Body Balance 46

I have to make a confession in that I fell asleep for the majority of this filming.

Before all of you passionate Balance participants come down in an angry mob to my house with your pitchforks, let me explain.

When I woke up in the morning, I had a bad cough. I thought "Oh gawd, not today, NOT today!" I put up with it in the morning when I was having breakfast with Patrick and Fred. I figured I just needed to get warm and that Pump would be quite good in warming the body and getting a sweat on. I got through Pump fine, but was still a bit snivelly while watching step. However, things started to get really bad during Balance.

The cough spread from my throat down to my chest, and I started to feel week, dizzy, and a bit tired.

Louise and I were waiting for Jam so that we could get in the front row (best way to do that is to watch the filming of the class beforehand :-D) and before Balance had gotten, we agreed to quickly head off downstairs into the changing rooms to get changed into our Jam gear.

When we got back, we were amazed to find that Balance STILL hadn't started. We'd had a full blown conversation in the changing rooms with some of the other GFX attendees - one of them was kind enough to even give me a throat lozenge when I continued to splutter and cough my lungs up. (If you're out there, thank you so much, it was really kind of you to do so.)

Four presenters this time around - Corey, Dr Dave, Jackie (who was wearing these freaking awesome white poofy pants), and Yusuf/Yousuf(?), the international presenter for the release. I'm not sure how exactly you spell his name or where he comes from, though he was given the responsibility of introducing the release, and for some reason, it took quite a few takes before the filming crew were happy with what he said. I can't tell you the number of times the poor guy had to repeat that the release was 'strong and athletic'.

And from what I saw, it definitely looks like a strong and athletic release. It's a real shame that I didn't have the energy to stay awake and watch the release, I was so exhausted - and it turned out to be the tip of the iceberg when it came to how exhausted I would become over the next week.

What was funny was that in past weeks, Les Mills filmed snippets of both Body Balance and Body Vive to accompany boxes of cereal(? I think it was cereal) in the Middle East, and Jackie announced to everyone that on the night they did that filming, they forgot to film the introduction. Jackie positioned herself to get ready to do her introduction, and we were all waiting for her to say her thing. Just as she was about to start talking, she was told that they didn't need her to do it. So she said, "Oh. Okay! Goodbye!" and quickly disappeared off the stage. Everyone burst out laughing and then broke into applause. Jackie, you are awesome.

Did anyone out there attend the Body Balance 46 filming? It would be great to hear your thoughts :-)