Stop Surviving. Start Thriving!

Welcome to Thrive: Personal Health & Fitness! My name is Mike Roberts. I am a Personal Trainer and Health Coach. I started Thrive after spending a year with Beachbody workouts. If you look at “My Story”, you can read about how these workouts have changed my life, and not just physically. It has been an amazing journey form that first day in December 2009! It has been a journey of regaining my life balance, reclaiming my work-life balance, and finding my equilibrium of body, mind, and...

My PB2 Review

December 23, 2010 – Every once in a while you stumble upon a product and can’t believe you didn’t find out about it earlier. I discovered PB2 after reading a Tweet about it. I looked it up and ordered it so I could try it in my Shakeology. Wow – Just incredible! So...

11 Laws of Exercise by ...

December 20, 2010 Tony’s 11 Laws of exercise are fundamental to build a strong foundation. I cannot pretend to say it better than the man himself, so I have copied his words below. If you print this out and follow his rules, you will see your quality of life...

Traveling

December 17, 2010 One of the things I am most proud of is that I completed my initial 90 days on P90x while literally traveling around the world on business trips. I am now doing most of my travel domestically, but what I learned by trial and error that first 90 days has stuck with me. So...

Zen of Fitness

December 16, 2010 Doc Horton really gets it. He is not just some guy who can do a bunch of push-ups and pull-ups. He really looks at the big picture. I saw this in the Beachbody Coaching Videos and I really enjoyed some of his messages so I wanted to share it with Team Right Now. He is...

Coaching Promotion R...

December 11, 2010 In an effort to get more coaches before the big 2011 New Year’s Resolutions season, Beachbody has a special promotion running from now until December 31, 2010. They are waiving the typical one-time sign up fee of $39.99 and the first month of coach dues ($14.95). So,...

Variety

December 9, 2010 One of things that attracted me to the P90x program was the great variety it offered. I wanted to learn how to do Yoga, but I didn’t want to do just Yoga. I wanted to learn how to do Kenpo, but I didn’t want to do just Kenpo. It was really best of all worlds. As Tony...

Food, Inc

December 5, 2010 I have been wanting to see this documentary since it came out and I finally watched it tonight. I always try and look at any controversial topic with a balanced view. Sometimes documentaries and frankly anyone with a particular perspective, can give a very myopic...

Nutrition and Diet

December 4, 2009 This is a very delicate topic to discuss, but I truly believe that nutrition and diet are even more important than all that hard exercise we do. Obviously, the combination of great diet and exercise always yields the best results. Why am I in the best shape of my life?...

My Shakeology Review

December 3, 2010. I went my first 6 months through P90x and P90x Plus and I didn’t even know what Shakeology was. As I became more and more impressed with my results, I started looking through the Beachbody website a little closer. This company must know what they are doing. I am...

My P90X Peak Performanc...

February 27, 2011 – This is a quick update on the P90x Peak Performance Bar Review. Beachbody has gone and improve the formula recently and I want to ensure you were all made aware of what has changed! – The sugar content has been lowered. (9 grams of sugar has been...

My P90X Results & ...

February 27, 2011 This is a quick update on the P90x Results & Recovery Review. Beachbody has gone and improve the formula recently and I want to ensure you were all made aware of what has changed! – The formula now contains dextrose as the sugar as opposed to fructose. Dextrose...

Roberts Hybrid I –...

November 29, 2010 – So I had finished P90x, P90x+, and Insanity front to back and by the book. Now what? Welcome to the world of creating your own hybrid! So, what is a hybrid? It is anything you want it to be and veteran Insanity / P90xers are making every variation possible. After...

Beachbody: The Biz

November 29, 2010 – Have you ever wondered how big of a company Beachbody is? Where did this company come from? And if you just got into P90x, how long has it been out there and how many have they sold? Here is a good article that was published on November 18, 2010 in Bloomberg...

P90X: MC2

November 29, 2010 – Are all you insane P90Xers looking for the next challenge? Well, Tony has something planned for you. P90X: MC2 (Muscle Confusion2). Get excited, but not too excited as they have not even started taping yet. The current release date is the end of 2011. But I know...

Insanity-The Asylum

November 29, 2010 – If any of you are on Facebook and “Like” Insanity, you will see that ShaunT just posted a new video on Insanity – The Asylum. I am so pumped! ShaunT says it will be released at the end of February, so that leaves me 90 days for one last crazy...

My Insanity – Fas...

November 26, 2010 – ShaunT recently released a new 22 minute DVD called Insanity – Fast and Furious. There is a warm-up with stretching to start out which lasts around 9 minutes. Then you have ~10 minutes of all out craziness, Shaun T style. Lastly, there is short cool...

My Insanity Review (Reg...

November 26, 2010 – After I finished P90X and P90X+, I needed to figure out my next challenge. What would continue to help me regain my life balance journey? So, I started Insanity in late June 2010. It is a 9 week program that is broken up by two separate workout blocks that...

My P90X+ Review (My Lif...

November 26, 2010 – After you finish P90X, you feel like you can do anything. With my life coming back into balance (mind body and spirit) after P90X, I was looking for my next journey. So when I started P90x+ at the end of March 2010, I thought, “No Problem!”. I also...

My P90X Review (Regaini...

November 23, 2010 – I am writing this review based on my first 90 days with P90x, which was almost a year ago. I started in late December 2009. One of the biggest challenges of starting P90x is making it a priority in your life. It takes time and energy. How do I fit this into my...