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If you have been keeping up with the latest health and fitness trends, then you have probably asked this question – what is the Body By Vi 90 Day Challenge? The Challenge is a program, using a variety of Body By Vi products that asks people to submit their weight loss results to the company for the chance to win one of any number of prizes. The Challenge can be summed up in three steps: set, select, and submit.

Set A Goal

The first part of the Body By Vi 90 Day Challenge requires you to set a fitness or weight loss goal. Each person sets their own personal goal, whether it be focused on building muscle, increasing cardiovascular fitness, or weight loss. Contest entry form notes three categories of goals: lose weight, gain muscle/get toned, and get healthy.

Select Your Challenge Kit

The second part of the Challenge asks you to pick the Challenge Kit that will best fir your goal. Each kit has been designed to last a month. There are a number of kits offered:

1. Balance kit. The balance kit is designed to provide the body with balanced nutrition throughout the day and includes thirty meals.
2. Shape kit. The shape kit includes sixty meals, twice as many as the balance kit. Because the shape kit has twice as many meals as the balance kit, users can expect twice the results.
3. Core kit. The core kit, like the balance kit, includes thirty meals. The core kit’s products are designed to focus on giving you healthy energy throughout the day.
4. Transformation kit: The transformation kit, like the shape kit, includes sixty meals. This kit is designed to control the appetite and boost metabolism in order to encourage faster results.
5. Fit kit: This kit also includes six meals, but it also includes sixty energy drinks and thirty snacks. The fit kit is meant for those challenge participants whose goals are focused on athletic fitness.

Submit Your Results

The third part of the Challenge involves the participant submitting their results to Challenge.com. Submitting your results is probably the most exciting part of the Vi Challenge. The company is giving away 47 million dollars in prizes for those participants who have the most impressive transformations in a ninety-day period. Each quarter, the company selects six winners (one male, one female, one couple, one team, one family, and one random). Those winners receive a free vacation and a free cruise.

When you submit your results, you are asked to upload your before and after pictures, as well as your starting and ending measurements. Up to five family members can enter together in the family category. Up to four people can enter as a team – think of this as a great way to get in shape with a few of your co-workers! The results entry form also asks you a number of questions, such as

1. Why did you decide to join the Body by Vi Challenge?
2. What is the best personal reward you have gained from your 90 Day Challenge?
3. Which Body by Vi Challenge Kit did you use to help transform your body, and what is your favorite recipe?
4. What advice would you give others about joining, sticking with, and completing the Body by Vi Challenge?
5. What is your definition of success?

What Celebrities Are Doing The Vi Challenge?

The Body by Vi Challenge is a prize-driven weight loss and fitness program designed to transform the body. The Challenge is a three-month program that centers around meal supplement/meal replacement kits combined with the opportunity to win fabulous trips for having the best results. Over the summer, ViSalus (the company behind the Challenge) announced in Miami, Florida that it was pairing with multiple celebrities to follow them as they follow their own fitness and health goals. This comes on top of ViSalus’ earlier associations with celebrities such as Dennis Rodman and Steve Harvey.

Master P (Percy Miller)

Percy Miller, more commonly known as Master P, is a rapper originally and music producer. Master P first became a household name in the late 1990s both as a part of the group TRU and as a solo artist. Unlike Taylor Armstrong, who is participating in the Challenge as an individual, Master P is participating along with his family. His personal goal is to lose twenty pounds through the Challenge program. An avid basketball player, Master P plans to play one-on-one basketball with a friend of his, LeBron James. The Challenge has been a great opportunity for Master P to get back into the gym, which he has been doing for an hour per day. Master P has been using the Core Kit during his program.

Taylor Armstrong

Taylor Armstrong  is best known for her role on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Armstrong, originally from Oklahoma, has lived in Beverly Hills for the last eight years and currently serves as a creative director for a beauty website. Armstrong is the mother do a six-year old daughter, which alone takes a numerous amount of energy! Armstrong has been a long term supporter of domestic abuse prevention, and set a goal of competing a hundred mile bike ride in support of that cause. Prior to starting the Challenge, Armstrong stated that she had not worked out in over five years. Armstrong used the Challenge as a way to get in the shape she had to be in for her bike ride. Armstrong has stated that she uses the Fit Kit each day.

Hulk Hogan (Terry Bolea)

Terry Bolea, better known to all of us as Hulk Hogan, is another celebrity participant in the 90 Day Challenge. Who would have though that a professional athlete and entertainer would be participating? Hulk Hogan’s participation goes to show that even those of us who have made a career out of being in shape need a little help every now and again. Almost sixty, and having recently undergone a serious surgery, was facing having to get back in shape as his fitness began to suffer due to his age. Like Taylor Armstrong, Hulk Hogan is using the Fit Kit as a part of his program. Hulk Hogan has been one of the most active celebrities, and has helped to introduce the Challenge to a number of fitness celebrities and athletes.

Other Celebrities

Dennis Rodman, one of the most famous basketball players in the country, began using the Challenge program in the spring of 2011. NBA athletes aren’t the only professional athletes that have used the Challenge to get and stay in shape. Matt Lehr, a former professional football player and aspiring body builder, has also used the Challenge to maintain his fitness. Tim Watson, a former safety for the Kansas City Chiefs, New York Giants, and Philadelphia Eagles also uses the Challenge to keep his fitness level at its peak. Numerous fitness competition winners, such as 2x Miss Fitness Olympia use the Challenge to help them stay fit.

Taylor Armstrong, Hulk Hogan, and Master P will be participating in a national training event in early November in St. Louis.