Body Gospel^®: Have faith in your weight loss success.

At last, you can combine the power of your faith with your desire to lose weight and get fit. Body Gospel is a first-of-its-kind program that includes workouts set to inspirational gospel music, breakthrough new resistance bands, and a complete nutrition plan created by fitness icon Donna Richardson Joyner.

She shows you how to combine this effective program with your faith in God to transform your body and your life. With glorious music guaranteed to get you moving, every workout is a “party with a purpose,” and the results will amaze you.

If you believe, you will succeed!*

When I was offered the opportunity to review the new Body Gospel workout plan from Beachbody.com, I was super excited!  What could be better than combining two of my favorite things – working out and worship?  I couldn’t think of anything more suited to me and I knew if  Beachbody was behind it – the program would be good!

I received the entire program which includes all of the items you see pictured above.  Let me go through each thing with you…

3 Day Jump Start Plan and Nutrition Guide: The 3 Day Jump Start Plan includes the use of Shakeology (click to see my review) which I am a big fan of, three times per day.  This is a great way to jump start your new nutrition plan.  When I am starting a new meal plan, I really like to be told exactly what I can eat for each meal.  The Body Gospel Nutrition Plan does just that giving you three complete meals and two snacks daily.  The recipes are good with meals like Roast Turkey Cobb Salad, Chicken and Hummus Wrap, Steel-cut Oatmeal with Turkey Sausage and Jerk Chicken – just to name a few of my favorites.  All are fairly simple to make and don’t require a lot of prep time.  All of the are suitable for the entire family (except babies of course).

Total Transformation Guide: The Transformation Guide includes a commitment contract, walks you through the basics of the whole Body Gospel program, includes the workout calendar and also a 30 day inspiration journal for help you stay on track.  Each day of the inspiration journal includes inspiration and encouragement, scripture, goal tracker section, motivator checklist and a reminder to give thanks each day.

Body Gospel Basic 10 Fitness Cards: One side of each card gives you instructions on some of the moves that you will use in the workouts.  I found the moves to be pretty easy to follow for the most part but the cards are really useful after you have done the workouts at least once to help you focus on proper movement the next time through.  On the backside of each card you will find scripture inspiration.

Measure Tape and Tracker Card: The tape measure may seem like an enemy at first, but it won’t be long until you are looking forward to watching the inches come off!  This is an easy way to track your progress and SO much better than using the scale!

Body Gospel Bands: These bands are awesome!  I once had a band snap on me in one of my P90X (pull up) workouts and so have been a bit band shy since then… but these are the best bands I have ever seen!  The design is great and fits securely to your feet so you don’t have to worry about them snapping back at you or coming unsecured.  Comfortable to use and adding  just the right amount of resistance they are a brilliant addition to your workout!

4 Workout Disk’s:  The four disks include 8 workouts.

Disk #1 (blue): Here you have 3 workouts.  Body Revival which is a 30 minute workout that is great for beginners but can be challenging enough for advanced people as well.  Both my daughters did this workout with me and were able to do pretty well at it.  Core Revelation is a 20 minute core workout plus some lower body.  My girls did this one with me as well, just without the bands.  This one feels pretty easy to me, but I am sure that has to do with my experience with the P90X and Insanity core workouts.  Stretch In The Spirit is a short 12 minute refresh and restore routine to help you increase your flexibility.  Great for adding on to the end of your workouts or doing as a wake up first thing in the morning.

Disk #2 (Purple): This DVD includes two workouts.  The first is Power & Praise which is your interval workout (my favorite kind of workout).  This combines cardio with strength training which I believe gives you the greatest results for the time you spend working out.  There are great modified moves for those that need them.  The total workout lasts for about 35 minutes and uses the bands and is fast moving and fun!  Gospel Glory is a 40+ minute interval based cardio workout that will have you sweating, worshiping and burning calories all at the same time.  I usually have a hard time following cardio workouts, I must not be very coordinated however, this one is pretty easy to get and follow and the dance party at the end will have you grinning and joining along!  These are fun and uplifting workouts that leave you feeling refreshed and fantastic!

Disk #3 (Red): This DVD also includes two workouts.  The first one is  Strength & Spirit a total body workout that lasts about an hour.  This will give you a great cardio and strength training workout together to strengthen, sculpt and tone your entire body as you alternate between hand weights and cardio blasts.  Even Donna seems to work up a sheen in this workout!  Bonus Body Gospel Live! is a gospel dance party with a live gospel choir.  Exercise both the body and spirit for 30 fun, fast moving minutes.

Disk #4 (Yellow):  Bonus Stepping in the Spirit is a step workout to help you get in your 10,000 steps per day in this 30 minute power walk workout on CD.

About Donna: Donna Richardson Joyner has starred in award-winning workouts, including the Buns of Steel^™ and Sweating in the Spirit series. The Oprah Winfrey Show^® chose her as one of the “Top 5 Fitness Video Instructors.” Donna is in the Fitness Hall of Fame and holds the Guinness World Record for leading the world’s largest line dance, with over 50,000 participants.* Throughout the program Donna is extremely upbeat and gives plenty of instruction during each workout.

Overall I have really enjoyed Body Gospel.  I love being able to combine my workout with worship and gospel music.  The workouts are challenging but short enough to be able to fit in on days when I am too busy for my longer workouts.  Body Gospel holds up to my high expectations for Beachbody and is a great addition to their workout products!

Buy It: Body Gospel is available through Beachbody.com click below to purchase:

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I was not paid in any form of cash for this posting.

I did receive product or services to keep for my testing purposes.