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Archives for November 2009

2009 Business Franchise Expo – Rock Financial Showplace

November 20, 2009 - Updated June 26, 2017

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.

Beachbody Coaches At A Business ExpoI 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.

The P90X Halloween Costume

November 3, 2009 - Updated November 30, 2018

P90X Halloween CostumeThis past weekend I attended a Halloween party that my brother put together at my parents house. We have had them before and its always a good time.

In the weeks leading up to Halloween I was not sure on what I wanted to be. My girlfriend decided she wanted to be a German beer girl.

Since we are together it is only fitting that I be a German guy. Well, that didn’t happen.

I know it would have been cute for us to match but to me its just not funny. My costumes always revolve around funny as who does not like funny?

After spending some time on the interwebs looking for a costume I found something right up my alley. A Christmas Tree.

It took me three hours to decide but I went ahead and ordered it. When it arrived I could not stop laughing as my shoes were foam presents.

On the morning of the party my girlfriend said she talked to my friend Joe and found out what he was going to be. She said I was going to love it. Knowing Joe for some 25 years we tend to talk about a couple issues more than others. In the past two years in particular its been about Government, Politics, Economics, Entrepreneurialism, and P90X.

He was the one that got me hooked on P90X as he was using it to get in shape to go into the Marines. I figured he was going to be one of three things, Barack Obama, Ron Paul (I love RP), or Tony Horton.

I was almost right. His costume was me. He called up my girlfriend and asked her to swipe my P90X T-Shirt when I was not looking and give it to him when he showed up at the house.

For the entire night he went around telling every body that he was Beachbody Coach Brad Gibala. Before showing up at the party he went to a Kinkos and made a flier to give to people to read along with as he read it out loud.

Joe Doing Push Ups In His P90X Halloween Costume I don’t have the script with me right now but it basically said that “I get paid to workout (I don’t), that I love to “shred the gnar” and that I have a man crush on Ron Paul.”

Well played Joe.

To prove he was committed to being a Beachbody Coach, Joe (me) would drop down and do push ups after getting done talking to somebody.

Even better was that while he was talking to somebody he would do bicep curls with a resistance band.

He even drank water through out the night. The Christmas Tree was drinking but it sure was not water. I workout 5 or more days a week so I can indulge in a couple adult beverages and not worry about those empty calories.

The next morning I was talking to Joe and he said he must have done over 200 push ups and 150 bicep curls. Its tough work being me.

Even funnier is that while he was reading the script to a guy who was a friend of a ex co-worker of mine the guy was actually interested in signing up to be a Beachbody Coach as he does P90X and enjoys it. All in all it was a great night and it was great to see so many of my friends.

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