Should i become beachbody coach

Beachbody has changed my life and it has changed the lives of hundreds of people I have introduced to it. Beachbody is a positive oasis, rich with people who have a positive outlook on life, helping and inspiring others! As Beachbody Coaches, we also go on some amazing trips. Here is one of the things that I love most, you will be surrounded by positive people!

I have never seen a better business opportunity out there for a little investment, a little capital. You have the ability to start part time and influence and change peoples lives , all while you are influencing and changing your own life. Create a life where you can do what you want, when you want, and with whom you want. Would you like to send your kids to the college of your choice, take a year off, travel the world, buy an exotic boat or drive your dream car into the sunset?

You have the potential to do all of this when you work toward becoming a full-time Beachbody Coach. Now that you understand the difference between signing up as a Beachbody Coach and becoming one, what will your decision be? The ball is in your court.

Should I Become a Beachbody Coach? Signing up as a Beachbody Coach is a lot different than actually becoming a Beachbody Coach. Should I sign up as a Beachbody Coach? Should I become a Beachbody Coach? Learn more about Beachbody Coaching. I find it sad. Thank you! I love the workouts, think Shakeology is overpriced and just feel icky at the thought of sharing so much of myself on social media. Especially with my upline telling us to promote the business as everyone is losing money and jobs in the covid pandemic.

Good luck, Julie! Hopefully they react better than my upline did! This is a great podcast that also freaked me out about the history of MLM, how far back it goes, and the legal system surrounding it. You are just ridiculous.

Did I hurt your feelings? Best of luck to you. I agree. A lot of the information in this article is very biased. Some of it is just not true at all. Yes, before you ask, I have been a coach as well.

It is my personal opinion. I would say all Beachbody coaches who are FOR the company have blinders on. Let me be clear: Beachbody coaches ARE very deceptive with their marketing. They show photos working out, drinking shakes, eating healthy meals, transformations, etc without mentioning Beachbody in their captions. Yes, yes, and YES! I understand that a community is very helpful to many women, but the slimy practices of the Beachbody Coaches is simply distasteful.

They prey on women who are insecure, overweight, new moms, etc. Little Lyss Fitness on Instagram has shared scientific, factual information breaking down Shakeology and the ingredients in case anyone is interested. Either way, thank you for sharing! I hope people actually do their research to become informed. And 2 of my previous friends no longer talk to me since becoming a coach. MLM is not worth losing relationships over. I really had fun in a challenge group, and I truly love helping people… all of which I was already doing before becoming a coach.

You hit the nail on the head. Thank you for sharing your story. Sounds to me like you have all that you need to start a health and fitness business without Shakeology! Maybe you could become a certified personal trainer! I might have to do that! I had kind of done that before, but the MLM specific ones might be better.

Feel free to share my post on your social media, too! I am loving Beachbody on demand and the programs are fabulous. With that said, my coach has tried to recruit me and I gave her a great big nope.

Love her. Love Beachbody. Zero interest in being a coach. The programs are amazing, and I truly believe the Beachbody On Demand is worth the money. But Shakeo is just too much to justify. I am one of those people who keeps getting targeted by coaches! Help please! My advice would be to add hashtags to the end of your posts about your weight loss.

Many of these women used their higher sexual market valued husbands, boyfriends and already established social class families to jockey into success because of social circles and prominent prevalent ties to business because of their connections from privilege. Football coaches, doctors, lawyers and business owner spouses who are already successful give you an edge, especially when your church and social circles are tight and close nit.

So many of these gals part ways with the men, and sometimes women, and certainly their families who gave them an edge, only to sever ties, divorce and ultimately alienate themselves into alcohol, overbearing egotistical dominance and depression.

They often find it lonely on top because they used others for climbing the success ladder. I knew a upper six digit figure income earner who succumb to an overdose because she lost everything she supposedly loved fighting to get to the top, and that included her own children.

Check out the Beachbody Coach divorce rate. The coaches coming in and defending the sneaky coaches who never mention Beachbody or who accuse Melissa of not working hard enough…come on! And SO many can work their asses off doing the 3 vital behaviors and NEVER make an actual living because they do not have that circle of influence to draw from. The Recovering Hunbot on YouTube covered this very well. I too love the programs. Which is also classified as a Pyramid Scheme.

There is something in those products that disrupts the metabolism and causes premature aging. Aww thanks for the love, Katie! I really appreciated your honest take on this. I am now involved in a totally separate Network Marketing company, and what I see is that those who are truly successful are the people who put others first.

I accept their reservations, and help them with what I can, and make other suggestions that may fit their lifestyle. When we remember to serve others, we offer them the best value possible. Hi Tanya, I really like your view and approach. Would you be willing to share what type of MLM you are apart of?

I do really think it is about the place you come from. Serving others is a great place to come from. I really want to have this workout at home option. Next, she hit me with the coach membership thing as I was like WTH? Which led me to a google search … and your blog. Is there another way to join an accountability group without the challenge pack? Or do you receommend just moving on from Beachbody altogether? Thanks for your time and insight!

Honestly, Mary, I would probably stay away from Beachbody because most coaches see you as a number.. The best thing I did was sign up for online coaching with Lukas Duncan. You send your photos to him every week or every other week depending on which plan you choose. The check ins and photos are really the accountability I needed.

I felt like with Beachbody, every single post was supposed to be motivational but was really just a plug for their products. Best of luck to you! Let me know what you decide to do!

My husband has been a so called coach for 10yrs, we never pushed product! He signed up for workouts and for the Shakeology which we love. I guess to each their own. I am a coach, however I too am coaching just so my friends can have a group to workout with. I just enjoy working out with them and BBOD is super affordable with lots of options, if you choose to do it without shakeology. But coaches simply cannot make money without selling Shakeology. I signed up for the Beachbody on Demand so I can workout at home, mainly to kick start my fitness again and to get out of a depressive funk.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this, I even learned a little more about it than I knew. Yes, Jessica! So many women have come forward and said that they feel the exact same way! You have to buy food right? Well why not replace it with shakeology? They can see how desperate I am to help my family financially and they grab onto that all while feeding you this dream of a better life and financial stability. Thank you for your comment, Steph! Beachbody trains their coaches to target women who are desperate to make money to help the family.

I wish you the best! Thank you so much for this review and critical comment on Beachbody. My short story: I moved away from many friends and family to a new city; I left my job, my parents, my circle of friends, my lovely home, etc. I found myself a stay-at-home mom and being both bored and needing a job. I threw myself into this program starting as a Beachbody coach, etc. Basically, I starved myself silly, lost weight to the point of being gaunt, and ended up posting pictures and stories on Facebook to promote this program — with before-after pics and other pics during work outs, making meals, drinking shakes, etc.

Your comments are so true, I did not make any money and ended up being a social media stool pigeon for this company. I did lose some weight. Your article really helped me make this decision. I could have written your comment.

Best of luck to you in the future! This was a very interesting post! About 6 months ago, I decided to stop drinking Shakeology because of the price tag — I ended up switching to a different protein brand and guess what?

I kept seeing results! This is awesome to hear, Steph! I highly recommend looking into some certified training from the National Academy of Sports Medicine. A personal trainer certification would give you the confidence and knowledge you need to truly help people live a healthy lifestyle.

And if you want to make money offering products and services to your clients, you can sign up to be an affiliate or ambassador and share those products with your clients. I love it! The vanilla and coffee shakes are my favorite. I loved what you took away from your time with Beachbody!

I do, however, agree that befriending random people is not something I want to do. The shakes have actually helped me to turn away from a lot of desserts. Plus Fixate recipes have helped me be more mindful of what is in my food. Thank you so much for your comment, Dallas! Yeah, I tried just about every flavor and they did have an aftertaste to me. I just really dislike the business model. The other day I posted that it was one year until my wedding day!

My real friends texted me about how excited they were and these two decided to ask me again if I wanted to sign up for Beachbody, because me getting engaged would be a great sale right?

Ashley, this is such a common thing! Just terrible! I had heard about BeachBody so many times. I finally told someone, I just want to do the workouts without all of that extra crap… well guess what? Oh, yeah, you can do that. Excuse me?? But I have since got rid of the shakes and just do the workouts.

I definitely try to do my part by telling people the workouts are available for home for a pretty reasonable price. Yeah, their Beachbody on Demand is pretty cool. I really enjoyed reading your article! I just signed up to be a coach and did my initial FB post and received 3 people to join me in a challenge group. Hi, Susan. Everyone I knew and cared about and thought cared about me in my upline totally turned their back on me.

Best to rip off the bandaid now. Hi Melissa. Thank you so much for your reply! I agree, I should let her know now instead of waiting it out. IMO, the best customers of all those MLM companies are the people who sign up to sell their products. Sure there may be the few stories of people making thousand of dollars and becoming millionaires; that is one out of hundreds of thousands.

Losing wait with shakes is the biggest and unhealthiest scam ever and it is definitely not sustainable. Just like losing wait: plain work and savings Calories or money will get you there. I agree completely! Thank you for commenting! Too many people get sucked into the MLM business model with the hopes that they can attain financial freedom and leave their day job for six and seven figure incomes.

Your energy will be of better use towards your own financial journey and better ideas will come too. Please consider minimizing your ad space for content. Thanks for the suggestion, Sam. I have some already-generated ads from adsense and Amazon. Appreciate the feedback!

I just shared your article on Facebook, I so strongly agree. I have used a coach aka bought some Shakeology and it always befuddled me why Beachbody chose to go down a MLM route.

Their fitness programs are awesome and they have decent nutrition tips I think the Shake is processed poison, but to each her own. I am sad that trainers like Tony Horton and Shawn T even have to be associated with the crazy side of the business. I think they would be a far more credible company if they just marketed their products directly to a mainstream population.

The workouts are a beast, but can be done at any fitness level AND at home. It really is a perfect combination, no additional scam needed. Heather, did we just become best friends?! Really eye opening about MLMs. I love to rage-listen to it. Glad you got out of the pyramid scheme. Several people have recommended this podcast! Maybe I should apply to be a guest! I signed up as a coach and watched the first training video and literally sent my stuff back and cancelled everything changed my card to.

It gave me such a bad vibe! Smart to cancel your card and get a new one! I was a banker for 8 years, and I know that subscriptions auto-ship can still be charged even if you cancel, depending on the circumstances. Good call! I have literally been contemplating leaving BeachBody just as a coach.

I will still do the workouts and even partake in the shakes but I will NOT be fake. It sounds fake!!! All of it. I felt so much better about myself just doing the workouts and just focusing on that. Once I started coaching I started to feel like crap, and using your family to rank advance? Seems like BS to me. What a waste. This post definitely confirms what I have been thinking and I can tell you by the end of this week I will stop being a coach all together.

Another really bad by product of TBB. Sometimes it helps to get support and ideas on how to approach your spouse. Does your upline coach responsible to help me to start get me going as a coach or do I figure everything on my own? I mean, if I get new prospects, she will getting some of the money right? WWw this is eye opening! I had a feeling that becoming a coach is a get rich quick kind of scheme. Is there anyway to be a part of beach body and get the workouts and couching from people who actively still coach for Beachbody without being a coach.

Is this a good program in that sense or should I look for something else? The workout programs are great, but in my own personal experience, I found that actually getting out of the house and having accountability buddies in real life helped so much more than being part of a Beachbody challenge group. He has 8 week transformation specials, and you have every-other-week check-ins weigh-ins and photos. Best of luck to you finding a program that works for you!

Thank you so much for all this info. I love the workout programs, and I have learned a lot. Thank you. Why does that not surprise me? Of course, there are a few exceptions, but my entire upline turned their back on me when I left.

Only you can make that decision, Alexis! I can only offer my personal experience. Whatever you do, do it because YOU chose to! I am SO glad that I found this blog post. I was sent an invite for one of the beach body challenges by someone I follow on instagram—it sounded great and I love fitness challenges so I asked her to send me more info. Then I got an invite to join as a coach so that I could afford these opportunities. From the e-mail it truly seemed like a dream job until I found out the cost to sign up; but even then I was considering it because the videos and other things I was sent were really convincing and I truly do love fitness and helping people, which is what it was marketed as.

Thank you so much for your honesty with this post! Thank you for your sweet words! It truly is all about sales and less about helping people. Another cousin is an actual Yoga instructor to the stars in LA and is used by Beachbody for their videos etc. Every day on social media I see the constant posts about how wonderful their lives are—posting their workout videos and pictures of their shakes or their shopping trips, invites to join challenge groups etc. One cousin is a single mom with no other job but Beachbody and it seems that she is definitely not struggling with all the amazing trips and music festivals she attends with her other Beachbody buddy as business trips.

Her sister is a little more low key but she does mention that she has had so many more opportunities financially since she has become a coach. I signed up under one of these cousin sisters as a coach a few years ago and was put under her strong leg but definitely did not make it! It also was so expensive for me as a single mother at that time.

Here I am just working two jobs trying to raise my kids and be a good mom and hopefully someday pay off all my bills and maybe buy a house. Sarah, there are some coaches that have achieved six figures and even seven figures in their Beachbody coaching business. Idolatry is a scary thing, and I found myself revolving my entire life around it.

Truth be told, I have a desire to help people…. The side hustle struggle is real! Kind of the opposite. Goes for any business or job though. Pretty straightforward.

I also am a huge fan of the workout programs and even some of the supplements. I have no beef with Beachbody. Just what I needed to read as I just cancelled my coach account! Once you are in and looking back out you see how very fake it all is with all the scripting! All that changes though once you get sucked in.

The support and everything promised beforehand kinda disappears. Thank you for your honesty and just as this helped me knowing I did the right thing it will help others! Yes, the scripting just felt SO inauthentic! I really appreciated your post so much. I loved Turbo Jam still do!

A friend encouraged me to try BOD then the shakes. I was skeptical all the way but I honestly loved both once I tried them! The price is hard to swallow of course. The hard part came when I was asked to think about becoming a coach. But I felt rushed into becoming a coach and my gut told me that this was not me. I will say that I believe a lot of people have benefited from the programs and done great things for their health, many who were first contacted to join by a coach.

I truly have been sitting on the fence about quitting BB for about 6 months. This blog has helped me so much. You seriously touched on everything i had been contemplating…. I signed my husband up behind his back and felt icky about it for months- so i eventually stopped him as a coach…. Because I feel like they depend on me for accountability and the challenge groups… Plus i felt loyal to my upline…. After reading your blog- I contemplated on everything BB has done for me: got me out of my comfort zone; kept me accountable to my workouts; and most of all personal development….

My like page is my Personal Trainer page so i can still encourage my followers…. So when i found yours…. It never gets old hearing that I have helped someone with this blog post! I am so happy to share my story with others, and I hope that people find it and share it with friends on their team who may be struggling to let go. I will never knock on Beachbody as a company. They have made a lot of money from their platform. Thank you for commenting, and I wish you the best of luck!

Your story has really hit home with me, and I appreciate you sharing all your insight. I came across your blog when doing a bit more research into Beachbody stocks and profit, after having quit coaching myself, and feeling a bit like a failure. My up-line then continuously pushed me to post as much as possible on Facebook including sponsored ads to generate new customers, which began costing me much more than what it was worth.

Ultimately, pyramid schemes and pushy companies are not positive environments for growing a business and are simply not worth the time and investment. Thanks Melissa and Sabrina for also sharing your experiences. I am a UK coach — it all started up in October.

Everyone was excited. I am an introvert by nature and frankly I find this stalking of friends, family and strangers on social media to be creepy, over the top and frankly, tasteless.

The stress has left me feeling like a failure and really down on myself. If I could find an upline who would treat me kindly and as an actual human being instead of a sales employee I might stay. Do NOT allow yourself to get down and out about this! You DO matter. Merry Christmas to you and Happy Holidays! Your right about all of it. I could write a whole blog post about it as well.

But for starters, think of this. Like every month. Ummmm no! Sign me out, please!!! I felt soooo Fake, so annoying…so Not me. I scared away a handful of friends or potential friends. Everyone knew what I was getting at.. I could go on and on…. Well last night Chalene Johnson made fun of metoo tag going around on her snapchat. I thought Chalene Johnson was a person who empowered people not make light of the metoo situation. I needed my life back.

Things are just that, things. And time is so precious that we will never get back. So I have learned to spend my time wiser in making memories with my family and enjoying life.

It was never about money for me with the biz but I walked away making less at a higher rank than when I first started which was crazy. So it made the decision even clearer for me. I signed up yesterday. But if you were stressing it and feeling regret instantly, you probably made the right decision. How did you bow out gracefully?

What about your clients? Thanks in advance???? Hey Holli! I just had a honest conversation with them. I sent them all the same message, explaining my thoughts and feelings. If they do, they need to look at themselves first before judging. It feels like that every day. Plotting and planning every post, every pic. I thought I did when I started, but then it was just gross. She took the few clients I still had and I let my clients know what was going on and that nothing would change for them.

Everyone understood, and by the time I was completely out…. I felt FREE!!!! Do it girl. Beachbody coaches are purely in it to make money. How selling protein shakes and workout videos is truly helping people be healthier is beyond comprehension. There is the proper way to lose weight which is strictly individual and there is telling everyone they should drink shakes and watch workout videos.

Anyone can pick up a protein shake or workout video at their local supplier for half the cost or even for free. But why beachbody?

Body shaming is one of them, providing unqualified guidance is another. I have yet to meet a genuine beachbody coach — I have met 9. One is so disingenuous that she talks about how genuine she is. She talks about her daily experience in how she made these 2 women at a retailer, who were speaking poorly about their weight and she approached them and could complimented them both on their beauty, resulting in these 2 women feeling so good.

Guess what — It is no longer a good deed…. Worshipping body image is a really toxic mentality. Because of body shaming.

I cannot afford it and I have made little to no money. I have not hit success club in a year. I want to quit but feel guilty. Reading this has helped me tremendously! Thank you again! Oh Lisa! No success club in a YEAR?! I guarantee you people will respect you for following your heart.

When I first joined I really trusted my upline, but once I became a coach I have been questioning her authenticity. Because I ram resisting everything that I would need to do in order to advance. Never made it past coach. But that just adds to my dilemma. How are you doing now, Julie? Did you make the decision to quit? My main focus this past year has been on other things family, faith, etc. There is not a true friend that will be disappointed in you for following your own true path and choosing happiness!

You completely have undermined the value of the product. You went in with this vision to make money and not change lives. In I gained over lbs…I had just had my 2nd child and was lbs post partum…but over the year I got up to over lbs!

I was in an abusive marriage and was depressed. My mom was in the military and was stationed half away across the country and I was alone. I ate and ate until I was so obese I could no longer walk up the stairs in my house. After my now ex husband decided to almost choke me to death one day I knew something had to change. I ordered it know I needed something to start getting to a healthy place for myself. It came in the mail, I popped in the DVD and watched the whole thing while sitting on the couch munching on some cookies.

The next day I decided I needed to try and I did, I got through 5 minutes. Then the next day 7 minutes, within 2 weeks I was lasting through the whole workout and moving on to the other workouts. There are a ton of incentives!

We also loved the amazing quality of the home workouts! There are some coaches that are hobby or part-time coaches, and others are full-time. There are also a variety of personalities within the company! For example, we offer a full, password-protected training website, respond to all emails and DMs within 24 hours, and offer a team-wide challenge group for your clients.

So if you need someone doing the big stage appearances, posting crazy Reels on Instagram, or hosting virtual wine nights — we are not your girls. As of May , you will not be able to be a Discount Beachbody Coach. Instead, you can choose to be a Preferred Client. To stay active as a Beachbody Coach, you must have at least one person sign up as a Coach or Preferred Client OR have at least one customer order through you every 6 months.

As a coach, you never have to worry about inventory, or overhead when you are a coach. You also can cancel with no penalty at any time. You can also coach for free if you or your spouse are in the military. You can sign up to coach for free if you or your spouse is active military. If you are a Retired Veteran or Reservists, you can also sign up to coach for free. For full details on the military waiver you can click HERE. Beachbody coaches make money through commissions and team volume.

Each coach can also grow a team to create a Team Cycle Bonus each week. It runs a week behind from the week it was earned. You can also message us any questions. Everyone starts at the same level when they sign up for Beachbody.

Active Coaches have at least one sale from a customer or someone that signed up with them as a Coach or Preferred Client. The next level is to become an Emerald Coach. The pay scale increases at each rank of Coaching. We really dig into this in our new coach training as well to help explain it! Beachbody Diamond Coach is someone that has worked to build a team of coaches they mentor. At a minimum, 8 people have signed up with a Diamond coach in order for them to hit that rank.

From those 8 teammates, 2 of them have also hit Emerald Status — which means that 2 of the 8 have had 2 people sign up as coaches. You can learn more about Diamond Beachbody Coaches here. A Star Diamond Coach has at least 1 other Diamond coach on their team.

For example, if you signed up with us and hit Diamond, we would then become Star Diamond. A Premiere Beachbody Coach is actively a building high-performing team and consistently generating significant team volume. Premiere Coaches must also be at least a 2-Star Diamond Coach. An Elite Beachbody Coach is actively producing and creating a high-performing team. This honor is higher than Premiere and is open to only 5-Star Diamond Coaches and above.

Beachbody is a multi-level marketing company which are completely legal. Along with Googling, you may also look through your social media and see who you follow that motivates you.

You could also ask family and friends if they work with a coach. The 2 biggest tips we have is to be willing step out of your comfort zone and be consistent with your daily tracker provided by Beachbody or your team. This is a business opportunity, and while the work and time commitment is flexible, you have to be willing to do the work for it grow. Our basic training helps with how to get new customers, team building, and how to be successful on social media.