Isn’t it time YOU start living the American dream? Many Americans are struggling with their weight and all of the health issues that follow..obesity, diabetes, heart disease…

How many people do you know that are struggling FINANCIALLY? Living pay check to pay check? Wondering how they are going to pay their electrical bills or even put food on the table. ENOUGH is ENOUGH!

This may or may not be for you! But don’t you owe it yourself, to your family, to stop saying “what if”?

Register TODAY to reserve your spot for this FREE Webinar. Join Derek and I and our Beachbody team to discover what Getting Financially & Physically FIT means for you!

Email me at jennifer.baldassari@fitjunky.com ….  let me know if you are going to join us!!

To your health!

Jennifer

Summer Shakedown w/ Jennifer and Derek!

We are taking 10 PEOPLE & Coaching them through a 30 Day Challenge!! Jen personally lost 20lbs and we are currently in the BEST SHAPE of our lives because of Shakeology, we will HELP YOU do the same!!

Details:
*Kickoff Webinar Thursday 8pm CST – Sign up here:  Webinar
*Official Start Date – Mon July 11th
*PRIZES!!! Turbo Jam or Hip Hop Abs Workouts to select Winners!!
*For NEW Customers Only!!

The Challenge will include:
*Taking 1 Shake a Day as a Meal Replacement
*Following an Eating Guide given by your Coach
*Working out EVERYDAY for 30 days (your choice of activity)
*Motivation from your Coach
*Daily contact w/ your coach to evaluate your meal plan/progress

YOU WILL GET RESULTS!!!!

Sign up by ORDERING Shakeology on HOME DIRECT on Jennifer’s Shakeology Page.

Then send us an email at jennifer.baldassari@fitjunky.com (<—copy and paste to your email client)

Let us know what questions you have…!!!

Jennifer and Derek

Our recent trip to L.A. was pleasurable mix of business, exploration, and excitement.

What took us to Southern California was the opportunity to travel, mingle and learn with our huge team of Beachbody coaches.  We had the opportunity to learn, grow, tour and become more impressed than ever with the mission of the ONE fitness company that fully commits themselves to changing peoples lives by ending the trend of obesity.

I have to tell you that the word that beat in my head the entire Summit weekend was authenticity.  Derek and I believe in developing a life of Passion  -  working, living, moving and sharing in a person’s God-given passion is the goal – and after spending a few days learning and mingling with the leaders of corporate Beachbody I was pleasantly surprised to feel and just know that this company, its purpose and its people were totally and completely authentic.

We were way beyond impressed.

If you are interested in becoming a member of Beachbody & meeting us at our next business destination, check out this site and sign up!

In the month of July, I will reimburse your start-up fee!!

It is a very simple business plan that will make a difference in your life and those that you meet.  You will have the opportunity, for very little investment, to grow a business working in a passion that matters and makes a difference in people’s lives!

Check out the rest our site for tips & tricks as we share our experience along the way. 

Check out Derek’s FREE videos about marketing your online business…. —->

he worked hard on them to get the information just right to grow your business online.
See you at the “office”!!

Last January my teammate, Kristina Sullins, was on unemployment. 

This year, she went on an all-expense paid trip to the Carribean for 7 days, worked out with Celebrity trainers in LA at the Beachbody Summit, and in October will be heading to Laguna Beach for Leadership training.

Listen in on a FREE webinar and hear the story of a fitness business that can change your life.

Learn how Kristina lost 15lbs with P90X, Turbo Fire & Shakeology and went from Unemployment to DOUBLING her full-time income – now earning over $2200/week!!!!!!

Who is this for?

Anyone who wants DISCOUNTS on workouts, Shakeology and other products!

Anyone who wants to lose weight and Get FIT!

Anyone who wants to make additional income by HELPING PEOPLE!

Anyone who needs/wants Accountability, Support, and MOTIVATION for a LIFE CHANGE!

After the webinar, DECIDE where you want to go with this FANTASTIC opportunity and get a hold of me at jennifer.baldassari@fitjunky.com.

If you missed it in the post, the webinar link is here.

Shakeology is the patent-pending everyday wholesome shake benefits your body by gently removing toxins more capably while permitting for improved absorption of the critical nutrients you need. An exclusive mixture of digestive enzymes and prebiotics helps your body progressively eradicate the toxins that form up over time from eating today’s exceedingly processed foods.

At the same time, Shakeology packs whole-food ingredients carry the essential amino acids, vitamins, and minerals your body wants to curb cravings, permitting your body to shed stowed fat while the more than 20 different antioxidants and phytonutrients help diminish free radical damage that can lead to heart disease, heart attacks, high blood pressure, and stroke.

My family and I are Shakeology enthusiasts!  It has changed the course of our health for the long-term.  We give you a “bottom-of-the-bag” 30-day Money Back Guarantee.  You cannot go wrong!  Get your health back on track TODAY.   

Listen to What Doctors Have to Say!

 End the trend of obesity

When you choose Beachbody for your Non-Profit Fundraiser you are choosing not only to partner with a great company, but choosing products that will help make a difference.  Beachbody, creator of the nation’s most popular in-home fitness and weight loss solutions, was founded in 1998.  Offering the most innovative, results-oriented programs and skilled, motivational trainers.

Team Fit Junky has an awesome fundraising opportunity for your Non-Profit organization.  We offer full training, support and excellent customer service every step of the way. Our core purpose is to help people achieve their goals and enjoy a healthy, fulfilling life! Start now setting your organization on the path to fitness and bank profits weekly!

Earn Money, Save Lives

If you are a Non-Profit business interested in earning residual income and bonuses with commissions paid weekly:

Sign Up for FREE today with Team Fit Junky!

Derek and I as Team Fit Junky will be with your organization every step of the way setting up your fundraiser, getting your questions answers and we will provide ongoing support for the life of your fundraising mission with Team Beachbody.  Your Non-Profit will no longer feel the burden of collecting money, distributing product or keeping track of countless amounts of paperwork.  We are putting the SIMPLE in fundraising for you.  Lets END THE TREND together!

If you have any questions do not hesitate to ask!

A Paleo diet, also known as Paleolithic diet or caveman diet is about using natural foods to help realize optimum health and physique.  The human race was once thriving on this diet astute in animal fat and proteins and low in carbohydrates, but things were distorted when we introduced unnatural foods to our bodies.  The Paleo diet for me is not a “diet” where I’m under a restricted strategy to eat “like this” until I reach a particular goal. 

Eating the Paleo plan is a way of living for an upsurge in bodily well-being that commands a complete revolution from how I was taught, through domestic and communal training, to eat the last 37 years.  Paleo is a food lifestyle that I believe was fashioned to sustain humans at an optimal level of performance for all of their days on Earth.

Eating Plan

The eating plan in Paleo integrates a complete spectrum of animal food (beef, fish, shellfish, poultry, pork, lamb, bison, …) collectively with their fat and organs as well as eggs, vegetables and limited amounts of fruits and nuts.  Fundamentally, if it grows and dies – eat it!  If it doesn’t, don’t!

On the opposite side, some of the foods that we started eating in large quantity since the beginning of the agricultural revolution are completely foreign to our genes and metabolism and inflict havoc in our body, often causing what we call the diseases of civilization. That includes obesity, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, auto-immune diseases, osteoporosis, Alzheimer’s and a host of other conditions that were unknown to our ancestors while plaguing us today.

Some of the most awful food in our stores is in fact recommended by governments and nutritionists due to biased and socioeconomic agendas.   Their contributions to our diet proposes that we eat the foods we really should be eliminating in our diet such as grain products, excess sugar, vegetable oils, legumes and dairy.    As a disclaimer to the cheerleading for eating Paleo, let me interject that what is provided in your grocery store that meets the Paleo criteria is NOT always best for your body due to the chemicals, hormone injections and other catastrophic methods used to process food.

Not a Fad

The Paleo diet and lifestyle is not just based on imitating a fad.  It is the habits of our healthy ancestors who were satiated and sustained by the land.  They thrived without created food, fast food, and genetically modified corn and beans. It is imperative to our generation to turn back the clock and find out what our food really does to our bodies and how to live the longest and most vibrant lives.

There have been many changes in business trends and several of these variations have brought about major financial crunches for consumers and business owners. That’s not to say that buying and selling has gone immobile, it has just taken on a different shape.  If you are spending much time online, whether you realize it or now you are watching a lot of business take place and one large chunk of the online business pie surrounds making money with affiliate programs.

So, what does it mean to be an affiliate and how does one function in this capacity?   An affiliate is the website owner or blogger and as part of this ownership, you hold an excellent position to make money with affiliate programs and setting a few up is really very easy to do.

In its most basic form using affiliate marketing on in your web property goes something like this.

A blog/website generates traffic (people) who are interested in the content contained within the website. The content owner allows for ads to be placed or chooses advertisements for their blog/website that they know will be of interest to the people that visit the site (their target audience). When the site visitor clicks on the ad and decides to buy that product or service from the advertising merchant, the blog/website owner collects a commission from that transaction. This is referred to as a “referral commission”.  The ads on the pages that you visit are often a result of an affiliate agreement

Setting your blog website as an affiliate is not difficult to do, as I mentioned before.  Just find a particular item, or items, that you want to endorse, then contact the merchant and ask to become an affiliate.  Doing so typically necessitates filling in a few simple name/address fields where you want your associate check sent or money deposited.  Next, chose links and banners from the merchant to use on your site for customers to see. Ordinarily the wholesaler will generate a simple link that is specific to each affiliate (that’s you) so they will know when a customer clicks from your blog/website. Simple to make money with affiliate programs, yes?

A second profitable opportunity

A site owner can employ to increase their bottom-line is to become a broker who handles affiliate programs for several merchants. A broker site hosts and manages a large list of merchants that offer affiliate programs. The middle-man broker offers an assortment of material regarding each merchant so the website owner can make a decision concerning how much they may make by advertising that particular trader on their website.

If you have any questions regarding affiliate marketing, get a hold of us!  

I wanted to share with all of you a GREAT find! When Jen and I started P90X, weren’t sure what we wanted or needed to use for equipment. Once we learned that we were gonna be building muscle, whether we meant to or not, we wondered what to use. We bought resistance bands and a pull-up bar, but didn’t know what we should do for weights. We’d contemplated the differences between weights and resistance bands, and knew we wanted weights too for the benefits they offer. We had a cheap barbell / dumbbell set, but it was a bit of a pain. There was nothing fast about changing the weight, coupled with the fact that both of us were trying to use them, made for cumbersome workouts that took quite a bit longer than we had time for. This also made for longer breaks between sets which goes against the effectiveness of P90X or any other weight lifting routine for that matter. We ended up borrowing a few dumbbells from a buddy, but they were only kind of helpful and overly large on the pound to size ratio! All this began to get quite frustrating because we knew that our results were suffering because we were lacking proper equipment.

I started looking at what was available. A full set of iron hex weights would be great, but not for the money or space. You could pay $1000 for a set with only 1 pair of each weight – NO WAY! So I started out on a quest for a great set of adjustable dumbbells. They had to be easy to change. They had to be compact for the weight. And they had to be made well. I’m not a fan of cheap junk! Especially if they were to fail, they could smash something of mine or someone else! I found all sorts out there. Some were eliminated immediately and others took more consideration.

A few that were in the running were Ironmasters, Bowflex SelectTechs, LifeSmart and PowerBlocks. All of these are adjustable and within the weight range that we were looking for, which was about 5-50 lb each.

The Ironmasters looked well made indeed, but their design would have you handling plates at both ends of each dumbbell when changing weight and that makes for longer periods between sets. They do have the ability to add more weight to the set, which was a plus, but the price was fairly high at $500 for 5-75lb set. So on to the next.

The Bowflex SelectTechs are pretty popular, especially with all the adds they run! They do make 2 different weight ranges of adjustable dumbbells. 5-52.5 lbs and 10-90 lbs. However, at $400 for the smaller ones and $600 for the larger, they’re in the top of the price spectrum, which can be doubly bad if you bought the smaller set, then later realized that you wanted more weight. Bowflex does have a good enough reputation that selling the smaller ones for money toward the next set shouldn’t be a problem. I should mention that I have found these on sale from time to time at a pretty reasonable price. I had found this when I was getting close to buying time, but opted against them for a few reasons. One of which is the overall size of these dumbbells. They are 15.75 inches for the lighter and 17.5 for the heavier versions. That is pretty long and can get in the way during some exercises. That can be dealt with, but kind of turned me off. The mechanics of the weight adjustment had me somewhat worried. After reading countless reviews, what seemed common was the notion that these were not made very strong or durable. Many mentioned that the parts were plastic and had suffered breakage. There was also breakage reported from very light drops. That is unavoidable sometimes so cause for concern. There were even a couple reports of them actually falling apart during use! Last straw – No Thanks! Now, in all fairness, I had read that Bowflex made some design changes to improve durability, as they should, but they are still quite long and cumbersome, even set at the lightest weight.

I was also quite close to getting us the LifeSmart adjustables. These I got to actually see with “my own two eyes” in person and mess with them a bit. Well they were pretty long again, and both ends needed to have the adjustment selector moved to change weight. That is a problem when you happen to hit different selector positions on each end. You could be asking for 25 lbs on one end and 35 on the other, which causes for a surprise of unbalance! Although they were a decent price at about $200, I opted against these.

The PowerBlocks were available here in town too, so I got to try them out. They were smooth and easy to operate right away! The piece that is moved up or down for 10 lb changes was super simple and with color bands as indicators, it was very clear what weight you were getting. There are what’s called “adder weights” in the handle assembly which are 2 cylindrical 2.5 lb weights that can be removed as a pair or individually making this set adjustable from 5 to 50 lb in 2.5 lb increments. They can also be added onto for overall increase to 90 lbs, then again to 130! Excellent! In the category of size, they nail it being only 12 inches long at the full 50 lbs and shorter with less weight. Last, but not least, they are built very tough. Of course none of them should be dropped, but in the event that it does happen, you don’t want your equipment to break and I feel like these could take a good dose of that and be just fine. With that being said, I had no problem buying these. I paid about $375 with tax, but remembering that the same number of individual pairs could run upwards of $1000, it’s a no-brainer.

We’ve been using them regularly for about 6 months now and both Jennifer and I are really happy with them. She has had nothing but good luck with them too and has got some great muscles to show for it! I’m glad to say that I’ve also progressed and I’m ready for the add-on to give more weight!

If you are one of the millions of folks that have moved their social lives into a computer and onto a social media sight, then you’ve heard of HootSuite.

For the causal social butterfly this handy piece of software perhaps appears needless and cumbersome.  However, for the cutting edge business marketer making connections was never easier.  If you want to talk to your target market,  HootSuite is the social media time-manager for the busy connector.

HootSuite enables the savvy entrepreneur to get the same message (or even multiple messages) out at multiple times a day across various social media streams (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace….) without having the daunting task of individually logging in each platform to drop in a message.   What is so important about that concept is that it frees up your time to build those much needed relationships with all your new friends across the pond.

With Hootsuite all of your cool new friends on Twitter and Facebook can have your undivided time as you share information,  join in conversations and focus on building those all-important relationships (which is, by the way, the best way to conduct business).
After you sign up for your free HootSuite account, the next step is to add streams.  Adding streams is just means displaying “conversation columns” from your social media (FB, Twitter) hot spots.

Here’s an example of adding streams

Once your columns are added, you now have a bird’s eye view of the conversation streams taking place witin your social media accounts.

Each column represents a stream.

From your dashboard you are able to participate, “like”, direct message, retweet and reply just as you would were you in each of your social media sites.

You won’t have the full function of each social media sites within Hootsuite

but you will get the socializing job done devoid of wrapping your time up in the high school best friend’s cousin’s dad’s friend’s wedding pictures.

It’s all about time management!

When you are ready to send a status update, get your wit on in the compose box, select your media sites and send out your latest thoughts.

And, finally, a disclaimer to my overzealous, ‘almost creepy’ business owners.  Do be gentle using any social media site to promote your business.  You are here to build relationships and attract customers, not cram your product down their throats.  Be yourself and have fun – the customers will come along after they know, like and trust you.  Don’t be a scary salesman!

Get to know your people and use your time efficiently with HootSuite!

For more information on social media tools that help manage your time while building a fantastic presence online, opt in for our free videos with links to Fit Junky’s hidden pages.