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Mentorship in Action: Introducing IDEA’s Fitness Mentor Network
The fitness industry is ever-evolving, presenting new challenges and opportunities for growth. Professionals in this field must stay ahead by continuously learning and adapting to changes in training techniques, coaching…
Year-Long Career Success Workshop
2025 is YOUR year! IDEA is excited to bring you a year-long workshop centered on how to grow your business, whether you are employed by a club, own your own…
Growth Through Business Licensing: SPIDERfit Kids Case Study
Business Licensing: What it is, how to do it and what it can mean for you business, your impact and overall growth.
2023 Fitness Industry Compensation Trends Report
This compensation trends report provides data on current wages in the industry as well as benefits and hiring and promotion criteria.
Making Essential Adjustments for Fitness Industry Growth
Industry experts weigh in on where we are, where we’re going and how we can be a force for positive change for fitness industry growth.
Navigating Tax Preparation Season
Editor’s Note: This article is meant only to increase awareness of various aspects of tax laws. These laws are constantly changing, and we cannot guarantee the accuracy or timeliness of…
Dimensionalize Your Fitness Business
The key to seeing and seizing new dimensions—or to dimensionalize your fitness business—lies in embracing a growth mindset.
Building Community for Your Fitness Business
Often people are searching for connection and camaraderie, which can be found and nurtured through building community in your business.
10 “Exercises” to Build a Better Career
Follow the lead of successful fit pros to embrace today’s opportunities to the fullest and build a better career.
Inspired Service: Renewed Commitment and Silver Linings
For IDEA, which has proudly touted a 98%–99% customer satisfaction rating for many years, this was aIDEA service crisis. On Friday, August 5, the IDEA team discovered that hundreds of customer voice mails had been stuck in a digital black hole. IDEA members were calling us for help, but we didn’t even know it.
Transform Knowledge Into Power
Remember that spark of passion that led you to your fitness career? Like any fire, it needs tending and nurturing. If the idea of more education elicits painful memories of late-night cramming and pop quizzes, it may be time to reframe, reimagine and rekindle your yearn to learn.
Resolution Revolution!
We’ve heard all the classics: Lose weight! Get into shape! Start going to the gym! New year, new you! While New Year’s resolutions are the kindling that spark our clients to reach out to us for help, the professional community has to fan the flames with the right balance of skill, enthusiasm and fun to help clients sustain their inner fire for change.
How to Rebuild Your Fitness Career, Part Three
How do you step up your sales game to rebuild your fitness business? Self-doubt looms large when you need to determine pricing.
Transform Your Fitness Facility
The traditional fitness facility has typically been viewed as a place to work out and play sports in order to change one’s physical appearance. However, this has shifted. Wellness—which includes physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellness—has become the buzzword of the decade, and today’s fitness facilities have begun offering a myriad of services, hoping that people will view these locations as the local wellness center. To cover the full wellness spectrum, however, you need to combine forces with other health modalities.
Get Your Biz in Shape! Success Secrets From MELT
The vast majority of you are not only fitness professionals—you’re entrepreneurs, too. That’s quite a balancing act depending on your knowledge and comfort level when it comes to building, marketing…
Posture Correction for Static Damage
The word posture tends to evoke the image of a schoolgirl standing perfectly erect with a book on her head. More accurately, static posture refers to the way in which a person holds his or her body or assumes certain positions, such as sitting, standing or sleeping. The cumulative effect of the time spent in certain positions can lead to prolonged static-posture damage to both the musculoskeletal and myofascial systems of the body.
Digital Fitness Lessons With Impact
Instead of viewing digital fitness companies as opponents, what if we drew lessons from their successes to enhance what we provide in person?
How to Develop Compassionate Coaching
Compassionate coaching involves recognizing the needs of another person, feeling empathy for that individual and taking action to help.
Innovate Your Fitness Career
IDEA World Virtual will feature more than 100 workshops, lectures and workouts led by industry experts to help your fitness career thrive.
5 Lessons From Virtual Fitness Companies
Take a moment to unpack the value and significance that your virtual fitness options provide, and learn from big players.