Some of you have been with us on this journey for quite some time; some of you are brand new. Either way, we appreciate you and hope this #flashbackfriday brightens your day! Enjoy!
Here are a few other super creative projects that we think you’ll like!
The Pup is connected to your favorite clouds. It is tiny, lightweight, wireless, with a long-lasting battery. It is very simple to use thanks to its unique button. It automatically takes care of every step, from your sheet of paper to its destination on the internet. CLICK HERE for more info!
An everyday water-resistant minimalist smartwatch. Track your steps, sleep, alarms and receive phone notifications. No charging needed. Starting at just $40! CLICK HERE for more info!
Foxshot is a small water-resistant camera that can be attached to any surface. Polychrome, Wearable, 1080P Magnetic with App Live Video, If you back Foxshot by this link, you will get the Kickstarter only sticker for FREE because you are a backer of BodyBoss 2.0! Just send a message to tell Foxshot team you are a Backer from BodyBoss 2.0. Well done!
Wiivv Custom Fit Sandals give you comfort and support like no mass-produced sandal ever has. You can literally wear them all day long, so your feet can carry you wherever you need to go. When you upload a picture of your feet to the Wiivv app, the software maps over 200 data points on each foot to pinpoint the exact width, length and arch of your unique foot. Within 5 seconds, the app creates 3D models of your premium arch support, which are then 3D printed and turned into custom-fit sandals. Grab them while they last.
Why You Should Tune in to LIVE Workouts
over 7 years ago
– Mon, Apr 03, 2017 at 10:00:24 PM
We’ve added a second LIVE workout as a benefit to our BodyBoss community, and we hope that you’ll consider tuning in! Saturday’s workout was awesome, and to be honest, I’m still sore! The next workout is tomorrow, Tuesday, April 4th at 6 pm EST. You can tune in here.
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Here are a few reasons we think you should tune in LIVE.
1. Community - We know that the key to long-lasting, lifetime fitness is the community that you surround yourself with! Sharing your success and struggle with a group of people here to encourage you to keep on pushing through plateaus makes all the difference.
2. Knowledge - Exercise can be intimidating. The easiest way to learn how to use your BodyBoss to gain strength is by workout along with an expert! Kristi offers amazing tips throughout the entire workout on the most effective positioning of your resistance bands, foot placement, and much more. Don’t miss this invaluable information.
3. Inspiration - After tuning into a live workout, you’ll be so much more prepared to workout on your BodyBoss 2.0 solo! Get inspired by new moves and new challenges to keep your new habits going strong. Saturday’s workout included back squats, squat presses, back lunges, ab twists, super sets of kick backs and side kicks, and more!
If you missed Saturday’s LIVE workout, you might still have time. We have community all over the world, so keep in mind, if 6 PM EST just doesn’t fit into your schedule, you have 48 hours from the live video to watch the replay. If you have questions or need support, our team is ready to help. Leave a comment below or email us at [email protected].
If you need something to occupy your kids while working out with the BodyBoss, grab a Pixlplay camera! We love this campaign because it makes use of your old phone while getting your kids creative and active through photography. There's a limited time left so check out Pixlplay by Pixltoys!
Hey, Everyone!
over 7 years ago
– Sat, Apr 01, 2017 at 01:33:24 AM
I am super excited to introduce myself! My name is Erin, and I’ve recently joined the BodyBoss team. I’ll be helping with lots of projects that will ultimately support our amazing group of early Backers and the entire BodyBoss community. I’m an (almost) 29 year old mother of one (photo below). My husband and I live in Northwest Indiana, which is just south of Chicago. We are both on our own fitness journeys, and I can’t wait to share more of our story as well as hear yours! We have a few updates for you this week…
More and more BodyBosses have shipped!
We have received confirmation that our orders to the United States, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, and China should all be completed, so if you’re in one of those countries and haven’t received yours yet, be on the lookout. That means 4,000+ sets have shipped! We are excited about this progress, and are so grateful for your patience in waiting to receive your own BodyBoss 2.0.
Join Kristi for live workouts!
Don’t worry, it’s not an April Fool’s joke, the amazing Kristi will be hosting a live workout this Saturday, April 1st at 10AM EST. You can join her by clicking on this link. Feel free to share with friends and family!
Kristi is also adding a second live workout - here. Join her on Tuesday, April 4th at 6PM EST. Don’t miss this chance to tune in. (I know I will be!)
Are you receiving our emails?
We’ve received several comments that Backers have not always received our emails. Many times, the email address you gave us is totally valid, but our email address has been blocked by your mail filter, because it appears to be spam. When this happens, our mail server will try to resend. If we are blocked after multiple attempts, your email address moves to our “bounce” list and won’t be attempted again. We obviously don’t want this to happen!
To correct this, all you need to do is whitelist our email address, [email protected]. Here is an awesome “how to” article on how to whitelist in some of the most popular mail servers.
We want to make sure you get responses from our Support Team when you need assistance, and whitelisting our email address will help!
As always…
Thanks again for being a faithful BodyBoss supporter. We truly value each of our Backers. Enjoy your weekend, guys, and don’t forget to join Kristi on Saturday morning!
My daughter, Ruby, enjoying her very first cupcake!
Start your weekend right with a sweat session this Saturday!
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Revolutionary 18K gold plated magnetic USB cable changing the way you connect to your phone forever! CLICK HERE for 46% off RRP.
5 Must Do Exercises To Burn Fat With the BodyBoss Gym + 560 Subscribers To LIVE WORKOUTS, It's Working!
over 7 years ago
– Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 12:35:52 AM
Founding Bosses,
We want you to know that we truly are giving it our all for you, our early backers. The purpose of this update is to engage our BodyBoss community. This has been one heck of a ride, but bosses we are just beginning.
We have grown so much from this journey and we want you to know that you can bet that if we work together, get amazing results using this beautiful product and firmly believe in BodyBoss we will see something special unfold.
The BodyBoss can do so much, but at the end of the day just get on it and start moving those bands!
HERE ARE 5 MUST DO EXERCISES TO BURN FAT WITH THE BODYBOSS!
Before you dive into your exercises believe in what you are trying to accomplish. Plan mentally and know what exercise(s) you want to do for your workout that day.
1. Toe to Sky Touches
Not only is this great for burning fat, but it also corrects and prevents poor posture! Always keep your core tight by squeezing your belly button to your back. Start your timer on your phone and do this for 20 minutes and you will be sweating!
2. Ab Kick Backs
Try this if you want to get the lower abs burning! You can also do mountain climbers out of this position.
3. Squat Punches
It's simple but who needs to box on air when you can add resistance to the mix. Add squats to tone your entire body and get your heart rate up.
4. Lunge High Knee
Simply put if you strength train your legs you not only tighten your legs but you will burn your stubborn belly fat. Yes, your jeans will be much easier to fit on. By adding the high knee it creates stability and control while activating your core.
5. Pop Squat Shoulder Raises
You're the boss of your body. Just crush these, you know the benefits ;) This is a great to lose fat and strengthen your arms.
We are so thankful for you all and would love to get to know each and every one of you.
A CHANCE TO BE FEATURED TO THE COMMUNITY AND ON THE NEW WEBSITE!
For those of you who have your BodyBoss 2.0, we want to hear how are your workouts coming along?!?!
(For those of you who don’t have your product yet, let us know what you have been doing to stay in shape.)
Let us know your BodyBoss experience. You can answer how you want! We provided you questions below for reference if you need and email us at [email protected] and share a photo of yourself using your BodyBoss: (Be Creative!)
Where are you from?
How often do you use your BodyBoss?
What are your fitness goals?
What is your favorite BodyBoss workout device (wrist wraps, handles, door-anchor, workout bar?)
What is your favorite BodyBoss exercise?
What else do you want us to know?
Example of Kristi on her BodyBoss 2.0
(Make yourself noticeable!) Our favorite submissions will be featured both on our new website launching in the next few weeks and in next's weeks update!
Please join us for “The Best Saturdays in Fitness!”
Come this Saturday to BodyBoss Kristi’s live workout class! 10:00am EST and follow BodyBoss Kristi and her killer workout! BE READY, SHE WILL KICK YOUR BUTT ;)
Subscribe here, tomorrow's workout will be a great one! Our technology team has been developing and we will update you on the status of that next week, but the more people we have in there the more leverage we have to push to get you great technology!
Share your BodyBoss Kickstarter experience with us. Whether you have had an amazing experience with us to date or whether you have felt like we have done something you didn't like, please let us know! We want you to know we are good people trying to give it our best shot for you and most importantly the BodyBoss brand.
We have some crazy developments that have occurred over the past week and we will be sharing more information in the coming updates. If you are in the USA, Australia, Canada and the UK you should have received your gym if you have not please reach out to [email protected] and Jim or Jay will check the reason and get you fixed up. For the remainder shipments of roughly 450 shipments for Kickstarter backers needing to go out will be completed in two distribution centers. We highlight more details bullet, we are trying to use Erwins suggestion of bullet points to keep it simple, it's tough! But we are trying :) Thanks Erwin. Thanks all bosses, thank you.
This is going to be even more special. Keep an eye out on upcoming updates.
Sincerely,
BodyBoss
Team
"Thank you for the support it means the world to us."
I absolutely love my BodyBoss gyms.
FAQ:
Rods For Ab Wheels (USA). For those in the USA who received wheels but not their rod. These will be sent out as quickly as we can. We are clearing the work order and hoping to get these sent out sometime this upcoming week.
Interantional Shipping? We have to ship in regions due to customs and governments internationally. According to Shipwire, we cannot ship outside of countries. On average, each packages shipped weighs nearly 18-22 lbs.; if shipped via air line, the cost of shipping our gym would increase about $125 per gym (estimated and depending on the location of that customer). Therefore, we have chosen to ship via cargo/sea to the USA and regions.
Simply put, 7,000 gyms x $125 to ship via air, would not allow us to do what we need to do, as a team, for our customers. That includes providing workout videos, training programs, nutritional guides, trainers, technology advancements, and customer service people to respond to questions/changes/concerns that our backers may have.
International Backers: For Hong Kong they are set to arrive at Port next week. Then need to clear customs, truck to the warehouse and then from there will be sent out to the Pacific Rim Countries. For those outside of Asia Internationally you will receive yours from the Germany Distribution warehouse. You have nothing to worry about you will get your gym, it will be awesome and if you have issues we will fix them for you. it's too early to tell the exact date, this cargo ship got held up at customs leaving port and got very backed up due to the Chinese New Year, but should be arriving early April after a long journey of 30+ days on the water then from there needs to clear customs. Customs in the past is unpredictable for example in the UK it took 3 weeks! But, we would rather not over promise to you all.
Here are other campaigns we are some other campaigns we are collaborating with:
Acteon Compression Packing Cubes
Save space with two compartments to keep your clean and dirty clothes
separated. Made with high quality ultra durable ripstop nylon and YKK
zippers. Check it out HERE!
Flter is a networking device that provides VPN protection, malicious ad blocking, and Tor anonymity on all the devices in your home. Check out this awesome project here!
UNO II - The First Interchangeable Backpack
UNO II is a clever backpack with a single zipper and interchangeable interior panels that allow the backpack to be customized for many carrying scenarios. Click Here
tex—lock: the bike lock made of high-tech textiles
It is an innovative textile-based lock, composed of high-tech materials, making it secure, flexible and lightweight. CLICK HERE
MOONDROP- Fidget desk toy displaying gravity on the MOON and MARS
It is gravity defying fidget desk toy that imitates the free fall on Mars and Moon. Be sure to CHECK IT OUT HERE!
A thoughtful message to you- BodyBoss Founding Backers
over 7 years ago
– Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 11:26:11 PM
A little history here for all our backers – 2.5 years ago at the age of 25 I started this company with an idea: to provide portable resistance strength and fitness training to anyone at any strength level wherever they wanted. Now because of our backers we are doing just that - Thank you! At that time, I was working full-time for another company, giving my best to this commitment during the day and working well into the night on BodyBoss. Eventually, I was able to launch our metal base BodyBoss (V1) on KickStarter, we received backing of around 300 commitments and raised just over $62,000. Fortunately, we were able to meet the demands for these products and even managed to break even doing so. Then at the age of 26 I quit my full-time job to concentrate fully on this company, BodyBoss. During this first year with my full-time effort I was trying to develop the market and product into a much more portable unit, a high grade injection molded version. Of course, like most startup companies I spent all my savings, lived hand to mouth and went into debt.
We found an amazing partner to help engineer and manufacture the next version of BodyBoss which allowed for greater portability and functionality. Of course, we went to the Kickstarter platform and eventually IndieGoGo communities to ask Backers to help launch the next version. The success was greater than I could have even imagined, in the next 7 months this Version 2 - newer, better, lighter, more portable system received over 4500 backers/early adopters. I'll be forever indebted to this group and I want you to know that if you can stick with us and help us work through the startup phase, I will always stick with you. I know that it has been tough on everyone because the campaign has been much bigger than anyone expected therefore taking much more time. So, for all the waiting or any of the minor issues in fulfilling your requested reward for backing us, I will at every opportunity to provide you the services you deserve. I will always do my best to stick with you the first users/backers. Please communicate directly to us any discrepancies and just know we will get to you even if it does take a while. We are just 2 people right now but I am confident we will, over your fitness journey, make your backing of our startup worth it. Again, Thank You for working with us.
Because we have around 6000 units committed to from backers between V1 and V2 we are attracting some financial interest from people that have the experience and finances to continue to build a company that can serve our backers better. I no longer have to operate this company as a sole proprietor with my girlfriend Kristi and my lifelong friend. Currently, it looks like we may have some people that are willing to put some money into our company, which we are excited and grateful about. This is because the product has proven that it has a market.
To be very open with my community and backers - a few years ago I'd never shipped anything domestically let alone internationally. I had never dealt with tariffs, never dealt with import taxes, nor customs or any of the logistics of bringing a product to market!! I just went full steam ahead and thought I could do it all. Ignorance is bliss, but along the way I have learned. Although, above all I have applied what I have learned in sports to work and work and work. It has been such a great and valuable lesson in business. It was just four years ago when I was at The Ohio State University, playing football and baseball. Yes, I did graduate and get a degree but I've never done anything like this in my life so again thank you for helping this company become a reality! I won't quit on you, so please don’t quit on me! We will get to your issue, if everything is not or as it should be. There are a lot of ways we can try to make your fitness journey better with content, advice and early access to our next generation innovation.
There is some neat stuff in the works. The vision will become a reality. For example we are in early development of a Bluetooth resistance measuring device that will retrofit with V1 and V2 that we are calling the BossBit (we plan on trademarking this as well). The BossBit will have an APP and encourage goals, community, evaluation and instant feedback. Also, a virtual gym training website platform in which you can follow your favorite fitness trainer and work with them on your terms. They will be able to teach, train and motivate you and others wherever you are. All you will need is the internet and you will soon have access to interactive real time two-way audio and video instruction. There will be streaming and replay features for more convenience so if you miss your scheduled session there is a way for you to get right back on track. This virtual training internet application encourages you to work with instructors you are already working with in person, and should you want or need to find someone that meets your specifications we will help match you with the trainers we know and have confidence in helping you. Because you backed this project and made the concept a reality these solutions will be available to you, our backbone supporters, first.
When you backed the BodyBoss 2.0 and helped this project far exceed all expectations it came with a price. We envisioned in the V2 campaign that we would get around 500 to 1000 backers. However, it turned into again close to 5000 backers. We have followed other campaigns on these platforms and have learned some campaigns the backers never receive their reward. We researched and of course the crowdfunding rules and regulations do not require the backers to actually receive a reward. But to be clear with our backers we have never once contemplated this with our campaign. Even though meeting much of the international orders has been far more complicated than we ever imagined. The complexity of the logistics, has at times for a 1- 2 person operation, been extremely overwhelming. We want you to know that we will finish for you and will get it right eventually. Again, I won't quit so please don’t quit on us! Please stand by BodyBoss!
I ask you to be patient and know I will endeavor to finish this and bring more to the table for the community. Know we are in the process of getting more financial backing and more experienced associates and leaders. We are evolving and will meet demand and expectations. My backers got this going and we will always be loyal to this community.
It is a big project but your fitness, wellness, health goals and aspirations are what drive us to deliver. We want to provide the tools for you to access resistance strength training anywhere you want no matter your fitness level in the environment or locations you choose. Ultimately, we aspire to teach, train and motivate you to achieve fitness for a better and longer more capable life.
Blessings to you all my friends, and with much appreciation - BodyBoss Ross!
Big thank you to Kristi. As much as we dread getting sore for days after your workouts, we thank you. Good luck over the next 3 years in anesthesia school as you pursue your doctorate.
Must see BodyBoss How To:
Awesome set up from BodyBoss community SuperBosses!
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As we talk and learn from project creators. We want to help share their campaigns again as a thankyou. Here are some other cool projects:
Senstone: The world's smartest voice recording wearable.
AI powered pendant that lets you creative moments on the go. Just tap and speak. Anytime, anywhere! CLICK HERE
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Steadicam Volt Smartphone Stabilizer | Shake-Free Videos.
Capture memorable moments more easily and professionally from your smartphone. Mount, Power On and GO! CLICK HERE
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LYNQ: The No Nonsense 6-in-1 Charging Hub
Our friends @BCX Labs just brought to us their LYNQ Hub, a no nonsense 6-in-1 hub that combines a Bluetooth speaker, teleconferencing device, USB Hub, Cable management device, pen holder and wireless phone charger into one sleek device: LYNQ Hub here!
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Ember Blaze - True Wireless Earbuds.
Designed with great sound, and built for high performance, Ember Blaze is here and available at an affordable price! CLICK HERE
