money toward buying more organic fruits and vegetables, my supplements, and exercise equipment?

Another quote from Dr. Jensen is, "There are too many people with a coffee-and-donut lifestyle who go to the doctor, get a treatment, and then go right back to their caffeine-and-sugar habit.  They will be back. You can count on it. The doctor is counting on it, too.  He will be counting all the way to the bank!..."

When I try to talk to some of the doctors and nurses I work with and some of my friends, they respond with, "Life is to enjoy!"  Seriously?!  I enjoy life everyday without filling my body with crap.  Why is there a mentality that in order to be healthy you have to stop enjoying life?  Does anyone else find that to be a stupid way of thinking?  If you or a family member is fighting a chronic illness, do you ever think that lifestyle and food choices led to the chronic illness?  We have to start holding ourselves and the people we love accountable for the pain and misery.  People say, "Don't judge."  If I'm helping to pay for your healthcare, you had better believe I am going to judge and so should you!"

I have spoken on this before, but people need to fully grasp the magnitude of the problem in our country with rewarding bad behavior.  As I watched this little overweight kid munching on a bag of chips, I asked his mother about his diet and his weight.  Her response was, "He was a big baby. He weighed 10 lbs."  This was her reasoning for having an obese 9 year old who she was feeding chips and pop!  When I responded that I weighed over 12 lbs as a baby and just looked at her, I never did see the light come on.  People weigh 200-300+ pounds and have back and knee pain.  The pain is so bad that they can't work so we put them on disability, give them a power wheelchair, and the closest parking space.  At no time do we pay for a weight loss program or make them attend nutrition classes or a gym.  We pay them to continue being unhealthy.  You have smokers who develop lung diseases like COPD and lung cancer.  Do we force them to stop smoking?  No, we pay for their healthcare with repeated visits to the ER and pay for their home oxygen tanks while they continue to smoke.  We pay for liver transplants for people who have destroyed their livers with alcohol, but do not make it mandatory that they stop drinking.  People come into the ER routinely seeking narcotics.  The doctors give them the narcotics and then get angry when the patients keep coming back.  What is it they say about the squeaky wheel?  People complain long enough about the pain, the doctors give in just to shut them up and make them go away...but they only go away temporarily.  They will be back because they know the system will feed their needs.  We crack open people's chests and operate on their hearts, but then don't give the nutritional information necessary to prevent them from having to go through the same thing.  I know this to be a fact because I ask my heart patients what they were told about dietary changes before they were discharged from the hospital.  Nine times out of ten, the answer is "nothing!" 

As a healthcare professional, I want to stop being asked to put a bandaid on a big, gaping wound.  If you come in short of breath, at some point I will talk to you about why the problem keeps recurring.  If you come in with abdominal pain, there will come a time when I will talk to you about why your stomach keeps hurting. 

Stop being angry because your doctor is living in a big house, is driving a Porche, or takes their family on a European vacation every year...that steak and box of donuts you ate helped to pay for it.  Get mad at yourself!  We have to stopping make a healthcare system richer when that very system is doing nothing to make us healthier.  All it does is make us more dependent on treatments and medications that only mask the problems or make us sicker.