Dear Team Beachbody,
Although
I appreciate the health and fitness industry as a qualified Certified
Strength and Conditioning Coach through the National Strength and
Conditioning Association, a USA Track and Field Level I Coach, and a
graduate in Kinesiology from Penn State University, being a part of
forums with mostly individuals with no professional licensing who would
post half-naked pictures of themselves in a public forum (i.e. Facebook)
is a disgrace to the professionals who have licenses in the fitness
industry. If you want your company to represent the fitness industry in
a better light, I would highly suggest increasing your professional
standards for coaches and make them be licensed through other health and
wellness professional organizations to prevent any litigation in the
future.
I
can understand using Shakeology, Tai Cheng and any of your low-impact
exercises if the client was a prisoner and could only exercise in a jail
cell. However, if the coaches or clients have no legal issues pending,
being outside with others is a much better use of their time than
sitting at home. Also, if a client cannot consume solid foods, so they
have cancer or another disease because the nausea is too much, I
understand the use of Shakeology to allow nutrients to come in, but
doesn't Ensure do this already in nursing homes? Or nurses in oncology
clinics? As a raw vegan for one year, I found that using a juicer and
juicing greens was much more effective. By encouraging people to
workout two times a day with hardly any caloric intake, unless they are
Marines in the field, this nutritional deficit puts the body in a state of starvation and reducing the ability to actually intake real food.
And for athletes, chocolate milk has been and will always be the best
recovery drink so please stop charging more than three dollars for
something that we can make within our own home with Hershey's chocolate
syrup, Nesquik or Ovaltine.
Also, I had my mother try the Ultimate Reset, she is very sensitive to soy, dairy and wheat products and she was unable to use the miso soup required for the Ultimate Reset. The cleanse that she did with Revitalive Health and Wellness in Newburyport, MA was much more effective in 2009 and although it required her to make her own meals from scratch, juice greens, do liver and gallbladder flushes, and have colon hydrotherapy. When she finished this, she had less swollen ankles and looked more vibrant. The soy products themselves (or maybe those that are not gluten free) make her body hurt so much that it is hard for her to move.
If you wonder why I asked my mother to try your product, I asked her because she has tried all of the cleanses in the book and not many have worked for her. The only things that have are diet and exercise and the consumption of Whole Foods. She lost 11 pounds, but that's average weight loss on any diet and exercise program.
So to people like me, who are relatively healthy people with a health, fitness and nutrition
background whole foods is a long-term solution to your company's
short-term fix. It took me 30-45 days (not exactly sure) to recover from the side effects of your products. I had trouble sleeping, had several terrible headaches causing me to throw-up violently three times, and I hate throwing up. I am not anorexic or bulimic by choice, but your product made me feel that way.
My point is, I learned more about health and fitness, as a collegiate athlete at Penn State while studying Kinesiology, and unless you increase the health professional standards for your coaches, most clients would be better off reading a sports nutrition book, working out once a day for 30-60 minutes at a moderate intensity, eating three full meals a day (with snacks) and having chocolate milk after they work out (substitute another milk if you are sensitive to the proteins in milk, almonds, etc, since they may have been genetically modified). To read more about the genetic modification of corn proteins, there is a great article in August's Elle.
Have a nice day, make your own food, have fun at the grocery store, and get outside!
Sincerely,
Heidi A. Goedecke
Penn State, 2008
B.S. in Kinesiology
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