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Woo Hoo! Well done :-)

[Mel]

Well done! Now you can relax with that out the way and really focus on enjoying balance now

[mikesbytes]

Congratulations

I'm having thoughts about BB perhaps towards the end of year. Perhaps I should sit down until the thought goes away.

[Placebo]

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I'm having thoughts about BB perhaps towards the end of year. Perhaps I should sit down until the thought goes away.

:-D Go on, do it, you know you want to!

As of this morning, I have given up teaching Balance. Only have one class (other gym reneged on second class) and it's just too difficult a program to teach confidently once a week. Am just continuing until GFM finds a replacement. My other three programs are really suffering from neglect, and I can't have that at all!

Had discussions with two Master Trainers this weekend, and they've both indicated that I should give up one program. So, Balance it is. Bye bye Balance...

[Special]

I am sorry it didn't all work out right now, but I don't think it's a bad thing to look at your situation and evaluate your own limits.
4 programs at once is a lot, especially with kids and everything else. I hope you love teaching your other 3 with more time to focus, and maybe one day Balance comes back to you when the timing is right.

And if it doesn't, I am sure you still got a lot out of it. I know I got a lot out of each of my trainings that wasn't program specific.

[Mel]

That's a real pity Placebo, although I understand your decision. 4 programs is definately hard to learn. Especially when learning the new releases, because you have to remember 4 mixes plus 4 new releases. That's 8 sets of chorrey bashing around in your head.

Sometimes I wonder now how I did it. I'm still mellowing in baby brain and not really motivated to learn anything. How long will my excuse "I just got back from the netherlands and haven't learnt the new one yet" will work for? lol

[Shane]

I have enough trouble with 1 program let alone 4!! SHEESH!

I imagine when they use tracks between programs, that doesn't help you either... LOL
(Give me knees and squeeze.... hang on, this is attack... no, no, its combat... I mean jab cross!)

[Mel]

lol shane, i'm just remember a track that I taught for a long time in balance, Bring Me To Life by Evanescence. Then one day I went and learnt the pump version from an old release, and it had been mixed with an extra long chorus. The balance version would have had 8 single bicep curls, but the pump mixed version fit in 12.

I screwed this up every time, I just couldn't get used to the longer chorus!

[Shane]

Lucky for me I wasn't around in combat early enough to learn the originals for "Set You Free" or "Excalibur" or I would SURELY have had some serious stuff ups on stage.

I don't know HOW people manage to learn multiple programs! 4 programs seems improbable, 5 seems impossible and even the thought of 6 is enough to make me laugh...

[mikesbytes]

I guess that each program has their overhead to learn and after that its learning the chory each quarter. As you get better with learning chory you have more bandwidth to learn even more chory in the 2 weeks lead time. Currently for me that would be 2 in 2010 and probably 3 in 2011 which would probably be my logical limit.

[Mel]

I think the amount of programs you can teach at the same time also depends very heavily on if you have another full time job. When I was teaching 4 programs, I was doing fitness full time, so that is very different to someone who comes home from an 8 hour day at work and has to start learning then.

That said, anything after 3 programs is tough to learn. I think the more programs you do, the less well you end up presenting them (especially the first few times and launches etc)

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Mel, on Mar 23 2010, 10:18 PM, said:

I think the amount of programs you can teach at the same time also depends very heavily on if you have another full time job. When I was teaching 4 programs, I was doing fitness full time, so that is very different to someone who comes home from an 8 hour day at work and has to start learning then.

Yep, exactly. It's not that the learning of 4 (or 5) is hard. It's finding the time to learn them. I have to prepare for learning week by making sure I have no other time consuming crap to deal with. I don't have a full time job, just 3 kids.

I also think that different people learn differently, and at different speeds. As much as I complain about learning chorry, I actually enjoy it. It's like a big puzzle to me, and I like getting it all sorted out in it's patterns.

One thing that I do find difficult which has nothing to do with time is learning chorry for tracks that are similar between programs. Attack and Step warm-ups often overlap in my head, and even once I've taught them right, I can still muddle them up. And cooldowns are a big mish-mash of stretches between Pump, Step and Attack. Ditto for ab tracks.
Every program I teach had oblique twists this quarter. Was it 4 in step, 8 in Attack, 2 sets in Pump? Maybe the other way around? Did we have our legs up for them in balance, but only do 1 set? The pulses were in Step right, and we go faster in Attack?
I think i have it sorted now.

[Mel]

I totally laughed while reading that Special