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What do you guys do when you feel you've lost motivation to train or teach?!? Could certainly do with some inspiration right now :-/

THANK YOU :-)

I definitely know how you feel. I hate to pull the winter depression card, but in addition to occasional laziness attacks I tend to have major issues with dragging my *** to the gym during the fall/winter season. (I live close to the Arctic Circle, and it's really dark here during the winter. People act like zombies.) I'm a participant and not an instructor, so I can cut myself more slack - but when I really don't feel like getting up off the couch, I try to remind myself of the feeling I get when I arrive at the gym, the smell of old sneakers and sweat... LOL not to mention the euphoria I get after a tough workout.

Sometimes I think it's good to just take a break, though. I recently had to stay off gym for a week because of a back injury, and I found it was exactly what I needed. A short period of rest can be just the right thing to get your motivation back. (Not sure how this'll work with the instructors.) After all, one of the symptoms for overtraining is lack of motivation in training. I find this theory valid e.g. when I overdo a certain class and get tired of it (at the moment I'm so sick of BS after a few month long period of doing it fanatically, so I'm compensating for it with other classes).

aramisa:

What do you guys do when you feel you've lost motivation to train or teach?!? Could certainly do with some inspiration right now :-/

THANK YOU :-)

If you are an instructor, then make a mix of 10 songs which are all happy songs for you. So take the songs which YOU like an do it in a class for 1 or 2 times. I do it sometimes and find my fun back to teach.

Goodluck

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Stay with the fight!

When I've lost that lovin' feeling, I find a short break from my training regime helps me  to re-energise and rediscover what it was that initially made me yearn for the program.

I agree with making a mix of your favorites, or getting someone to team-teach with you?

aramisa:

What do you guys do when you feel you've lost motivation to train or teach?!? Could certainly do with some inspiration right now :-/

Have a long hard look at the "why?"... Are you doing the same thing each time?

I've often said, when people comment that "it's about them not us", that this isn't a good way to look at it. To a degree it has to be about you as an instructor since, when you're happy, this will transmit to your class.

 

There are many times that I feel unmotivated to go and do a class... it's astonishing how that feeling lifts when the music kicks in though. If that's not happening for you then figure out whather you need a break or if there's something else that's affecting the way you feel.

 

Perhaps watching a back release to pick up stuff you missed or forgot will help? I know watching D and R teach is totally cool, PLUS the intro music with the blurbs of all the programs always gets me all kinds of riled up to teach.

 

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Certified Body Combat and Body Pump instructor, Spin certified cycle instructor, Certified Personal Trainer.

I use the saying "build a bridge and get over it".  I just go and teach my class, because once i'm teaching i'm loving it and having fun.  The quarterly workshops always bring me back up as do the new releases.

aramisa:

What do you guys do when you feel you've lost motivation to train or teach?!? Could certainly do with some inspiration right now :-/

THANK YOU :-)

You know I actually felt like this a few months back. It got so bad for me, that I almost quit teaching altogether. I think we get so wrapped up in the numbers and what's next, and what release am I going to do, is this better than this, is x instructor better than x instructor. Finally, for me was just to go back to the way I felt when I first started and all of that stuff didn't matter. Whether it's 5 or 35, I'm just happy to get paid for what I love to do. Then I noticed alot more smiling faces. Sometimes when you lose that feeling, it comes across (which makes it such a chore to teach).

aramisa:

What do you guys do when you feel you've lost motivation to train or teach?!? Could certainly do with some inspiration right now :-/

THANK YOU :-)

A particularly new gym member asked me for some advice about Group Fitness and weight loss.  She had never been inside a gym before, let alone be a member, and has always been unhappy and depressed with her body shape and size.  After general recommendations she started with the Les Mills programs, mainly Combat and Pump.  Over the 2 years that I've known her Sarah has lost over 15kgs, dropped clothing sizes, and has never been in a relationship until a year ago (now recently engaged).

Sarah is just one of the reasons why I'm still an instructor.  I don't think that I caused the change.  But I'd like to think that her first Combat experience with me had something to do with it.

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For me, I listened BC songs on my way to the GYM.
It keeps me in the mood of "stay with the fight".

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Stay With the Fight.

i really feel that way at the moment with BC41 which is wierd because I loved it so much as participant but to teach its just not doing it for me.

BC40 was going off and i was firing on all cylinders but currently i'm having no joy whatsoever.

I think I was on such high going to NZ for the filmings and then doing the awesome SQWs in UK and Sweden with Rach...now it seems such downer to be teaching it... wierd i know! just not getting that adrenaline rush...

suppose its a kind of self fulfilling prophecy...instructor not enjoying teaching/release for whatever reason...this affects the instruction and members pickup on this and it affects the class "dynamics"...instuctor feels like they are failing because class not going off like it used to be...

i think maybe its time to be a little sefish and go back to some fav tracks instead of flogging bc41 hell or high water... i guess every instrructor has a few nemesis tracks just got to accept it. (for BC41 it is track 4 and 5).

Never thought i'd say this but loving attack more than combat these days! so much more of a feel good factor

 

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There's more than one way to skin a cat

I think you pretty much nailed it there Rich! I was on such a high after attending the 2 classes with Rachel on Super Saturday, sooo looking forward to starting to teach it, but since I've just moved from Oxford to London i have not had anywhere to teach, or practice (apart from my own living room, not very inspiring) I just haven't gotten into it.... I LOVED 40, this being my first "real" release (I trained on 39) and I knew it in and out....

Feel like my motivation is creeping back, have follower the different advice from all of you guys, done some different classes, been focusing on BB and yoga, military fitness boot camps and gotten back into my running so now i guess the next step is to learn BC41 properly and get back into it :-)

 That's the whole point isn't it... STAY WITH THE FIGHT!!!!

sooo looking forward to starting to teach it, but since I've just moved from Oxford to London i have not had anywhere to teach, or practice

Ahhhhh, I might just be able to help with that one .

I watch this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-cVAES9kAI it always gives me back my mojo!