Career Path for Owners Managers Directors
Dimensionalize Your Fitness Business
The key to seeing and seizing new dimensions—or to dimensionalize your fitness business—lies in embracing a growth mindset.
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.
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…
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?
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.
Upgrade Your Career With Personalized Fitness
The wellness landscape is shifting, and people are looking for an opportunity to make changes. The answer may lie in personalized fitness.
Fitness Careers: United We Thrive
Fitness professionals will come together to exchange best practices and discoveries in their fitness careers at 2021 IDEA World Virtual, July 9–11.
Authentic Leadership in a Changing Industry
What does strong management look like during such an unprecedented time, and how do you leverage authenticity while also contributing to future success?
Reopening Playbook for the Fitness Industry
Bill McBride, co-founder, president and CEO of Active Wellness, advises fitness professionals on safety as they reopen their businesses.
Career Questions? Enter the Mentor
A mentor, a wise pro who has gained experience from real-life lessons, can share secrets for future success in the fitness industry.
Top Entrepreneurial Skills for Success, Part 2
If you’re considering becoming your own boss, you owe it to yourself to do the groundwork that will ultimately be the foundation for your success.
Introducing IDEA® World Club & Studio Summit Virtual: Innovation, Education, Connection
Innovation is the key to success in an ever-evolving world, and at no point in recent history has this been more important than now. For the first time ever, the IDEA World Club & Studio Summit will be available in a virtual format so that you can access all the top strategies and best practices you need to secure a lucrative and lasting future for your business—all from the comfort of your club, studio or living room. Over the course of 2 days, the best in the business will be on-hand live to share their strategies for success and to help you overcome the challenges you face now and develop the resilience to face them in the future.
Success in Corporate Wellness, Part 2
A look at two major skills fitness professionals need to work in corporate wellness and the benefits of working in this arena.
5 Steps to Cleaning Your Fitness Business in the Wake of COVID-19
Now, more than ever, your clients will expect the most thorough cleaning strategies to help them feel at ease when they finally start to return to your studio or gym.
Which Exercise Science Concentration Is Right for You?
Before you start applying to schools, it pays to know what areas of the field of exercise most appeal to you. This quick quiz can help.
Being Your Own Boss
There are several paths to becoming an entrepreneur in the fitness industry. While most discussion is centered around opening a studio and capitalizing on what your current clients believe to be your unique skills and talents, this represents only one path forward. You can choose to have a roof over your head, or you can go to your clients. You can stick with profiting from your intellectual property, or you can “borrow” an idea from someone else. Whatever you choose, owning your own business has never been easier. You just need to figure out which route makes the most sense for you!
10 Reasons Why Fitness Instructors Should Teach on Vacation
Picture yourself training clients or leading a class on a white sandy beach, poolside or in a gazebo overlooking sparkling blue waters. As a certified fitness instructor who travels to teach at a vacation destination, you will get all the benefits of a luxury holiday while inspiring and showcasing your expertise to new clientele. Here are 10 benefits to going beyond your club or studio and exploring opportunities that could lead you to some of the most coveted locations around the world:
How to Increase Confidence and Fitness Class Size
Group fitness instructors have a reputation for being fearless extroverts. And it does take self-confidence to stand in front of a group of people and lead them through an exercise routine—all while wearing a mic and managing a playlist. The truth is that we’re performing, but that doesn’t come naturally to everyone. Some of us need to fake it till we make it!
