Name: Denise
Instructor at Gold's Gym, Gurnee, Illinois, USA! I've been teaching BodyPUMP for about 7 years now - my no.#1 passion! Teaching BodyStep for about 3 years, LOVE IT!!
My words to live on:
Think strong, work hard, challenge yourself & others!!!!
I also found this fantastic saying on a marine's t-shirt as he walked by..."PAIN...weakness leaving the body!" I love that!! Also, HAVE FUN, FUN, FUN...love everyone, and they give back ten-fold! and...my absolute favorite that I feel...."change someone's life, and you change yours"....it's awesome to teach, and witness changes in people and feel that you've helped contribute to their good health!!
I am a 41 year old woman, yes, 41, never thought I would feel so great, and never any question that I wouldn't have fitness in my life in some way shape or form!... I can still lift some serious weight, and power knees in step are my favorite, the more the merrier!!
I've loved sports all my life! At 14 yrs. old, I joined a Nautilus club and did some weight training, WOW!...lots of muscular endurance and changes. I was hooked on all fitness!!!!! I've been in swimming, and gymnastics, cheerleading...of course some of the latter are parts of my FUN past as a younger "kid"!
I have two kids, 15 yr. old boy Evan, and a 12 yr.old girl Allegra, both seriously involved in soccer, swim team, tumble/trampoline team (national level)...
Les Mills....I have to say I'm the one who collects autographs at the quarterlies, love all of those people!!! To this day, BStep has proven to be the hardest challenge to me, having no previous step instructing experience! I am a "quietly proud" person to have taken on this personal challenge, and managed to get thru the training barely..... not without almost walking out of training! thinking "what am I doing, I can't do this...well...with support from those in class...DID IT!
Like Nike says..just do it, and man..I am glad I did!! My motto, don't let yourself ever say NO, because YOU CAN!! It gets easier with time I'm finding out! YIPPEE! Classes are packed, doing well and energetic, it is a RUSH!
BodyAttack is on my agenda...did it with Mark Sinclair, and Joella Hopkins at the Midwest Quarlerly...WOW!! IT ROCKS!! I think that was probably one of the MOST EVER intense workouts I've done in my life, and I've been working out for 28 years consistently!! IT WAS TREMENDOUS! The athleticism in that class is so huge!!
Love all Les Mills programs!!! Ultimate goal...make it to New Zealand someday to get into a taping of a new release for Pump or Step and meet the "CREW"! What a highlight of my life that would be!! Hey, equivalent to going to a Bon Jovi concert!...It would be the BEST! Hee hee I sound like a kid! Okay, I've syruped up the screen with my passion of Les Mills and totally wrote a novel! Have a GRAND DAY, Stay STRONG, Bend a little, Lift a little more, and smile all the way through!!!!!!!!