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December 31st, 2009

ChaLean Extreme!

I broke down and ordered ChaLean Extreme about a week ago. I wasn’t going to, but the treadmill I wanted to get went up in price by $300! Doh.

The unboxing was very exciting. The packaging is pretty slick. The booklets are really well made and quite professional looking. The photography in the recipe book is pretty good actually. The production value of all of this was kind of surprising to me. I mean, the packaging itself is quite good.

I have not previewed or done any of the workouts yet as I had pretty much gotten 2 hours of sleep the night before the package arrived and well, I just started a cycle today, if you know what I mean.

The DVD’s don’t come in individual cases like other workouts. Instead they are all placed in a booklet for easy reference. I opened the booklet up and I was like, “Hey! There’s a DVD missing!” I then realized that the missing DVD was the fabled 7th workout DVD which I think you can order separately, but it’s something like $50(!). It didn’t come up as an option when I was checking out, but I wouldn’t have gotten it anyways.

I just ordered the basic set as I already have resistance bands and the price to get bands, weighted gloves and the 7th DVD is just ridiculous.

I was able to use a coupon code, but I don’t want to publish it in case it gets taken away because it wouldn’t be secret anymore. If you want it, just leave a comment or send me an email via the contact form above and I will email it to you.

6 comments January 7th, 2009

ChaLean Extreme Update!

People can start ordering the ChaLean Extreme workouts from their beachbody coaches starting December 12, 2008!!!  Yay!

There will be 2 options available – with a possible third coming soon afterwards.

DVD 1 – Burn Basics / Band Basics / Healthy Eats & Kitchen Makeover
DVD 2 – Burn Circuit 1 / Burn Circuit 2 / Burn Circuit 3
DVD 3 – Push Circuit 1 / Push Circuit 2 / Push Circuit 3
DVD 4 – Lean Circuit 1 / Lean Circuit 2 / Lean Circuit 3
DVD 5 – Burn It Off! / Recharge
DVD 6 – Burn Intervals / Ab Burner / Extreme Abs
Audio CD – Extreme Motivation
ChaLEAN Extreme Muscle Burns Fat Guidebook
ChaLEAN Extreme Fat Burning Food Guide
ChaLEAN Extreme Body Fat Tester + Guide
Thigh Toning Band (Purple)

The Deluxe Kit will include:
1 DVD
(3 workouts)

DVD 7 – Fat-Burn Challenge / Get Lean Intervals / I’ve Got Abs!
B-LINES Resistance Band Pink
B-LINES Resistance Band Magenta
B-LINES Resistance Band Teal
(B-LINES Handles – 1 set, with B-LINES Safety & Instructions Guide)
Weighted Gloves

Someone on one of the fitness boards I go to found this on Carl Daikeler’s blog -

Hi, Carl:
1. What is the price of the “Basic” ChaLean Extreme workout package?
2. What is the price of the “Deluxe” workout package?
3. Will the additional add-on items that are part of the deluxe package be sold as individual items, as an option? For example, can I purchase the 7th workout DVD ONLY, but NOT purchase the 3 bands and weighted gloves that are also listed as part of the add-ons? I already own weighted gloves and resistance bands, so I don’t want to have to buy these items.
Please advise & reply. Thanks.

Carl Daikeler said…

1) Retail price for the Base Kit is $119.85 + s/h
2) Retail for the ChaLEAN Extreme Deluxe is $209.70 + s/h
3) We are working on setting up the ability to get the Deluxe Workouts seperately through customer service and on the Team Beachbody site.

I have no idea what shipping and handling is going to be though.  And even though Beachbody can be kind of iffy when it comes to web orders, I will wait until it’s for sale on their website.  In case you weren’t aware, the Beachbody Coaches program is basically a multi-level marketing scheme.  If you sign up for a coach, the coach you sign up with or the one randomly assigned to you makes commisions on each sale you make through them.  The only requirement to be a coach is to sign up and pay a monthly fee for the opportunity.  I think you aslo need to sell a certain dollar amount of product per month as well, but as someone pointed out, a coach could make that sales goal themselves if they bought the supplements by themselves.  I still don’t quite understand why Beachbody went this route instead of just investing money in better operations, but oh well.

December 2nd, 2008

Gadgetry

I got my new 8GB Nano Chromatic on Tuesday!  Hurray!  It’s pretty cool and it’s so freaking tiny!  It’s about the size of 2 sticks of gum laid out next to each other.  Really!

Part of my prize was that I also got to download I think all of the Cardio Coach workouts Coach Sean has created!!!!  Wow!!!  I had purchased several of them this past January, but this allowed me to complete my library!  I am so happy about this!  I can’t wait to hit the gym this weekend.

I really should take a picture of myself with my new gizmo, but I am so self conscious of my appearance, I am freaking out about it a little.  I’ll see what I can do.  I tried getting Rayne to model a little bit and she wasn’t too into it.  I guess I need to catch her while she’s asleep.

I added a couple of comparison shots of the Nano to my other mp3 players.  I also have an 80GB Zune, which pretty much rocks (however, the software does not), and a 2GB Zen Stone Plus.  What really sets these 2 players apart from the iPods?  Their prices and both of these devices have built in radios!  Having a radio might not be that big of a deal to some people, but I do live in a state that gets hits by hurricanes every once in awhile and it’s nice to know that I have a couple of different radio sources available to me.

I’m just so excited about my Nano though.  That thing is pretty stylin’.  I just need to get a case for it though.  I went to 3 stores yesterday and only Best Buy had some cases for the Nano 4G, but they weren’t the ones I was looking for.  I guess I could have gone to one of the Apple stores, but I really hate going to the mall and the ones I know of are all located in malls.

I am also still thinking about getting a treadmill too.  I mean, I have access to treadmills at the gym, but gong to the gym takes like 2 hours out of my day, whereas if I had a treadmill, I would obviously have no travel or locker room time – and that extra hour makes a big difference whenever I think about going to the gym.  I have lots of thinking to do!

October 9th, 2008

Holy Crap!

I’ve been dreading October for awhile since there is a huge event coming up this weekend that I am supposed to participate in.  I am exhausted though.  I am really hoping my boss lets us take off on Monday, since if we don’t, we’ll be working 12 days in a row – which sucks.

But, things are looking up.  I picked up a copy of Iron Man last night.  I wanted to get the 2 disc special edition, but Best Buy was sold out.  Darnit!  I think this is the first film to come out where I really wished I had a Blu-Ray DVD player.  The movie still looks amazing on my TV though.

I was dreading going in to work today and in order to distract myself, I logged into Facebook.  Lo and Behold!  What do I see?  A comment from the spectacular Sean O’Malley of Cardio Coach congratulating me on winning one of the new iPod nanos!!!!  OMFG!!!!!!  I won!  I won the drawing he was having!!!  It was just so random!  It all just seems to be by chance too.

He just recently joined facebook and sent out invites to probably all of his previous customers to friend him.  I did.  I stayed up late one night and saw one of his calls for entry in a status message, so I commented.  He asked us for a random number, I put my random number into the fray and got picked by having my name drawn out of a bag!  Heehee!!!!

Now, that totally made my day.  Heck, if I didn’t have so much work to do, I was going to declare the day a personal holiday and just jump around all day!

I am going to be getting a 8GB model, probably in blue and I can get an inscription on the back.  I am still trying to figure out a quote to put on there.  I am also going to get mp3’s of a lot of Cardio Coach workouts too!!!  I think I have most of them, but not all, and well, heck yea!  I am excited!

I might even pick me up one of those Nike+ gizmos!  Oh man, and the accessories I can get now!

Wow, I feel so lucky today!  Hurray!  I am tired, but I am still waiting for iTunes to hurry up and finish going through my music library.  Oh man.  I am so excited!

2 comments October 2nd, 2008