My Group Move Blogs

Unlocking Your Flow State aqua fitness instructor exercise instructor group fitness instructor instructor development Jul 03, 2024

As a group fitness instructor, achieving a flow state can significantly elevate your performance and the joy you derive from teaching. Flow state, a concept popularised by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, is a mental state of complete absorption and engagement in an activity. Let’s...

Continue Reading...
Unleash Your Inner Fitness Superhero: Transform Your Teaching with Confidence and Flair exercise instructor group exercise instructor group fitness instructor Jan 24, 2024

The Everyday Instructor's Guide to Superhero Status

Picture this: you're leading a group fitness class, and everything that could possibly go wrong, does. The playlist is a shuffle disaster, someone's phone keeps ringing with the "Chicken Dance" ringtone, and your perfectly planned routine? Let's...

Continue Reading...
The Need For Pro-active Recruitment In Group Fitness career option fitness career group exercise group exercise instructor group fitness group fitness instructor Sep 20, 2022

Group fitness instructors have unique skill sets. They help keep your members happy, engaged, and excited about the experience of working out with others. In addition, they provide a sense of community and camaraderie among members and can help motivate people struggling to stick with their...

Continue Reading...
 
Get the right feedback from your participants aqua fitness instructor class feedback group exercise instructor group fitness instructor instructor development Jul 23, 2022

Do you want to get the right feedback from your group fitness class participants? 

It all comes down to asking the right questions!.

However, there are other ways that you can find out where you can improve, have a listen to group fitness experts, Marietta and Maria Teresa, to learn from...

Continue Reading...
 
What are your steps for class creation? aqua fitness aqua instructor class plan group exercise instructor group fitness group fitness instructor instructor life Jul 22, 2022

What are your steps when creating a new Aqua fitness class?

Do you take the long road, the short cut, or nothing at all?
Marietta Mehanni and Maria Teresa Stone, aqua fitness experts share their process on class creation.

We would love to hear what's yours? 

Lacking of ideas? Need some...

Continue Reading...
Feeling flat and bored? aqua conference aqua fitness aqua instructor fitness career group fitness instructor instructor self-care water fitness Jul 11, 2022

Feeling flat and bored? You know those days when you feel like you're slogging through a muddy swamp, trying to pull yourself out of a rut? When you have arrived at your class and wish you had something to teach that gives you that tingling feeling of excitement because you know that your...

Continue Reading...
Broaden your network conference fitness career fitnessconference group exercise group fitness instructor groupfitness May 19, 2022
Continue Reading...
Confessions of a lazy instructor group exercise group exercise instructor group fitness group fitness instructor instructor Apr 04, 2022

Have you ever started doing something and had the best intentions only to lose motivation and give up halfway through? Maybe you started a new exercise program and quit after a few weeks (or days). All along, you know that if you just stuck it out, you would get the results that you desire. But...

Continue Reading...
Do you learn from others? fitness career fitnessconference group exercise group fitness group fitness instructor groupexerciseinstructor Apr 04, 2022

Teaching is a profession that is full of surprises. As instructors, we know that the best way to prepare for the unexpected is to go in with as much knowledge as possible. It's one of the reasons why you're probably reading this now.

Ways to improve your teaching skills

There's always room for...

Continue Reading...
How I started my own movement career option fitness career group exercise group fitness group fitness instructor Feb 28, 2022

My group fitness teaching career (back then was just a hobby and it was called “aerobics”) started at my sister’s gym in 1996. For 7 years I taught there until I moved to London to learn english and travel. I thought I would not teach group fitness classes because my...

Continue Reading...
3 Tips for Overcoming Your Fear of Teaching Group Fitness Classes career option fitness career group exercise group fitness group fitness instructor Feb 21, 2022

I have been in the industry for a long time, and I know how scary it is to start teaching group fitness classes! The fear comes from so many places and takes many forms. Some people are afraid they will be uncomfortable, some are afraid that they don’t have the confidence needed, and some...

Continue Reading...
3 Tricks To Boost Your Fitness Teaching Confidence career option fitness career group exercise group fitness group fitness instructor Feb 14, 2022

Teaching a group fitness class can be an incredibly empowering and gratifying experience. It can also be challenging, daunting and downright terrifying. There’s always a little voice in the back of your mind telling you that you don’t know enough to teach a class, or that people will...

Continue Reading...
1 2