Allrithyms! with Kendra Hyson: BEGINNER
Channel: Allrithyms!
Date: 2020-08-25

Join me as we travel the entire globe with authentic cultural dance! This is a partnership between GymVixen Activewear and my company, AlterNatives Fitness. NOTE: There is intentionally NO SOUND other than my instruction during the video due to copyright infringement protections for my and other countries since I used copyrighted music.  

My specially curated playlist is public on Spotify and can be found here:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4aHvSOK69DEsFMzZL1vhT2?si=mAyBzqmwTSGyr0drXSlZig

Some of the songs I specifically edited for performance directness and a link to all of them to download to your own collection is provided here. This enables your own music folder to direct Spotify to those songs so that they may play in original order of the playlist.

About Allrithyms!: 
I created this program in 2009 when I realized as I taught an extremely popular dance aerobics program that my many years of dance expertise was overtaking the highly aerobics formatting. Members of class who visited from the more aerobic formatting that other instructors still followed the uniform prescription for beginner instructors to learn how to construct a class were disgruntled that I was NOT leading a "simple, repetitive, less than five moves per song, aerobics to only three or four different regional specific rhythm genres, constricted to 2' x  2' movement spacing with no artistry" type class but instead a REAL dance class. People attending from the few regions of dance that were listed to instruct as our formula complained I wasn't doing it right though I held a manual, certification and was an original instructor for many years certified by the program creator themself and had to drive over 20 hours one way to receive it! I craved to learn the authentic ways to dance those genres and had already expanded to other cultural dance on my own playlist that were not originally covered by the other program based on the growing popularity of dance competition mainstream television shows and meeting people in my classes from around the world. I fanned out so much so that my class began being called Kendra's (Dance Aerobics Name brand) class. I then decided to try my format as a specialty class for members at a gym that I had regular weekly attendance of over 100 people and it was a HUGE success. Since that day in 2009, I branded the program originally as Carrithyms!© because I made the program focus on the Caribbean for my love of those genres of music since high school and had accidentally misspoken the words "Caribbean Rhythms" together and it stuck. However as I then evolved as a cultural dancer, having been a technical dancer since the age of 3, I realized my palate was spreading further into the globe than the heavy focus on the Caribbean and was not as centric to that region. I had even used red, green, gold and black as my brand colors though I did indeed instruct many other genres around the world. My class also is very high intensity based than the other program since dance is a sport. I realized my palate of cultural dance was growing even more noting how many widespread regions I was including in my monthly playlist that in August 2019, I rebranded to Allrithyms!™. My formula has always been to gain most of your recommended steps per day in one hour and also gain flexibility, speed, agility, strength, grace, confidence and cultural knowledge without any equipment but your feet! Travel to places through culture that your pocketbook may never afford you to set foot in as a tourist and challenge yourself to become a better dancer. Everyone can groove but not everyone is willing to dance! Our startup is faster than most programs fastest song, BUT we work our way to an elite athlete level of conditioning in the middle then work our way back to a slightly higher than resting heart rate. To find out what your 75 - 90% maximum target heart rates are take 220 and subtract it from your current age, then multiply by 0.75 or 0.90 and you will have that important number for optimal results.
 
Allrithyms!™ (formerly Carrithyms! ®) has been featured at NBC Health and Fitness Expos up and down the East coast of the United States, on local and national TV, social media and also I have 21 certified instructors with plans to hold another batch of instructor certifications in 2021. We currently offer class virtually on Zoom through ClassPass on Tuesdays and Fridays. Book a class through https://linktr.ee/kendra20020