What are some favorite strategies for teaching successful multi-level classes?

1) Teach to the group you have. Immediately noticing the fitness levels, strengths, and limitations of your group will better enable you to target the spectrum of abilities you have in your class

2) Make sure the majority of exercises are ones that everyone can do. Then, the intensity or “advanced” versions can come from an increased range of motion, a slightly higher weight, or an increase in exercise tempo. Giving people a choice within the same family of exercises keeps everyone challenged, without having to make an obvious regression. It’s a pet peeve of mine when someone says, “If you can’t do this, do this instead.” So I start with an exercise that has several variations and go up from there – “If you want more, you can….”