Reps2Beat founder, James Brewer

James Brewer is the originator of Reps2Beat‌ Training. Throughout his many years as a certified fitness instructor, James identifies the important role beat-sound and beat-speed can play in fitness. For the many exercisers who apply music to their personal and group workouts all realize music often times lends a significant enhancement to the training experience. Also, he discovered firsthand the impact a fitness instructors’ choice of music, and their arrangement has in influencing the enthusiasm and energy level of those participating within any group or individual training session. It is with this understanding that James developed and initiated the ideas behind beat-speed training concepts and methods.

The R2B Training‌ ‌System‌ uses a concept referred to as the “Absolute‌ Beat-Speed Principle”. It is a unique fitness process whereby varying beats at selected speeds are applied in music to enhance an exercisers workout.‌ Consider how useful an effective speed-directed music program could be to your overall health‌ and‌ fitness. Any fitness activity or program can be beat-speed converted to assist you at your own personal pace, tempo, and musical genre. It is the perfect fit for any level of workout. No more‌ having to endure boring workouts. No more trying to find an effective training that will also fit your life’s busy schedule. Regardless ‌the‌ ‌time‌ ‌of‌ ‌day; no‌ ‌matter‌ ‌your‌ ‌‌fitness‌ ‌level‌. From individual to group training, f‌‌rom‌ running,‌ walking, and biking to jumping rope, weight and circuit training, the R2B Training System‌ will motivate, transform, and enhance the way you do fitness.

Having had several years’ experience as a certified fitness instructor and college athlete, James Brewer has always been intrigued with all concepts that examined the application of music and fitness. As such, he expanded his daily fitness routine by experimenting with the application of music at tempos specific to my personal pace within any given exercise. This experimentation included distance running, pushups, pullups, and of course sit-ups. Initially James had struggled to complete more than 50 consecutive back to the floor, elbow-to-knee sit-ups. However,‌ ‌after just a few short weeks of using music at a specific beat-speed‌ in coordination with his core workout, James was executing more than 700 consecutive nonstop sit-ups per workout.‌

‌Every so often, James would increase the duration of his workouts, and to his amazement he‌ ‌was now able to perform over 1500 continuous sit-ups. For the following few months James would add 50-100 additional sit-ups, accomplishing at that time a personal best of 1800 nonstop sit-ups.‌

In a Men’s Journal Magazine, James had come across an article stating the world record total for the most sit-ups executed in one hour was 2,238 by a man‌ from Australia. At this time, the sit-up routine he had been performing had been at a‌ pace that was casual and moderate. To match the one-hour record, James would need to‌ increase his average sit-up count by nearly ten sit-ups per minute.‌

His interest piqued, James sought to further test the music and beat speed concepts he had been employing. He began training to a timed sit-up schedule with emphasis placed on improving his sit-up total in coordination to increasing the music’s beats-per-minute play. Within a month, James unofficially broke the world record by 35 sit-ups. In the months following, he exceeded the one-hour record on several occasions by margins of more than 300 sit-ups with a personal best of 2640 nonstop sit-ups in one hour. It was at this time that James seriously began to foster the idea of a beat-speed training system.

Since that time, James has endeavored to share and promote the principles of beat-speed training in all areas of fitness. He has personally assisted hundreds of individuals toward their fitness goals. Most significantly, along with a number of others, he has been involved in the creation and development the AbMax300. The AbMax300 is a sit-up assistance device that together with the beat-speed training process has a 90% success rate in helping individuals successfully achieve the ability to complete 300+ nonstop sit-ups.

James Brewer

Reps2Beat Founder

founder’s personal share

In the late eighties, before Reps2Beat, I attended college where in addition to school, I worked various‌ part-time jobs and at‌ one point‌ started‌ up a small‌ security guard service. When the unexpected growth of the guard service became much more than I could manage‌, I‌ left school extending my time‌ fully‌ to the demands of the expanding business.‌

I owned and operated the guard service employing hundreds of people for several years before the business took a turn for the worse. Consequently, I committed less time to the security service and more time‌ ‌to an alternate consulting firm. Over the next few years, my business pursuits rose and fell.

In an‌ effort to keep business afloat, ill-advised business practices led to my company’s demise. The fallout that followed‌ included lawsuits‌ from investors, and finally‌ criminal filings.‌ In 2006, I was arrested and sentenced to a 5-year prison term‌. Those years‌ were the most challenging‌ of my life. I struggled not only with the fact that I‌ was now a convicted felon, but even more distressing to me was the realization of the hurt and‌ financial hardship my actions had placed on family and friends.

God was the one thing that rescued me from giving into a life of total despair. Reborn and renewed, I thank God for offering me new life including a special place in a very competitive industry. Even more, I am devoted to sharing the success of my story with others who might at times find life challenges hard to contend with. With God all things are possible!