For some weird reason it feels like I've been teaching BodyPump a lot longer than just 3 classes. Well, I did do the two classes where I team taught with others, so it really is 5 classes but only 3 solo. Tonight I did my first sub job tonight for Kristin in San Mateo at the Super Sport and it was a lot of fun! Again, had that same stupid grin on my face as I drove home and when I was telling Franklin about it. I simply cannot believe how much fun I am having. The Group X room is smaller, Golds/Crunch sized and just had a feeling of intimacy that I miss from when I was just a participant. Hee Hee that was NOT that long ago!! But it was much easier to connect with the members, although I discovered tonight that the more I do that, the more I lose count and screw up choreography! I know it's only my 3rd class but I have to get this down. I KNOW the chorey; yet at each class I blow it at some point because I am either coaching or connecting and lose track. I suppose it will come with time; I just have this sense of urgency to be great at this and I don't have a whole lot of patience.
I was really nervous teaching somewhere that I had no one that I knew; my awesome friends came through for me. Stephanie, Janet, Jeanett and Julie came and it made me feel SO much better having those familiar faces staring at me. You could tell, though, that there were some experienced pumpers in class. I got some smiles, some back and forth, and head nodding from quite a few. I even got some thank you's at the end!
Time wise, we started at 5:35 - there was a spin class right before, taught by my Area Group X Manager. She ended up assisting me a bit with the sound system and then watched from the corner of the room for the first two tracks. I was surprisingly not nervous even knowing she was there - after an observation in my classroom AGAIN today by a SM County Office of Ed person and the Head of English Language Develop. watching me do an ELD lesson....this was a piece of cake. It wasn't until a bit later in class that I blew it a bit!
Of course my friends all wanted me to cut lunges if we ran short on time - sorry ladies - kept them, REMEMBERED shoulders, hahaha, but looked at the clock and we had 7 minutes to get in abs and cool down so I chose cool down. Happy to see that even though there was clean up happening, the majority of the group stayed on the floor with me to stretch. I am just going to continue to put out there how important it is to do it.
All in all, I finished the class at 6:28. So if I had done abs, even though it is less than 4 minutes, it would have gone over. With Latin Explosion Dance right after, and a line of NO LIE, 56 people waiting, I guess I made the right decision. Especially as a sub. But I still find it inexcusable to cut anything so my personal goal is to be a 24Hour instructor that consistently gets in a full class. There, I said it. And now I am going to shoot for it.
I have to start getting this down, though, and smooth. I need to get my video going. Had coffee with Alex yesterday and he said he is coming in on a Sunday, maybe even this weekend (crap) to begin filming me. I can just picture it now: total chaos. I cannot imagine being anything but completely nerve wracked with a camera pointed at me. Like 30 pairs of eyes aren't nerve wracking enough. But it has to be done, and once I submit and PASS, yes, pass, my video, then I can really begin to play with this and have fun. I cannot wait!!!
I thought again tonight, as I was deliriously giddy from class, that just 6 months ago I was desolate at the thought of no more BP in my life. And now, I am deliriously happy to have it. And teach it. And have so much fun with it. To be able to go to a "job" where I don't dread it AT ALL, where I am nervous but it's a happy nervous, where I am excited to show up.....I haven't felt that in a long time. I am not in this for the money, but today we found out our team was accepted to go to the biggest youth soccer tournament in the country, a mini-world cup, seriously, in Dallas in April. So I decided that all the money I earn teaching BP (as little as it is) will go into our Dallas trip, since all 4 of us are going. Any extra money goes to that pot. Because the well is pretty dry so it will take some creative thinking to pull off this trip. But you know what?
I have discovered, over the last few months, that nothing is impossible. No dream is too big. I just have to think it, hope for it, see it, believe it can happen, and feel like it already has. And so it will be.
I just have to close this with saying I am extremely proud of my husband. It is 11:30 and he is at the gym. Yes, at the gym. He has a free membership now because of my job and has been, since last week, walking 3-4 miles daily during Alex's soccer practices. Today we took Cassie to the doctor and he didn't walk, and announced at 10pm that he was going to go on the treadmill. He called his friend who was supposed to join the gym with him, couldn't get a hold of him and he went anyway. So off to bed for me, while my hubby is trying really hard to make some positive changes in his life. Without me nagging anymore, just by example.
How cool is that?!
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