So what is the new Body Combat release like?
Another three months has passed for Les Mills instructors and it is time for the new releases of each of the classes. I drove along to Broadwood Stadium on Sunday for the Glasgow quarterly workshop for Body Combat Release 52. Having spent the morning teaching my normal classes I was already quite tired so this very energetic and extremely cardio based class really hit me hard. That’s a good sign though isn’t it?
There were probably 50 Scottish Instructors in the room (only three of us were males) and the atmosphere was amazing. Giovanni Sacco, the National Trainer, was his motivational best, combining good visual teaching cues as well as the verbal stuff.
It was a blur of sweat, shouting and trying to breath – but here are the highlights of what I remember.
- The melody in the warm up song is so catchy that I was humming it all the following day
- I couldn’t believe how many kicks there are in track 4
- My shoulders were painfully on fire after another sing-along second power track
- Capoeira creates the same burn in the glutes and you’ll even hear a siren as the flames lick higher
- The muay thai section is very long, quite repetitious, but I guess it works because I was breathless at the end
- In the education session Gio asked, “What is the hardest thing about teaching Body Combat?” The immediate reply from an instructor was, “Breathing!”
So here we go again. The learning begins and clubs will be launching the new classes over the next month or so. Take a deep breath everyone, you are going to need it.
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 Combat instructor? What were your first impressions of release 52. Please leave a comment by clicking below, I’d love to know what you think.
If you enjoyed this post, here are some reviews of older Body Combat releases: