Fitness

Once you join BOD, you can pick a program by fitness level or type of exercise, then stream it right from your smartphone, tablet, desktop, or TV. All you need is an Internet connection and you can take all the great content wherever you go. Going to be without Wi-Fi? You can upload up to 7 workouts to your device and play them back later. 

It’s important to know that Beachbody has programs for every level of fitness – whether you are starting fitness for the very first time or you’re an athlete looking to step up your game. From barre, to hip hop or country dance, from weight lifting to boxing, MMA to pure sweaty cardio, trust me when I say there is something for everyone of every ability. And even within each program there is always a modifier to make every program accessible to all levels. 

I have been doing Beachbody almost exclusively since 2015. I have done most of the programs and I am familiar with all of them. I would love to work with you to pick the best jumping off point for your personal fitness journey. As your Coach I am available for guidance and one-on-one support and my team and our online community is a place where you can ask, answer, share, and connect with like-minded people.

Throughout my life I’ve been an athlete. I played soccer and started figure skating at the age of five. I skated competitively over the next eight years. My years skating taught me about discipline, training, strength, and courage. Although I didn’t have a professional career in my future, the life lessons I learned being a young athlete set me up well for the challenges I faced as I grew up. After skating I played tennis, softball, and I was a cheerleader throughout high school. I loved being around sports and athletes. It gave me great leadership opportunities and I learned to take risks and put myself out there.

I became a runner in high school as well. But I always ran for me – for fitness, for weight loss. I continued to run in college and used running as a tool to mentally as much as physically get me through law school. It wasn’t until after the birth of my twins that I really considered “training” to run anything, other than the occasional 5K or 10K with friends. Months after my boys were born I talked with friends who were training for a marathon. That conversation rekindled a spark in my running spirit. I took off with my jogger stroller and took on the challenge. I ran my first marathon in 2004, two weeks shy of my boys’ first birthday. Quite a milestone following years of infertility, pregnancy loss, and a high risk twin pregnancy. And despite the extreme mental challenge and the plantar faciitis I fought along the way, I was hooked! Since then I have run eight more marathons including my first ultra-marathon, a 50K, to celebrate my 40th birthday and not too long ago, the Dallas Marathon to celebrate my 50th.

Although I slogged countless miles alone over the years, I also joined forces with some amazing women in my hometown and helped formed Chasing Sanity, a women’s running group comprised of moms like me – with houses full of young children (I subsequently had my third son), working husbands, part-time jobs and limited amounts of time to run. We racked up most of our miles in the pre-dawn hours while the world slept. It prepared us for our long days ahead, and kept us sane. Fitness with friends does that.

I love my running group and assumed I would always be a pure runner. I disliked the gym and pretty much most other forms of exercise. But injuries have a way of interrupting our human-made plans. I was sidelined several times in my 40’s due to injuries. Along the way, in an effort to try something new and to fit some time in and workout with my husband, we started Shaun T’s Insanity program in 2012. We committed to the two-month routine and rocked it. Well, completed it. I still remember the final minutes of our final workout in that program. I had tears in my eyes and the overwhelming sense of accomplishment. I literally felt like I did in the last tenth of a mile of a marathon – proud, exhausted, overwhelmed, and inspired to push my body even further. I loved Insanity. I even have the shirt to show “I earned it.” After two cycles of Insanity that year we took on the Tough Mudder, a running/obstacle/ endurance event. What a crazy but thrilling accomplishment. Over the next few years we also took on many Spartan Races, completing our Spartan trifecta on the World Championship course at Lake Tahoe in 2016.