15 things they should tell you on your first Group Ex training course:

15 things they should tell you on your first Group Ex training course:

1. Someone will always think the music is too loud. The person next to them will probably think it’s too quiet.
2. Regulars will have their spot – everyone who does classes has a spot – and if they change spot one day it will probably throw you off kilter so much so you forget how to teach.
3. Your hair washing standards will drop dramatically. Before teaching “I wash my hair every time I exercise.” Now, “I washed my hair 15 classes ago and it is now held together by dry shampoo – and I’ll still get another 2 classes out of it yet .”
4. You will never have an empty washing basket. Ever again. Never. It’s not possible
5. Every song you ever hear from here on in, you will either have choreography in your head you want to do to it, or you will try to fit your own choreography to it.
6. The air conditioning will nearly always be broken- get used to it.
7. If the air con is working the mic will probably not work.
8. If the mic is working you probably won’t have enough weight plates… or clips… or steps.
9. Gyms don’t like it if your classes are under subscribed. But they also get annoyed if you let too many people in!
10. You will now need to carry every size battery and type of aux lead known to man with you at all times and will be that weird person that when someone say I don’t suppose anyone has a AAA battery you can produce 20 from the bottom of your handbag – even though your actually in the pub at the time.
11. Music systems are confusing.
12. You will never again be able to provide directions as left and right become meaningless due to the fact you’re not quite sure if you are referring to instructor left of real life left anymore in any given situation.
13. The person who teaches the class before you can make or break your spirit – don’t be the person who runs over by 20 minutes every week and leaves a pool of sweat on the instructor spot for the next instructor to find… or the one that adjusts every knob on the stereo and hides the mic!
14. You will end up being in 100 different local cover groups and everytime someone posts you will see the same request 89 times across these various groups.
15. And you probably won’t be able to cover – mainly because the person has forgotten to mention where the cover is need… or at what time.