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

[Beachboy6294]

I wish you would teach class at my gym!

 

[RachelEFC]

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.

 

[Beachboy6294]

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.

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]

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!

seriously?

 

[Beachboy6294]

seriously?

Yes I'm serious. I worked at World's Gym for like 2 years and they had me teach the Bodypump classes. I got my degree in Kinesiology.

 

[Grumpy Old Man]

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...

He's cheating on you.

 

[the_alcatraz]

He's cheating on you.

lol...that never gets old!