Feel the Fight: The Emotional Pulse Missing from BodyCombat 100!

Before reading/watching please remember that I am not taking anything away from anyone involved in the on demand videos, choreography, music etc, they all work hard, give 100%, this is to highlight different choices need to be made or even questioned.. I am very passionate about this program as without it I wouldn’t have met my wife and made many good friends.

Hello beautiful people. How are you doing? Lets talk about an amazing milestone for Les Mills Bodycombat and that is release number 100. This release has come and gone, but did it represent this fitness programme that many of us signed up for a long time ago?

Mr Tansey in the on-demand video said Bodycombat is about FEELING, yes it is, is one of the main reasons i became an instructor, but where have these feelings been over the last 3 – 4 years? Releases use to be solid, music variations, etc etc but now, same boring beat, same boring noises, even the on demand video (WHICH WE ARE REQUIRED TO BUY) has also seen better days. “you guys at home”, no I am an instructor and well I set my heel correctly when I kick.

Whatever your thoughts are, I personally think Dan and Rach carried this release with presenting across various countries around the world, lets face facts, Dan, Rach and presenters like Marlon could do the hokey cokey and it would be amazing. Meeting people you look up to, who bring positivity into your life, in a group fitness environment will always be amazing.

Are music, creative, choreography choices killing this program?  Am hearing instructors are giving up due to lack of this “feeling”, feedback from participants “BORED” of the music choices.  Where have the master classes, the Scooter tracks, the set you free, the energetic magic feeling tracks that motivate, inspire and drive you to work even harder?

Did Les Mills miss out over this amazing milestone, well myself and near enough every instructor and participant that’s spoke to me thinks so. The number of changes to the program over the years needs to be celebrated, the master trainers who brought soul to each release, not a release that’s uninspiring, we want these “FEELINGS”…

In light of this, I’ve decided to fix the feeling part, here’s my Bodycombat 100 alternative, “FEELINGS”, where you’ll find tracks that i put money on 90% of instructors around the world go back to….. These 10 tracks were very difficult to finalise as there are so many inspiring tracks in the back catalogue.

Over to you Participant, instructor, presenter, I’d love to hear your thoughts. Here are some questions that may get you thinking….

If you love the release, what is it you love about it? If you’re not a fan of the release have I hit the nail on the head? Do you think “the BC creative” team are making the wrong choices with music and choreography, maybe need to take a step back and remember where the program has come from?

Would like to talk about BC100 please email at contactsiphilp”takethistextoutasdontwantspam”@gmail.com with your thoughts, can be video, a voice memo, a picture of you with a star rating of the release out of 5?  Please consider subscribing over on my YouTube : https://www.youtube.com/@SimonPhilp, have lots of fun content planned, not a YouTube person then there’s always Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/siphilp

Bodycombat 100 alternative music track list

• Track 1a – Upper body warmup – Bodycombat 61 – Wrecking ball (Malu project remix edit) – Pop Pistols
• Track 1b – Lower body warmup – Bodycombat 50 – Rolling in the deep (Technopossee remix) – Fizzy Deejay
• Track 2 – Combat 1 – Bodycombat 94 – Reason for fighting – Seven Lions & Blastoyz feat. Erv Ello
• Track 3 – Power training 1 – Bodycombat 40 – Sweetheart (Squad-e Remix) – Rezonance-q
• Track 4 – Combat 2 – Bodycombat 69 – Say my name (Dual Thieves remix) – Peking Duck feat. Benjamin Joseph
• Track 5 – Power training 2 – Bodycombat 42 – The Anthem – Good Charlotte
• Track 6 – Combat 3 – Bodycombat 45 – Russian Roulette (Blunatix meets B-Tastic remix edit) – Feelix Dj
• Track 7 – Muay Thai – Bodycombat 60 – Kryptonite – Proof Luke
• Track 8 – Power training 3 – Bodycombat 44 – Your Shining (Hixxy remix) – Styles & Breeze
• Track 9 – Conditioning – Bodycombat 58 – People like us – Kelly Clarkson
• Track 10 – Cool down – Bodycombat 64 – Simply Amazing – Trey Songz

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