Group Fitness Over Coffee Episode 6 - Let's Talk Yoga

This is the podcast for instructors and participants who want to want to know what’s what with Group Fitness across the world.

In this episode I talk about Yoga.

I've been participating in Yoga for over ten years and been teaching for nearly 5.

Here I talk about how I started on my journey to become a Yoga teacher following a chance encounter with an awesome Yoga instructor on the Caribbean island of Grenada.

I talk about how to overcome the perceptions that some people have about Yoga. Some think that it is overly spiritual. Others think they aren't flexible enough and others think its too easy.

I dispel these myths.

Listen to how Yoga can benefit and challenge you and compliment the other training you do.

Group Fitness Over Coffee is also now available on stitcher.com

Have you got a Group Fitness Story that you would like to share? Are you a participant, an instructor, a master trainer, or a programme director with something awesome and motivational that you want to share. I would love to interview you. Please visit www.grandnat.co.uk/GFOC and get in touch. Do you want to review the lastest Les Mills release or review a Freestyle Fitness Yoga or Metafit class. If you record a 2 to 3 minute audio and send it to me I would be delighted to include it in future episodes.

Finally please give me some feedback. I’d love to hear what you think of the podcast and your ideas for future episodes. You can either leave a comment on iTunes, Stitcher or go to my website at www.grandnat.co.uk/GFOC and leave a comment on the Group Fitness Over Coffee page. You can also find that URL, and my contact details in the show notes for this podcast.

Group Fitness Over Coffee Episode 5

This is the podcast for instructors and participants who want to want to know what’s what with Group Fitness across the world.

We're about to see a new kid on the Group Fitness block. It’s a new Group Fitness class with the intriguing, if not scary name of INSANITY.

You might have heard of Insanity before. Up until now it has only been available as a home DVD work out. I’ve got the DVD set myself and I have to agree that it is insane.

This is what Insanity creator Shaun T says about his product:

When I created the INSANITY workout, I knew it would produce insane results in 60 days, but I wasn't sure if anyone was brave enough to try it. Turns out...there are a lot of crazy people out there. Crazy enough to actually enjoy doing the world's most insanely tough workout. To like the feeling of being drenched in sweat...of going balls-to-the-wall for a full 45 minutes of muscle-searing exercise. Is INSANITY hard? Oh, yeah. It really IS the hardest workout ever put on DVD. It's totally crazy...but it's going to get you crazy-good results.

I’ve done the DVDs and they work. In fact just watching them is enough to get you fit let alone doing the exercises.

And now Insanity is set to appear on the timetable at a fitness club in the UK near you.

And I am delighted that my guest today on Group Fitness Over Coffee is one of the first UK Ambassadors for Insanity – Diana Wright.

Diana is based in Scotland and is a Les Mills instructor, Group Fitness Manager and all round fitness freak.

Listen to Diana as she talks passionately about Insanity. As she says it's set to EXPLODE in the UK.

Group Fitness Over Coffee is also now available on Stitcher.Com

Have you got a Group Fitness Story that you would like to share? Are you a participant, an instructor, a master trainer, or a programme director with something awesome and motivational that you want to share. I would love to interview you. Please visit www.grandnat.co.uk/GFOC and get in touch. Do you want to review the lastest Les Mills release or review a Freestyle Fitness Yoga or Metafit class. If you record a 2 to 3 minute audio and send it to me I would be delighted to include it in future episodes.

Finally please give me some feedback. I’d love to hear what you think of the podcast and your ideas for future episodes. You can either leave a comment on iTunes, Stitcher or go to my website at www.grandnat.co.uk/GFOC and leave a comment on the Group Fitness Over Coffee page. You can also find that URL, and my contact details in the show notes for this podcast.

Group Fitness Over Coffee Episode 4

This is the podcast for instructors and participants who want to want to know what’s what with Group Fitness across the world.

My guest is Ann-See Yeoh. If you are a Les Mills Instructor there is no way that you won’t know who Ann-See is. She’s been a Les Mills master trainer in the UK since the very beginning and was UK Head Body Balance trainer for many years. You will have seen her at Quarterly Workshops delivering inspiring master classes. Many of you will have been on her Body Combat or Body Balance modules.

Ann-See has appeared in four Body Balance DVDs – the earliest being release 23.

But it’s not just all Les Mills. Ann-See is also a fitness entrepreneur and describes herself as a coach and mentor. She runs several businesses including B.E. Yoga and runs Yoga retreats in France and Spain.

If you are not a Les Mills Instructor you will learn quickly about Ann-See’s passion for helping people succeed and grow either as participants or instructors.

Have you got a Group Fitness Story that you would like to share? Are you a participant, an instructor, a master trainer, or a programme director with something awesome and motivational that you want to share. I would love to interview you. Please visit www.grandnat.co.uk/GFOC and get in touch. Do you want to review the lastest Les Mills release or review a Freestyle Fitness Yoga or Metafit class. If you record a 2 to 3 minute audio and send it to me I would be delighted to include it in future episodes.

Finally please give me some feedback. I’d love to hear what you think of the podcast and your ideas for future episodes. You can either leave a comment on iTunes or go to my website at www.grandnat.co.uk/GFOC and leave a comment on the Group Fitness Over Coffee page.

Group Fitness Over Coffee Episode 3

This is the podcast for instructors and participants who want to want to know what’s what with Group Fitness across the world.

I've dedicated this episode to Les Mills Body Combat release 58. Listen to my thoughts, as an instructor on this amazing work out.

Listen to fellow instructor Simon and I discussing the ins and outs of the class and hear my chat with Rachael, a combat mad participant.

Have you got a Group Fitness Story that you would like to share? Are you a participant, an instructor, a master trainer, or a programme director with something awesome and motivational that you want to share. I would love to interview you. Please visit www.grandnat.co.uk/GFOC and get in touch. Do you want to review the lastest Les Mills release or review a Freestyle Fitness Yoga or Metafit class. If you record a 2 to 3 minute audio and send it to me I would be delighted to include it in future episodes.

Finally please give me some feedback. I’d love to hear what you think of the podcast and your ideas for future episodes. You can either leave a comment on iTunes or go to my website at www.grandnat.co.uk/GFOC and leave a comment on the Group Fitness Over Coffee page.

Group Fitness Over Coffee Episode 2

This is the podcast for instructors and participants who want to want to know what’s what with Group Fitness across the world.

My guest today is another fitness entrepreneur, Phil Lowes who emigrated to Shanghai to start a company called Expat Fit.

Hear Phil and I discussing a charitable 10 Hour Body Combat event that we both took part in.

Listen to how he created a new class called Calorific Conditioning and how he teaches his own interpretation of Pilates which he calls Core Pilates.

Have you got a Group Fitness Story that you would like to share? Are you a participant, an instructor, a master trainer, or a programme director with something awesome and motivational that you want to share. I would love to interview you. Please visit www.grandnat.co.uk/GFOC and get in touch. Do you want to review the lastest Les Mills release or review a Freestyle Fitness Yoga or Metafit class. If you record a 2 to 3 minute audio and send it to me I would be delighted to include it in future episodes.

Finally please give me some feedback. I’d love to hear what you think of the podcast and your ideas for future episodes. You can either leave a comment on iTunes or go to my website at www.grandnat.co.uk/GFOC and leave a comment on the Group Fitness Over Coffee page.

Group Fitness Over Coffee - Episode # 1This is the podcast for instructors and participants who want to want to know what’s what with Group Fitness across the world.In addition to asking master trainers, and dare I say it, “famous” people onto the show, I am also very keen to introduce you to local instructors who are really making a difference to Group Fitness where they live. There are some real entrepreneurs out there who have some fantastic ideas, passion, drive and energy. They will be the master trainers and programme directors of tomorrow.One such fitness entrepreneur is Rachael Watson. She is managing director at Walk the Talk Fitness in Glasgow. Listen to Rachael talk about Metafit and her own plans for fitness retreats.Have you got a Group Fitness Story that you would like to share? Are you a participant, an instructor, a master trainer, or a programme director with something awesome and motivational that you want to share. I would love to interview you. Please visit www.grandnat.co.uk/GFOC and get in touch. Do you want to review the lastest Les Mills release or review a Freestyle Fitness Yoga or Metafit class. If you record a 2 to 3 minute audio and send it to me I would be delighted to include it in future episodes.Finally please give me some feedback. I’d love to hear what you think of the podcast and your ideas for future episodes. You can either leave a comment on iTunes or go to my website at www.grandnat.co.uk/GFOC and leave a comment on the Group Fitness Over Coffee page.

Welcome to the pilot episode of Group Fitness Over Coffee.

This is the podcast for instructors and participants who want to know what's what with group fitness.

My first guest on the show is Maria Tabler. Maria was one of the trainers who first launched Les Mills Body Combat into the UK. She went on to become the UK Head Trainer for Body Combat and a trainer for Body Balance.

Hear her fascinating stroies about how these Les Mills programmes have developed, including her exciting recollections of her trip to New Zealand to record the DVD for Body Combat release 26 alongside programme directors Dan Cohen and Rachael Newsham.