Body Balance Release 57 brought a little sunshine to Scotland today. A good job because as I drove over the Forth Bridge on the way to the Dunfermline quarterly workshop, the rain was torrential and the clouds so low it was like driving through fog.
Our trainer was Giovanni Sacco (who also took my Body Combat Quarterly in Glasgow last week – I’m not a stalker honest) and he delivered a polished class. Les Mills are always telling us to script our classes and not to simply reproduce what’s said on the DVD. I’ve seen some trainers who are almost word perfect to the DVD script, so great to hear Gio’s own words. I picked up some great cues today.
So what is Body Balance Release 57 like? Here are my initial impressions.
After we finished the class with it’s chilled final phase there was a education session looking at “feeling” the yoga elements of Body Balance. How do you do this? Hold a pose for 5 long endless minutes, in this case downward facing dog. A simple and effective method of getting us to feel the moves. So more moans and groans from the room full of instructors who all committed to trying this with a pose a week from now on.
At the risk of sounding like a stuck record it looks like we have yet another amazing release continuing an unbroken run of top quality since way back at number 39. I’m going to really enjoy learning and teaching this one.
Watch out for a full review of the class once I have learned it and taught it a few times.
Over to you: Are you a Body Balance instructor? What were your first impressions of release 57. Please leave a comment by clicking below, Iād love to know what you think.
Hi the participants enjoyed the ab music from top of the pops, I liked teaching the whole release it was easy to learn too. However I did feel at the launch and my participants felt it too, the core work has too much on the hands/elbows – too much stress on the shoulder, for those of us with bad shoulders.
You learned and launched that quick Jane! The conditioning tracks are tough – I think a few will want to lower options. I found the back track very challenging.
We haven’t Launched 57 yet (2 more weeks to go), but I really have been enjoying learning this release. I finally have Track 2 down – it did take some repetition to get it down, but it’s a good SS track. Abs and Core back are a wake-up for me since I’m coming off an injury that kept me from doing anything but cycle and swimming for a month. This release coupled with the new CX have re-awakened my core! Love every BIT of this release. The tai chi….just perfect. š
Thanks Melissa. I too think that the Tai Chi is perfect. Today was the first time teaching BB57 that track 7 hasn’t totally wrecked me!