Beachbody Headquarters in LA!

When I arrived at LAX international I had a little down time since my friend Brad and his girlfriend Andrea were not arriving until an hour and a half later.  Something funny happened to me when I first arrived.  After exiting the terminal I was paying attention and just continued to walk like I was leaving the airport.  I actually walked all the way out of the airport as if I was getting picked up and after a few minutes of standing around I realized that I kicked myself out of the airport.  I couldn’t go back in because they wouldn’t let me without an airline ticket.  So what’s the funny part?  It’s the part where I sat there for almost two hours watching people check in and starving because I hadn’t eaten anything since I left Michigan 4 hours before.  It was weird because I really had nothing to do so good thing I had my headphones and a laptop (no internet).  So my friends arrived and after getting our rental car we headed over to the Beachbody facility.

Arriving at the facility was quite an experience as I was really anticipating a very strict organization.  Making our way into the building we were a little lost since the next tour had already started.  We kind of made our way around until we asked where the heck we were supposed to be.  Finally we ran into the current tour and we were at the point where they were showing the workout facility.  The room is pretty cool with a flat screen on each side of the walls and the equipment in between.

Two sessions were going on and one was P90X legs and back and on the other side was Insanity.  I took a couple of pictures and the two guys inside were cracking up because they were doing a Yoga X move called the chair pose.  It is a pretty simple move but trust me you can feel the pain.  After that we were taken through the area where employees can make shakes for after workouts.  I saw some shakeology and one person was making the P90X recovery drink.  This was right next to the wall of successful coaches and hopefully where I will be next year.  My upline coach Blake was on the wall so it was nice to know that someone I know besides my friend Brad was making a killing with beachbody.  After this short little hallway we proceeded to the sound production rooms and the best area of them all!  Where they print the checks! Along with the other  22 thousand coaches I get a check from here as well.

Every where we went in the building people were super cool and very friendly.  We were able to hang in Carl Daikeler’s office as well as John Congdon’s office.  These two guys are the ones that started it all so thank you for helping me change my life.  John was hanging around and everyone wanted to meet him.  The other nice thing about the tour was all the success stories on the wall.  There were pictures everywhere of people who were fat that did one of the workouts and lost a bunch of weight.  The before and after resultswere so amazing!  After touring a couple more areas the tour guide pointed out that the outdoor set for House was behind there building so I took a couple of shots but will post them in another article.  Every boardroom had a huge flat screen as well as every desk had a 22 plus inch apple screen on it.  As the tour finished up we headed back to the main entrance and posed for a photo op in front of the beachbody logo.  I was starving at this point so myself, Brad and Andrea headed to the hotel to check in and tear up some food.  Our first workout was at 5pm so I carb loaded because I knew I was going to sweat like crazy.  I still ate a healthy meal but added noodles along with chicken.