by John | Apr 19, 2025 | Best Practices, Instructor Training, KEEPING IT FUN, Learn Leadership Skills, Master Instructor Blog, Presentation Skills, Promote and Build Your Class
In part two we identified how the talkers act the way they do because of; cluelessness, a lack of respect for you and your class or they're challenging your position as the leader. Much of this could also apply to the texters/bring their own music/do their own thing...
by John | Oct 12, 2024 | Best Practices, Engage Your Students, Instructor Training, KEEPING IT FUN, Learn Leadership Skills, Presentation Skills
4/1/16 update - not an April Fools joke, rather I'm re-publishing this today to help a friend with this issue. I heard a very disturbing story this morning, from a regular in my 6:00am class. What follows is a sad example of what happens when an Instructor isn't the...
by John | Mar 19, 2024 | Engage Your Students, Instructor Training, Learn Leadership Skills
"Thank you for saying something to those two girls. I can't tell you how frustrating it is for me to have to sit and listen to their mindless chatter while I'm trying to focus on my workout." It was yesterday and I had just finished subbing a class at one of the...
by Dennis Mellon | Sep 24, 2023 | Dennis Mellon, Engage Your Students, Motivation
I teach indoor cycling at multiple facilities in the Denver area but I spend most of my work week at Greenwood Athletic and Tennis Club. Greenwood is my "home club". This is where I'm a personal trainer, teach indoor cycling, HIIT (High Intensity Interval...
by Cameron Chinatti | Sep 22, 2022 | Best Practices, Boutique Instructor, Master Instructor Blog
Howdy Fit Folk! John Macgowan has so graciously invited me to contribute to the vast wealth of knowledge that is the ICI/PRO community-- woohoo!! Lucky me. 🙂 To those of you that I had the great pleasure of meeting at the 2011 ICI/PRO conference, hello again! To...