BODYPUMP on the beach! Impression

Here some photo's from the BP on the beach event.

Another quote:

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want

Quote of the day:

"The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes, without speaking, confess the secrets of the heart."

BP on the Beach countdown

Only 2 more weeks!!!!
What will the weather be like? Please keep your fingers crossed!

Start small

Even the smallest accomplishment has great value,because it sets in motion a positive momentum. Once you begin to create value, you easily and naturally move toward creating even more value. The best thing about success is that it provides greater opportunity for even more success.

Go ahead and start small, and if you're unable to start small, then start tiny. The point is, do whatever you can with whatever you have, and that will be plenty to get you moving in a positive, productive direction.

There is always something you can do. There is always some small step forward that you can make right now. Your ability to accomplish does not get used up. In fact, the more you use it, the more powerful it grows.

Create a little bit of success, and experience how great it feels. From that positive, empowered place, there's no limit to where you can go.

San Francisco

Fun, shopping, sightseeing and eating, All of a sudden it was 48 hours after arrival and we had to go home again. Great short break it was!!!

BODYSTEP & Driving

My new addiction: BODYSTEP.I just have completed the BODYSTEP module training. LOve the program, enjoyed the training and it was good to see my trainee colleague Bas do his presentations during the module.Again following a moduel training it made me very much aware how participants feel during the training and right before their track presentations. The track I had to present was track 6, one of the peak tracks, "shut up and drive". Well for me this week was all about cars, but not all abou driving. Tuesday on my way back home from the gym I probablt got a speeding ticket. I was listening to my step track, going thru the scripting etc in the car and all of a sudden I saw the flash.... SHOOT. man, I know where this machine is, but because I was so busy with my choreo/scripting for my Shut of a drive track I forgot to take my foot of the gass pedal. Well I guess I should have shut up and jsut drive. But anyway.Friday evening I got home a parked my car, again the music was on, so I didn;t notice the reminder that I left my lights on...Saturday morning 04.55, I couldn;t start the car .... yeah right! I ran upstairs again got my lock for my bike hopped on my bike to take a sprint to the Airport. NOT Funny as I was wearing my uniform already and I had to start working at 05.30. It's only 8 km, but racing my regular bike, wearing my uniform an carrying a rather big back weren't very helpfull things to go faster. Almost there a huge motorbike drove on to the Bikerpath .... man that scared me, but then I noticed it was Police.... SHOOT, I didn't have my lights. It was still pretty dark and in my rush I forgot to grab the lights for my bike (I got separate lights which you click on and off the bike)It was a pretty funny conversation. He stopped me and said: Goodmorning lady, how come your bike doesn't have any lights? Well I said, because the lights of my car were on all night. I saw His face and explained fruther that my car wouldn't start because I forgot to turn of the lights yesterday evening, and therefore quickly grabbed my bike and started my race to Schiphol to be on time for work. (there's no public transport that early)The he asked, how come your sweating .. yeah right it was very humid, already like 25 celcius and no wind. Well anyway after he gave me a lecture about safety etc, he let me go. Still made it on time for work, but it took me about 30 minutes, 2 bottles of water to get back to normal temperatures again. Man, I was sweating like .... well whatever. So that's my week for traffic & driving. I guess I jsut have to shut up.Off to San Francisco tomorrow. Only for 2 full days, but at least it's a bit of break!I'm joining a friend of who is a cabin attendant and she has a trip to SFO.

24 August

Hopefully this time the rain, storm, thunder and lightning will leave us alone with hundreds of BODYPUMP fanatics.
24 August, 2nd Chance

BODYPUMP on the Beach, Zandvoort, the Spot.
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Join us and keep your fingers crossed!!!

It's raining ......

Unfortunately some bad news. Due to the bad weather forecast BODYPUMP on the beach 2008 has been postponed. I just received a phonecall. I'm a little disappointed, but the forecast willbe strong winds, rain and maybe thunderstorms. Because we want safety for our participants first, the organisation decided to cancel for Saturday and postpone the event to a later date in August. I will keep you posted about this.

I'm sad right now :-(

Remember BP on the beach??!!!

Here we go again. It's been 2 years, but we're back with BODYPUMP on the beach. 19 July in Zandvoort. Don't miss out on this: BE THERE!!!!



BODYPUMP on the beach
16.15 - 16.45 Voorprogramma
16.45 - 17.00 Dancers on stage
17.00 - 18.00 Kick off BODYPUMP on the beach

Quarterly 2, Vleuten 18 may

Well it has been a while, but finally some pictures from my first shadow presentation as a trainee during the quarterly. I was very exited and nervous at the same time. Below some pictures: It was awesome!

Yesterday @ Work

Chaos at the airport .... first day of a 2-week school holiday. It has been in the news several times that all people travelling this weekend should be at the airport early as it was going to be the busiest day. Why? Well over summer schoolholidays start at a different time for each area, this Spring holiday? Well all the schools have these coming 2 weeks off, so everyone in the country planned to leave this weekend. Even though it has been in the news... Dutch people (with children) wonder: How come all these people are here? No kidding ... I had people come up to me with this question .......

ps And still there are people complaining about the economy?

Time goes by ....

.... so slowly! Yes, I'm in the nightshift, listening to the radio and the song playing right now is Hung up. The lyrics start with "Time goes by so slowly", and indeed it does. It's very quiet. Haven't really been doing a whole bunch of KLM work, since there isn't any. Luckily I brought some tapes to assess, so I have been doing that untill now. Tomorrow when I wake up I will finish the action plans of the two tapes I have just been watching. Don't really feel like doing it now. The radio is playing all these different songs which I can place in a lot of Les Mills programs. It makes it so hard to sit still, but since I'm wearing my uniform with pumps instead of sneakers I'm not really able to work out hahaha. Wish I could, as it would be a nice way to kill some time. Man, I think this is the first nightshift that has been as quiet as this one. It's hard to stay awake like this, especially since this is the first night out of three. Friday morning my weekend will start. In the afternoon I will be going to Roosendaal already with Claudia, do some shopping, relax, go to a wellness center, have dinner etc. Saturday assessment at the Roosendaal quarterly and in the evening I will be visiting friends of mine who live near Roosendaal. I haven't seen them for quite some time, so it'll be good to catch up.

Quarterly 01, 2008

Quarterly time again!
BP 65, BA 60, BB 40, BC 35!
No real surprises for me this time, as I was in NZ in November, but still awesome releases and a great generic workshop: "Team teaching with music".
This time I went to Zwolle, man, that's too far. I remember saying last year, I'm not going there again, but this time I did not really have choice as I won't be able to do all my Master classes in Nieuwegein, and I'm doing assessment in Roosendaal. Well anyway, at 6.45 I was on my way to Zwolle, to be in time for BP. Of course I got lost in the City, but I managed to be there on time to do assessment for the first BP master class. Man, It was F*ing freezing cold. Outside it was -8 Celsius, but I think inside it was about the same. 2 long sleeve shirts weren't enough. I could see people wear all sweats etc during the class; I don't think anyone really got as warm as they usually do. My own master classes started at 12.00. BB at first. NOT funny, the place got a bit warmer, but still too cold to do a comfortable BB master class. Usually I start to sweat during the strength track, but now I was just about to feel my toes again. After BB I had to do BA. I was looking forward to it (Hopping to get warm). Well I got warmer, but during track 3 I still wasn't warm enough and I hurt my calf. NOT funny. I love this celebration release and I wanted to give all I had. I did anyways, but I think I would have been better when I hadn't done that, as Monday when I woke up it was completely stiff and it was painful to walk.
Well let's get back to the quarterly; of course I did BC and BP also. BC 35 is a great training work out, simple moves, lots of repetitions: Awesome!
BP is great to! Powerful uplifting music to help you through the workout. I already knew the release, because I have been assisting a BP module training last weekend with Renate. Release yourself and BP is just a way of life to warm you up. Heavy beats bring you back to squat paradise and make you want to lift more, so you will burn more. Chest makes me want to sing along, I'm so sorry for the members in my class :-). No breaks, just keep going. I love the back track, with lots of triple rows for the upper back. Great music, familiar for my BA fans in class.
Groovy song for triceps, with a new three point transition. Great move, too bad it's only used as a transition. Biceps: totally not my kind music, and since a definitely do not like to do biceps either, you probably think by now that I hate this track. WRONG! I love it, it is totally biceps!!! I think it's a bit easier than the previous release. Lunge: back to work. Man, it's a tough one. Could feel butt the day after! Chest: This is definitely one to turn up the music!!!! Hard work! I'm glad push ups are back. Mac raise is back in town as well. In addition to all of this we have good abdominal track. It's not an easy one, but I like it as it's very different again. To finish the workout, the cool down song, personally caught me the first time I heard it. Don't know why, but I love it and it really calms me down after this great workout.

Travel the World

HAPPY NEW YEAR HOLLAND!!!

And here we've made it to 2008 as well.
I wish everybody

1 Happy New Year
12 Beautiful Months
365 Memorable Days

Make the best out of it every single moment.

I'm of to work now. No sleep, so it will be a tough day. Just got home, showered, changed and now killing a few minutes as I still have a few minutes before I have to go!

Big hug for all of you!

HAPPY 2008 NEW ZEALAND !!!

Persistence

If you're not ready to climb a mountain, then see if you can walk up a gentle hill.
If you're not ready to walk up a hill, then set out to take a leisurely stroll.
If you're not able to walk that far, then you can take a single step.
After taking that step you'll likely find that you're ready to take another.

If you have trouble imagining yourself reaching your goal, then imagine yourself taking one small, simple action in the direction of that goal. Imagine it, and then do it.

After that first step, there will be another one you can take, something that's a little bit more challenging and yet not overwhelming. Keep it up, and soon the ultimate goal begins to come into view.

Anything can be accomplished if you are willing to keep taking the next step when it is time to do so. What you lack in brute strength, or resources, or knowledge, or skills, you can make up for with persistence.

You absolutely can get where you choose to go, step after step after persistent step. And now is the perfect time to begin.

Happy pumper

Well it has been a while, but that's just because I was busy. As always of course, but also because of something special. What? Well when I got back from New Zealand I received a letter from Les Mills in The Netherlands with the news I was invited to an audition day to become a trainee and hopefully after that become a trainer. I had to choose one program, which I found hard but I decided to go for BA. I was also thinking about BP because I love that to. I was a hard decision, but BA won at that time when I had to send in the tape. The audition day was yesterday in Leusden. Man, I was nervous. When I got out of the my hard rate was the same as after a BA track 9. Out of all teh tapes only 9 people were invited to come to the audition.
What did we have to do?
Give a 5-10 minute presentation about ourselves, our motivation and whta our addition to the would be. Then we had to present to different tracks from the program we wanted to audition for. And last but not least we had to do a workshop presentation from about 10 minutes, for which we had 30 minutes to prepare.
We had to pretend the other people were the new instructors and we had to give the presentations for them, while Brigitte (Head trainer) and Arthur (trainer) were obeserving us and taking notes. We had to participate during all the other track presentations. So, we had to to a lot of programs (all except BV, as nobody was doing audition for that). We were also observed in how we participated in the classes.
I wasn't to happy with my personal presentation. I was almost last and you hear so many stories and with the nerves running through my whole body I found it hard to stick to my prepared story. After that I started to feel a bit more comfortable and my BA presentation felt pretty good. During my preparation I was a bit worried about presenting a workshop, as I do not ahve a lot of experience in giving presentation. I usually talk easily, but you have to stick to the point and man, I find that hard. I had to prepare a workshop about the key element connecting. That was a relief. I knew I could do that and after my presentation I knew I gave the best I could. And if that wasn't enough, well then I would be disappointed, but I had a great learning experience which would help me to grow again in teaching and also in other stuff.
After we all gave our workshop presentation we had to go downstairs and after a while Arthur came down to get the first person. From that moment on, everbody started to get nervous again. Shall I make it or not? Few came down very disappointed, which I can really, really, really imagine and I was one of the others: being very happy!! I did not make it for BA, but they wanted me to go for BP trainee as I probably did do very well in the BP, while I did the class!!!! Cool!!! 5 of us made it to Traineeship (1 BC, 1 BB, 1 BJ, 1 BS and 1 BP). It will all start in January. I just can't wait!! I have been assisting a couple of module trainings, but now the real thing will start. Í just can't tell how excited I am. I know it will be tough, but I want to give all I have. I know there will be ups and downs, but the downs will make you stronger so you get up again. I;m going to go for it!!!!

Awesome Quarterly!

You guys ... last weekend was AWESOME! What else can I say. I had the best time. Great Masterclasses, cool party and heaps of fun!
Left home on Friday already as Saturdaymorning 09.00 am was BC Masterclasses. I didn't feel like driving almost 2 hours before that, so Claudia and I booked a room in the Koningshof from Friday. Ofcourse I still had to tell her all about NZ, so also because of that it was way better to go on Friday :-)
So Saturdaymorning BC34 was the kick off for the Mega Quarterly 2007. The releases weren't very big surprises for me this time as I had seen and even done some of 'm in NZ during GFX. But still it was great, it's good to see our own Dutch and Belgium trainers present.
I like the combo in track 6 with the side kick, knee, back kick.
After BC class I went on to BP with Susan and Steve. I always like it when they are presenting. I always learn a lot from them. During biceps Karin and Jan came on stage and did the BP dance with Susan and Steve haha ... was so much fun to watch.
Then Claudia talked me into doing BV. Actually I planned to rest for an hour because I still had BB and BA ahead of me ... but anyway .... who cares .....it sounded like fun. I don;t teach BV, but I really like the music. And since I was really sore from my classes on Thursday I figured it would be better to keep moving instead of sitting down. Christel and Patricia made it a lot of fun. I like the BV music and I can imagine it's a lot of fun teaching the class. It's very social and you get to talk and connect with the members a lot.

Then of to BB with Christel and Hadewych. I love the ending of track 9... left and right splits..... I could still do 'm... Yessss. Great music choice, good excercises. I had my BB module training with Hadewych. She's pregnant now and it's unbelievable what she can still do with only 7 weeks to go. You go girl. I love it when the Belgium trainers teach BB, they always sound so friendly with the soft G they use in Belgium. I also love the follow up cues Hadewych uses.
Well after BB it's time for my favourite class. I could feel the energy coming. Lisa was presenting with Karin and Daniel ..... awesome team. Found a good spot on the first row, together with some other assessors. It was great.... the energy ran through my whole body and I had the feeling I cold go on 4 ever. WIth track eight we had 3 slovenians coming on stage, they are also on the DVD presentation in track 8 and with track 9 Lisa pulled me on stage .... COOL! with2 more people. It was awesome. Just another energy boast!!!

Since I had all the energy going on, I decided to do BS class as well. Claudia and Cecile together with the Mam to be be, Susan. Amazing what she still can do. The did a terrific job and with the party step they changed into their 70's outfit .... FUN!!! By the time we got to the power track...my light turned off .... I had to stick with the option so prevent from falling of the step. But anyway.... it was great.

We went to get a quick and unhealthy dinner .... changed into our Pirate outfit .... and it was Partytime. Buffalo .... Haka.... drinks, more drinks... dance more dance .....and sore feet.

Next day ..... I only managed to do one BA class... was jsut too tired to do more ... haha. Stayed and watched BS and another BA class and then went home. The next weeks will be pretty busy..... I will have to do a lot of preparation for an audition day and also learn the new releases in between.... will also cover some classes at other clubs and work @ KLM has started again too.......Back to reality haha.... it's good to be home (for now)!