'BODYBALANCE™' 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 [...]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 [...]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 [...]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 [...]Les Mills workshop this weekend
I’m all registered for the Les Mills workshop this weekend, for pump, combat and balance. The rules are quite different here in that you have to attend all the classes you are certified for (in order to keep up your qualifications) and have to attend at least 3 out of 4 workshops. Initially I didn’t [...]
Teaching again!
I did a trial class today at another branch of Achmea in Apeldoorn……..team taught balance with the GFM, and I’m happy to say that they have offered me two permanent classes! It felt so good to be on stage again, and even though I was team teaching I had to know the chorrey extra well, [...]
Straightened out
After a few appointments my back is much straighter and I’m feeling better than I have in AGES! I hardly get any pain now and I’ve started doing classses again so this is huge.
I did balance over a week ago and I felt fine and had SOOO much more flexibility. It is clear that I’ve [...]New Years Eve
We ended up having a wonderful New Years Eve. The original plan was to have a quiet night at home, since partying isn’t really possible with a baby. But we got messages from a couple of friends asking what we were doing. They weren’t sure what they were doing, so we responded “come round to [...]
BODYBALANCE 42
Although I was still pretty sore from my debut back to pump, I still went to balance last night thinking it would probably help stretch me out and make me feel better. Although it’s supposed to be “Greatest Hits” at the moment, the balance instructor was filming her certifcation video so we did the current [...]
BBQ aka “Terras Monique” ….take 2
Finally we have returned from the BBQ at John’s, and this time we got the right weekend, lol. Because I met John last weekend, that meant the only people there I was yet to meet was Keyla and the rest of Vicki’s family. Sigma, Vicki, Janne and Rien I had met previously when I came [...]
BODYCOMBAT
Tonight Alexander and I asked his sister to mind Connor for us so that we could both go to the gym to do BODYCOMBAT. It was a great class and it was nice to be combatting next to my husband again
We did the latest release of course, cuz they’re not mixing at the [...]
