Becoming a Group Fitness Instructor and a Personal Trainer

I have started the process of becoming a Group Fitness Instructor. A Group Fitness Instructor is someone who leads a group of people in a workout class (typically something like kickboxing or cycling). Eventually I would like to be a Personal Trainer.

There are 3 reasons for why I am doing this:

1. I like to help people. I’ve helped people use their pc and I think I’m pretty good at it.
2. I’d like to have a back up career. Currently, all I have is web development and computer programming experience. If sometime in the future, I couldn’t find a job as a web developer, it would be nice to have a back up career.
3. I would also find it a real challenge. Physically I can do the workouts with no problem. It would be a challenge for me to get up in front of a group of 20-30 people and lead them in a workout. I also think this would lead me to becoming more vocal and it would help me in my personal and professional life.

I’ve recently completed the TurboKick training pretty hard in it. TurboKick is a cardio kick-boxing workout. I’m planning on having an audition later this year to teach it. I’m also making plans to get certified in the following Les Mills programs: BodyCombat, BodyPump, and RPM. I plan to get my ACE and/or AFAA Personal Training in late 2010 or early 2011.

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2009 Mini-Marathon

Today I ran the Mini-Marathon for the third time. Unfortunately, it was my slowest time to date. The big reason why I had my slowest time is I really didn’t train for it. I have been spending most of my time lately trying to build muscle mass and I’ve really layed off doing any cardio work.

Next year I will try to plan better and will hopefully be able to run the race again in under 2 hours.

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