Exciting Times!

It's been quite the ride these last few weeks! School ended, I packed up most of my classroom and the jumped right into teaching a summer bridge program. I've been lucky enough to have been able to include Cassie as a student and she has done a great job learning the content and writing more in English, as she is usually immersed in Spanish most of the day. She has been writing crazy amounts in her writing journal and I am so proud of her. As fun as it has been, summer school will end in three days and it couldn't come soon enough. I am knee deep in learning new Les Mills releases for this weekend and the upcoming launch. Yesterday was a great day because my friend Ingrid, from Seattle, was in town staying with a friend and she came to my class in San Carlos! I stayed with her when I did AIM2 training in March and she has been enormously supportive during my journey. She is a trainer herself but just wanted to enjoy being a participant and it was so fun to have her in the front row of my class. I have a huge amount of respect for her and she has become a dear friend in the year since I met her in Dallas. After I auditioned a few weeks ago for CXWORX, I was asked to be a part of the new Premier launch of the Sunnyvale Super Sport location. This Premier launch means that 24 Hour Fitness is adding several LM formats and it's like a dream.... BodyCombat, CXWORX, BodyFlow and RPM to come to 24HF! Many Super Sport clubs are transitioning and adding these formats. I initially thought I'd do RPM as my next format because I would have a place to teach it and it would be great to add the cardio. After talking to Angie, my GM about it, the gyms closest to me, San Mateo and Millbrae, will not be getting RPM but BodyFlow, which is even more exciting because I do love that program but never thought about teaching it because I'm not very flexible. There are several classes being offered at the gyms but no instructors yet so I've signed up for initial training in July!Like any other format, I will train to increase my flexibility and as I have a passion for this program, I am confident I can learn to teach it. I just need to get through this weekend's launch so I can focus on flow. The weekend launches in Sunnyvale and San Jose have been unsettled because several LM people are coming to teach some of the classes and the schedule keeps changing. I was originally slated to team teach the first BP class with two other Instructors. Susan and Steven Renata and Ingrid Owen are all coming to be a part of the launch. I had heard that Steven R would be teaching RPM and may be a part of BodyPump as well so I have just been waiting for the dust to settle to see what my role would be. Today I received a call from Angie and stepped out of a planning meeting to take it. She told me to take a deep breath and not freak out. Huh? How does she know that about me? She then told me I would be team teaching BodyPump with Steven. I sputtered......"you mean shadow with him?" She said no, I'd be actually dividing tracks with him and teaching together. I literally started shaking and had to sit on the corridor outside the classroom. They call him Mr. BodyPump. He is currently the CEO of Les Mills West Coast, moved here from New Zealand to run the West Coast office, married to Susan, who is an International Program Director for BodyPump. Whoa. Can you say intimidated? I am honored to be able to share the stage with someone like Steven but I am still currently in freak out mode. I spent the day with Susan at Groundworks training a week ago and adore her. She is very down to earth and easy to talk to. I'd feel so much better if I were team teaching with her because at least I have met her. Kimi gets to team with her San Jose. I don't know Steven but I will in a few days! Angie told me it is a great opportunity to teach with him and I agree.....and can't believe that I get to do this. She told me she needed strong instructors for these launches and again, I am humbled that I get this opportunity. She decided to add another instructor so I wouldn't feel so much pressure. Now we are teaming with Orna, and between the three of us have already divided up the tracks. I am doing back, biceps and abs. At 11:00 I am teaching CXWORX technique and then I will team teach it with Wendy and am super excited about it - we trained and certified together. Now I will spend the rest of the week finishing summer school, the final packing of my classroom, polishing up BodyPump and CXWORX and then I anxiously will await the arrival of BodyFlow next week and take my fitness to another level :)