These customers-turned-salespeople register online as a 'coach' and sell fitness packages using Beachbody products and programs including workout DVDs, food supplements and meal plans and in turn earning up to 25% commission for each sale. Team Beachbody encourages members of the general public to enroll as 'coaches'. Ī three-way merger between Forest Road Acquisition Corp, Myx Fitness Holdings and Beachbody was entered into in February 2021, which valued the new business combination at $2.9 billion. It was alleged that Beachbody was charging its customers’ credit cards on an automatic, recurring basis without the required written consent of those customers. In 2017, Beachbody agreed to pay $3.6 million to settle a lawsuit from the city of Santa Monica over automatic credit card renewals. The FTC has stated that 99.6% of all MLM participants will lose money, after factoring in the costs to join. īetween June and November 2017, advertising watchdog organization Truth in Advertising found that Beachbody distributors were making false and unsubstantiated income claims to promote the company's business opportunity. In 2007, customers began selling workout DVDs. It was heavily marketed through infomercials and celebrity endorsements. It consists of a training program that uses cross-training and periodization, combined with a nutrition and dietary supplement plan. In 2005, P90X, or Power 90 Extreme, was created by Tony Horton as a commercial home exercise regimen and developed as a successor to the program called 'Power 90'. The founders received $500,000 in angel investing, developed a series of workout videos and bought the website. Daikeler was previously in informercials for Lifeline Gym and :08 Min Abs in the 1990s. The company was founded in 1998 by Carl Daikeler and Jon Congdon in Santa Monica, California. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information.

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