Posts by Craig Ballantyne
The Metabolic Punch Workout
The Metabolic 1-2-3 Punch (Full Workout) By Mike Whitfield, CTT It was a crisp Sunday afternoon in Lapeer, Michigan. Brian Kalakay and I just wrapped up a full day of filming high intensity metabolic workouts. Brian had told me about a place called FroYo that served fresh waffles in which you put frozen yogurt on…
Read MorePersonal Letter to My Mentor
Nobody knows this, but all of the amazing men and women that have won my Turbulence Training Body Transformation Contests owe their success to one man – and it’s not me. And when we finish with the 1st Early To Rise $100,000 Transformation Contest next year, those winners will also owe this man a great…
Read MoreHow To Send Email and Make Money
“It’s a beautiful thing,” I told my friend Jason Ferruggia last week as we trained at the Colorado Athletic Club in Denver. “We are so lucky that we get to send emails and write blog posts and make our living this way.” “You’re right, LaRue,” Jay replied, “We are very lucky.” And I want YOU…
Read More10 Ineffective or Dangerous Exercises to STOP Doing
The goal is to get fit, not hurt.
Read MoreBig Thinking
One of the highlights of my trip to Germany was a visit to a secret test track at BMW. It was miles and miles away from their main headquarters, located beside a cornfield in the middle of the country. As soon as we arrived our cell phones were confiscated. “We can’t allow any pictures, yah?”,…
Read More5 Exercises Not To Do
Before we get to the exercises, a quick weekend update… On Saturday, 45 of my friends, family, and EarlyToRise.com team members visited three Wal-Marts in Denver where we were able to buy $60,065 worth of toys in our Toys for Tots drive. Thank YOU for supporting TT so that we could support Toys for Tots.…
Read MoreWriting For Your Prospect
“A person’s name is to him or her the sweetest and most important sound in any language.” -Dale Carnegie. While you can’t use your client’s name in mass emails (since most people don’t give you their real name) or on a sales page, today’s “What’s Working” lesson shows you what to do… There’s an old…
Read MoreHow Pilates Can Redesign Your Physique
How Pilates Can Redesign Your Physique by Sylvia Favela Pilates only a stretching exercise? Not Exactly! Not at all, however when I’m asked if Pilates is all about stretching and lying around, I smile as say, “No Way”! I would agree and see how Pilates can be mistaken as a stretching and breathing exercise and commonly…
Read MoreOutstanding 15 Minute Home Fat Burning Workouts
Yesterday morning I stopped by the Diet Solution Headquarters here in Denver to film some videos with Isabel De Los Rios, the world famous nutrition expert. Isabel is one of our partners in the upcoming $100,000 Early To Rise Transformation Contest (yes, we’re giving away $100,000 to men and women that change their lives in…
Read MoreGive to Receive
On Saturday afternoon I met an Internet multi-millionaire colleague of mine in Ann Arbor, Michigan at Qdoba. He was generous enough to treat me to a lunch of a Naked Burrito and a water. But more importantly, we had a great conversation about what’s working in sales letters, copy, promotions, front-end sales funnels, and back-end…
Read MoreIntense Fat Loss Christmas Workout Finisher
Hey, are you Craig?”, a voice asked. It was this past Saturday, right around noon, and I was standing in front of a Qdoba restaurant in Ann Arbor, Michigan waiting for a friend. That’s when I was randomly spotted by 24-7 Fat Loss customer, Mike Bouren. Funny enough, just that morning he had followed along…
Read MoreWe Lost One of the Great Ones
His story reads like something out of a movie. Born the tenth of twelve children in backwoods Alabama without running water or indoor plumbing, our hero set forth on a marvelous journey; one that would take him around this great world and into the hearts and minds of millions of people. But starting out, as…
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