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*** UPDATE: My BodyPump 69 Preview/Review is now up! ***

Ok, better late than never  :)

BODYPUMP® 69 is a strong, intense release that you’re going to learn fast and have fun with! The music is pumping with awesome tracks from Fall Out Boy, Pink and Rihanna, motivating you to really challenge yourself – and your class. The squats track is tough but, as the song suggests, it really gets the party started! There are three blocks of work and in each block the legs are pre-fatigued with bottom halves before the singles.

The chest track is short, simple and hard. Fall Out Boy’s rocking track I Don’t Care provides the momentum needed to get through more killer bottom halves before you start the good, honest, back work in track 4. It’s a classic track with three sets of identical work.

Pink’s huge hit So What ensures the biceps track is oozing attitude – this song is definitely the fun peak of this release! It’s another short, intense track but you’ll feel the burn in the bottom halves. There’s a new move in the lunges track – the three quarter squat. Coming up three quarters of the way in the squats means the load is kept on the leg muscles and boy, does it hurt!

And there’s no relenting of the pain in the massive shoulders track which features two supersets. You do three exercises back-to-back to challenge the shoulders in a slightly different way. Don’t be fooled with the cool feel of Kid Rock’s All Summer Long in the abdominals track as there’s a strong core challenge ahead, before you catch your breath and cool down to the smooth sounds of Let Me Be Myself by 3 Doors Down.

Sounds Awesome!
The workshops are in early February, so I’ll have the full review up shortly after that.

Update 05/02/09 : Ok, I normally don’t post the track lists until after the workshops, but it seems that everyone else already has them listed anyway. So, here it is:
01. Better In Time - Jamie Knight
02. Get This Party Started - Dan Winter
03. I Don’t Care - Fall Out Boy
04. Castles In The Sky - Liz Kay
05. Shut Up & Drive - Rihanna
06. So What - Pink
07. Stand Alone - Dyce
08. All I Ever Wanted - Basshunter
09. All Summer Long - Kid Rock
10. Let Me Be Myself - 3 Doors Down

Naturally, the youtube links probably are not the exact same mix, but you get the idea.

Yeah !
Does anybody know the title of the track 01 ?

Thank you! You are always the first with latest BP news!!!!

the tracklist !

01. Better In Time - Jamie Knight
02. Get This Party Started - Dan Winter
03. I Don’t Care - Fall Out Boy
04. Castles In The Sky - Liz Kay
05. Shut Up & Drive - Rihanna
06. So What - Pink
07. Stand Alone - Dyce
08. All I Ever Wanted - Basshunter
09. All Summer Long - Kid Rock
10. Let Me Be Myself - 3 Doors Down

i took my very first pump class yesterday alone!! nerves wernt too bad as i got to know the class shaddowig and i do reception at the gym bt still abit out of my comfort zone! i think i did okay n the only feedback i got was to watch the pitch ad contrast of my voice.. im guessing that means to keep the cues at conversational level.. and where its big work then change ur tone.. i dunno.. what do u think? is it a common thing when your starting out?? jus gotta practice and still gonna team teach till a perminent class comes along hehe really excited bout it n booked in for the quaterly which is gonna be so much fun :) Woo!!!

Hi Sarah

Well Done! The first class is always the hardest. In my first one, i nearly dropped the bar, my palms were that sweaty. The voice control will come in time as you relax can just talk without thinking about it.

In terms of tips, I would say the following:
The intensity in your voice shoudl be driven by the intensity of the song and by how far you’re into the track. Every track usually has three of four rounds of work. In the first round, your voice should be a normal convesational level as you decribe the moves, point out the target zones, correct movement and cue the next more. as you approach the first chorus, take it up just a bit to get people excited about the work ahead. During the chorus, shut up and let people work. During the second round, take it back down, review the work, movements, posture & suggest improvements with CRC. As you get to the next chorus, get more excited than the first and give people a push into the work.
As you hit the last round, don’t worry about the form too much more. Now is the time to motivate and pull people through as they’re getting tired. Be motivational, be uplifting and show faith in your paricipants. Look them in the eye and make them beleive that they can do this. Then, as you get to the last chorus, hit the big notes. Short, intense phrases to get them through it.

If I could draw a graph here, it would look like an increasing wave pattern that increases as the song goes on.

Hope that helped.

Feel free to send me an email if you want more pointers. patrick@thissite

Good luck!
Pat