Archives for November 2009

It’s official. I was announced as the Top Beachbody Coach for Region 5, Summer 2009. I’m pretty pumped and don’t know what to say. I’ve never been involved with something like this before so I’m still kind of in shock myself. A year ago today as I was wondering what I would be doing for a job and now here I am getting a trophy for telling people what I do to get and stay in shape. That’s it.

With a week or two left in the contest my girlfriend kept reminding me that I was in first place and it looked like I was going to win. I think she was more excited about it then I was. I’m just one of those people who has a “it ain’t over yet” philosophy and knew somebody could come out of the wood works to pass me up.

The worst part was when the contest ended. There was a 30 day waiting period to count up the results. I had no clue why it would take so long until I went to the Game Plan Event and was told that they had to take into consideration returns from sales.

I had a feeling that I was going to win and took a minute to inform CEO Carl Daikeler about it. He was walking by me at dinner the first night at the event and I introduced myself. He asked if we had met at the Coach Summit a year ago. I told him no but that I was expecting a phone call from him about two weeks later saying I was the Top Coach for Region 5. He laughed. I told him I was not joking.

The call came and of course I missed it. I also missed the call from Larry Zimberg. Good job Brad! They announced my name and the other winners on a video (which is no longer up) in which they mispronounced my name and misspelled it too. Thanks guys. My friends made fun of me for that for about a week.

Now comes the cool part. The winner gets a all expenses paid trip to Kaui, Hawaii. You can check out the place they are sending me to at the Coach Destinations site. I’ve been to Hawaii when I was younger with mom and dad and that was cool, but this will be different as I earned it this time. The place is a 5 Star Resort and it looks Bad Ass. As a extra bonus they are going to pay for a excursion of my choice. I love to golf but am thinking I have to go scuba diving as we don’t have oceans here in Michigan but we do have plenty of golf courses. I have a couple months to decide on that issue.

Besides that, I’m just excited to finally see a result come from all of the hard work I’ve put in with getting my butt in shape with P90X and Insanity to go along with my efforts with the business side of being a Beachbody Coach. I’m so happy I found out about this opportunity. I don’t know of any company that wants you to live a healthy lifestyle by using their products and will reward you for sharing it with others. Thanks Beachbody!

Last weekend I decided to see what it would be like to work a Business / Franchise Expo Event. I have been doing pretty well as a Beachbody Coach since I joined this past January. Over the past month or two its become more than just a way for me to stay in shape and promoting what I’m doing. People I don’t even know are sending me their P90X before and after photos saying how much they love P90X and that it changed their life. That’s powerful stuff. All I did was tell them what it did for me and offered some encouragement and tips here and there.

I figured its time to get the message out even more than I am doing right now. I found out about a Business Franchise Expo at the Rock Financial Showplace in Novi, Michigan.  It was scheduled for the following weekend so I did not have that much time to prepare. Let alone, I’ve never worked a booth before. I’ve only been the person walking around the expo. Since there is a business opportunity with being a coach I thought it would be a good fit.

I invited some other coaches in my local area to attend it with me so they could get an opportunity to talk about what P90X has done for them. Nine people including myself worked the booth over two days. In the photo from left to right is Silvano, his brother Gianni, my girlfriend Andrea, and me. Gianni has lost 28 pounds doing P90X and is now doing Rev Abs. Silvano just started doing P90X and has lost 5 pounds. Andrea loves ChaLean Extreme. Even though she still has a week left, we took her measurements the other day and she has lost 10% body fat!! 

Two things stuck out in my mind during the event. The first one was how many people came up to me and said “I lost 30 pounds doing P90X” or “I love P90X.” It proves how awesome P90X as a product is. The other one was what the other booths around us were promoting. The majority of them were promoting health drinks and a pixie stick type thing or as I like to think about it as the “Magic Pill.”

We all know there is no “Magic Pill” but people keep getting tricked by it. When I would glance over at another booth and see people drinking a sample of their product that promotes the answer to a healthy life I became a bit puzzled. The reason was because the person selling it didn’t look healthy at all and most were over weight. How is that a good representation of the product? Its not.

My next favorite one was a slimming garment that promoted “losing 3 sizes in 30 seconds.” You put this thing on that felt like Kevlar and it sucked every thing in. I kept thinking, so what happens when you take it off. Don’t the 3 sizes come right back? I kept seeing a lot of over weight men and women who would look at my table and see what we are about and say “that’s too hard” and go right to the slimming garment and be happy as hell.

If you have ever done P90X or any other Beachbody workout, you know that those 3 sizes will be gone forever with a little determination and effort. But as my buddy Joe says, 90 days is just too long. People want the results right now. Its sad, but true. We had the table with the answers but people walked by us looking for the quick fix. Joe even did the Insanity workout in the aisle way to show people how crazy it (and he) was.

All in all it was a good experience. We met some people who knew about the products and we talked to them about the business part of it. It was not that good of a turn out unfortunately. The company putting on the event said 1800 people showed up last year and I think there might have been 500 over both days. We had a good time and it was great to see my friends talking to strangers about what P90X did for them. We now know what to do for the next expo we attend.