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Spice up your Valentine’s day!

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5 ESSENTIAL OIL BLENDS CONTAINING ROSE OIL! It’s Valentine’s day in just 5 days, and what better essential oil to celebrate it with than Rose oil? Rose essential oil is the highest frequency oil. Read More

Hand made soap with Essential Oils

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So part of my new changes I'm trying to implement in my life and improve my health, is to introduce essential oils and remove chemical products from my house. The first step was I wanted to make my Read More

Back to fitness

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So I haven't updated this blog for so long. I had to give up all my fitness classes in 2012 and had to have spinal surgery. It's been such a long road, + 40kg and as unfit as I've ever been. So Read More

Valentine’s Mix for bodybalance

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Similar to what I'm doing with pump, here's my first assessment of all the balance tracks (from BB17 to the current release) that have a "love" theme for Valentine's day classes. I'm sure I've missed Read More

Upcoming Valentine’s Day

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I’m currently working out a “love mix” for upcoming valentine’s day, so I’ve done a quick pass through all my pump music from BP43 to BP80. 1 - Light My Fire - BODYPUMP 45 1 - I'm Gonna Getcha Good! Read More

Return to BODYBALANCE

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I’ve finally picked up a permanent BODYBALANCE class on Tuesday nights after pump, the first time since early 2010 (when I gave up a morning class due to getting a full time job). I’m still Read More

Fantastic Recipe Website

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Doing a bit of searching for refreshing the cooking recipes in our household, and found this awesome site: http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcsite.nsf/pages/bhc_recipes Realistic recipes Read More

Missed opportunity

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Very frustrated, with being unable to work right now or do any gym classes, I've just had the opportunity for a permanent balance class and another balance fill in (but alas, had to say "no" as I'm Read More

Pinched nerve

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And after several months of teaching 2 regular pump classes each week, and the occasional fill in (still working full time in IT aswell), I am now off work suffering from a pinched nerve in my back. Read More

BODYPUMP 78.2

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Second time teaching BP78 and it was an AWESOME class, for me at least. For the first time in ages I feel like I’m starting to get past the “fill in” instructor syndrome and slowly into my groove, Read More

An eye opener

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Had my first "little bit” of cardio with the PT. Woah it’s such a different experience pushing yourself from a totally unfit state. No PT or instructor should ever try to assume they know how it Read More

BODYPUMP 78

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Taught the latest BODYPUMP for the first time tonight, and my initial impression is that this is a whole lot easier than it looks on paper. It’s at times like this that I regret missing it at the Read More

Learning BODYBALANCE 53

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It might be leaving it a tad to the last minute, but I’m cram learning BB53, which seems to be the best way of learning for me. That gives me 3 days to learn the new pump release for next Tuesday! Read More