Upon arriving in Los Angeles from Detroit we decided to take advantage of the corporate office tour Beachbody was giving. We picked up our rental car and made the 18 mile trip to Santa Monica from LAX. Had my first experience driving in LA and must say that it was very depressing. It was noon and my average speed was 22 mph.
As soon as we arrived to the 3rd floor of the building I was immediately impressed. The Beachbody corporate office is very ergo friendly. Everything looks clean and neat. It has a very wide open feel as it looks like it used to be a warehouse because of the open ceiling layout.
We showed up a little late and had to jump in with a tour already in progress. They showed us where they come up with a lot of the ideas for upcoming workout programs and products. I kept looking at all of the cool computers they had. It seemed like every employee has a iMac. Must of been the creative department that we kept walking around. It did not surprise me to see a gym inside the place and some of their employees doing P90X together. They even had a locker room with showers making it easy to get a quick workout in during lunch or after work. Instead of me rambling on about how cool the place is I’ll let you look at the pictures instead.
When the tour was over we headed to the hotel where the Coach Summit was going on. We had to check in and upon doing so we received a goodie bag full of cool stuff including a P90X hat that says Diamond Coach on it. They had a room full of shirts, workout gear, and basically everything that Beachbody sells in there for purchase. Most of it was picked through by the time we got there. I did manage to find a P90X workout shirt and bought that.
After making our purchases we headed up to our room to get changed up for the group workout. It was going to be a hour of working out with Debbie Siebers (Slim in 6), Brett Hobel (RevAbs), Leandro Carvalho (Brazilian Butt Lift), Chalene Johnson, Shaun T, and Tony Horton. Upon arriving to the room where it was going to be held it was evident that it was going to be packed. There must of been 600 people in this room trying to workout. Each trainer did about 10 minutes of workouts with a little bit of motivational speaking. Doing Insanity was tricky because of how crowded it was. It was fun, even with all of the sweat being thrown around the place. Here are some photos from it.
From there we had a couple hours of down time until the Diamond Coach “Shine Party” that night at the “X Bar” (really, that’s what its called) inside the hotel. Only Diamond Coaches were invited to it. With Andrea and I both being Diamond Coaches we were able to bring my friend Gianni as our guest. I was really excited to see him come out to LA with us so he can see what I’ve had a taste of with the Top Coach trip in Hawaii. Beachbody had a red (blue) carpet entrance to it where they were interviewing and taking photos of the people walking in. It was fun. The night included saying hi to Tony Horton, Carl Daikeler, Jon Congdon, catching up with coaches we met on the trip, and meeting new ones. I even met fitness icon Debbie Siebers. She’s been in the fitness business for over 20 years creating popular workout programs like Slim in 6. We partied for as long as we could until the time change started to take over on our bodies. Day 2 of the Coach Summit was going to be action packed including a 7 am Insanity workout with Shaun T. Here are some photos of the night.
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