Body4Me

Shamelesly stolen from various BodyPump forums and blogs, but it’s just too true not to post again :)

You Know You’re A BodyPumper when:

• Every other song you hear in the grocery store makes you look around for a bar
• The people in the next car next to you at a stop light wonder why you are doing bicep curls
• Your entire wardrobe is red and black
• You avoid ANYTHING that will interfere with your classes
• You get up at 4:45AM to go lift weights!
• Most of your friends are body pumpers
• You pick up a box with a three and one rhythm
• You keep your elbows in when scratching your nose
• You stand in line with your knees slightly bent
• You look forward to using the porta-potties at the state fair
• You judge every person you see by what BP could do for them
• Your bed is up on 2 risers
• You open your own pickle jars, thank you very much!
• You carry all the groceries in from your car in one trip
• You have more workout outfits than work clothes
• Your kids are astounded that you know so much about their music
• When you’ve got a little extra cash and buy a new BP top when you really don’t need to!
• You’re in a nightclub, the DJ plays ‘Flaunt It’ and you automatically start tapping your foot, chest proud, shoulders back, lock your elbows in and curl up that air bar suuuper slow!
• You’re non gym junkie friend gives you ‘the look’ when you keep saying ‘hey this is our chest track!’
• You’re at the Pink concert listening to Who Knew and instead of swaying and bouncing with the crowd, you suddenly realise you are halfway through a mental tricep track and about to hit the floor for dips.
• You sit in the toilet, you pull your hips back, pull out you chest and check that your knees don’t go beyond your toe line.
• You pass by a construction site you start yelling things like: good work, let’s take it home, watch your back when lifting that steel post or squeeze your glutes on your way up!!!
• You go to the disco, on your first song, you move every major muscle group to properly warm up.
• You prefer to eat donuts with your thumb in the hole!
• You get mooned and instead of being offended you correct their form!
• You’ve never been back to the weight room since you started BP!
• The traditional weight-lifting wisdom of 3 sets of 12 repetitions simply isn’t satisfying enough.
• You can’t lift weights without the music!
• You think a song sounds better in BP class, than it does on the radio.

So, you would like to become a BodyPump instructor ?
Awesome choice :)

It is a fantastic way to help people make a real difference in their lives.

To help get you started and to see what is involved, I have started to write a little ‘totally unofficial’ beginner guide to becoming an instructor.

Check it out over here : Patrick’s BodyPump Instructor Beginner’s Guide

It’s a constantly growing document. I will add more as I have the time. When I started this morning, was was a bit surprised that a couple of hours later I was staring at a 6 page, 2000+ word document :)

Let me know what you think of it. Leave a comment or send me an email.