It’s pretty scary to apply for your first instructor job if you are new to teaching! I remember my first audition, it was a disaster! To be honest, I wasn’t selected. Here are some tips I learned along the way: Be HYPER prepared: Make sure you are able to teach an entire class confidently before …
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One of my dear friends and amazing mentor, Christine Dwyer, recently posted this picture on Facebook. It made me realize how far I have come in my fitness career and my own personal journey over the last several years. I‘ll share the short version with you! After I had my son in 2002, I was …
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We all have good days and bad days. Ups and down. Strengths and weaknesses (I like to refer to them as “challenges”). So how do we focus on improving the good and decreasing the bad? Obviously some things that happen in our lives are out of our control. But what we can control is …
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1. Time We all have the same number of hours each day and we have to learn to use our time wisely. With family, career, and many other obligations we seem to think we don’t have time to exercise. It is important that we make fitness a priority over other activities. It needs to be …
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When starting your fitness journey it is so easy to caught up in fear. When we haven’t followed a program before, we don’t know if it will work or even if we can commit. So we begin to doubt, and self doubt leads to fear, and fear leads to failure. There is NOTHING wrong with …
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We are all a work in progress and always striving to get better. We have to remember that we are human and we all share the similar challenges in life. With that being said, you cannot beta yourself up if you have a failure. Instead, acknowledge it and appreciate and fail FORWARD! Here are some ways …
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Its amazing how much we learn from our children and from their experiences. My son has been taking karate since he was 4, and he is currently a black belt. We both have learned so much through this process as I have spent countless hours watching (sometimes with my eyes closed!) and processing what he learned with him …
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BE YOU Being happy doesn’t happen for most of us naturally; it’s something we have to work on. One thing that helps me is by being very careful about who I choose to surround myself with. Being a younger sister, a father’s daughter, fitness instructor, member of a video team, and a single mom, I …
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What one word describes you best? It’s so difficult to come up with, but here are some questions to help you think about it (from Keira’s THE REAL YOU). What does being real mean to you? What could you do to be truer, genuine, and authentic? Are you real? In your everyday life, at work, …
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What holds you back from doing something you have always wanted to do? It’s your fear. And that fear is yours, not anyone else’s. Why and how does fear holds us back from achieving the results we want? We all fear something, someone, and it holds us back from achieving what we want in life. …
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