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Why you probably can’t get Beyonce’s body in just 22 days
All the single ladies—here’s your chance to get a leotard-ready body. Or, gentlemen, you can look like Shawn Carter (AKA Jay-Z) in just 22 days. Well, maybe.
That’s the sales pitch of Marco Borges, the exercise physiologist and celebrity trainer known for shaping the bods of both Beyonce and Jay-Z. The Miami-based Borges just launched 22 Days Nutrition and 22 Days Challenge.
THE PROGRAM
Borges’s 22 Days Nutrition program is comprised of a line of organic vegan nutrition bars. The 22 Days Challenge offers online diet, fitness, and “enlightenment” tips—from cutting back on sugar and how to do calorie-blasting power moves to chewing more slowly—”tools and knowledge that create lasting lifestyle changes,” all guided by Jay-Z’s trusted guru.
The programs are meant to be done together for a minimum cost of $70, and both are based on “the knowledge that it takes the human mind exactly 21 days to adjust to a major life change,” says Borges.
But we’re a bit suspicious.
Marco Borges, the man behind Jay-Z and Beyonce's hot bods
CAN IT REALLY WORK?
“I am not aware of any research that supports a universal principle that people can permanently change their habits in 21 days,” says Ryan Kull, LCSW, a psychotherapist in New York City. “Habitual behavior can be extremely challenging to change since it involves a complex interaction of psychological, biological, and environmental factors.”
Furthermore, a firm physique facilitated by Borges does not come without a catch: To start the 22 Day Challenge, you have to purchase a minimum of 2 boxes of 12 nutrition bars, which sell for $35.88 each on his website. And there’s virtually no information about what you get for your $70 3-week fitness makeover program until you click the purchase button. It looks like Borges is resting on his client’s success to drive his own.
On the other hand, the man who made the Yankees hat more famous than any Yankee player has said this of Marco Borges: “The World’s Best Trainer.” We’ll let you decide. —Lisa Elaine Held
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Why would you want to? She has thunder thighs and shapeless calves.
tom you sound like a hater
22 days? gimme 20 minutes! YO YO YO!!! B UP’N DA HO!
Hey! Hey! Hey! B’ich need a B’Day!
I would have to put on weight to look like her. If my legs and ass ever get that big, I’m going to start crying. She wears lingerie on stage cause she can’t sing, she’s fat and she has fake hair.
lmao pamela. right on. i really don’t see why everyone goes off about her body. she is kinda gross and jiggly. and “junk in the trunk” is really just toxic fat cells.
Yall just haters
Heaven forbid African American women are shaped differently! Yeah that’s right she’s got a backside and bigger thighs. And she’s absolutely beautiful. You guys can go barf up your lunch now-she’s going to go play in her MILLIONS of dollars! LOL!
Beyonce is lovely, curvy and smart. I love her because she works and maximizes what she’s got. That’s what someone with self-respect and self-esteem does and they attract the same into their lives, hence, Jay-Z.
Funny thing about haters, if they really understood the way that the mind works, they would get that when they hate on someone else, they are really exposing their OWN insecurities and self-loathng. That’s why alot of people who get hated on, really don’t pay you ignoramuses any mind. They know what to do. That’s why they are there and you haters… you are right here scouring the internet looking for something or someone to hate on. You are pathetic and you need to get a life.
You see something, read it, filter it through that weak, fruitless, barren land of a brain and that cold, hateful weak love-less heart that you have and then muster up somethng that you think is a valid opinion. You’re the joke, really.
ANYONE who posts negative things about other people is a waste of space and you need to get some self-esteem and build yourself and others up instead of tearing down OR you can just live and die a HATER.
t’s your call and your life but just know what the real truth is.
A wise person will read this and comprehend what I’m saying but a FOOL… a fool will continue to be a FOOl until he CHOOSES to be otherwise.
Go’ahead… DO YOU. But in the end, your funky lttle opinons are not fazing the hated one bit. Ha!
On the other hand, I wish I would spend $70 bucks for a question mark. I’d rather use my jumprope, resistance bands, walking shoes and my yoga videos.
No disrespect, I’m just saying. Jay-Z can afford to spend that but to the average somebody, that’s reaching, I think.
Success to Mr. Borges and his business but, I think I’ll look him up after I hit the lotto!