'Les Mills' Category
Bridge pose
In Balance, when we do bridge pose, on the videos it always explicitly explains that we must squeeze our buttocks while lifting up.
However I once had a PT client that used to do pilates who said to me that they explicitly state to NOT squeeze the buttocks.
Yesterday I participated in a pilates class where the [...]BODYCOMBAT 44
I can’t believe “You’re Shining” is in the latest combat! That breaks my heart, since I recommended that song ages ago and was dying for that to be in combat or attack.
I’ve been so out of it when it comes to all the latest Les Mills stuff. A few weeks ago I finally purchased the [...]BODYPUMP with PPCA free music
The news of the copyright tribunal decision is hitting the fitness industry, and Fernwood are another gym that are going all PPCA free music as of June 1st (or rather “gone”). I haven’t purchased any of the new releases as yet, since I’m currently not teaching and I’m working full time, so yesterday morning I [...]
Injured Knee
I’ve started getting much more motivated to get back into fitness since getting back to Oz, and since finding a wonderful park down the road Alex and I regularly take Connor down there to play and I do some mini fitness sessions for myself. I’ve been getting motivated to do intervals, jogging up the hill [...]
Press play and go
Since I became a Les Mills instructor, the classes have always been pretty much Press Play and Go philosophy. Anything really important we might stop briefly to give a quick explanation before the class, but otherwise for the participants it’s a learn as you go philosophy. Generally in Australia there’s so much mixing aswell that [...]
3 months
OMG it’s been nearly 3 months since I posted on my blog! Before I married my husband one of my biggest blog fans was………my husband. If I didn’t write on it for a few days I soon heard about it from him, so that really motivated me to keep writing. But now, being a mother, [...]
Dare to combat
I finally went back to combat last night following the dreaded “sneeze”. The strain in my SI joint seemed to take it fine and I’m finally on the mend again and can start to build strength and fitness again.
In the meantime I’ve been doing a lot of vive, pilates and balance fill ins, and the extra [...]BODYVIVE
With most people going on holidays at the moment (it’s the summer vacation period here), it means I’m doing a few extra fill ins, and today I did my first vive fill in. I haven’t done a lot of vive since I did my training on BV4, but I’ve noticed while the music seems a [...]
Epe fillin
ah so now I’ve been asked to do a fill in at another centre, which isn’t a problem in itself, but it means I have to drive on….
…..the freeway….
This is quite scarey for me, which I can’t remember if I’ve explained before, but the people here drive on the freeway crazy compared with tiny ol’ [...]Launches
We finally had our launches for BODYBALANCE 45 ( our launches are a LOT behind Australia I know!) and I taught the standing strength track out of the half block we presented (the other other was pilates, as it was an express block format for the launches).
Since at the launch there’s lots of new people [...]Don’t sneeze
Well the last couple of weeks I’ve had a cold, and last week I managed to sneeze and strain one of the ligaments around my sacroilliac joint. So it’s been back to the chiropractor for me and lots of rest.
I’ve still been doing my balance classes, but this has basically meant no combat or pump [...]BODYCOMBAT greatest hits
Last night Alexander had injured his foot and wasn’t up to going to combat, and although I’ve been a bit sick I decided to take the opportunity to go to combat (since I don’t get to go often enough).
The class wasn’t at the gym I normally teach, but at the other part of the chain [...]95 Kids from Denmark
ok talk about a challenge! We had 95 kids come through the gym today (because the weather was too bad to do a fitness program outside) and since half the kids were from Denmark and couldn’t speak Dutch, the classes were explicitly requested to be taught in English.
Since I obviously have the best English at the [...]Also back to combat
I was a bit apprehensive about trying combat again after all my problems, in particular because the sidekicks and roundhouses give me grief, but last week I tried it out with Alexander and did it again last night before my balance class (was a bit scared about getting through 2 classes, especially when I had [...]
I’m back
In more ways than one. Firstly, I’m back to writing in this blog after going back to Australia for a month and then just being too lazy to write on here. Ok a lot has been going on, so I can’t possibly catch up here……but instead I’ll talk about the second thing I’m back to………which [...]
