5 Reasons You Should Take the Beachbody Challenge

I am going to do it…this time I am going to start eating better and getting more exercise. I will succeed!

Does this sound familiar? Have you said something like this and then 3 months later looked back and realized you didn’t get past day 3? Well just so you know…I believe EVERYONE has said/done the same thing. Sadly it is part of life and for many….the start never happens. The reasons for this are endless.

I am here to help you with some reasons why you should take the Beachbody Challenge…

1. It is a CHALLENGE!

• Who doesn’t like a challenge? Participating in challenges brings excitement to the table…it brings competition and many people thrive on this.

2. Others have done it and had great success!

• Why bother with something unless you can benefit from the activity? With the Beachbody Challenge you will be able to follow in the footsteps of many others who have succeeded in past Challenge groups. As your Coach I will be here to support and guide you throughout the challenge.

3. It builds a SOLID foundation for fitness and nutrition!

• So many times past failure has happened because the foundation was weak. With the Beachbody Challenge you will learn how good nutrition coupled with regular exercise and support from a Team Beachbody Coach will make your foundation strong and allow you to grow in better health without the fads that leave you with no real lasting results.

4. You only have a few months before summer is here!

• I want to be ready for bathing suit season, don’t you? If you are not very proud of your physique now….give yourself the 90 days doing the challenge to see what a difference it makes. You will be proud of your hard work and the payoff is amazing…feeling better physically and mentally!

5. You could win $100,000!

• Yes you read it right…Beachbody is always giving away CASH prizes and this summer they are giving some lucky person a prize of $100, 000 just for sharing their Beachbody transformation.

My next Beachbody Challenge groups starts on March 5th....if you want more information on this or future Beachbody Challenge groups just comment or email me at ward.cindy@gmail.com.

To workout or not...that is sometimes the question...

...the question that pops into my head from time to time.

Yesterday evening on my way home from work my head was hurting (I took a couple advil before leaving work) and I was seriously debating on doing my workout when I got home. As you may or may not know, my husband and I have been doing P90X2 together since the start of January. We just entered phase 2 yesterday. Well my issue was the fact that my head was hurting and I was feeling a bit nauseous so a workout did not seem sensible to me.

As I arrived at my house from an hour commute I was actually feeling a little better. I guess the advil had kicked in. I told my hubby how I had felt earlier and told him that I had thought about skipping the evening workout and doing it in the morning. He really didn't give me an opinion...he would encourage me to do whatever I felt best with. Well I decided to eat a little something so I fixed me a couple of eggs with salsa and ate that...felt even better. We pushed play around 7pm and during the warmup I was getting those sharp pains in my head that reminded me of my headache. At this point the headache was pretty much gone except for those little pains here and there.

We pushed on...I kept going and breathing through each move...by the end of the workout I felt great! :) My head was completely better and my body just felt better.

In general I have found that if I just feel a little off kilter or a little moody then a workout fixes me right up. If I am suffering from a more severe issue like upper chest congestion then I would definitely skip the workout. Everyone has to figure out what is best for them and the way I figure it is like this...If I push play and do a half-ass workout then I did better than doing nothing at all. If I push play and find that I do a great workout then I am that much better off for doing it and it makes me feel great!

So to wrap it all up...EXERCISE people...it will make you feel better!

When the hugs make you feel great...

This past weekend my hubby and I went up to Philly for a Beachbody Game Plan training event. Great stuff!

While we were there we decided to take in some of the City...we visited a place called Jim's Steaks on South Street. Fortunately we were able to be in line long enough to see how the ordering process worked...and I still goofed it up! LOL What we think of as a Philly Steak n Cheese is actually a Cheesesteak Hoagie. So I ordered mayo, lettuce, tomato with american cheese...YUMMY! I will say that those guys working there were not very friendly...and they had just opened at 11am, so I wouldn't think that they would have had time to get annoyed with customers yet. Oops! I was wrong! (or maybe they wake up like that?) One other thing I noticed...they don't serve much else besides sub sandwiches...no fries or other sides that I could see.

I thoroughly enjoyed the hoagie...My husband wasn't as happy with it but he is very picky.

We walked all over center city...from Market Street down to South Street and over to Penn Landing. I will tell you this much...my hip joints were aching because we walked so much!

We finally found the Liberty Bell! We would have been much better off if we had asked someone where it was...but we figured our stupid smart phone would tell us. Well the stupid smart phone had us completely out of center city and into a whole other section of Philly...yeah we walked there and before we realized we were no where near the Liberty Bell it was just to late! LOL We chalked it up to more exercise! The funniest part is that when we found the Liberty Bell location we realized that we had been only 1.5 blocks from it the night before as we were walking back to our hotel from South Street! HAHAHA! Live and learn I guess!

My overall feeling about Philly is that the people there aren't overly friendly...not sure about the whole brotherly love thing...but no one caused us any harm so we are good with that. :) We also felt like we knew the city much better as far as where things are located when we were leaving. Our next visit there should be even better!

Now we fast forward to the hug...yeah I really should get to that part, huh? Ok...I will...
After we drove back to Fredericksburg, I decided to go to our year end Black and Gold party at a local bar/restaurant so I could partake of some great door prizes. Won a really neat Steelers windbreaker! SWEET! Once halftime and prize distribution rolled around we all pretty much cleared the place. When I arrived home I was greeted by the arms of my youngest child. She is 12 years old and was just in a hugging kind of mood. Those are the things that make me feel GREAT! Hugs from my children...I can't get enough of them!

The weekend was fun...but the end of it was the best...Hugs are great!