Wow, so you don't have Les Mills classes at all in SA? I've just had a cold shiver down my back, I think I would die without my LM classes! Unfortunatly not just anyone can be a Les Mills instructor. You have to have the countries relevant group fitness qualification and then you have to be trained by Les Mills. New instructors have to attend a workshop for 2 or 3 days solid training where they learn the choreo and how to instruct. Then they are approved (or not) to team teach in a Les Mills licenced gym. THEN, after team teaching with a qualified LM instructor for a while they have to send in a video of themselves teaching for approval. Again, they can pass or fail at this stage. Once passed they can teach by themselves. They also have to attend quarterly workshops to learn all the new releases. Phew, I know all this because i'll be doing my Body Combat training when I get back from visiting the UK it July...v. scared!!!!

Bec, I always found it really hard to up the weights. My instructor always said when it gets easy, up your weights but it never got easy for me! So with this newe release I thought, stuff it, i'm upping EVERYTHING (except back). The first 2 times I did it I had a fall-back bar with my previous weight on it but I found that if I knew it was there, I would use it so now I don't even set it up. WIth the chest track this release (sooo much easier than the one you're doing!) we had a break and I was about to swap it and just thought f##k it, i'll keep going and I did!

I bumped all my weights up but you should probably ask your instructor what she recomends. It's probably best not to up all the upper body weights at once but lower body should be fine.

Did the new Step today (71) it was so so so so so much fun! It's really dancey and there are quite a few funky moves including "Thriller" arms at the end!