Best Practices
Mastering Exercise Modifications
Instructors share their tips for working with different experience levels and providing modifications during class.
Successful Subbing for Fitness Classes
What are your best tips for subbing? Instructors share their pro tips for finding class subs and subbing for others.
How to Add Value to Your Fitness Classes
Many caring instructors add their unique touch to fitness classes in clever ways. Could their ideas work for you?
Group Exercise Cues for Success
Best practices for efficient group exercise cues
Make It Outdoor Group Fitness!
Exploring the necessary considerations, planning and programming elements of teaching an outdoor group fitness class.
HIIT Cycling With a Side of Strength
A well-rounded program includes cardio and resistance training, so how do you bridge the gap? Try HIIT cycling with strength.
How to Be a Better Adult Learner
Overcoming the discomfort of something new as an adult learner will make you a more competent instructor and advance your career.
Building Community
How has building community impacted your experience with participants? What advice would you share with other instructors?
Classes for the Masses: Gender Inclusivity
Even if our intention is to exemplify gender inclusivity, we often create strictly feminine or masculine tones in our marketing and culture.
Evolution in Pandemic Teaching
Fit pros share how pandemic teaching changed their approach through embracing virtual classes and learning new skills.
Postpartum Moms Seek Group Exercise
Researchers in Australia conducted a qualitative study to identify what is needed to engage and maintain exercise among postpartum moms.
Sleep Hygiene Is One Key to Health
Sleep hygiene consists of habits and behaviors that help us to get enough good-quality sleep to leave us refreshed, both physically and mentally. These days, improving sleep hygiene is a…
Group Exercise Music Playlists
Group fitness instructors share their experience and tips creating music playlist that appeal to as many as possible.
A Time of Renewal
Many of us in the industry have been feeling lost in the weeds after 2 years of constant turmoil. In this time of renewal, as you work to dig yourself out and sow new seeds of success, it’s important to use all the tools at your disposal so you can grow and flourish.
Tips on Teaching Virtual Fitness Classes
Discover how other group fitness instructors have forged the way to virtual fitness classes, and learn from their insights, tips and mistakes.
Safety Tips for Outdoor Group Exercise
The following tips from the San Francisco Department of Public Health will help fitness professionals take training outside to promote health and safety.
Prevent Injuries for Longevity and Fun
Like many instructors, you may feel as though you’re expected to do it all and be all things to all people. However, you also need to ensure that you are sustaining your own physical and mental health. How do you keep your standards high and your teaching schedule full while also remaining healthy and injury-free? Read on to find out how three avid veteran instructors achieve balance. Their experiences and advice model best self-care practices for a long and successful career.
3 Tips to Create Rapid Change in Your Business and Get Out of the Red
If your fitness business is struggling right now, then this is for you. I am going to share with you my three tips to create rapid change in your business and get out of the red. First things first, let’s agree on the three ways to make money in your business. The first is to cut an expense. The second is sign up a new member. And the third is to sell a current member something new.
Strong Starts
The warmup. Is it simply a time for small talk while people trickle in, or is it an opportunity to ignite attendees’ best efforts? This may be the class section that fitness instructors plan the least, yet devoting some time to designing the warmup is really worthwhile. Why? Because starting on a strong note significantly affects the outcome of the entire workout. We want our participants to get the most from our classes, so let’s set them up for success.
2018 IDEA® World Convention: An Epic Explosion
While life may not always be a highlight reel, thousands of the best personal trainers, group exercise instructors, fitness entrepreneurs and nutrition/wellness professionals added significant footage to their lives at this year’s IDEA World Convention, where everyday actions became epic adventures in education. At the 2018 event, held in San Diego, June 27–July 1, more than 14,000 like-minded pros converged to learn from more than 350 workshops and workouts taught by the industry’s keenest minds.