Tell me about beach body

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Anonymous wrote:DO people like the 80 day fix or the 21 fix better? I'm going to do the 14 day trial so want to do the one that is effective, and will be easier to stick to. I plan to then buy the year if I like it. I'll be honest, the male instructors intimidate me a bit, so i'm going to start with Autum. Let me know what you suggest.

Depends on your fitness level and what equipment you like to use. I liked 21 day fix to ease back into working out - good variety of workouts and can easily modify the intensity. The only equipment needed is some free weights or bands (can use either). I think the 80 day program had a bunch of other equipment required.

I didn’t follow the meal plan or buy any shakes, etc - I just followed the workouts through streaming on demand. I found it effective.

80 Day Obsession has mostly hour long workouts, while 21 Day Fix are much shorter. 80DO has separate cardio (2 days) and weight days (4 days), although your heartrate will also go up on the weight days. 21DF is more of a mix of both, and I think is tougher in terms of the cardio - it's really hard to jump right in to jump squats with weights for 1 minute, which is something that workout would do. 21DF is also the same 5-7 workouts repeated, where as 80DO is the first program that they recorded a video for each and everyday. So it totally depends on your preference and style. I personally preferred the 80 day, but I think people felt they preferred the 21 Day because they thought they'd get better results with the tougher cardio aspect. 80 Day totally changed my body though so it worked better for me.

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Thanks so much. So maybe start with the 21 day fix to lose a few more pounds, then switch to 80 day obsession. Does 80 day obsession work your arms as well? Are the cardio days HIIT?

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last question- do the workout ideos talk about the food plan or is that totally seperate?

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I love the workouts but hate that they switched to streaming only. I don't want to pay $$$ forever and ever to have acccess to the videos; I would prefer to pay once and own them forever. I own Insanity, Max 30, T21, and P90x. The original Insanity is still my fav; I still do Pure Cardio 2x a week. I do not Shakeology; it messes with my blood sugar.

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does the 21 fix videos talk about the diet. I don't want to do the diet, just looking for good workout videos.

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Anonymous wrote:They are fantastic. You don’t need a “coach”. You don’t need Shakeology, although it is a really good meal replacement. You do need to follow the diet (easy) and get your ass off the couch and press play. The best, in my opinion - Insanity and P90X.

/trainer. But NOT Beachbody coach. I recommend the workouts to my clients.

What about for people just getting back into shape?

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I did P90x, and I found that the only effect of the workouts was to make me a bit better at... P90x workouts. I didn't really get stronger or in better shape or more bouncy on the basketball court (all things I had hoped for).

Lifting heavy made me stronger. Doing layups drills and hitting the backboard with my hand every time (like when I was a kid) brought back some of the bounce on the basketball court. Dieting made my abs pop. P90X did none of those.

For the degree of difficulty/pain/DOMS, I found very, very low benefit.

[Anonymous]

hmm thx. i'll stick to fitness bldner