Seriously??? A couple of months ago, I was feeling depressed because once again I was gaining weight. I’d recently worked hard to lose 25 pounds by going to the gym. I stopped going to the gym, figuring I could manage things on my own. Slowly, the weight starting coming on again, when I finally got on the scale to survey the damage, I’d gained back 19 pounds of the 25 I’d lost. I knew I had to do something but WHAT? I knew I didn’t want to join another gym nor hire another personal trainer but I also knew—sometimes-- I could find it hard to self motivate. A friend of mine, who was also a gym buddy, saw how depressed I was (or at least got tired of hearing about it) and said to me ‘You know Tony Horton makes a ten minute workout.’ HUH? WHO? A WHAT? My friend had just purchased P90X and was very excited because he also didn’t want to go to the gym anymore, P90X was freeing him from those chains. I’d heard of Beachbody and had been a member of their community years ago. I’d done a number of their programs, Slim in 6, Slim Series, Power 90, Project You, Turbo Jam, and yes even P90X. They were all good programs. I didn’t work any of them as I should have, refusing to change my diet, and thus receiving marginal results and of course, blamed the program. When I heard about this ten-minute workout, I was intrigued. I scoured the TV looking for the infomercial (since my friend didn’t know what it was called), no luck. I goggled it—got the name of the program—Ten Minute Trainer—then scanned my television's program guide for the next showing of the infomercial. There was one set to come on in ten minutes (really I’m not making this up).
As I watched the infomercial, it was being marketed to ‘the busiest people or people short on time’. I remember thinking or ‘the laziest’, which is the category I fell into. I was excited at the claim I could work out for 10 minutes a day and get results and because it was Tony Horton and Beachbody, I knew there had to be some truth to it. After watching the infomercial, I still pondered the purchase for a week. Fear and laziness--I knew if Tony was saying he could give me results in 10 minutes, it was going to be a tough ten minutes. I was still trying to get something for nothing or at least for very little work, which is why the ten minutes appeal to me in the first place.
I finally ordered it. On July 24th, days after receiving Ten Minute Trainer, I gave Tony 20 minutes, but not before I logged onto Beachbody.com and reactivated my account and started posting to the message boards. I found people to share with, laugh with, support and encourage and it kept me on my program, not perfectly, but pushing play daily, with each day being better than the day before. I’d decided to do a six-week rotation- a hybrid of the basic and accelerated plans. Halfway through, I was down six pounds and feeling like I was really making a difference. Ten Minute Trainer was the jump-start I needed to get back to working out. Yes, I’d still kick myself from time to time for having to re-lose the 19 of the 25 pounds I’d lost, but at least it wasn’t the whole 25.
The moral of the story, I gave Tony Horton 10, 20, and sometimes 30 minutes but he didn’t give me results. I gave the results to myself by taking the tools he’d given me through Beachbody and putting them to work.
Now I’m ready to move on to a new challenge. Shaun T’s Rockin Body.
Order Ten Minute Trainer here.
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