Yet another “times flies” post from me – March 4th marks five years that I’ve been a personal trainer at Essential Fitness, LLC!
FIVE YEARS!
CRAZINESS!!!
The story of how I became a personal trainer is here. Everything is still true from that post – I LOVE seeing students grow stronger. I love getting paid to workout. I still teach Monday, Friday, and some weekends. And I still don’t plan to ever make this my full time job (the amount I teach now is perfect).
What I love about teaching strength classes:
- Teaching lets me do something I’m passionate about (which is rarely the case in my day job).
- Teaching encourages me to be a lifelong student of exercise.
- Teaching lets me be creative in a way I enjoy.
- Teaching lets me connect with lots of different, wonderful people (students, coworkers, and boss).
- Teaching encourages me to stay healthy (although I’ve definitely gone up and down in weight over the years).
- Teaching gives me an excuse to buy new music on iTunes!
- Teaching makes me patient.
- Teaching makes me happy!
I’m sure you’ll be seeing more “anniversary” posts in the future, and my continuing thoughts on teaching strength training!
Congratulations – I love a trainer who is so passionate and wants to make the class meaningful and fun for their students…I’d totally take a class from you if we were closer (although I know it would kick my ass, LOL).
Thank you! I wish you could take my class! I’d kick your ass in a loving way 🙂
Time DOES fly! I can’t believe it’s been 5 years already! Congratulations on such a big milestone!!! And on still loving what you do after that time! 🙂 Your passion and creativity show in every class you teach and I know it’s helped so many people work toward and reach their goals. You should be so proud of the huge positive impact you’ve made for so many people! (like me – thanks for getting my ass back into gear a couple years ago with boxing!)
I can’t really believe it, either! Thank you! And thanks for your kind words! I am proud of that impact! And I appreciate students like you who work so hard!
Having teachers/instructors who love what they’re doing as much as you do makes it really easy to work hard 🙂 Also, your sweet playlists help too ha ha ha!
Aww, thank you again! 🙂
I am currently working on a hip hop throwback one! There’s just so much great music out there!
Congrats on the five years! I love that one of the things you listed is that it gives you an excuse to buy music 🙂
Thanks! Yeah, I definitely pay a lot more attention to it now, than I did before teaching! Then, I’d just listen to the radio and old stuff I liked. Now I actively search for things to play in class.
Happy trainer-versary! Five years is a long time! I’m glad you’re still enjoying it and have that as a way to make a little extra money while doing something you love 🙂
Thanks! It does seem like a hella long time. An amount of time that makes me stop and think “how long will I be doing this?” even though I am enjoying it!
I can’t believe it has been five years already. I remember when you were documenting your study process! It’s great to see how much you’re getting out of it.
What’s the funniest thing that has happened in your class?
I can’t believe it either! Gawd, that was a HARD test. Ha ha.
Hmm. Funniest thing… is usually lots of ball related jokes. Ha ha ha. We’re all very mature 😉
Congratulations! I can’t believe it’s been five years! And I still wish I lived close enough to take your classes…
Thanks! I wish so too!!! It was so lovely that time we got to meet up in TX!!!
It was lovely! Well, maybe you and Steven will come to Europe one day and visit us (and then we can walk to the Starbucks at our train station and get you a mug from our city!)
YES WE WOULD LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE THAT!!!!