How Some Simple Fitness Courses Lead Me To My Dream Job
After taking group fitness classes at my local gym for several months I considered getting a fitness job. Prior to this, fitness jobs were never something that I would have thought about. I come from a very intellectual family, who are not very athletic. Pretty much anything involving scholastic enterprises was valued as opposed to anything to do with sports was not. My parents got upset when I decided to take fitness courses in college and we ended up fighting about it. I was interested in learning about human physiology while keeping my body healthy in the process, a concept my parents couldn’t understand. If I had become a doctor, they would have gotten it right away, but taking a fitness course was something that seemed like sheer madness to them.
“…I was halfway through the fitness courses and starting to think seriously about my future.’Due to this attitude, I was well on my way to a job as a banker before I realized that it really wasn’t something I wanted to do. I hate sitting at a desk all day, and don’t really care much for money or figures. I wanted to take some fitness courses and see where they took me. When I first started taking the fitness courses, I had no real plans for a career as a fitness instructor. I signed up for fitness instructor classes because I figured that was just the best way to learn fitness training inside and out. Before I knew it, I was halfway through the fitness courses and starting to think seriously about my future. I got into a conversation about it with one of the fitness class instructors at the gym. I told him about the fitness courses I had been taking and he started telling me about a job opening at that very gym! I decided to get my resume together and go for it. I was hired for the job as their new personal fitness instructor!
Nowadays I lead my own fitness course about three times a week. I have made it my mission in life to encourage other people to get more involved in personal fitness. I think that there are so many unhealthy, unhappy people who can benefit greatly from a little bit of exercise. For me the key is to make the classes fun - fitness courses should not be about grunting and sweating with no fun. I believe it should be about entertainment as well as exercise. This has been my philosophy all along and I bring it to the classroom every lesson.
