Some favourites I always like to hear:
during crunches: Don't hold on to your ears? Why not? You might pull em off. (The class usually shouts the reply now)
During side plank with leg lift: (to those partcipants unfortuneate to be near the instructors legs) You better hope I'm wearing pants today
When cueing "chest proud" etc in biceps: Remeber boys - don't look at the guns.
For female instructors: go on, load up. I like to see a grown man in pain
Having explained easier options but wanting class to push themselves: But you don't wanna do that; it's not what you paid your £4.50 for.
Similarly, on having realised that have started before coreography (sp?), and can see regulars grinning at you: Those ones were for free! Or conversely just shouting "one more" for about 4 reps after the track has finished.
Lunges Options: Bar, Hand Weights, Step. Or no bar, no weights, no step. Class response is: No lunges?
On running through the movements in shoulders: front raise, side raise, mac raise, rotor-cuff rises. Class response is: Pay raise?
Between each track: What's next? Pub/home/bed? no - chest/triceps
"Calculation" of calories burnt in terms of food/drink: Well I'm sure that's at least 4 pints of cider extra. Or, work more now, eat more later.
Gentle teasing of regulars who you know won't mind, eg:
- An instructor once gave a "yellow card" (our weights are coloured) to a participant who wasn't listening during a post-track technique pointer
- Offering to "swap" weights with regulars who haven't upped their weights for a long time.
- Offering tea and cake to gossiping participants
(on a different note one of my favourite instructors conspired with my bf during a Balance class to scatter Smarties just out of my reach during hip openers)
Any sort of interaction with song lyrics is always popular. My all time favourites being "And you're thinking to yourself: is this right or is this wrong?" "very very wrong" and "Do you really want to hurt me?" "oh yes!"