Group X Files

You think you know your department, but do you really KNOW your department. From your individual teammates to specific data points, this episode focuses on how knowing your sh*t within your department helps you build a better rapport with your team and helps you gain the respect and dollar of the leadership above you to invest in your department. Listen up to learn keys to committing small things...

Continuing education is the key to becoming the best instructor you can be, yet many shrug it off as just another thing to do. Tune in to learn how continuing education can truly benefit you as an instructor and how it can help you take your job (yes, at the end of the day it is a j-o-b) as a group exercise instructor more seriously so you can excel to higher levels.

Listen in to learn about crosstraining in different formats and how that will increase your value to your facility, will increase your longevity in this career, and will help to stave off burnout (ugh, that dreaded thing). We will talk about how to strategically diversify your skill set and when enough is enough in terms of diversifying.

Welcome to our first bonus episode, mainly directed to Group Exercise Mangers/Directors. Listen in to learn the importance of transparency in creating a positive team culture. If we can't create trust from the bottom up with our team, then we don't have a team. Learn some strategies that have worked to help create a thriving team who feels valued, feels like they can come speak openly and honestly...

We all want to deliver classes with maximum impact without spending maximum time putting them together, right? By creating a workout skeleton (template, whatever you choose to call it), you give yourself some predictable parameters within which you can unleash your creativity. Les Mills does it. Your favorite TV/streaming series do it. Why not you? You'll be amazed at the increase in impact your c...

Who are you? No, really. In your deepest, truest self, who are you? If there were no fear of external judgement, who would you be? We got real deep, real quick. In order to be your best instructor self, you have to take some time and be brutally honest with yourself. Here, we delve into the main instructor archetypes, what defines each, and how you can harness your true self to reach those in fron...

Let's start at the very beginning (a very good place to start). And now some of you are singing in your head. You're welcome. Learn the basics of cuing to lay the foundation for the success of your class participants. We will cover the what, why, and how, as well as start to touch on motivational cuing and reading the room. If your foundation has cracks in it, they will amplify the further you bui...

Meet your host, Sara Keller, and learn her GX origin story. If you're not into background information and want to get to the nitty gritty of how to be the best GX instructor you can be, skip on over to Episode 2: Laying the Foundation.