- Doing a class at home is a hundred times harder than teaching a class in a gym.
- It’s also really hard to not just stop half way through a session at home and start doing random household tasks… like dusting your lightshades!
- You may find yourself randomly looking around the room and randomly smiling at nobody as you do a class at home.
- You’re probably already wondering if you’ll remember how to teach when gyms reopen.
- When gyms closed you thought to yourself I’m going to have all this time to learn the new releases, I may even script.
- Two weeks in you haven’t touched them and have realised you’ll still probably leave it until the week before to learn them.
- Logging into a quarterly webinar and not being able to talk or be seen on camera seems weird now we are all Zoom experts.
- You’ve listened to so many different explanations of why we can’t use the music to teach classes online you should be a PPL PRS music licencing expert but actually you still don’t really understand because Zumba don’t seem to be having the same problem.
- You have however strangely enjoyed doing a bit of freestyle teaching or body weight training.
- You’ve probably taken up running.
- And if you were already a runner you’re now shocked by the number of runners you now see out each day. Like really, I used to be able to run in my park without passing a soul now it’s like the Great Manchester Run out there!
- You are now coming to the realisation that you can’t eat like you normally do because now you’re not always on the move. You miss classes and members of course but secretly this is why you really want to gt back to teaching as soon as possible.
- You’re worried your chocolate consumption may mean you won’t be able to jump when we return.
- You’ve actually wondered if Smart Start also applies to the instructor.
- You’re already starting to dread the DOMs you will feel after that first class back.
- And the saddle soreness!
- You don’t need to wear gym kit every day now but you still do. Because that’s all you own.
- You still randomly instinctively put batteries in your basket at the supermarket and you will have a battery stockpile by the time you return to teaching.
- Listening to other music is a revelation.
- You miss you class members and realise that teaching is really only about the people, the rest of it is all just pointless stress if you take a step back and look logically. In the last week before gyms closed and we knew every class could be the last for a while nobody cared if you got things wrong or your coaching wasn’t perfect, we all jut moved and enjoyed it and went for it because it served a benefit to all of us at a stressful time. We stress far too much about silly things normally and when we return we should all remember this.
Covid-19 Observations of a Les Mills Fitness Instructor
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Heather Sherwood Fitness 