Normally I pride myself in being able to come up with at least half a dozen ideas better than the teams, but this time I was really stuck. Did anyone have any better ideas?

beat the groove train battle

Yes it was tough and in many respects I thought the teams did quite well.....

With a plethera of fitness vids, fields are a tad narrow, but using Martial Arts as fitness could work, if it was done properly, but if dance is added then the Martial part loses its essence, and becomes just another dance vid.

Tai Chi could be used for exercise too.

I think it already is. Maybe Hip Hop Tai Chi, that would be a bit different.

For the mind and general wellbeing, but it could be incorporated into like you said, Hip Hop Chi, with twirlling batons which would be good for wrists and fingers.

I think what neither team considered was a new market. You don't need to appeal to the existing gym bunnies, they are already there. Think of something like Zumba that has drawn a lot of people into fitness who weren't there previously. Ricky's workout was really only for those who are in shape already, to push them further, much more narrow field than your average Joe, who will only go if something really appeals to them. I think it looking high level already would be intimidating to a lot of people.

I also don't think the Beat Battle name worked particularly well. I can't imagine people saying they are heading down to the gym for a Beat Battle session.

I'd have pushed for something aimed at seniors possibly, or your middle-age on up crowd.

My immediate thought was Baby yoga (which is gentle and relaxing yoga moves whilst holding your baby before you think it is anything cruel!)

Baby swimming classes are very popular but there is presently nothing else much you can do with your baby at the gym. New mums are usually wanting to get back in shape so it's a good target market and anything to do with kids seems to win tasks on the apprentice!

I think it would defiantly appeal to the gyms as it would help them sell memberships and also once they have got the new mums signed up they could make money off creche fees as well as the mums would want to do other stuff in the gym too.

Body balance (which is fab) incorporates pilates, yoga, tai chi. Personally I think these are very different exercises and it'd be a big contradiction to mix that up with horrendous dance music and jumping about. I'm still scarred from the Groove Train vid

I noted they had access to a retro disco. That made me wonder whether a list of themes had been provided by production.

I thought it was hard too because there are so many fitness classes out there. I liked the idea of a skipping class, but with JUST a skipping rope and no 80's theme or other equipment, I think they could have done well with that.