Happy Birthday Body Combat!

Ladies and gentleman “Put your hands up in the air, put your hands up in the air…”

This weekend is the release of Body Combat 40 in Denmark Fitnessdk center. And these release marks 10 years of kicking and punching to the sound of energizing music.

For the ones who are not aware of what body combat is (is it possible?!) here it goes: Body Combat is a fitness class that combines Karate, Boxing, Taekwondo, Tai Chi, Muay Thai and Capoeira with the latest trends in music. The result is 60 min. of pure cardio and a lot of fun! It belongs to the Les Mills programme where a group of people sets up a new class (music and choreography) every three months.

Today I did the release 40… And I loved it! It reminds me of the older body combats. Actually one of the musics was from previous body combat. A guy told me it was number 21, but I didn’t check. But it does make sense: after all it was in Body Combat 21 that Dan and Rachel Coehen (in the meanwhile they have fall in love and got married…. see? Fighting in fitness can be romantic!) had their debut in 2003 as Body Combat directors.

So today, I got out of the bed, drunk a red bull and off to fitnessdk! 60 min. of pure happiness! We started with “put your hands up in the air”, followed by “hot n’ cold” through the warm up. By track 2, you release your inner Bruce Lee in “I Know Kung-Fu”. But the track that was most funny for me, was number 5 with “Tutti Frutti”. Very easy, lot’s of repetitions with a lot of power in it. The recovery at the end was made with Kings Of Leon’s hit “Use Somebody”. Love it Love it Love it! And I kicked and punched, sang and jumped…. And now I’m dead! Thank you Dan and Rach!

Tomorrow I will try again the release in another fitnessdk centre with my favourites teachers Esther and Sandra. Can’t wait!

Until then and as Dan and Rach says: Stay with the fight!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZz4OI0_Te