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MO:
Really, today has been so weird (in a good way) I don´t even know where to start...
Actually, I can´t.
The two projects that are so, so enticingly close to be in the bag now, are nowhere near in the bag, until the bag is shut, locked and on the plane...if you know what I mean...

Even if I want to shout out loud, stand on the rooftops and just go for it, I can´t, because if it doesn´t happen, if nothing comes out of it, I don´t want to have excited both you and me for no reason at all...

Gosh, I´m just so happy that JO is there to share the excitement for the BIG ONE, because 1. Shared happiness is DOUBLE the FUN and 2. Otherwise I would EXPLODE.

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Anything to bring my mood down? Well, I had a stone thrown from a bridge at my car today when I left the city, and it made my front window crack.
Not good - and very expensive to fix.

And you know what?
Not even that could bring my mood down!

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MOJO Yoga & Hot MOJO

MO:

WHOOOPA!

MOJO Yoga & Hot MOJO featured in the April number of Fitness-Magazine,

in stores now!

Don´t they just look FAB, the Medley crew???

Ohhhh, I´m glad my feet are clean!

Gorgeous JO showing how it´s done! By the way, Get well soon, honey.

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You win some, you loose some

MO:

Thank you Magnus for joining me in my 3 classes tonight, spinning, kettlebell and Hot MOJO! You are a trooper!

Also, thank you for the delicious Hello Kitty plasters (which I won for having the most nasty blisters...yes, we are a bit sick...)!

My wonderful first price....it even matches my nail polish! :)

I´ve had both fabulous and not so great news in the last two weeks. Remember the price negotiation I went through a while back?
I declined their final offer.
1. It wasn´t good enough.
2. I followed my gut feeling.
Will I live to regret it? Never. Whatever happens, it felt good in the pit of my stomach to say no.

The fabulous news? You´ll have to wait ´til mid September to find out. I´m sorry, but that´s the way it is. :)
Maybe I´ll be able to give you a little teaser before the end of May, we´ll see.

Tomorrow will be fairly relaxed, Wednesday and Thursday are all go.

Saturday holds the Sportlife Convention AND Spin of Hope. Yum!

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No sweat, baby

MO:
Did I really say that?

Today´s Göteborgs-Posten

The word(s) that are missing in front of cardio-, interval or weight training, are "tough/hard/high intensity". In that case anyone who goes to my classes knows I did.

And meant it. :)

- blingblinged from my iPhone

Weirdest thing at FIBO 2009

MO:

This will be my last FIBO-thread for a while....but I had to post this - the most WEIRD thing on the whole expo and the winner of the WHY, OH WHY competition....

Well, you can all judge by yourselves...

NITENITE, Sweeties

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FIBO, day 3 - business and bye bye

MO:

I missed the JUKARI, Fit to Fly -launch on Thursday night, because I chose to usher the team back to the hotel instead, after a looong day. From what I heard I missed a spectacular circus show (with real circus artists one should hope, since Jukari is the product of a collaboration between Reebok & Cirque du Soleil), but not one single person at the launch (and there were only VIP-industry people there) could see the meaning of it or the functionality of it in a real, existing club.
I discussed it with a collegue the next day:
My questions concerning JUKARI, are: How much did it cost to develop? Who is the product for? How many of the world´s fitness clubs have got the room (read:ceiling height) to actually start the program? WHO will teach it? Retired circus artists? I know several. Not.

...and why, oh why didn´t Reebok pour all that money into making wearable shoes and goodlooking clothes instead???

Activio did so well this year. It´s a delight representing a Swedish company at FIBO - especially when the product is so GREAT! The feedback solution system got a lot of attention over the last few days - which it should.
This is the 3rd year that the company is presenting at the expo - and my 3rd year as the team manager for Activio. Having followed the twins from their early days, I have to say: Great job, Tom & Daniel, you go from strength to strength!

Lucky for me, I had (for once!) realized my own limits beforehand and rationalized myself out of the expo 1 day early... Let´s just say that Putte would not have stood for another day. He seemed a bit cranky at the end of day 3...
I was quite shattered when I arrived back in Gothenburg around 22.00 Saturday night, but very, very happy about what the last few days had brought for my client.

Go Sweden, go!

Getting better and more goodlooking each year...
Talking about the Activio booth, folks...

...but I have to say that it also goes for the TEAM!
Damn, you did a wonderful job, guys! Susanne, Åse, Sofia, Mari, Per, Malin, Linda, Magnus, Andreas - THANK YOU so much! ♥

Benny - former collegue and Urs, my former boss during the early days at Schwinn...
Plus me, wearing size XL in shorts AND jersey. Never has the Activio logo-man looked more happy on my belly...

Paco - Poster Boy of Keiser indoor biking and a wonderfully nice person

Ok, more "news"...Computerized training, screens and entertainment could still be seen everywhere...but do they really sell that well??? The answer? No.

Doing cable work on a wobbly board, anyone?
Do heavier weights and more crosstraining instead, I´d say.

Feel the anti-gravity. In a machine not too different from something you would find in a fairground. Again, have I seen it in any facility anywhere in the world? Er...no.

...and in today´s category of Why, oh why....
Well, you can judge for yourselves...

Fibo, Day 2.Friends Day

MO:

A bit too tired to string a sentence together. Day 2 was hooking up with old friends and collegues day. And finding out the latest gossip in the European fitness world.
There were some really jucicy things discovered...I´ll keep you posted.

Technogym has finally launched their own spinning bike. Not bad.

Star Trac have invested their cash on a new cardio bike instead. Looking like a spinner, driving like a spinner, but with a HUGE LCD-screen to keep you entertained while you bike away...

Launched at FIBO, Schwinn´s new indoor bike. With magnets instead of a braking system (no squeeling), an aluminium frame, adjustable handlebar (fore and aft) and a medium sized screen in the middle of the handlebar, giving you cadence/watts/etc.

Former collegues Marcus (Schwinn) & Martin (Star Trac) from Germany.

Fab, wonderful Italian friends Giancarlo & Antonio from spininside.it

Who also reads MOJO! :)

Love ya, guys

The One. The Only. The Original - Johnny G.
Founder of SPINNING & Kranking.

Friend and mad source of inspiration.


This is how happy the team was after the last show of the day.
Showing off the beautiful yogitoes-towels we kindly were given by yogitoes US.






...and finally...KRANKING.
Check out the power of Mike Michels (on stage). A great friend and former collegue from LA. How do the Americans do it? Year after year they make us Europeans look like unfit, untrained couch-potatoes...

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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