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Episode 11: The Evolution of Pros Only Flow
Episode 11: The Evolution of Pros Only Flow
Get ready to walk down memory lane as we dissect the evolution of Supernatural's Pros Only choreography, discussing how tracks like "Hype" and sessions like "Return to the Madhouse" have shifted the intensity bar. Mark's sage advice on balancing ambition with fun reminds us that perfection lies in dedication, and we muse on the motivational quotes that spur us forward during the sweatiest of challenges.
From the first heart-pumping Pros Only session to the latest advancements, we've grown and sweated alongside the platform, and today, we're peeling back our thoughts on the evolution of our favorite intensity level.
As we envision the potential for more evolved choreography, we invite you to share in the excitement of what's on the horizon. The essence of the supernatural reaches beyond the physical exertion—it's the shared odyssey of music, movement, and the collective heartbeat of a community striving for more.
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Good morning, good morning or afternoon, or whatever it is, wherever you are, that's right, or wherever people are listening.
Marla:Hello Welcome, welcome. So, today's a big day.
Julia:It is a big day.
Marla:We've been waiting for this day, since like day one Since day one Exactly, it was the for sure topic we knew we wanted to discuss. So do you know what I want to talk about today? Julia, you want to talk about the eclipse? Well, I do kind of, because that happened yesterday. It did On Monday of this week, which was what is the date? Oh gosh, marla, come on.
Julia:It was the 7th right, the 8th. Come on.
Marla:It was the 8th right, the 8th no yesterday was the 8th, monday the 8th and I traveled about three and a half hours to watch it in totality and it was such a rad experience once in a lifetime experience. I've seen lots of partial eclipse, but never the full thing. We were able to take off our glasses for four and a half minutes Like we were in the best location. It was awesome. I have video.
Julia:I'm so glad y'all got to do that yeah.
Marla:Middle of nowhere, no other people. The way we like it, that's right. We drove down gravel road for like 30 minutes. I was asked chris, where are you taking us? What are?
Julia:we doing. We were up in hills.
Marla:It was nuts, but so much fun and I hope everyone still has their eyeballs about yes, you know nobody looked at it without your special glasses.
Julia:I got to go out and see we got to about 85 and then we had cloud cover when we were at 90, so couldn't really see it at the max for us in virginia, but um I did go out I was. I wish somebody had taken a picture of me. I'm standing on the front porch with my latte, with my glasses on, looking straight up in the sky. People were driving by. I'm sure they're like oh, the lady that's so awesome though. That is not what we're here to talk about today.
Marla:No, it is not, but do you know what we are here to talk about today?
Julia:Or do you know what I want?
Marla:to talk about today.
Julia:I mean, I want to talk about it too. It's so exciting.
Marla:I. We would like to discuss the evolution of pros only flow from the very first one, which is called pros only debut with Leanne. It came out April 2020. I want to start there. Go through all 21 of the pros only flow workouts and the five pros only flow quick hits, and let's chat about yeah, only five, there are only five, only five. Pros only quick hits.
Julia:Well, to give a little context that to people that may not know supernatural started in april of 2020 I believe, correct me if I'm wrong. So that's all the way to the beginning.
Marla:It is so from the beginning from the beginning to the latest and greatest prose only flow, which is called Fusion Fiesta.
Julia:Yes, so good yes. Like smack us outside our face good.
Marla:Unless we magically get a brand new prose only flow tomorrow, which would be incredible Universe, please.
Julia:Well, and Marla is the pros only day person. So if there's a pros only that comes out, Marla's telling the world.
Marla:Oh, I'm going to scream it everywhere. I'm going to go into every track group, every group. I'm in it's pros only day. It's a big deal, it's not that I'm not excited.
Julia:It's the fact of Marla is up before the birds, the chickens, all the people in the world Right.
Marla:Like. As soon as the new workouts come out, I will know about it.
Julia:Yeah, and everyone else will be waking up right now. Wake up right now.
Marla:But then I've got to wait for Julia to wake up hours later, drink her coffee and get ready to get in the headset with me. Because we have a tradition, we have a pact, we do all pros only flows for the first time together we do and when did we start that? It was after Forget the Madhouse, so it was after forget the madhouse, so it was bring down the house, right yes, bring down the house and that one is just.
Julia:It's really cool that that one is our first one together, because it's so special, because that's when twinkled, twinkle feet was, you know, birthed, so that's right and we all have to do it at a certain part it is a certain part and you're probably like please don't put that video.
Marla:Well, some of our friends turned it into a gif and then I think I have several versions of the gif because it's got lots of different backgrounds environments from supernatural. They went ahead and put me in lots of different backgrounds environments from Supernatural. They went ahead and put me in lots of different options. Now I'm a GIF, but it literally even to this day. I think I've played that workout at least almost 50 times and I still get that excited at that exact part.
Julia:Definitely that was a pivotal, pivotal moment too, and I mean we were in there together and just experienced that whole thing. But when Alana came, I know we're skipping forward to Alana, but it's so special to us.
Marla:It is.
Julia:I remember you saying I can't even talk right now. I'm going to be doing this all day.
Marla:Yes.
Julia:And I think we did.
Marla:We did. We played that workout several times that day and then the next day went right back into it.
Julia:Yeah, it's, it was our go to for a while. We don't play it as much as we used to, but every now and again we're going back to the bring down the house.
Marla:We are so lucky that one of the five quick hits is from the workout Bring Down the House and the very first song is Alani, and so we can go in and play that very first song as much as we want, as often as we want. And I'm still in awe every time I go in there because I will say, bring Down the House is a huge pivotal flows only workout, and I don't know if a lot of people realize this, but it's when multi-lane started, it's the pros only that brought what I like to call and what I refer to as three portal magic, where three portals are open and targets are coming out of all three and it gets complex and it's beautiful and, yes, I'm obsessed with three portal magic.
Julia:And the scream that we screamed when we got to experience three portal magic for the very first time.
Marla:And then now we have five portal magic. Right, we do. I know I just love it. It's the best way to bring in complexity. My brain craves it. Sometimes I still can't believe I'm hitting those targets, like how are we doing this? But anyway, let's back up. Let's back up. Let's go all the way to the beginning, April 2020, to the very first Pros. Only with Leanne it was called Debut.
Julia:Yes.
Marla:We have played it. You have played it lots of times before me. I have, I have.
Julia:I've played a lot of the older ones, all of them more than once. I would probably say my least favorite are probably the body-centered ones and then like Thrash and Thrive and that's just kind of music-based for me. I mean now obviously there's more reasons, but back then when we had what we had, which was what was what we had, I mean we knew no different than a pros only release was just as exciting as the pros only release is today. And you know went in and just reveled in the excitement of what we got and you know it was for me. I went into pros only as soon as they came out. The day they came out they were just as exciting as they are when they come out now, but for you that was a little bit different, I guess.
Marla:Oh yeah, I wasn't at pros only level, Like I wasn't even paying attention to wads at that point in my journey. I was solely picking workouts based on music and intensity level. So it wasn't for me until way later on that I started revisiting the old pros only. So the first real pros only that I was excited about getting into was Be my Ride or Die.
Julia:Yes, yes, it's confusing because there's a ride or die my ride or die Be my ride or die.
Marla:Be my ride or die.
Julia:Yes.
Marla:Exactly that was the first.
Julia:Be your Ride or Die is what it's called Be your Ride or Die.
Marla:Yes, Exactly so. There's always like these slight variations. But the pros only be your ride or die with coach Rainier was the first pros I remember being super excited about ready to get in. Got in with a friend on a party, immediately got back in, wanted to get back in again but couldn't because we were doing something else with another group of people. It was a whole thing but it kicked my butt. It kicked my butt but I remember my brain being so excited on that first song because some crazy patterns started coming in. It was just an amazing, amazing experience. And then that workout ends with ecstasy, which for me is an all-time favorite map because of the turning hits, the complexity of the spin hits, and our friend Julie calls this specific move the supernatural hand jive Because your hands are going over each other. And, oh man, I love it, I still love it, it's still good.
Julia:It's one of those moves that all of that is coming at you once and you're like, for just one moment, you're like, what do I do? But? You turn your brain off and you just let your arms do what they need to do. It figures it out and I, from the very beginning, was always like how did I just hit that?
Julia:We have that. That happens a lot, especially when we experience something for the first time in a prose. We're always like how was my brain able to do that? So we say that a lot, and that's one of those hits. Now, this workout for me. I don't know if I've ever told you this. I didn't like it. You didn't like it at all In the beginning.
Julia:I did not like this workout in the beginning. Spill the tea, spill it, I know. Well, I think it's because we got at that time some complexity. That was new, that. I was kind of like I don't, I don't know, so I had to like play it a few times. And then I left it alone for a while, but I think for me the windmills this is a very windmill Windmills were. This was the windmill workout.
Marla:This was the windmill era. If you think about it, it's when windmills really started becoming a thing and we were seeing them more often. But this prose only. They were very heavy in the whole thing, especially the first song. So you're right, yeah.
Julia:And they were different Really. There were they were in there in a couple of the songs and so I had like I used new muscles and for some reason in my brain usually I'm like, oh, I was, I'm sore and that that's. I love that and I want to go back and do that again. But for this one it was like almost a frustrating feeling for me to be sore because of the windmills and I just didn't realize. I've gone back into it now for the fun and I've changed my brain because, like I said, the pros only were what they were, Not a bad thing. I don't want to say, you know, the old pros only were bad. They weren't bad, they just were work. There were more targets.
Marla:They were work.
Julia:They were go in and work and this wasn't that it was like so different. It was the first like really fun pros only Fun. So in my brain I didn't see pros only like that. Yet I was like wait, you're supposed to get in here because pretty much all the ones before that are. You've got a million targets coming at you. Not much complexity, lots of targets.
Marla:Lots of density.
Julia:Lots of density, lots of your squatting, like I played one the other day just to review, it was the um, the absalicious, with uh, leanne, and I don't even remember the six plays I had before I played it last week it was. It was all front facing, lots of squats, lots of battle ropes. So when we got a pros only the older ones it was in my mind, okay, we're going in, we're going to the gym, we're going to do hard things. It was never.
Julia:I never associated pros only as anything that you could dance, have fun. So I think when I got in there and that happened, it was like a whole yeah.
Marla:You had to do a situation. You had to have a whole mindset shift and I know we've talked about it before on the podcast, but especially for Julia when it's new, it takes her a minute. She doesn't like it. When it's new, it does. So you were probably like why is everyone so excited about this workout? I don't get it, I don't see it. Why are y'all into it?
Marla:but it's because you were so used to the idea you had, like blinders pros only had to be get in there and do really hard work with zero fun. Because, I'm sorry, but that's really when I went and did some research, when I knew we were going to do this episode as episode 11, when I realized that I went back through the catalog and started playing all of the old prose-only flow so that I could speak to them. I had played them all before but I really didn't remember them and I agree with Julia, they are all work. Like my mind. My thoughts were taking over and I was like oh my gosh, my legs are burning.
Marla:Why are we going back down? Why are we going back up? Why are we still hitting up, down, up, down, over and over and over again, yeah, and still standing one way? However, it was a workout, it was a workout and that was the start of what pros only were, you know?
Marla:And so here comes the nerdy part of me going to come out. I am a Star Trek fan, a big Star Trek nerd, and there is an episode that is one of my all time favorite episodes. It's called the Blink of an Eye, and the starship gets stuck in the planetary orbit and time is different. So they watch a whole civilization from the Stone Age all the way up in past enlightenment, past the Space Age, all of this stuff, and it made me think about how supernatural choreography can relate to the different ages. But I only want to talk about prose. Only flow today in the ages of pros. Only flow, um, and in my mind that first workout debut all the way up to right before thrash and thrive, the pros. Only a call to arms, cause you mentioned all the body focused ones. Like there was a gluteus one, there's an abs one. Those were really intense, those were just like and no spins, no spins, Like.
Julia:now I notice it. But yeah when I go. When I went in there, I'm sure when they were released, it didn't even occur to me, but right again, I was in a different headspace of we weren't talking about choreography. Then we weren't even friends then I didn't know, we weren't right and so when these came out before we started really talking about choreography, I saw it in a completely different light.
Marla:So yeah, it's pretty interesting so I consider those, those first five pros only, right up until thrash and thrive like the bronze age of pros, only flow, because it's the invention, it's the start, it's the hey. Let's sit here and figure out what it means to be pros only. Let's get in here. And Supernatural is a workout app. So let's get in here and make them work by listening and listen to good music. Have the coaches encouraging you. You know it was the start of intense, intense workouts, right? I will be honest that I wouldn't, will not play them again. They were not enjoyable for me, and I think it's because I come in there with the lens of, you know, 2024 pros only, which is completely different.
Julia:Completely different.
Marla:Yeah, could you?
Julia:imagine having something like the last one that came out, the Fusion Fiesta, given to us just randomly in 2021 or 22, like we would have been, like what happened here. You know what I mean right, so out of place.
Julia:So the journey that pros only has gone on is it's really and if anyone here listening loves pros only, I encourage you to go on that journey. Yeah, I mean you don't have to do them all, but you know they're in under collections in order, under pros only, just yes, you know, grab a couple of them here and there and go through them and it's very interesting to see the, the changes, the evolution you can clearly see.
Marla:You know, going back and experiencing them in order, you can clearly see the evolution of pros, only you know. And so after the Bronze Age and then you go into Thrash and Thrive. Once Thrashash and thrive starts, you kind of get more spins, you get a little bit of complexity, some different new hits for the time, but again it's just super dense. It's super dense and it almost feels like you're going hard, to just go hard, which that's a workout right, yeah, yeah.
Marla:That's a workout. It is a workout. It makes my shoulders so tired. But I'm with you, I am not a fan of that genre of music. So I will do any workout, no matter the music. Yes, I'm looking at you, country. If the choreography blows my mind, yeah, and then I will learn to love the music for the choreography, or I will learn to tune out that music. But those old pros, I couldn't do that. Like I can't go into Thrash and thrive and do it without having all my thoughts take over, being distracted.
Julia:listen to the music what changes it, too, is there's some songs in thrash and thrive that have been remapped into some new pros only so you know now the potential of, yeah, what they can be versus you know again at that time that's what they were and that's what they knew. But now, what it could be versus, you know then right stark.
Marla:Yeah, it is a stark difference and it's it's cool to think about and to go back, like we suggest you should go back. If you're into pros-only workouts, go pick out a few to compare, you know, spend a week playing a few of them on different days so you don't kill your body, and just get in there and play with them because it is so interesting to watch the progression. You can clearly, clearly, clearly see it. And Bouncy Bass that one I would consider kind of Iron Age, along with Thrash and Thrive. In Bouncy Bass there are some really great foundational hits and combinations, lots of movement from portal to portal.
Julia:Yeah.
Marla:It was a little bit more interesting, for lack of a better word than previous. Pros only's, you know.
Julia:The first song, is it Collard Greens?
Marla:Yes.
Julia:So choppy and it's like is this Collard Greens? Yes, so choppy and it's like is this song ever going to end? But what made Bouncy Bass famous in the supernatural community? Because, of course, when this one came out, I played it the first day Ghost Train and I loved Ghost Train then.
Julia:I just wanted Ghost Train. We were screaming always quick hit, give us the Ghost Train and a quick hit so we could just play it, you know. So we don't have to go all the way to the end to get to it. Which the songs are good, they're pretty good in there, yeah, um, but that Ghost Train had everyone talking. But now that I've gone back and played it, I'm like ouch my arms. Insanity with all the targets coming at you.
Marla:So also, after bouncy base, the first super monster pros only came out. I love this pros only yes, with uh Rainier. It is a good. I've played it several times. It's very great for points it's like yeah, it's great for parties.
Marla:It's great for points it's like over 2 000 points for the whole workout. The music's I like most of the music, most of the songs in there. However, when I compare it to other pros, it is what makes it a pros. Only for me is that it is super high, intense for the duration from start to finish and it's a monster, so it's long.
Julia:This is one that I used for a long time to measure my endurance and measure how I was doing. You know, physically I'd be like, all right, it's time for the pros. Only super monster, and I'm gonna see if I could beat my score.
Marla:This was one that I did that with I haven't played it in so long isn't one of your all-time favorite songs and maps in this workout, and only in this workout, or am I thinking wrong?
Julia:in for the kill is my favorite song okay and you will find that in um the pros only um is it in the debut, and then the pros only light it up. Maybe I know it's in two or three, I think it's in those two pros onlies Um, but in that one my favorite um song in that one is going down for real.
Marla:It was like one of the later hardest. Yeah, yeah, isn't it on the Great Wall of China?
Julia:Look, I remember, yeah, the location.
Marla:Yeah, I remember the locations in this one, because that that map isn't in another workout and, if I remember correctly, you're always like. I wish they would have made that one into a quick hit Cause you can't find that map.
Julia:You have to go through 10 songs to get to it and we have a lot of different variations of going down for real, but the way that it is and the super monster map it is, it's really fun. Yeah, I remember it being fun yeah, and I wish we did have it other places. But yeah, it would be cool, it's the only place you got to go through all the dots to get there all the dots.
Marla:So after the super monster pros only comes underground grime. Now I'm going. I'm going to be transparent. I have only played this once and I didn't finish. It Isn't didn't I partial out of it? Didn't we play together and I was like I can't, I can't we played it together because it's one of my.
Julia:it's one of my older favorites and I love underground grime, if I could say it right, because of the song hype.
Marla:Oh, okay.
Julia:And I don't know where the song is. It's been nowhere else in Supernatural but I love. There's something about that song and the mapping in it that just gets me seriously hype. But yeah, we partialed out of the last song and I think the last song is is longer and it just kind of goes on and you're like so done.
Marla:It's like, yeah, I can't do this anymore, I gotta go. Thank you.
Julia:Yeah, and I think what hurts sometimes is when Leanne's like we're halfway through and you're like, okay, that felt like a whole song's worth. We still have a whole half of a song Just to find out that, yeah, it's not over yet. It's a tough one. But I would say, to be honest, on Underground Grime it was also a very popular one in the community because not all of the songs I think it was a little bit of a step down, like I would. I feel like hype definitely be a high flow map in today's maps. Yeah, um, a lot of the maps in the older ones I mean you could say that about a lot of them they are definitely not on the level of pros that we have today.
Marla:Um, yeah, this gave me a thought about. Something that I've wanted to also talk about on the podcast and I think this is relevant in this episode Is how you and I categorize intensity. So obviously we all know there's lows, mediums, highs, pros, but Julie and I often say a low plus or a medium plus, and I think it's only natural that the intensity sort of evolve over time. Like so you were talking about the first pros only and now we go back and we're like, oh, that's kind of like a high now in today's standards. But like you, you've been here for three plus years I'm coming up on my three-year anniversary. Could you imagine if we were still doing pros only at that intensity level in comparison to what comes out now? Because I feel like we've grown and we've evolved with supernatural. We have and we're learning and we can keep up with these complex patterns and movements.
Marla:We still need to be challenged.
Julia:Yeah, yeah.
Marla:And I get that new users join all the time and people needs to be inclusive for everyone at every athletic you know, whatever their athletic ability is. But the best way to do it is to train.
Julia:Yep, you're right. We preach about some training. Yep, you're right. We preach about some training. Yeah, we do.
Marla:We do, yeah, and I mean I spent. I spent months on the lower intensities. So you know people who come in and complain about the news pro new, pro onlys being too complex, too hard, how do you keep your, you know, how do you keep your um, your body safe? How are you doing them properly? Will you train? I wouldn't expect you to be able to come in and do a pros only if you're only on a medium right you know um you got to progress and progress and work on it anyway.
Julia:Well, I mean, you know you could go into a pros only if you want your medium to feel easier. This is very true. This is very true. If you're struggling to get to high, just go into pros only, and then bounce back to high, you'll be good and seriously that is a good way to move up. But I mean go in and have fun, but it's true because the high will feel very slowed down.
Julia:Anyway, anyway, topic topic. I think that it's good that supernatural is always giving us more and challenging us, like you said, because we need that, because we would get stagnant. I believe if we just kept doing the same over and over.
Marla:For sure I would. I would definitely, definitely get stagnant. But after underground, underground grime, why can we not say that you went country on me?
Julia:I did Underground grime.
Marla:The next workout is pros, only power up. It's only 15 minutes. I always mistake that, for a quick hit is not a quick hit. I don't know if songs have been removed.
Julia:A song was removed, I believe. And I could be wrong on that, but I do think that it had. I do think it was longer. This one was very popular and, forgive me, I don't have the song list pulled up in front of me of what songs were on this one, but the Power Glove song was the popular one on this and it has a really fast side.
Julia:you know a hit that comes at you, that you just you get it somehow. It's another one of those like how did I just do that and you like get the biggest sense of accomplishment? Um, but it was also very popular workout when that came out too.
Marla:So yeah, that was um, wow, that was April 2022. That, that workout came out. Wow. So right after that workout and I promise we won't stay here too too long. Just say it and go. Just say it and go, move, go say it really fast it and go, just say it and go, move, go, say it really fast. What is it? May 17th of 2022. The history of pros only is going to change on this day a pivotal day.
Julia:It is a very pivotal day. It is very pivotal that day was filled with a lot of emotion.
Marla:Yes, for a lot of people, for a lot of people, and it would be welcome to the madhouse.
Julia:Welcome to the madhouse.
Marla:Yes, wow, the very first in the series came out that day in May 2022. So it's not that long ago. But when you look at this graphic of all of the pros only workouts, you realize it's right in the middle. Everything is about to change after this. Everything is going to change. Um, I would consider this the first workout in the gunpowder age. If we were comparing the ages of choreography, that's where this happened, because for the time it was so into, people thought it was a joke, right yeah, yeah people thought it was a joke.
Marla:I didn't do it. The day it came out I was not there in pros only land. My love affair with pros only had not started yet.
Julia:So, when you saw it, what did you feel? Did you do you remember?
Marla:I remember being excited for all the people who were at that level and thinking that's crazy. I hate that music. I'm not playing it. Y'all have fun.
Julia:It never even occurred to you to just like well, I'll just go on the first song and like get out real quick if I feel like that's crazy. To me that's crazy. I remember being filled with fear as I pushed start and I mean obviously we can't talk about it too much, man, we can't talk about it too much. But there was Mark. You know how he was dressed right it was. It was like what is happening and it was pivotal in the community.
Marla:I remember it was welcome to the madhouse taking over my feed in the supernatural community group. Forever like forever, that's all everyone was talking about, and so it was so exciting because it was the hardest workout in the library to date. When it came out, it is still hard, it is super dense. That was the start of some complex drum roll patterns. Yes, and that was the start of our drum roll muscles.
Julia:I was going to say we found our biceps that day yes, we did the next day, we could not. Well, you didn't do it, but the day after you did it for the first time. But that day, the next day, I don't remember. I should have gone back and looked at this too, like I know I did it on the first day, but did I just do it once? Did I do it once? Did I do it more? Did I do it twice? I don't remember.
Julia:I have to go back and look now because I've sparked my own interest but right the next day the arms were like we're taking motrin, we're sore all in our upper body. We needed help. But I don't think and we'll touch on this, um, when we have an episode just for it, for itself. But if Mark would not, did not get on there and I think I've said this before and make his video on the community and say look, you guys just get in there and have fun. This is just fun, which you know. Down the road, you know somebody wants to make a hundred percent accuracy club. We're like, ooh, 100% accuracy.
Marla:And that line drove me crazy, because I was like no, no, I'm in here for a reason, yes, to have fun, but I need to hit every single target. Stop telling me to chill out.
Julia:Yeah, and this is the only one that I have not gotten 100 on other than the. Madhouse Monster. Yeah, I've still not gotten 100 on Welcome, like one target away.
Marla:What's your nemesis song?
Julia:The Trooper.
Marla:The Trooper was my nemesis song too. In fact, I cannot tell you how many times I have gone to multiple chats calling the Trooper an a-hole. I have gone to multiple chats calling the trooper an a-hole because it stopped me from getting 100% multiple times. I did finally conquer and I burned that madhouse down.
Julia:You did.
Marla:It is my least favorite of the madhouses.
Julia:But I think that it did make me appreciate Tornado of Souls For sure. You know I had a real hate for that one because it was the last one. It was so long, it was so hard, it was really complex at that time. Yes, I mean it still is complex, it's my favorite, it was a real tornado, and now I just want to do Tornado of Souls, like in the quick hit. We got Spoiler alert, I want tornado of souls in that.
Marla:One of my all-time favorite supernatural quotes is found in tornado of souls. And we promised each other we would not get stuck on madhouses during this episode because we have we plan to dedicate some episodes to my house.
Marla:We could seriously talk about it forever, but anyway we will put up Mark's quote here just so you can read it. We won't play it. You can read it If you're on YouTube. It's one of the best. It has made the most impact. I recall it in my memory when I'm doing hard things and during that song it's at a pivotal point where you could easily get lost in the choreography and get missed targets or bonk targets or want to give up. But that when he says you reach inside yourself, I seriously reach inside myself and it gives me a second wind and I'm like I'm gonna burn this madhouse down. Here go 100, let's go um celine dion's here no, celine dion's here for sure.
Marla:So, anyway, I would say that, yes, that that would be the start of the gunpowder age, because experimentation is happening.
Julia:Yes.
Marla:Huge experimentation is starting to happen in prose only land.
Julia:And we didn't know if we would get any more. We did not Like you said.
Marla:We thought it was sort of a joke, it was like a one and done type thing, never thought that we'd see anything like that, because supernatural is always surprising us, you know Right.
Marla:And then right after that it wasn't even like a month, it was like, well, okay, so it was a month. It came out in august. So it was a few months later, my bad. A few months later, in august, we got the pros only be your ride or die that we talked about earlier, and we started to see some more complexity within the choreography in this set.
Julia:Oh, man, unfortunately there's a song that's been removed from this one, but yeah, it's still fun, it is fun.
Marla:I remember numb. I still love numb and I still love cola. There are so many I love this whole set. This was the first pros only where the music spoke to me. I was like, oh yes, I want to do this simply for the music. You've got me hooked. Yeah, I don't really like pros, only they kick my butts. Um, I at that point I had not been training for pros, I was only doing highs Right. So to get in there and do it more than once on the first day that it came out was a big deal for me. So I personally did be a ride or die before I ever did welcome to the madhouse. It wasn't until after I did or forget the madhouse that I ever went back and did welcome.
Julia:Okay, yeah, interesting, you did them out of order.
Marla:I didn't do them out of order.
Julia:Some bad voodoo might come to you, ma'am. No, I've corrected it. I've corrected it now.
Marla:There is no more. Nope, nope, nope. I've corrected it.
Julia:Look what's next. Skip, we actually did joke before we started this episode that we were going to like put words over the prose on leaves. That said do not talk about, do not look at, do not just glaze on over. But what's next, Marla?
Marla:Forget the madhouse.
Julia:And we were like oh, another madhouse.
Marla:Yes, ooh, and I did that one the day it came out.
Julia:This one has feelings. This one has feelings. Oh, you did this one the day it came out.
Marla:I did this one super well, hold on. I did this one super early in the morning, oh, that's right. And then Julia woke up. This was before we had our tradition. That's not until after this one that we had our tradition. Um, and I made a post in the community. I remember I made a post telling people to go do it. I had the worst but best power score you could ever imagine, as expected, in a madhouse.
Marla:I had no feelings about the score. I was just happy I made it out alive. It was huge. That was the first time I was like excited for a madhouse, because I wasn't very excited for Welcome. But then I played it again with you a few hours later and we played it together. I got to be in the headset with you to experience your first play. We recorded our audio and our gameplay and synced those together. So we have that for Prosperity, which was awesome because you were hilarious during the whole thing to hear your first impressions. And then, after we did that, we decided from that point on, every new pros only we would do together because we just enjoyed the experience so much. Just me hearing you, even though I had already played it. You know it was just great.
Julia:It was amazing. We had to experience them together from then on, and we have. We have.
Marla:And so you said we have some feelings about forget the madhouse. What are those feelings?
Julia:julia. Well, our, the first song is no longer with us. It's an outer space somewhere. Now listen. Now listen as of Saturday, this past Saturday we had this song again that came out in a new high intensity workout. And that sparked a lot of hi. Can we have our song back please? Yes, I don't know how these things work, OK. I don't work at Supernatural.
Marla:If I did, I'd be like hit the button, Put it back in the workout, please.
Julia:Our corkscrews, our spins, the movement. I am so thankful that you and I have gameplay. A recording, yes, of us side by side of this song together, right.
Marla:And the song is for reference. Maybe people don't know that this used to be in Forget the Madhouse.
Marla:It was the first song. It's queen of the stone age, the lost art of keeping a secret, and it was so fun, it was the best way. I can even just hear it. It was the best way, yes, best first song. Actually there is a warm-up song in Forget the Madhouse. It's so good. If you've never, if you always skip the warm-up, please don't, shame on you. Please don't the next time you play Forget the Madhouse, because the warm-up song is so fun, it gets you ready. It really does get you ready. And then you would go from the warm up song to the lost art of community secret.
Julia:Now, that's just not so the whole experience yeah, but I do like the nine inch nail song it's not a first song on there. Every time I play it we never call it that, we call it the second song we do, even though technically it is now the first song um I will also say, though, that this one I got way more excited for um than the the welcome.
Marla:Well, yeah, because you knew you, you had played welcome already now yes and so you're like, oh, they got a second one. How crazy is it going to be? Now, right, what new is going to come from this?
Julia:In getting in, going in and trying to get the 100% accuracy. I also learned to love the last song in this one as well.
Marla:So it's funny that you say that, because when we went, we went on our 100 accuracy missions and we're super focused on getting them. On all of the madhouses, um, I had to learn to love the last song too, and there are a couple parts in the last song or forget the madhouse that are still, to this day, super complex and like my brain is like what? And if I haven't played it for a while and I go back and play it, I miss so many targets. I'm like how did I even get 100% on this and I've gotten 100% on it a couple of times because we've played it for lots of events and lots of things but that last song I remember the day that workout came out the very first time I played it. My mind was completely blown by that last song.
Marla:I was just like how can they do something cooler than this ever Like this is so cool. But then the next workout that came out after Forget the Madhouse totally changed the game. Totally changed the game, and I would consider this the Enlightenment age. You know, the fundamental groundwork has been laid from all the other previous pros only, and this is when new discovery, new things are happening, and it starts with bring down the house.
Julia:It does.
Marla:Specifically Alani, which we mentioned earlier, Because what happens in Alani?
Julia:Alani, that's the happy feet. That is the happy feet. It's like the Marla move.
Marla:I call every time any three portal magic stuff, multi lane stuff starts happening in complexity and there's targets just coming at you from multiple lanes. I'm just in the happiest that I could ever be. I legit have my feet going. I'm jumping up and down. I have the biggest smile on my face every single time.
Julia:To listen to you experience this, alana, for the first time, which I was blown away too. I don't want anybody to think that I was just over here like, okay, this is whatever it was amazing. But to hear Marla experience Alana was the same as Marla. Hearing me experience seven deadly sins and the St Patrick's day workout. So I it was just so really cool to hear you be that excited Like you were. Like I can't even talk right now.
Marla:I wanted to quit the workout and start again, like I didn't even want to finish the rest to know what was happening next. I wanted to quit and go right back to Alana. So when we were given a quick hit, it was like my birthday that day. I remember being so excited that they put Alana as the first song, because it is so pivotal in the history of pros only workouts. Before that there were no multi-lane things, right, and so this opened a whole new world for pros only workouts. Before that, there were no multi-lane things, and so this opened a whole new world for pros only workouts, which have started trickling into the other intensities, but for pros only land, as I like to call it. This is huge. This is huge. This started a whole new era, a whole new age of what prose only can be. It's really neat to think about, especially if you go back and play the very first and compare it to freaking Bring Down the House. Man. Bring Down the House is still a favorite of mine, always and forever, I'm telling you.
Julia:So good, mine too, and that last song source. I think that one was the hardest one for me to figure out, um, and I have gotten a hundred percent a few times on this workout, but that's not what we're focusing on today, but anyway, that one for me was the most mentally challenging, but I still had fun in it, like I still had to go back and do that one over. So I kind of, I kind of wish that Source was in the quick hit.
Marla:Same Alanae and Source would be my I love Unstoppable too.
Julia:You know, I love Unstoppable too, so. I'm just so thankful Alanae is in there.
Marla:There are some hits in Source that do not appear in any other workout, very true, so it's unique in that sense. So to have it in a quick hit would be really cool. Would be cool In my opinion.
Julia:We already got our chance.
Marla:We did.
Julia:I mean they can make new quick hits. Make a new like a quick hit too for Bring Down the House Well that's, there's only five quick hits.
Marla:There's 21 pros, only flows. So in my mind you could go and make lots of quick hits. It would pacify some of us who want pros only every week.
Julia:They would have to get creative, obviously, but hey, I'm game.
Marla:Right. I mean, there's lots of songs in the pros only that could be made, that could be taken, and but we don't. We don't know about licensing. I'm sure there's some sort of weird rules, I don't know how that works. But if they could, I'd like to think if they could give us more pros, only quick hits, it would be done, deal.
Julia:We would already have them.
Marla:So after bring down the house, we were gifted just not even a month later. It was exactly like short two days of a month.
Marla:Yeah, spoiled, so we were not expecting yeah, we were not expecting it in this alone, which was just so good, so different for the time. Um, man, we've played that workout so many times and it's funny because if we play bring down the house, we automatically want to go play, not in this alone. Or if we go play not in this alone, I'm like let, because if we play bring down the house, we automatically want to go play, not in this alone. Or if we go play not in this alone, I'm like let's go play, bring down the house.
Julia:It's like those two workouts are almost like married to each other, I agree. And they just go hand in hand.
Marla:They really do. You could just smash it all together into a person's sandwich and make us a monster. Make us a monster and put this together.
Julia:We can make our own and do that, but we can't. But we want supernatural to just do it for us. Stick it all in there together.
Marla:The first two songs are like very lower body center yes, for sure squatting and side to side and in fact, I miss triangles in the second song of that workout so often it's the only time I miss anything nowadays in a pros only is the triangles. I need to go through triangle training apparently.
Julia:Triangle training for Marla. You can document it for the podcast.
Marla:We do need to explain that one day triangle training.
Julia:We will I am shaking my whole place. They're going to think I've got an earthquake going on.
Marla:I'm so excited. Oh no, careful, I love pros only I know.
Julia:Well, I'm leaning with my phone because you know we're referencing today and I'm just all my excitement is probably going to be in my video today.
Marla:So if I so going to, not in this alone. For me, the later three songs in that workout are my favorite. So you've got solo right.
Julia:Yeah, solo, you have daisies daisies solo and then alone alone.
Marla:And each one of those has, yeah, some cool moves. But, like for me, daisies are the cross, cross, uh body ones inside the triangles and you go over and over again. I love that and the movement of the triangles, how it gets you to move, um, but dude it, it's alone. For me, the very last song gets me in my fields. It has three portal magic. Um, it has very flowy hits where you can relax and hold your arm up waiting for the next target. Oh man, it's got everything I want in a map.
Julia:There's. There's a lot of drama. I mean, yes, and it has a lot of base in it, but and I live for some bass but the drama in that last song I think that the alone was um, wait a minute. Solo was very popular because when you spin around, not the last song with a song before, it had a really slow sequence but so many targets were coming at you from so many different places yes that a lot of people were like and and Juana tells you like, turn off your brain.
Julia:Yep and just, and and then that part. That is one of the parts in a prose that I look at the white target and I'm like, okay, focus on the, the white target, but that I love the part where we spin around to the back and there's all of the slow targets. But it's the complexity of all that we see in that workout is so good.
Marla:It is a really, really great workout. And then and then, we were gifted, not even a month later, exactly one month later, to my all time favorite workout.
Julia:We all know we all know because I talk about it.
Marla:Yes, it's my all time favorite workout. I have a huge connection to this workout. Um, in my mind, this is the workout of all workouts. Yes, there are workouts that have come out since then that are a better choreography. Okay, okay, okay, I will admit that, but this is my workout.
Julia:This one has so much meaning to you it does, and it is return to the madhouse. You've spent a lot of time with this workout, Marla.
Marla:You've spent a lot of time. You could Marla.
Julia:You've spent a lot of time. You could probably do this workout with your eyes closed.
Marla:Yes.
Julia:Because I mean you are like almost up to 100 plays.
Marla:Yes, I am almost up to 100 plays short, maybe 10 or 15 of that I will get this one.
Marla:This will be my madhouse that I get to 100 first. I spent a lot of time in her. She is a her. The madhouses are hers in my brain. I don't know what the real people are like what. Why are you I, you know giving this workout an identity? It has an identity. That's how much time I've spent in there. Um, it was the first pros only to have knee strikes. Only two songs have knee strikes, but they feel perfectly intuitive.
Julia:They're some of my favorites. I say the psychosocial knee strikes.
Marla:Yes.
Julia:Are some of my favorite knee strikes.
Marla:They absolutely are. And again, we're not going to spend a whole lot of time here. I know, I know. I just want to touch on the fact that you know we are still in enlightenment age in my mind when it comes to pros only workouts. You know, the ground was built. Now it's time to innovate, and return to the madhouse is the definition of innovate. You've got insane, which takes three, three portal magic even to the next level, way to the next level, insane is so beautiful, so moving, intense, complex.
Marla:It's got everything you would ever want.
Julia:Um then after that all of them have they do that drama in them they do but the last two songs I always joke. It's like you're like by insane.
Marla:You're like, okay, I got this right, and then it's like finish them it is because when sudden death comes on, oh yeah, and the drama at the beginning of sudden, because you're like, okay, this isn't bad, we got this, we got this. And then you smack down that first joy ball and you're like, all right, I got it, I'm going to do it. And then just suddenly targets are coming out of every portal in front of you and drum roll. Oh, I love sudden death.
Julia:Sudden death is good, and it was, at that time, the hardest.
Marla:It was.
Julia:I mean it was the hardest thing we'd ever encountered Mind-blowingly for me, but Psychosocial because of the length of the song and how hard I go in. Psychosocial is other than I don't know one of the songs in the first Mad Houses, but Black Metal made me feel like I was going to be sick.
Julia:But Psychosocial. I go hard in that song and by the end of it I have to pause and take a couple of breaths because I almost have to make myself sick in that one. But Sudden Death, I don't. Sudden Death is like a rhythmic oh is about this. There's just knowing the music, the songs, the beat. It's just a rhythmic dance of I don't know.
Marla:It's like a moving meditation it's, it is it is so man, we could talk about that we really could, but we'll save that for another episode. So, after that one, after that one, we got so many pros only in 23. Oh man, we got so many pros that we were so spoiled. Okay, so then we move on to June of 2023, right, this? I just realized. Pros only J-K-Pop was released on my daughter's birthday. Oh, that's funny you didn't realize that until now.
Marla:I guess I didn't realize that, until now. I mean, I knew that day, obviously, but yeah, yeah, that's on her birthday. Anyway, this one is so fun. This one is, I believe, is so different, yes, so different. And I debated starting this in its own new age because I thought things were different now. Things were starting to change into more fun. However, I kept it in enlightenment age because we're still innovating, we're still moving forward, we're still changing, and JK Pop did that. That was so fun.
Marla:First of all, you've got, okay, we're going to butcher this. So everyone, all you Blackpink fans, don't come for us, but do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. See, I can't even Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do. That's how I say it. Whatever that song, that song, on first glance, when you first start playing it, you're like this is not intense, like are we in our pros. Only it's got some complexity. But the complexity really starts in the triangle movement. Okay, if you try and do, if you're doing this workout and you're moving with the triangles, doing the lunges, doing the body rolls, doing the two steps, doing the squats, you are going to max out your heart rate. And this comes before you're even hitting any targets, for sure. But the targets this was the first of the pros only where I felt like I was doing a dance and in fact jessa posted a video that day with no gameplay, with her just imposed on this on the music video. When you're like hold on a second, hold on are they just moving with them?
Marla:did the choreographer make this according to the dance? Because they really did. I believe they did and they had to have. When you see jess's video, and then if you go watch the music video for that song, dude, it's so cool marla you know what's funny about that first song?
Julia:Hmm, there's black, pink joy balls.
Marla:There are twice. Yes, so I think this was when you started really paying attention to the intention of the joy balls. And if it went somewhere with the song or the like, the lyrics, or because that happens often, but if you're not, like super, paying attention to it, I could see how it just like oh, I didn't know that.
Julia:Six months later.
Marla:Julia had a light bulb moment. It was great. It was great. I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, julia, yeah, I tried really hard not to make you feel bad.
Julia:Bless my heart, you can say it. I just wasn't paying attention. I was having a good time.
Marla:I wasn't paying attention so the next on the list and this one was just like two months later. Wow, we are so spoiled. In 2023, yeah, pros, only go big or go home. This is the one that has free bird, and this free bird is different than the free bird in the high flow that had come out months prior.
Marla:Workout takes all of the moves that started at the beginning of the Enlightenment age, three-quarter magic. You know the multi-lane work, the complexity of drum rolls. It takes all of that plus the movement of the triangles. It merges, starts to merge it into one pros only workout. Is it as intense as a madhouse? No, but we've already established, madhouses are in their own pros plus level. But when it comes to pros only man, this workout. It tests your endurance, it tests complexity. It also has moments of a lot of density. Right, it's everything you could want in a pros only workout. In fact, now I want to go do that workout because I've it's been a minute since I've done it's been a while it for me.
Julia:I remember the second song. I wish I had the songs in front of me, but I didn't know that song.
Marla:But when I worked out with you I was like I don't know this song, but something about the choreography made me feel like I knew the song I remember that you sang like I don't know the song, but I feel like I know this song, and I thought that was very interesting when you said that, because I was like yeah, like I mean, I know the song. All of the songs on that playlist is music I grew up with with my dad. So this workout gives me a lot of feels because I think of my dad when I'm doing it and it makes me naturally want to sing along and get into it because I think of my dad. So, but this workout wow.
Julia:And I remember that because you were singing the song and I'm like Marla, how do you know? This song I don't know this song.
Marla:But I felt like the very first song and we have a community side by side with this. I was going to say I think this is the first pros only, but it's not. We did the first community pros only. That we did was gang mom style, gang gang I'm style. Yeah, I believe. Okay, so anyway our first.
Julia:Yeah, we, we didn't mention it because I do want to make sure we give it the light, because I I do want to put it up on the screen. Um, we did our first side-by-side comparison to a medium flow and a prose only flow of gam style. So, yes, it was really cool to see that well, the, that is something close to my heart the comparisons, because I love comparisons, so we did that the first time as a as a big group, yeah it was really cool to put together.
Julia:But anyway, moving on to, we did the first song in this, pros only.
Marla:And what I love about the first song is it just comes right out the gate hey, we're going to go complex, we're going to go hard. It's going to be a short song. This is going to set the tone for the rest of the workout and I absolutely loved it. I can't tell you how many times I go into that and just play around the bend because it's so fun. The complexity in it. If you need to like warm up your brain and your body to go into workouts that have a lot more complexity, like the one we're going to talk about in a minute, the first song in Go Big or Go Home is great. For that, this is a great I know you're like Marla, you're insane. This is a great pros only warmup, and I mean for, like, pros only plus workouts, which would be, you know, the next workout we're going to talk about in line, which is what oh, my favorite this one is my favorite workout madhouse monster, which you want to rename the madhouse monster.
Julia:It is sadly yes the last madhouse in the series. But yes, we will get to that in another episode.
Marla:It deserves the title of the Madhouse Monster.
Julia:You look at it, by now you know what a madhouse is.
Marla:Yes.
Julia:If you've been around Supernatural long enough, I mean, if you stumble across this and you do this in your first week. I am so sorry. Oh man, Could you?
Marla:imagine, I don't know. Yeah, oh man, could you imagine.
Julia:Yeah, oh man, could you imagine Well, you know, but oh, this workout, this one, you know, marla and I do them all together for the first time we had to wait on this one, and I think we've told this story and we'll tell it more, but we waited almost a week to play this together, this workout, and you know we have the skip feature now. I can't skip any of these songs there's not, I also.
Julia:I will not partial this workout. I've played it, I believe, 15 or so plus times. It's a favorite. It goes by so fast. You see 44 minutes and you're like, no, no, not today, it's good to play alone. It goes by fast alone. It goes by even faster in a party. It has so many amazing moments. Every single song has something in it that just well, and it's also since it's the last.
Marla:It has so many amazing tie-ins to all of the madhouses before it and, fun fact, no one in the community that I know of yet, and I stalk the page. The page is trying to find them, has gotten 100% accuracy on the Madhouse Monster. So, if that's on your radar, I have this weird psychological thing where I'm not really trying to get 100% accuracy on the monster because it's the last one and it sounds so final and it makes me sad and yeah and you're savoring it. I am savoring it.
Julia:It will, if it happens, eventually, one day, amazing, I will pat myself on the back, but I'm not going to go psycho for it, like I did all the other ones searching for it it'll happen one day, and just this random, like my return did you know, and you know, speaking on training, because you've got to train to do this one, I'm sorry but if you go just into it and you do it, good for you, but um, we had your face you're like no yeah, we did return a lot for a competition, like we were doing that one like twice a week.
Julia:It felt like um, training helps because by the end of that week I was down to to missing one target at the end, which is infuriating. I had already gotten my 100 but still getting 100 on on return. I know we went backwards to return anyway. Mad 100% on that. I cried when I got 100% on return. So did you. But Madhouse Monster, I would probably collapse to the floor.
Marla:Oh, you would have to. It would take everything mentally and physically out of you. So madhouses were never made for crazy people to go and try and get 100% accuracies or diamonds on power scores. It's meant to be a super challenge and for me, that's why I got focused on trying to get 100% accuracy. I was in a lull and feeling unchallenged and unmotivated and this got me in the headset and it gave me the push I needed to push myself. Now again, these were never made to do that, but you know, here we are, we have done it.
Marla:So give us harder things, give harder ones, please.
Julia:I have gotten 100 on every song but two yeah, not consecutively, obviously yeah but the monster, the monster.
Marla:I won't even name her, so we don't have to say it but the monster um deserves a special place in history. It deserves a special place in my heart. Um deserves a special place in my heart. It is the final of that series.
Julia:Yeah.
Marla:The positive to it is and I can hope it will open up an opportunity for new series down the road.
Julia:Yes.
Marla:That's equally as hard, but different, different genre of music, you know. Give me an EDM one, a rap one.
Julia:I'm there.
Marla:I'll be honest, I'll be there for any pros only because this is what my brain and body crave the most.
Marla:Um, I would personally still consider the monster a part of the enlightenment age. I could be wrong. Maybe other members of the community after they go and do a deep dive and start thinking about it the way that I think about it, maybe they'll say it's different. It's different. I still consider the madhouse monster in the enlightenment age because they're still innovating. You know they're still innovating. You know they're still creating. It has laid some new foundational work for, like the next pros. Only that came out. That's a pros. Only it's a hidden pros. Only is what I'm going to call it.
Marla:It is because it doesn't say pros only in the title, but if you read the description it is there people, so many people so many people pranked by this workout yes, no joke. Metallica artist series hi which is a pros, only if you read the fine prints.
Julia:So many people have gotten pranked in my, this one's in my top five.
Marla:I know it is you, during our bracket went if possibility that Metallica Artist Series High went up against Return to the Madhouse. You were going to pick Metallica. I know it and I get it. I get it. It has great choreo. There is an epic. How many we've counted it? I think it was nine times Nine, during the very last song, where five portals open up in front of you. And targets are coming out of all five portals. It's five portal magic Nine times. Yes, nine times.
Julia:Yes.
Marla:We've counted it in a party um man but such a journey takes you on it's such a journey, without bring down the house, that wouldn't have been possible it's very true.
Julia:That's very true because the first time we got the three portals and the first time we got the five portals, which was in freebird- it was in freebird.
Marla:It was a very, very dramatic moment. It happened for a moment we did, scream we it happens for a moment, but our targets coming out of all five of them at once?
Marla:and crossing play it, we do it has been a while since we played that one, because when I was doing research for this, I'm like I've played all the new school, all the new pros only so many times. I don't need a refresher on those, I just need to go back to the old ones. But now, look, yeah, I want to go play this one. This one's getting bumped up in our list for this week for sure. Metallica though. Wow, the complexity.
Julia:I feel like Metallica's songs I'm not going to say they don't flow as well, but there's something different in each one that's like each one. I could definitely compartmentalize where the madhouse monster. I feel like all is cohesive and it builds. I don't know if this is making sense, but metallica, like each song, is just so vastly different it's its own journey.
Marla:It's its own like mini workout within a workout, almost because I get that vibe. I'm not a metallica fan. Don't come at me, metallica lovers, I'm not either and this choreography, is it just? And this is why I feel like you and I are different than the majority of supernatural users, because if the choreography is good, we will. We will adapt to music that we don't enjoy. Back when I first started this journey, I couldn't have said that I was only in it for the music.
Julia:I was only in it. I would agree with that.
Marla:Yeah, you know I liked the movements. Some movements I liked more than others, but I never really introspected or thought about why I liked some workouts more than others. It wasn't until much later on in my journey until, you know, you and I started working out. We started talking about some of these things just candidly during workouts.
Marla:Wouldn't be the whole workout, but we would just mention it and it was like oh we kind of fed off of each other in learning about choreography and paying attention to it, um, which is so fun, so fun for us there were that we definitely liked and knew we liked, for sure, but to put it kind of just to, to put it all together.
Julia:When we were together, we fed, we fed off each other all the time.
Marla:Yeah, we did A hundred percent, and there's a podcast now we are. But Metallica is a perfect example of how we are willing to look past the music for the movement, for the innovation, for what our bodies and our brains can do. Right, yeah, I would never have thought never thought I would like metallica.
Julia:A month later, exactly a month later I didn't even realize it was exactly a month later we go into a whole new age the space age.
Marla:I consider it the space age and what workout is it?
Julia:space age. And what workout is it? Fusion fiesta, this one, oh man, with the skull head and the. We have talked about this in depth on another episode, but this workout this workout, man.
Marla:This is unlike any of the workouts before it, and that's why I believe it starts a whole new age for choreography.
Julia:Because, it's the most danciest of dance. It is.
Marla:The movement. Yeah, movement, listen, if you took, out all the targets and only had those triangles, that would still be a high intensity workout. It would still be fun.
Julia:Yeah.
Marla:The complexity of those triangles. You are doing dance moves. You can't tell me different.
Julia:You were dancing. This one was so hard for me I don't think I've gotten out of a prose, even a madhouse and was gasping the way.
Marla:I was out of this workout.
Julia:I was like am I okay? Have I, should we have trained for this in some type of way? Like what just happened to us, like we were both. We are in great physical shape.
Marla:We have great, we had to sit down. We wanted to go right back into it, but we needed a minute to catch our breath. Didn't we pause after almost every single song? Every single song, because we were so into it, we were so into it, so into it, and it was man. Our heads sprung. Lasso's repeated over and over again.
Julia:But the leg lift.
Marla:I have been dreaming of leg lifts with targets. Your brain broke. You're like Marla. How are you doing this? What are we doing? That first play? I was like I don't know. But I've been dreaming about this moment my whole life, like we're here. We're here. The complexity of the fast feet with the targets, the range of motion, targets outside of the triangles. Oh man, this is the new era of pros. Only I feel like we're going to start seeing more intensity and movement. Now. My dream is for Supernatural to figure out a way to get us to move forward and backwards with the triangles, not just side to side. I know that I do that already, intuitively. I just make my own stuff up and go forward and backwards and side to side. But I dream of seeing how Supernatural could incorporate that into choreography. And I don't have an answer. I don't have a suggestion that's not my wheelhouse. Like how can you visually, right, how can you visually represent this with triangles and movement? Go for it, I don't know. Y'all that's for you.
Julia:That's on you, but I feel like Right.
Marla:But I feel like Fusion Fiesta opens the door to some really new cool movement in our future when it comes to pros only.
Julia:Oh yeah.
Marla:I hope, I hope.
Julia:I hope so too.
Marla:Because we're ready.
Julia:It has to be the right music you know, to make you dance, but it is always very interesting and you know, I just realized I don't really think about the next one.
Marla:I don't.
Julia:I really don't, because I guess we have no clue. I mean, you could dream yeah about what could be next, but well, I have things about choreography it's very true. That's very true. You have some vivid dreams. You're like I really do. I'm gonna hit this target. I'm gonna push you off the.
Marla:Yes, I have sent a few voice messages from time to time about my vivid choreography dreams and I have hit push, push a few people off the ledge.
Julia:Wow, I guess we had didn't have a good day yesterday, did we?
Marla:Oh man, oh no but yes, the future. I do give it a little bit of thought about the future.
Julia:But I'll tell you, we have hopes and dreams of what we want.
Marla:But the thing is, our hopes and dreams, our hopes and dreams, what we're given through these ages that we've been talking about since. Welcome to the Madhouse. That's the start of total innovation for pros. Only in my mind. I could never have dreamed up all the things that we've gotten already. So in my mind, what I dream up, we we get given even better, you know. So, wow, I can't imagine.
Julia:There's some, some of the older pros workouts that I would. I think it would be cool for them to go and remap, like in For the Kill. You know, know, that's one of my favorites. It would be interesting and I love the choreography in that, but it's more of a high intensity level and so I would love to see a prose furnishing like, keep, keep some of the stuff I like in it.
Julia:Give me a call, I'll tell you what I like. But you know I want to. I would love to see a 2.0 of some of the older ones.
Marla:Well, that's interesting because I was thinking for a second. I was like, oh, I would love that, but at the same time I don't want to see those older ones altered. So when you say 2.0, I agree with that. Like, leave the old versions in there, because that's a part of history, that's part of supernatural, it's part of our experience. Don't change the old ones, don't change. No, we I know we talk about, okay, that's bronze age court, but it's never meant to be negative. You know, this is where yeah, it's the foundation. I still want it in the library. I still want to be that clear as not to offend anyone, anyone. Yeah, but having a 2.0 series like pros only, party 2.0, that would be so cool. To see Centipede I want to see Centipede made in a pros only.
Julia:I have dreams about Centipede made in a pros only. We have a bunch of songs we want in a pros prose only but. I would love to see a 2.0 of a lot of my favorite, even high intensities yeah um with with some of the newer, more evolved mapping and yeah, there's so many songs now.
Julia:But it's like what could it be? What could it be? You know what? What more could be done to this to make it even more? You know I love it now. How can you know what more could be done to this to make it even more? You know I love it now. How could you know how could I love it more?
Marla:Right.
Julia:Just experience, but yeah, and it's the comparison loving heart in me that wants to make it a comparison video of the old versus new, and I do have a lot of those, but yeah, well, we made it through all of them. We did and we didn't get through all of them.
Marla:We did and we didn't get too hyper fixated on the houses, but that goes to show. Obviously the madhouses are pivotal in the pros only progression, the journey, the ages. I feel like without the madhouses we wouldn't have seen the innovation that we have in the pros only category. And now that you know, part of me is really nervous now that the madhouse is over with the madhouse monster, you know how, what's?
Marla:next. What's next? Yeah, because for so long that was, for me in my mind, the standard. You can't beat this when it comes to choreography. I know a lot of people are like oh, those madhouses are just too crazy and intense. You guys are insane, but that's what we want. The insane We've been doing this a long time. We work out in Supernatural daily. We do all intensity levels, but there's something so special about prose-only flows and maybe we're just a small minority of people who like them.
Julia:We might be.
Marla:Well, we appreciate you yeah, we do For making them. And we're so glad that they're fun yes they aren't that, they aren't you know again, we're not trying to be negative, yeah but they are fun now where before they were.
Julia:Yeah, kind of a chore, like you're gonna get in and you're gonna work hard, and I think our takeaways from this is, just, like you said, what this episode is about looking at the evolution of where we were. That's important where it all started and where we are now. And I mean, even if you looked at, look at that first pros only it is. It's a great workout, it's an awesome pros only it's fun it really is, I've gone back and done it many times and just to see the angles and the.
Julia:you know some of it's kind of choppy but some of it's kind of flowy.
Marla:It's just so much in there.
Julia:There's a lot of good things in there. Another takeaway like so glad things are more fun starting to see more dancey, complex things. But the biggest, some of the biggest takeaways for me is label. We need a label for pros, only we do we need a new label for? Insane. Can we just have an insane label?
Marla:for the crazy people like us, yes.
Julia:And give us more quick hits. Yes, please give us more quick hits, please give us more pros only quick hits.
Marla:It would be very nice. I I accept that not everyone wants pros, only I'm okay with that, but but a quick hit would be a great gateway.
Marla:Yes, it would be because it allows people to move up, and if you look at the pros only quick hits. We'll pop it up here on the screen. There's only five of them. There are two. I was shocked. Well, listen, and they're all you know. Two of them are from 2021. Two of them are from 2022. We got one in 2023. And so you've got to think all of those are old school choreography. So when people are looking to level up from highs to pros and they want to go to a quick hit, they're not really getting what a pros only is today, except for the one made from bring down the house that has a lani and um. What is it? Unstoppable. You get a taste for what you're going to get in a newer pros only now. But right, yeah, I mean, isn't the pros only quick hit from the absolicious all front facing. You don't even turn in that one, it was the.
Julia:The only song you turned in was the last song and you made one 90 degree turn, I believe it was, and then right back and it lasted 10 seconds, maybe 20. And that's because there was a lull in the song and I guess they were like well, spin them.
Marla:Spin them, turn them, turn them quick, but that was it. Yeah.
Julia:Yeah, that's not what you would see in a in a pros only map today no so that would definitely not be something I would recommend and I mean ain't gonna lie.
Marla:It gave me a good ab workout, marla, because you're squatting and doing um battle ropes so basically the difference, the difference between the older ones and the ones now is you're getting right to work, you're getting right in, you're getting in the headset and getting straight to a workout and for some people that's very appealing. So I'm sure there are lots of people who want to get in and do those older ones that are focused that way.
Julia:You and I, we prefer to go in. We may have just made somebody's day Right. We may have just made somebody's day. I hope we did. We may have been like wait, where is this?
Marla:workout Right exactly Go find it, do it.
Julia:If that's what you like. We are not throwing shade at you.
Marla:No, we are not yucking your yum. All we're saying is for us personally. Personally, the fun aspect plays such an important role in our workout experience.
Julia:Yeah, now it keeps us coming back it is 100.
Marla:What keeps us coming back? Yeah, so and man more pros only, please more pros only, please. Yes, so on our note since this week's episode is all about pros. Only Julia had an idea. She's like what?
Julia:Well, I mean our weekly workout suggestion. We want you guys to compare the pros. Only debut the very first one that came out with Leanne on 4-22-20. Yes, Good job, Go do that. Look, I'm trying to look. I'm like am I getting old? Do I need bifocals? Where's the date? And then go in and do the newest pros, only Fusion Fiesta, so hard to say sometimes With Leanne. Again, I never even connected that.
Marla:Yep.
Julia:To 24-24. And again, I never even connected that to 2424. And come into our group and our podcast group and tell us what you thought, yes, some of the noticeable differences between the two.
Marla:Don't have to break down each song or just something that stood out to you where you're like, wow, look at the progression, look at the difference between these. And with that said, man, the Supernatural team is amazing.
Marla:They are amazing To do this sort of retrospective, researching the old ones, going through them, enjoying them like we enjoyed all of them, even the ones where we're like that was a workout. They, the supernatural team, continues to evolve. They try to keep moving us forward in some sort of way, keeping us engaged, having fun, bringing new things to us, and we're forever grateful for that you know forever, definitely yeah, yeah. Even 220 workouts.
Julia:We are two people, though that would do. If we had a new pros only workout every single day, we would be so happy, but there's, I mean, they're ridiculous.
Marla:I'm like Julia. No, she's like come on, let's just get a whole choreo team specifically for pros only. We would like one once a day, every wad okay. Well, I'll go for once a week, just I would be incredibly happy if we got one once a month. I know I've used the hashtag pros only once a month. I would be happy if we got one every three months. Listen, if it was continuous. Once every three months, plus we got a quick hit, it wouldn't make I would be very, very happy.
Julia:Am I still happy it's like it would soften the blow of time.
Marla:Right. Am I still happy with my supernatural experience? I am, oh, of course. We've just listed off tons of great workouts.
Julia:Yeah, yeah.
Marla:Would I be sad if we didn't get another pros only until the end of the year? I would. I would be very sad.
Julia:Definitely. Yeah, they're our favorite. They are favorite. But yeah, go do those two. See what you see, tell us what you notice. We are excited to hear what you have to say about the two of them and then, when you're done, don't forget to rate them.
Marla:What? What? If they just started getting a whole bunch of new ratings for 2020 workouts and they'll be like what is happening? Don't forget to rate them. Look to your left when you're done and your workout card comes up, do the needful, all the things that apply. Sometimes I hit love and I only love the movements. I did not like the music, like Metallica, and so when I rated that one, I rated, loved the movements, loved the coaching, loved the difficulty and just totally skipped over the music part.
Julia:Yeah, as Marla's singing the music. Oh gosh, Could you imagine we play it so much? You know the words to the music, I do. Well, we've kept our wonderful audience for so long. I hope they're still with us by this point, but we're so glad. We really appreciate you guys taking the time out of your busy day to hang out with us for a little while.
Marla:Thanks guys, Thanks for joining us and don't forget the real joy and love and supernatural is found in the journey. You go on Bye.