LIIFT4 is a weight training program from Joel Freeman on Beachbody On Demand.  For additional product information, please follow my affiliate LINK .  If you have any questions or would like more information, just let me know.  I'm happy to help! First, let's clarify the spelling on LIIFT4.  It's a lifting program, but it has delicious nuggets of HIIT (high intensity interval training) mixed in to the workouts - so that's why the word "lift" is spelled with two "i's".  Clever, huh? This is an 8-week program with four workouts per week.  The workouts are approximately 35 minutes in length.  The only equipment required is just three sets of dumbbells - light, medium and heavy.  If you are just starting out, I recommend 5, 8 and 12 pound weights.   This program is listed as an intermediate program, but the instructor does a good job of queuing form and there is a modifier demonstrating less impactful moves.  I feel this is a very good program for a

30 Day Breakaway is a running and strength training program from Beachbody OnDemand.  Please follow my affiliate LINK for more product information.  And...if you get a hankerin' to order something, please do so on my site so I get a small commission. Full disclosure - I did not finish this program.  I made it through three of the four weeks and decided to move on.  I knew from the first week that I wasn't going to like the strength training in this program.   Let's focus on what I did like, first. The treadmill runs - Oh gurrrl...if you have ever done any running on the treadmill and trying to figure out what to watch, getting bored of watching it, feeling alone and sorry for yourself that you can't run out doors at 5am - then these are for YOU.  Idalis and you run along the beaches and trails of Southern California.  She talks to you like she's your coach and the time just flies by.  There is a good mix of speedwork, tempo and easy runs.  They are all about 20-25

30 Day Breakaway is an intermediate running program from Beachbody On Demand.  Yes - it's a RUNNING program!  Please follow my affiliate LINK for more product details.  And, as always, remember your old pal if you want to buy anything - because I do get a small commission.  On to the review! I was a little scared to start this program.  I haven't run in two years, and in that time I have relinquished control of the composition of my body largely to Chipotle and Anheuser Busch.  Just last December, I decided to get to work on some of that excess guacamole hanging around my waistline.  After four consistent months of working out, I decided to jump in to a little running! 30 Day Breakaway (30DB) is a program that contains weight training, stretching and running instructional videos.  The running videos are available in two formats.  One is an audio only version that you can play through your phone and go out on the trails for a run.  The second is a beautiful filming of the instr

I did it!!  I worked out every single day for 6 weeks!  I am so proud of myself and have really found a level of self esteem that has been hiding behind my sadness and inactivity - I feel about 50% back to normal! Muscle Burns Fat Advanced is a three-week muscle building program that I gave my initial reactions of  HERE .    Also, ya know, if you want to sign up for Beachbody On Demand – you can follow my affiliate  LINK  and I’ll get $10. Woot! This program was HARD.  If I hadn't already completed two programs (21 Day Fix & 9 Week Control Freak), I would have repeated #mbf Muscle Burns Fat at least one time before moving on to the advanced program.  Megan is a big fan of asymmetrical moves and they were pretty complicated in #mbfa. I had to modify a couple of the moves to accommodate my low back issues.  There was a single dumbbell snatch where you lifted the weight with one hand from the floor, pressed it up over head and then exploded in to a split squat stance.  I did a cou

  #mbfa Muscle Burns Fat Advanced, is a 3-week muscle building program from Beachbody On Demand. For a more detailed product page, please visit my affiliate link HERE . This program follows the same format as #mbf Muscle Burns Fat, with the addition of the Megan Minute.  After the set, we perform one move for a whole minute.  Is a minute a long time?  YES.  The workouts are a little longer this time around, with the weight training days clocking in around 40 minutes and the others still around 25-30.  This series is truly an extension of #mbf with the same sounding workouts laid out in the same order every week.  We use the same equipment, dumb bells and a mat for floor work (if you are in the basement, like me) and the Bod Ropes.  These are just a style of indoor jump rope and are not essential to the program, in my opinion.  There are many styles and colors available on Amazon. This program is definitely a step up from #mbf.  I feel like Megan's entire program could have been one

  Today I finished #mbf Muscle Burns Fat.   It is a three-week muscle building program that I gave my initial reactions of HERE .   Also, ya know, if you want to sign up for Beachbody On Demand – you can follow my affiliate LINK and I’ll get $10. Woot! So – what can happen in three weeks?   Well, it’s different if it’s your first three weeks ever working out (or back to working out) like my experience with 21-Day Fix or if you’ve been working out for a while.   I started working out consistently in December, so I still consider myself a newbie. Here are my results from this program. I started to get up without complaint .   My alarm goes off at 5:00am – and I know there are people that say they are not morning persons, but trust…I am the OG hater of the a.m. hours.   My inner dialogue hasn’t changed so much as just turned the F off.   I’m like a robot in the morning. I noticed that I was able to get down the stairs in the morning without pain .   I’ve felt like the Tin Man fo