Body for Life?

Mulder · Apr 15, 2003

I have thought about doing this program, even before Jim Rome started pimping it. I just turned 30 a few months back and my physique is starting to resemble that Paul Simon "You can call me Al." (Why am I so soft in the middle while the rest of my life is so hard...) I used to be in great shape... 12 years ago. Now that I am married and don't get out much except to play golf it is starting to show. Joined a gym and went for while but moving screwed that schedule up. I am not super fat by any means at all. I just eat junk and my metabloism ain't what it used to be. Anybody here done body for life?

RocketMan Tex · Apr 15, 2003

My brother-in-law has done body for life for about a year now, and he really likes it. He was in good shape before and now he is in even better shape.

RunninRaven · Apr 15, 2003

What is Body for Life?

MoBalls · Apr 15, 2003

Originally posted by Raven Lunatic
What is Body for Life?
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Tha was my next question?

Mulder · Apr 15, 2003

Originally posted by Raven Lunatic
What is Body for Life?
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Bill Phillips has written a written a book and started a program to help people get in "the best shape of their lives". It is a program of exercise and scientific and healthy eating to achieve better goals starting with a 12 week period and developing change that will last a lifetime. The is also a challenge involved that includes cash prizes for the best success story for $100,000.

This is also the company that promotes dietary supplements like EAS and Myoplex. There are a boatload of professional athletes who train woth Bill Phillips including Shannon Sharpe and Terrel Davis.

I personally am not looking at it for the cassius clay, I just want to get in shape in a real way, not some slim fast, voo doo type BS way.

There are videos and before and after pics at www.bodyforlife.com

Master Baiter · Apr 15, 2003

I started doing Body for Life right after New Years and weighed in at 255. Last week I weighed in 218 and I feel freaking great. I have changed the way I eat and I work out 6 days a week. I made time and love it. My wife has been doing it also and has not lost much weight but has gone from wearing a size 10 to a size 6. We totally believe in it and think it has changed our lives dramatically. I also had high blood pressure but since losing weight it is great again. I try to get everyone I know to start doing it.

Mulder · Apr 15, 2003

Originally posted by Master Baiter
I started doing Body for Life right after New Years and weighed in at 255. Last week I weighed in 218 and I feel freaking great. I have changed the way I eat and I work out 6 days a week. I made time and love it. My wife has been doing it also and has not lost much weight but has gone from wearing a size 10 to a size 6. We totally believe in it and think it has changed our lives dramatically. I also had high blood pressure but since losing weight it is great again. I try to get everyone I know to start doing it.
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Cool that's what I was looking for; a success story from a person that is not on TV. Thanks dude! keep up the good work!

JuanValdez · Apr 15, 2003

Man, this is what you need: http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/Sports/dominatrix030415.html

Pain’s Part of the Gain
Gym Instructor Uses Whip, High Heels, Leather

By Ellen Wulfhorst

N E W Y O R K, April 15 — Talk about getting whipped into shape.

Students at "Slavercise," a class in New York combining sadomasochism and exercise, get a physical workout by "submitting" to the orders and whims of a dominatrix named Mistress Victoria.
She orders the class around with a riding crop, dangerously pointed stiletto heels and, naturally, a dominating manner.

"If you don't keep up, you get punished," she warned her students at a recent class, which she oversaw with a nonstop string of insults and orders. "I don't want to hear any whimpering. You're here to suffer.

"I expect complete obedience, or I'll give you a good spanking," she said. "Do what I tell you to do. I don't care if it hurts."

Suffer and obey they do, and they do so happily.

Clad in face masks, dog collars, rubber suits and other sartorial S&M paraphernalia, Mistress Victoria's students run through the exercise regimen, knowing any slacking off will bring her wrath down upon them.

"Anybody is going to pay more attention to their fitness instructor if she's got a riding crop in her hand and is wearing leather and stilettos," she said.

‘No Pain, No Gain’

The exercise mantra of "no pain, no gain" barely begins to describe it.

The classes, held in various rented spaces in Manhattan, are a true workout. Students do push-ups, kissing her leather-clad feet each time they drop to the floor. They do sit-ups, with her very sharp heel poised menacingly over their crotch.

Sometimes they play fetch. Sometimes she pinches them to make them move faster, and she spanks them with her crop to make them hustle. And they must plead for a sip of water.

All this they do by choice.

"I've been submissive all my life," said a man calling himself VES, for Victoria's Exercise Slave, who in real life is a customer service manager who drives 90 minutes to the class from his home in suburban New Jersey. "She makes me suffer. She motivates with a fear factor."

About a half dozen students take the weekly "Slavercise" class regularly, although most prove shy when the class gets media coverage or publicity.

"People say, 'Why would a healthy person want to be hit?' " said one man who did not want to reveal even a nickname. "You're not part of the norm. That's why you wear a mask."

He takes the class, he said, because he says it's good for his relationships.

"Sex is a big part of relationships and after a while, you have to be creative," he explained.

Clad in a black leather mini skirt, bustier, gloves and fishnet stockings, Mistress Victoria in real life is 29-year-old Holly DeRito. She has worked as a dominatrix in New York for eight years, a career she said even her parents have learned to take in stride.

How did she break it to them? "Gently," she said.

She started out in New York with a degree in journalism but, she said, she realized there was more money in beating her men into shape.

Looking to Expand

She charges $20 for the "Slavercise" classes, while a one-on-one session costs $130 and sessions for couples are $150. For those who can't make it to the weekly classes, she also sells a class video. The classes are open to both women and men but seemed to draw an overwhelmingly male crowd.

The dominatrix said she's looking to expand her work — into the corporate world. She's hoping to market the classes for companies to offer employees.

"I just have to figure out what companies would go for it," she said.

Her clients have an array of reasons for subjecting themselves to her stern words and somewhat brutal routines.

VES said he likes "B&D" or "bondage and discipline." He doesn't want to be hit; he just likes serving a mistress.

On the other hand, a fellow classmate who calls himself Shine likes to be whipped. It's the pain of the workout that thrills him, he said.

Her most longtime client, Shine dresses for the occasion in head-to-toe black latex — vest, shorts and boots.

The 55-year-old computer programmer, who speaks in a slow Southern drawl with a broad grin, said he repressed his S&M urges for many years.

"I tried really hard to give it up and not think such thoughts, but I was tired of trying to be normal," he said.

"Once I got to New York, it was OK," he said. "New York City is a safe place for exploring and doing things you want to do that are different."

While some of Mistress Victoria's clients are regulars, some were trying it out for the first time.

A 52-year-old producer of comedy shows said he wanted to try "Slavercise" after going to an S&M club, where a woman in a nurse's uniform spanked him.

"It was fun," he said.
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