Everyone is looking for discounts on their favorite workout and fitness videos. The trainers and companies work hard to produce a good product and most offer a money back guarantee if you’re not completely satisfied with your purchase. Buy American and support your favorite trainer the right way.

Discounts on Craigslist

You will find ads for discounted fitness programs on places like Craigslist but those are almost always pirated copies. People will copy the DVDs and make PDFs out of the manuals and any other guides that may come with the program and you will never be sure you received the complete package and the quality will never be as good as the real deal.

eBay

Sellers on eBay are as bad as Craigslist or worse. They will be pirated copies or if they are new and heavily discounted they may be from a drop shipment from China. These will look just like the original packaging but it’s almost a guarantee they are counterfeit. Many will say they are selling DVDs with no guides or manuals. With many fitness programs, the manuals and guides are an essential part of the program and to get the most out of any product, you need all of the parts that go with the program in order for it to be effective.

Beachbody

There are no discounts on Beachbody programs and anyone that is advertising discounts or coupons is not an authorized reseller for Beachbody. But there are a couple of ways to gain legitimate discounts for yourself from Beachbody.

  • Become a Beachbody Club Member - Members receive 10% discounts on all Beachbody products and 50% discount on shipping. Members also get upgraded forum access that includes customized meal plans, advice and videos from your favorite trainers not seen anywhere else and it comes with a 30 day Money Back Guarantee, if you absolutely do not like being a Beachbody Club Member, get a full refund and keep everything you bought at a 10% discount and still enjoy the free Beachbody forums.
  • Become a Beachbody Coach - Coaches receive 25% discounts on all Beachbody products, plus 50% discount on shipping. You can also receive your own coaches website and can promote Beachbody products and earn commissions. Being a coach costs a little bit upfront, but if you are serious about Beachbody products and want to help your friends get into the best shape ever this is the way to do it. Receiving discounts on supplements, protein bars, equipment, videos you’re going to get anyway, now you can receive commissions from people you refer to Beachbody products to.

If you’re looking for Cheap P90X DVDs the retail price is $119.85 + Shipping, $108 + shipping for Beachbody Club Members and $89.89 + shipping for Beachbody Coaches. No matter which program you choose you can sign up for a free Beachbody account to track your progress, ask questions in the forum and connect with other Beachbody product users and even win daily cash or product prizes in their ongoing contests.

Amazon - Amazon is a reputable store, but I always try and be careful buying from the Amazon Market place where anyone can sign up and sell stuff. If you choose someone other than Amazon, read the feedback and try and be careful. There are several complaints in the reviews of people that thought they were buying the real product only to find out guides and manuals were missing and the DVDs were inferior quality and scratched.

Pirates are not going to supply you with the bonus items for any product and they will not give you a Money Back Guarantee. Trainers have spent months developing their programs and then months producing a video and then having it distributed and sharing their hard work and profits with all support staff and middlemen. Every trainer has a team of people behind them supporting their business. This may sound corny like “Buy American”, but support your favorite trainers and buy from authorized websites. Clicking on any ad or any link on Ultimate Workout Videos will take you to an authorized website. What if someday you actually met your trainer and thanked them for their program, but you had to tell them you had a pirated copy of their hard work. I know I couldn’t.

If you could leave your experiences trying to buy discounted fitness programs off of Craigslist, eBay or anywhere else in the comments you can help others to not have the same bad experience.

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