SUPERMAN p(l)ays a visit

MO:

Famous friends.

Darling JOJO & SUPERMAN paid a visit in tonight´s marathon: Spinning, Kettlebell & Hot MOJO.

What an honour to get the enormous pleasure to kick this talented man´s tight butt!

After having spent 90min more or less just WATCHING his awe-inspiring Multi-Intenso class 2 years ago in NY (think 10 handstands before the 30min mark...), I was thrilled to invite David to my triple.

True grandeur equals humbleness, that´s why David is one of the greatest in my opinion.

Tomorrow, he will have his "revenge" as I sweat it out on the yoga mat.

Except from teaching,

JO and I have filmed and bagged the second MOJO Yoga series - and man, does it FLY?! Whoppa!

MOJO Yogis out there - you will have a gorgeous spring sequence to look forward to - one that your spine will fall in LOVE with...

Right b4

MO:
Time to kick it. Hard.


-nervously blinged from my iphone

MOJO getting ready

MO:

Hotel Diplomat, Stockholm.

Getting ready for our most important meeting so far this year...

Business

Not so business

Getting rid of adrenalin at WC Nybroplan - Thanks Jessica!

RELAXING with champagne, red wine and top politicians at the hotel restaurant...

Tomorrow will be MENTAL...

Go Febbe!

MO:
Only the man immediately to the left of the dark skinned man in this picture, would get me to MAYBE watch song nr 5 in tonight´s horrible, detestable spectacle that is Melodifestivalen.

Go Febbe! GOOOOOO!!!

We´ve always known you´re a star!
SHINE, beautiful friend.

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...even more NIKE Stockholm 2010...

MO:

One of my favorite classes during the weekend: James Da Silva´s GARUDA Core

Sorry I managed to rip your trousers in our kettlebell session, James! :)
All cred to this lovely, lovely man, who with all his talent and knowledge still is curious to learn more about new exciting stuff - like KB-training.

Together with Anton & Varvara from IFS Russia

Wonderful Susanna from NIKE Finland - I LOVE Finnish people!
(They are hardworking, straight talking and hilariously funny!)

Gorgeous Oscar & Jessica - the "radarpar", as we say in Swedish! :)

Bruno Sardella, dear friend, former colleague and fab athlete.
Thank you for the music dedications! (Songs that we exchanged maybe 8-10 yrs ago)

Musse Hasselvall (who just won the ELLE-award: "BEST DRESSED MAN OF THE YEAR" - Congratulations!) & Usama Aziz. Two cool tigers and gentlemen.

Per Markussen & Åsa Fornander preparing for their buttkickin "Street vs Aerobics"- battle...
See the videos below in the next post

Another dear friend, Tony Stone, whom I must have known for over 10 years now. When we´re working the same event, I always try to take one of his classes. This time it was the "Video Dance"-class. My God. I normally have time for 1 dance class a year...hence the work with trying to get my arms and legs to move at the same time without looking spastic... After 5 minutes I was ready to give up, but then thought about how I hate when people come into class and leave without REALLY trying...so I persevered. It might not have looked like a MJ-video, but boy, did I have a GREAT time! Thanks to Febbe & Elaine who jammed the whole way through on my left and on my right, making sure I was at least facing the right direction on the last 8 count! :)

Check out Petter Ehrnvall´s face...knowing he´s going to end up on his favorite blog: MOJO!
Gorgeous Vanessa Livramento kicked his ass in the BodyPump 73! :)

From Gothenburg, but working in Stockholm with Friskis & Svettis: beautiful Robert Granat.

This year Robert decided that sweating is soooo last season... ;)
Magnus Gårdmark blowin´the house away in his class ReCharge. Magnus very deservedly got rave reviews from his participants.

Linda Jonsson rocking her "Around the World" - class. She and Magnus Gårdmark did a great job and delivered fantastic classes. I´m PROUD to be working with these people!

Spinning

...and more spinning...

Look what I found in the bike room: Magnus Gårdmark, Linda Jonsson, Lina Eriksson, Jessica Larsson & Andreas Wester.

Get inspired

Katy Appleton

Escaping our all vegetarian yoga retreat to have a frothy cappuccino...Ssshhh, don´t tell anyone...

MO:

If you are in Gothenburg this weekend - and you are a yoga fan, you have to join our own amazing JO and fabulous celebrity trainer Katy Appleton at their "Ultimate Yoga Workshop". Katy lives in London, where she runs Apple Yoga. She was the yogi behind Geri Halliwell´s acclaimed Yoga DVD and regularly train English royalty.
I´ll be joining the beautiful girls tomorrow at Gymnasium Sisjön 16.30-18.30.

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Fame and Fortune

MO:

I start the day with a lovely fika. MG and I haven´t seen each other for ages and it´s always great to catch up. We talk business, training, life and future plans. I laugh and laugh and laugh so hard when MG tells me that I have met - and hosted - the most famous of the "Swedish Hollywood Wives". (Remember, we live without a TV, but how on earth could I have not heard the stories???)
She was here, in Sweden, at one of my events. She was working as an LA-personal trainer back then and she was dating a presenter that I hired. Case closed.

The rest of the day was spent chasing a Vårdcentral that would see me and prescribe a cough medicine. I have been coughing like mad since Friday and I would like to be able to have a good night´s sleep (between feedings) and not having to worry about waking the rest of the family.
At 3 o´clock the problem was solved.

I taught Spinning/Kettlebell at 5 o´clock. Hardworking mountainbike professional Åsa E came out to join both classes, since her competition season has ended. She said she was tired but happy afterwards and promised to come and join a future yoga class as well.

I´m hoping for another stunning autumn day tomorrow. Running with the pram is on the schedule for the morning, followed by some work in the afternoon.

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Spinn of Hope 28 March 2009

As you can see, I´ve had to ditch all my biking wear - everything is too tight! Thank God for NIKE´s running collection! :)

Mo:

Back on the X2000 again! :)

After 1 1/2 rides, I feel quite good. My body is still responding well to being on the bike.

I´m not sure how the rides were percieved by the people following by live-wire and it was kinda tricky to teach in that forum, but I have to say that I am very proud to have been a small part of this charity event. Both Matt and I were a bit starstruck when we got to meet Magnus Bäckstedt - The Big Swede - one of Sweden´s best cyclists EVER (newly retired since February 2009). The man has won one of the stages at Tour de France, he has won Paris-Roubaix, he has pulled over 1.000 watts in training (!!!) and is a giant both literally and figuratively speaking...and a nice person with it, it turns out.

Matt & I with one of Sweden´s best cyclists of all times: Magnus Bäckstedt.

Billy from Barncancerfonden welcoming the 30 or so centers around Sweden and celebrating Studio Aktiverum in Helsinborg-they single-handedly managed to raise 100.000 SEK!

When Billy from Barncancerfonden introduced the live rides by telling his very personal story about how his own daughter fought against cancer for several years and lost her life to the disease in 2006, one´s own little everyday hang ups felt quite insignificant and it felt incredibly good to be DOING something. 300 children fall victims to cancer in Sweden every year. Barncancerfonden gets 0 kr from the government and has to raise any money by themselves.
Spin of Hope is planned to be a yearly event and if you couldn´t join us this year, please do so in 2010.

With Emilia on the bike

A big HUG to Emilia who turned out to be a real trouper. She only started spinning in October last year, to get in shape for Melodifestivalen. She managed to both look glamourous AND sing during the 25 minutes that she was on the bike. Since there was a communication mix-up along the line, the only schlager we biked to in the end was Emilias own song, You are my world (which turned out to be a perfect flat road). So, even if that might not qualify as a proper schlager-spinning class, I can at least say that I´ve lost my schlager-spinning virginity for the right cause, in the right place with the right person! :)
In the half hour or so that we got to chat, I was charmed by Emilia´s personality and we had some very interesting conversations about everything from food & training to life & love.
I wish her the best of luck for the rest of 2009, with the release of a new album and a tour coming up.

Happy and content after the class

Love

Mo

Schlager Spin???

Mo:

A packed day ahead, getting ready for Barncancerfonden´s Spinn of Hope in Stockholm tomorrow and the 1-day continuing education course I´m doing for Friskvågen in Varberg on Sunday.
You know I told you I would have Adam Tensta on stage with me tomorrow? Turns out his management stopped him from appearing: "..that´s not good for your image as a hip-hoper..."
Eh, say what?
1) Is he 50cent?
2) Does his management own him or does he have any free will?
3) And anyway, 50cent probably would have done it and "flipped the bird" to his management if they told him what he could/could not do.

So now, MANGO, I will do 30 minutes of SchlagerSpin after my own 60 minutes!

I´m joined on stage by Emilia and SHE gets to choose the music (her songs). This MUST qualify as a Schlager-ride??? Finally.
Febbe, Mango & Robert, wish you were there to see and hear it with your own eyes and ears...

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Working out or Working in...?!

You think this looks hard?!

This ain't nothing compared to what I did yesterday here in London!

I trained with THE man who trained her to get into that pose...

And let me tell u, that pose was the WARM UP! No, for real! I had one of the best workouts ever. For one hour I couldn't think of anything else then here and now, since James kept on correcting me and making me go deeper into my practice.

He teaches his own blend of yoga/pilates/gyrotonics! All mixed up in a sexy black bed that looks something like the cadillac you use in pilates.

After one hour I walked out feeling energyzied, tall and spacious... today I feel the same + soar...

(Note it is not the girl on the picture who wrote the blog, but she walked up the same stairs!)

I'll post some pics from the studio when I get back home since I didn't bring my camera cord... smart!

Let me tell u, this man is ROCK HARD but with a HEART of GOLD! If I could I'd kidnap him back home to Sweden!

Now some work from my (well not mine) spacious penthouse, then some Bikram Yoga, running before I teach classes in the city tonight!

LONDON LOVE Jo