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If I don't enjoy it, then why do it?

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I've been teaching Body Pump 3x a week for about 3 months. For those that aren't familiar, it's the "Original Barbell" class. It's about an hour long and each song focuses on lifting a different body part. Since I've been teaching this class I've lost the motivation to then go back into the gym and lift more... I don't really enjoy the class, it's easy to do, and while I'm supposed to be connecting with my participants I feel like I'm staring off into space. I don't get paid a ton, and then I also have to take the time to drive to get to that gym, when it's not the one I would normally go to anymore (it is my old gym that I spent a LOT of time at). I have lost a lot of my strength that I had been working for, and it just doesn't make me happy. My participants love me, and often my class is packed... I don't know if I should just wait it out and maybe I'll like it more when it's not as new to me and comes easier, but I'm thinking it's just a waste of time. :(

I think I'm just selfish.
 
I have been an instructor/coach since 1992 so here is my take.
(1) Think of yourself.
(2) Think of your students.
more than 60% of my "clients" are teens or younger so I have always put them first.
lots of sacrafice too.

you need to find 2 or 3 clients who "need you" to help motivate you.
if you're helping people then its not all about the money.
 
heavy_duty said:
I have been an instructor/coach since 1992 so here is my take.
(1) Think of yourself.
(2) Think of your students.
more than 60% of my "clients" are teens or younger so I have always put them first.
lots of sacrafice too.

you need to find 2 or 3 clients who "need you" to help motivate you.
if you're helping people then its not all about the money.
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Here's mine. Never listen to Canadians. They don't know what they are talking about. :D:chomp:
 
heavy_duty said:
I have been an instructor/coach since 1992 so here is my take.
(1) Think of yourself.
(2) Think of your students.
more than 60% of my "clients" are teens or younger so I have always put them first.
lots of sacrafice too.

you need to find 2 or 3 clients who "need you" to help motivate you.
if you're helping people then its not all about the money.
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When I first started, I had a middle aged over weight gentleman that took my class, and was crying to me about how his wife of 23 years had left him, (and he was literally craying :(). That did motivate me to be there for him. I am finding it difficult to make those connections though. The majority of my class are middle aged women, but some men and younger people here and there.

Maybe if I didn't teach 3 days a week and only taught once or twice...
 
I go at it 3 nights a week sometimes 6-9pm.
when the energy is low I often think "I left my kids at home for this?"
Then on Friday I bring my own kids and it makes up for it when I see their progress.

bottom line though is if you do quit, nobody will care for very long....that's the part that sucks.
its a double edged sword.
 
RachelEFC said:
I've been teaching Body Pump 3x a week for about 3 months. For those that aren't familiar, it's the "Original Barbell" class. It's about an hour long and each song focuses on lifting a different body part. Since I've been teaching this class I've lost the motivation to then go back into the gym and lift more... I don't really enjoy the class, it's easy to do, and while I'm supposed to be connecting with my participants I feel like I'm staring off into space. I don't get paid a ton, and then I also have to take the time to drive to get to that gym, when it's not the one I would normally go to anymore (it is my old gym that I spent a LOT of time at). I have lost a lot of my strength that I had been working for, and it just doesn't make me happy. My participants love me, and often my class is packed... I don't know if I should just wait it out and maybe I'll like it more when it's not as new to me and comes easier, but I'm thinking it's just a waste of time. :(

I think I'm just selfish.
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That is why they say that don't make your hobby as your occupation, because then you would have neither. I am joking; I don't agree with it.

There are ways to make your job more challenging. May be you can make your lessons to be more interactive; more actively involve your students in your lessons. You can also take more personal interest in your students (like asking them about their individual fitness goals, etc). May be you can also invite them to join you in the work out after the end of lesson.

Finding a more interesting and rewarding job is always an option.
 
also, if there are a few people you'd like to help, you can do so without teaching that class, right? most of those people don't give a fuck, or do, but aren't dedicated enough to make it worthwhile. to thine own self be true.
 
If you are not enjoying it at the moment, don't wait for something magical to happen and for you to start enjoying it again. That's just a sinking ship. You need to do something/change something to give it that kick of motivation you need.

Good luck
 
IMHO life is too short to give of yourself when it isn't beneficial TO YOU. Women are too socialized to live for everybody BUT themselves. Thank goodness that the passage of time usually lets us know how silly this is.

Unless you really REALLY needed the money (many of us had done jobs that we didn't particularly like or downright HATED because we needed to keep the electric on) I would suggest you cut back or just quit teaching the class altogether. Redirect your energies somewhere with an activity that it fulfilling or at the very least enjoyable TO YOU.
 
BIKINIMOM said:
IMHO life is too short to give of yourself when it isn't beneficial TO YOU. Women are too socialized to live for everybody BUT themselves. Thank goodness that the passage of time usually lets us know how silly this is.

Unless you really REALLY needed the money (many of us had done jobs that we didn't particularly like or downright HATED because we needed to keep the electric on) I would suggest you cut back or just quit teaching the class altogether. Redirect your energies somewhere with an activity that it fulfilling or at the very least enjoyable TO YOU.
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good advice
however some people are being strangled/pay check to paycheck
with a family to feed and can't just go and quit their jobs


Like me, I work in retail and I hate people for the mostpart
 
ortiz34 said:
good advice
however some people are being strangled/pay check to paycheck
with a family to feed and can't just go and quit their jobs


Like me, I work in retail and I hate people for the mostpart
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My brother, if I had a dime every time I had to wake up at 3:30AM to get myself ready and make breakfast, lunch, snacks and activities for my girls then wake them at 4:45 to get to work by 5AM for EIGHT DOLLARS AND HOUR till 11AM, then my pay went back down to miniumum wage... my kids would bathe and put their clean clothes for the next day on the night before. They brought their sleeping bags and pillows in to sleep on the gym childcare floor till that opened and I would brush their hair while checking the gym members in (I was front desk opener).

I was NEVER late once and I ALWAYS had a smile. :) Why? because it was the only job close to home where I could bring my girls when they were with me on my time.

Did I LIKE going through all that shit and dragging my kids along with me?

No... but it was a job where my girls were with me so I didn't complain. Thank goodness for foodstamps because otherwise I would have had to eat at my sister's house more often.

Ultimately I got my personal trainer certification and made more money. Still not barely enough to support us, but my girls were with me and they got to see "Mami had an important job where she helped people get healthier." (in contradiction to what they had been told for years by their father and his family. Ya'll know the deal. No need to get into specifics.)

Whether we have the luxury of being sinlge w/no dependents or we are busting our asses to take care of our families, THERE IS ALWAYS "another way" ... if we aren't happy where we are. :)
 
do people you teach or other members at your gym know you have nudes???? i'm not insinuating anything about you i'm just curious how open people deal with strangers looking at their junk. like does it bother you or are you more or less like "eh!?" have you ever over heard any conversations like "dude i totally saw that chick naked" or "that's her"
 
I wish I could make the classes a little more different, interactive, etc, but Body Pump is a choreographed Les Mills program that the gym pays a lot of money to have. Though I can pick a past workout to do (which is difficult because they don't sell past releases), each is basically the same. The back track always has a few dead rows, into a clean and press combo/row, then a triple row... blah blah. Just in different orders with different music.

I didn't get involved for the money, it's not very much, but it is nice to have a little bit of extra cash. Originally, when I was the manager of one of our gyms for a while, one of our group fitness instructors was going to be out for weeks, so I sat in on her class and said... um yeah I think I can do this. So I freestyled a barbell class (no choreography, totally winged it) a few weeks. Then I left and got a real job, and another of our gyms, which had been my gym when it was a Powerhouse previously, expanded and began offering group fitness and the owner, which I was friends with said I could teach there so I put myself through the training (paid some money for it), and now I teach his biggest drawing classes.

YOu know, and it's silly too, because when I had tried taking this class last year, I didn't really enjoy it. What the heck made me think I would like teaching it? I thought... oh, gym, teaching people, having an audience, getting paid to workout. Seemed good at the time :(

So to answer questions, it's not about paying the bills or because I HAVE to do it. I don't think I would consider quitting if it were. I am afraid of disappointing people though.
 
RachelEFC said:
I wish I could make the classes a little more different, interactive, etc, but Body Pump is a choreographed Les Mills program that the gym pays a lot of money to have. Though I can pick a past workout to do (which is difficult because they don't sell past releases), each is basically the same. The back track always has a few dead rows, into a clean and press combo/row, then a triple row... blah blah. Just in different orders with different music.

I didn't get involved for the money, it's not very much, but it is nice to have a little bit of extra cash. Originally, when I was the manager of one of our gyms for a while, one of our group fitness instructors was going to be out for weeks, so I sat in on her class and said... um yeah I think I can do this. So I freestyled a barbell class (no choreography, totally winged it) a few weeks. Then I left and got a real job, and another of our gyms, which had been my gym when it was a Powerhouse previously, expanded and began offering group fitness and the owner, which I was friends with said I could teach there so I put myself through the training (paid some money for it), and now I teach his biggest drawing classes.

YOu know, and it's silly too, because when I had tried taking this class last year, I didn't really enjoy it. What the heck made me think I would like teaching it? I thought... oh, gym, teaching people, having an audience, getting paid to workout. Seemed good at the time :(

So to answer questions, it's not about paying the bills or because I HAVE to do it. I don't think I would consider quitting if it were. I am afraid of disappointing people though.
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When I was in college I taught like 3 bodypump classes a week and I really loved it. I had a great class all the time which made it alot of fun!
 
RachelEFC said:
When I first started, I had a middle aged over weight gentleman that took my class, and was crying to me about how his wife of 23 years had left him, (and he was literally craying :(). That did motivate me to be there for him. I am finding it difficult to make those connections though. The majority of my class are middle aged women, but some men and younger people here and there.

Maybe if I didn't teach 3 days a week and only taught once or twice...
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He's cheating on you.
 
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