I just don’t have the time to visit a gym every day.

I recalled Beachbody, the infomercial, and the promises and I realised some very important facts: In fact, I suspect that most people at least make some sort of promise, flooding gyms for the month of January, before slinking off into the night and never returning come February. Many people make New Year resolutions to change their diet and life around. So, I usually overindulged like most people. I love Christmas and it’s my main holiday season of the year. Fixed smiles suggest a vapid fantasy.Ī few weeks later, it was Christmas and I was unhappy with my excess.

It’s a hard sell that turns the British off. They even break the fourth wall sometimes and have the video editor actually speaking to the audience. They invent a cult of the celebrity trainer and the social networking. They promise bonus DVD’s, special extras, even prizes for success. They play on your insecurities, they display people who have made enormous changes seemingly with ease, look at those smiling faces, in only a short period and with a small effort.

They use every technique in the marketing stable. Normally I would rather watch paint dry than watch this. Payment practically that will pay for themselves in results. They seem to say that a better, no a great body, is just 60 days away and 3 small payments. They are slickly produced and full of pump and verve. What greeted me was an infomercial and, for once, I was simply too drowsy to turn it off.īeachbody promises a lot in its infomercials. On this particular night, I woke about 2 am having drifted off to sleep with the TV on. Pittsburgh feels naturally isolating as you cannot actually walk anywhere there isn’t much in the way of pavement, and coming from a city of 12 million to one of 500 thousand it feels sparsely populated most of the time. I put it down to the air-conditioning, but it is just as likely to be the jet lag or isolated feel hotels engender. I first came across the work of Beach Body and its most famous son, Shaun T, when stuck in the Pittsburgh one night and unable to sleep. Having completed this I set myself a new task – a project to refilm a classic martial arts instruction video from the 70’s. For example, for the year 2009 through 2014 I was writing the epic 300,000-word tale of Cesca and my year away travelling around the world. It’s a case of this or simply risking madness with the ever present feeling that at any one time I am not “accomplishing” something creative. I’m the sort of person who has “projects”. This is the first in a series of reviews of some of the top home workout DVD series, starting with Insanity.

Shaun t insanity workout reviews