by Joan Kent | Feb 16, 2015 | Best Practices, Engage Your Students, Health and Wellness, Master Instructor Blog
As a nutritionist who coaches many clients with sugar addiction, I find myself talking about willpower frequently and thinking about it a lot. I used to take a hard line against willpower — or rather, against people”™s view of it. On behalf of my clients, I resented...
by John | Feb 12, 2015 | Best Practices, Latest News, Master Instructor Blog, Your Fitness Business
I had an awesome phone call from the Better Business Bureau (BBB) today. The nice man told me that because of our sterling (we've never had a complaint) reputation, the BBB had upgraded our company's rating to A+... their highest rating 🙂 Like many other...
by John | Feb 7, 2015 | Big Box Instructor, Engage Your Students, KEEPING IT FUN, Master Instructor Blog, Music
I'm pretty excited. I'm subbing a Cycle Sculpt class tomorrow! Cycle Sculpt is a branded class format at Life Time Fitness, designed to attract the crowd who would be interested in a SoulCycle like class. This won't be my first time teaching this format - a little...
by John | Jan 21, 2015 | Best Practices, Engage Your Students, Instructor Training, Learn Leadership Skills, Master Instructor Blog
You need to have read part one of this series where I laid out two scenarios and asked the question; Why do Breathless Betty and Chatty Cathy not behave the same way that you and Susan did at WSSC? It's my worldly perspective that the major difference between those...
by John | Jan 21, 2015 | Latest News, Master Instructor Blog, Training With Power, Zone based Heart Rate Training
Hey [wlm_firstname] how hard should I be working to; get faster, lose weight, build endurance, ect... Answering that is the age old dilemma many of us face when questioned by our riders. We try to be helpful by offering subjective descriptions of what both thresholds...
by Joan Kent | Jan 19, 2015 | Engage Your Students, Health and Wellness, Instructor Training, Master Instructor Blog
“I don”™t stop when I”™m tired. I only stop when I”™m done.” It surprised me to learn that the above quotation came from Marilyn Monroe. How many times have we heard those words in connection with athletics? In the training and weight loss program I taught for 14...