Category: Educations, Trainings & Workshops

Busy times…

This weekend – the Les Mills QW’s took off.
The schedule have been pushed around for a bit and I ended up teaching my first one yesterday in Stockholm. Love it when it’s on the home ground. Then 10.15 is not that hard – when the gym is about 17 min walk from home.
BODYBALANCE® 59 is awesome and – like I’ve said before – much more instant love than the previous one.
The educational session this time is pretty quick and smooth to run through. It’s an extension of the one that came with the qw 2/12.
Of course I could do a 45 min of BS-ing, just cause.
But I think the crowd’s to good and clever for that. So we ran it through in 30 min. And then the master class.

In the standing strenght track there’s an arm combo called tribal arms – and I’ve been teaching this class for two weeks now, several times a week.
But yet – I forgot the arms on the first side. Classic! What to do?! 🙂
Besides that – the class felt great, and the crowd was awesome! A lot of co-workers, former co-workers, instructors that’s been to initial training with me.. friends, and familiar faces. Great energy and good vibes!

Then I headed to the next event, the charity event that Bloggar om träning hosted to collect money for the Ung Cancer-organisation.
I taught BOYDBALANCE®59 there as well, and I had about 40 ppl joining me. Which is about 2000 sek. Every little helps make a difference…

This week, I’ll put most of my focus on the upcoming qw’s for next weekend, BODYJAM® in both Göteborg and Stockholm.
I would like to invest some of my time in choreographing – new stuff for my classes – but I feel like I’ve been under this time pressure for quite a few weeks now.
Like my friend said on my voicemail this morning; it feels like I am working all.the.time.
Indeed! The past weeks it feels like I’ve been working all the time my entire waking hours.

Tuesday – I felt this annoying pressure over my heart and radiations to the arms… Kind of a stress-symptom I believe…
I’m lucky to have a job though. I classify this as a luxery problem.
Rather radiations of to much work than anxiety from to little…

Enjoy your monday night people – I know I will – with the lovable monday night crew at the bridge!

This past weekend contained yet another initial training module – but this time it was time to train an entire crew with upcoming BODYBALANCE®instructors.

Friday morning they were 16.
Straight after the master class (that’s pretty much the first thing that happens) one of the gals felt that BODYBALANCE® wasn’t her thing.
It was her very first time ever trying the class. She did have trained a lot of BODYPUMP® and BODYCOMBAT® though – which she loved – but fore some reason her gym told her to start with the BODYBALANCE®-training casue that is so much easier.

1. It’s not – it’s probably harder.
2. For me – attend an instructors training and never even tried that particular class or exercise – really strange.
3. If a person loves BODYPUMP® and BODYCOMBAT® and have done it a lot – why not go for that?

Which was exactly what I told her: go for the things you like.
That’s when you become good at it.

Then saturday morning – next chica came.
During the first day –  she felt that she wanted to keep BODYBALANCE® as her own training. But not teach in it. So she checked out.

So, in the end of the weekend it was 14 strong and long warriors left.
Just like I posted on my facebook sunday night; I’m equally amazed each time after a training – of how much you can develop and progress in three days with the right mindset and attitude. Thank you for your effort and hard work.

In this pic they’re only 14 – cause two ladies were in a bit of hurry to catch a flight.

 

Back in Stockholm after three pretty intense days in Copenhagen and the BODYJAM® initial training module.

It’s almost like I’m wondering if it really happened.
You know, from friday morning when the alarm went off at 4 am, until now – the time have literally swooshed by – in a ridiculously high speed.
I’ve managed to be 100% present all weekend though. And, enjoyed every minute of it.
My guess is that it makes the time go even faster.
Being present, and enjoying my minutes (hours, days, nights, weeks, months and so on..)  is something I’m actively working on – and have become so much better at, which I’m grateful for.

Every day we all get completely bombarded by lots and lots of words of wisdom, quotes and incitements that tells us to live our lives, seize the day, catch the moment and so on.
(I’ve been bloging about this urging-phenomenon before – and you might know what I think about this total flood of wisdom)
Cause honestly – how many practice it for real.. I mean, for real.

Do you really live your life like there is no tomorrow..?
Do you really LOVE like you never loved before?! Or – like you’ve never been hurt before (talk about quoting, Robyn FTW)

Unfortunately – unless something really overwhelming or traumatic have happened in our lives and forced us to pick up that wake up call – a lot of people don’t.

Out of fear, prestige, pride.. or even laziness. At least that’s what I think. I might be wrong… (it’s a good thing if I’m wrong)

So – during my coaching & therapy sessions that I started with almost 4 years ago I’ve been working with this, among other things.
To be awake, aware and to try to live – and experience – my life the way I want to. To be able to just stop once in a while… and simply enjoy all the cool stuff I get to do, and have worked really hard to be able to do, as well as all the amazing people I get to meet.
And also – like I started this [unnecessary] long amplification – to be present!

The satisfaction when I do succeed – priceless. And this weekend definitely classifies as a success in that area! Yay!

Anywho – here’s the mandatory group pic of the awesome crowd = 14 dancing danes that’s been jamming all weekend long.

Facebook-time…

No, but prep-time before one of the presentations… with one last check of the dvd.

Here, I accidentally took a photo instead of filming while Gitte taught her track…That happens at least about one time per training. (I did film her too, I might add)

Thank you Copenhagen for having me – and awesome job danish jammers of november 2012!!

I’m in Copenhagen, Denmark, this weekend for an initial training module in BODYJAM®. I’ve got 14 smokin’ hot ladies that are going to jam themselves to happiness, or at least jam their asses off for three days and become BODYJAM®instructors.

It’s about three weeks left before it’s time to start with the last quarterly round of 2012. (which means new choreography)
Personally – I think that when you do an initial this close to a qw, you should be allowed do the new (and upcoming) release.
For several reasons…

1. It takes a while to learn a BODYJAM®-release, especially the first one as a new instructor, and it feels a bit mean to the all the struggling newbies, to let them work really hard to learn one program and then they can teach it for about a week or so, before it’s time to switch.
Or, they need to stick with an old release while their co-workers are moving on a new one.

2. I don’t wanna mix two releases (I kind of have plenty of choreos in my head anyway)   so I always wait until I’m completely done with one release before I learn the new one.
And like I said – it’s three weeks left before the first round of qw’s… just sayin’.

But – the office have it’s rules  (if you know me, you know I’ve never been much of a rule-obeyer – if that’s even a word) and I guess I need to kindly stick with that.
It’s not really a real problem. Just a teny tiny something to wish for.

The real problem is that you can’t smoke at the gym – not even in the bathrooms, cause if you do – you can get KICKED OUT.. Can you imagen that?!

Of course I’m not serious… I most definitely don’t smoke.
But this sign in the locker room is hilarious.

Have a nice weekend y’all!

The first GFX is a new trend, from the US (of course) and it’s called Pound – Rockout. Workout.™, or just simply POUND.

Two female drummers from Los Angeles, CA are behind this concept.
Their fitness background is mainly based on a lot of pilates training. Now they created like a  cardio sculpt class, inspired by exercises from pilates – where you use lightly weighted drumsticks, Ripstix™, (drumsticks that will get you ripped) which they invented for this workout.
You work yourself through different muscle groups to uptempo music – which can be anything from rock to rap to dubstep and pop, etc.

You can do POUND in three formats, POUND – which is a 45 min workout and then POUND30 and POUND15.
The sequences are pre-choreographed, but I don’t know how detailed though.

Crunch gym have had exclusivity on this class, but I think the ambition is to spread it all over the US.

I got a glimpse of this class during my last NYC-trip.
My personal opinion:
The actual workout may not be the most efficient or ‘functional’ but you’ll get sweaty for sure.
The participants looked really happy and in to it while they were drumming and squatting at the same time.

If you wanna work on your rhythmical skills, but in a super easy way – this is awesome. I can imagine – if it’s a really big crowd where everybody are pounding with their sticks –  it’s a bit of a trance feel, where you get to feel like a real rockstar drummer that’s in the zone.

I actually saw this dude in the back, that maybe not were the fittest dude in the room – or even looked like he normally would visit a class (or even the gym) but he was into the drumming part for sure, and in the short breaks between the tracks he dribbled and showed off with the drum sticks. He’s definitely found his thing.

If you wanna try the class – visit a Crunch gym the next time you’re in the US.

If you wanna read more about POUND – visit the website.
If you wanna see what it looks like – take a look at this video.
http://youtu.be/2pCILV8tsqw

Kristin – my awesome friend teaches this class at Crunch gym in NYC.
She’s a rockstar and she can make any class a success. How ever, she’s mainly a dancer and not really in to “news” just cause it’s new, or sculpt/weight training – but she does like this workout, and she talks about it really committed and passionated.
Which definitely shows and rub off during class.