What really helped me when I just started is: listening very good to all the feedbacks of instructors and especially of the participants. Watching especially the new ones or those ones who don't follow the class regulary (so, they don't know the choreo that good as somebody who hardly misses a class) helps a lot to get an ...

Hi everyone,   I intend on becoming a Combat instructor one day and obviously want to be a kick-a** instructor that participants will have fun with. I have 3 Combat instructors at my gym and they each have characteristics that I really admire and hope to adopt as part of my training style.  What are some traits or things that your ...

Just wondering how other instructors have gone getting BodyJam to their club and doing initial training without the experience of participating regularly? My club is 3 hours away from another club offering Jam classes, so we only get a Jam class when travelling out of town or the rare (5hour drive) to a quarterly. We got BodyVive when it first ...

So it was time for my yearly review, and the group fitness manager provided me with a copy of the class that she watched for me to watch as well. This is the first time that I have watched myself teach since I videotaped myself for certification. All I can say is-WOW! Not that I was amazed at how great of a teacher I am (watch out G! ), because I ...

Hey to all of my enthusiasts across the globe who are fighting globesity with fitness fervor!  Peace and love.....these are two words I live by and I cannot describe how they have been absorbed by Body Combat.  For smigden of time I wasn't at peace becaue I could not find something to be excited about and then I found BC and even though ...

I went along to the Wellington Les Mills Recruitment Evening tonight to find out a bit more about how to get into instructing Combat... Was great to cover the local way of getting into instructing!   I'm now no longer thinking about instructing Combat. Instead, planning the path to make it happen!

Hi everyone! My name is Amy and I'm extremely interested in becoming a BJ instructor. However, I've recently moved to an area where there are no gyms that offer Les Mills classes and so I'm stuck on how to become one. If anyone can lend any advice at all, please do! About me: I lived in Wilmington, NC before this, where I attended BJ classes ...