Be Yourself

I cannot stress this enough. If you are going to teach fitness classes you need to be yourself. I will say it again, you need to be yourself.

No one likes a fake. People see right through it. Just because you teach a program you learn from a dvd doesn't mean that you need to copy the people on the dvd. You may not believe it, but your members come to your classes for the workout and they also come for you. People develop connections with us, and we develop connections with them. These connections go beyond knowing someone's name. Over time we learn about who they are outside of the gym and we may even become a bigger part of their lives than we ever thought we would. When you are genuine, these connections are real and meaningful not just something you "have" to do to have classes on the schedule.