I Have Not Lost My Mind

Reason #1.

Actually, you probably guessed this one already. Because I’m there! I love working out and I like to think that when I’m teaching Body Pump and/or RPM, the Martin you see on stage is the one you meet on the gym floor/car park/supermarket. Real people … that’s what you’ll meet at JG.

Reason #2.

Here’s the killer reason. From August 1st, your membership covers all group fitness classes including RPM (spin). Other gyms are charging at least $5 per class for RPM. So now, all you pay is your annual/monthly/weekly membership fee!

Reason #3.

Parking! There are a whole lot more FREE CAR PARKS to the north behind the gym.

We don’t need another reason to not go to the gym

Reasons 2 & 3 came to me when the lovely Suzi came back from the gym (a different one to mine) and she was a little upset. There were no free parks left, so she parked on a meter& paid her $6. She paid another $6 and did her RPM class. She did a workout/warmdown after class. Got back to her car and had a $12 parking ticket!

So thats $6 + $6 + $12 = $24 for one RPM class. Not to mention the $20+ per week that she pays for membership. If she was to do 2 more RPM classes and get free parking that would be $36 for the weeks RPM and chuck in the weekly gym membership of $20, thats $56! Pretty bloody expensive, did I mention that she also does Pump twice a week as well?

Actually, I’m not but Jenkins Gym is looking for a new Group Fitness Co-ordinator.

You need to be able to teach at least 2 pre-choreographed or freelanced programs and  have some experience in people management and coaching skills.

There are more details about the position on trademe.

The Gym currently has about 20 instructors and provides the following Les Mills programmes.

• Body Pump
• Body Combat
• Body Attack
• RPM
• Body Balance

The Group Fitness timetable can be viewed on the gyms web site

If you are interested in the position. The person to contact is

Now using Google Calendar to display my teaching timetable @ the gym. I stole the idea from Fitness Attitude. I’m sure Michael won’t mind

As part of it’s commitment to the local community, Jenkins Gym has been hosting 90 minute charity rides. The latest ride was to raise awareness of dyspraxia “… is a neurologically based disorder of the process of ideation, motor planning, and execution, which may affect any or all areas of development”

The class is always challenging (its twice as long as a normal class) but we always try to add a fun component to it. This class I had a spare bike on stage with me and invited participants to join me.

Big ups to;

• Holona
• Rochelle
• Derek
• Tammy

for entering into the spirit of the occasion and joining me up on stage. A shout out to Rochelle, it was only her third class and she did fab-u-lously

	Rochelle briefing us on dyspraxia durring our warmup track
Tammy making me look good just prior to the final mountain track

It’s been a very hectic two days. Great turnout @ my 9:15am RPM class + I subbed for Hilarys 7:20pm Pump class. And the Pump @ 10am today. The track lists for all 3 classes are below

RPM Monday 9:15am

Pump Monday 7:20pm

Pump Tuesday 10am

I’m a little late with the play lists for Thursday Pump & Friday RPM. I didn’t realise how much the 90 minute charity class took out of me. I was absolutely knackered for Pump on Thursday and was really glad to be team teaching RPM with Becs on Friday.

Here is Fridays RPM playlist. As Always the list of all the RPM releases that I have can be found here.

 Todays the day! 6pm, Jenkins Gym. The class is fully booked. Donations gladly accepted. Please drop by the gym, pop your head into the RPM studio … we’d appreciate the support

But after a great night out last night and meeting three All Blacks I couldn’t wait to get to the gym to show off! I’m team teaching with Rebecca for at least the next 4 weeks to provide a bit of variety and fun for the class. All the girls in the class were soooo envious when I announced that I’d met Dan Carter. So it was a great intro for the class and we just went for it! I took the first 4 tracks and Becs brought us home with the last 5. We switch places on Friday & she’ll do 1 to 4 and I’ll bring it home.

The list of all the RPM releases that I have can be found here.

Track	Artist	Release
01 September	Kirk Franklin	39
02 Sway	Michael Buble	25
03 I Like To Move It (as requested by Katrina )	Zoo Gang	36
04 Running (this was playing as I watched ‘Le Tour’ and was a perfect match)	Evermore	34
05 Paradise City (this track always does me in, it finishes with a 2 minute time trial – ouch)	Guns N’ Roses	35
06 Sunchyme	Dario G	35
07 Behind The Cow	Scooter	38
08 Won’t Go Home Without You	Maroon 5	38
09 Glad You’re Here	Macy Gray fet. Fergie	38

I had a great class yesterday but today was even better. Maybe it was because we had my bro-in-law Chris Gambitsis with us in class. He’s the owner & wine maker for Lake Chalice wines. We tucked into a few good vinos last night to go with the roast sirloin with potatoes and kumara roasted in duck fat (we had duck risotto the other night … but that’s a different story). I know it’s not prime training food but boy it was yummy! I dragged my mates Vicky & Gary along too.

Here we are TWINS, Italian jeans, belts, shoes & T-shirts. Knocking back a few cold-ones at the Astrolab in Mt Maunganui.

The list of all the RPM releases that I have can be found here.

Gee, I hope Rebecca is back soon … that’s 4 RPM classes (not counting yesterday as a participant) and 2 pump classes for the week!

The list of all the RPM releases that I have can be found here.