I have taken bodypump for years - I love it. I have never seen muscle definition in my body until I started doing bodypump. I've wanted to be an instructor for a long time. I was thinking about it a lot when Tj was last deployed, but it's an all weekend long thing and I didn't want to have to burden someone with the kids for that long. When Tj came home I was looking into it, but then I found out I was pregnant. I could have still gone through the training, but I just didn't feel well. I was always so nauseous. Well, finally I found a time that would work for me. I signed up back in July for training the weekend of September 14 & 15. I was so excited. I would be training on BP 87! About a week and a half before the training I received my release and the tracks I was to learn so I could teach them at training. I had the chest and back tracks. I looked at that stuff and thought - man, how am I supposed to learn this stuff?! I thought it was so easy! Well, it's not as easy as my instructors always make it look! But, I studied, practiced, listened to the songs over and over, and over again and finally had it memorized. I felt pretty good about it. Training weekend came and I headed out early for training - it was about a 45 minute drive. There were 15 people in my training - 13 women & 2 men. Some had experience in being instructors in other programs already. Some, like me, didn't. It was a great weekend. I learned so much. It was hard! We presented our first track on the first afternoon - I did the chest track first. I did good - no mess ups at all. I was a little nervous getting up there in front of everyone for the first time with the microphone on. The second day we presented our track again, then presented our second track later in the day. It went well too, I just rushed a little. We had a small run, for about 15 minutes, then came back to the gym for a pump challenge. It was so hard. The trainer set up 8 stations we had to rotate through. He set the weight for those stations - and it was A LOT of weight. Way more then you would ever normally use. It was just to show us how strong we really are and how much our bodies are really capable of. I was with two other girls in my group - one was great. The other drove me nuts. She was one of those who didn't really try all that hard. She would stand there doing nothing while the instructor was turned the other way, then work only when he was watching her. She complained and complained and complained some more. She drove me INSANE! At the end of the second day we received our feedback and found out if we had passed or not. There are three different kinds of passes - I got the highest pass - yay! All that hard work paid off. I was so happy. The instructor winked at me and told me to get started on learning the rest of the release and get ready to film. I have 60 days to send in my film to Les Mills so I can be fully qualified to teach by myself. I've been working hard and have 5 of the 10 tracks learned now. I'm hoping to have everything memorized and ready to film on Oct. 9...it's scary!
I've taught in my gym now about 6 times. Again, I was really nervous the first time. But, everyone is so nice and supportive, I'm no longer worried. I even messed up the first time I taught I was so nervous, but I didn't tell anyone and I kept going like nothing was wrong. No one but the other instructor knew.
Got my release! Now to study, study, study!!!
Off to training the first morning!
YAY! I PASSED!!!
At the gym, with my name on a poster telling me I was TEACHING!
What a great experience!
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