The truth about becoming a fitness instructor - mental & physical exhaustion, cost, training, etc. | Ep.9
Fun on Weekdays
Jenna Palek
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Well, I finally did it... I'm becoming a fitness instructor! In this episode I share my experience training to become a barre teacher. Is it worth it? Doing something new can be challenging, at times a little scary, but also very rewarding. I preach following your dreams and making it happen on my podcast, and I hope this episode serves as a reminder that you are the #1 thing getting in the way of going after what you want. Training overview, cost, mistakes, learnings, and allllll things barre teacher training!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody, welcome to Fun on Weekdays podcast. |
| 0:08.1 | For those of you who don't know me, my name is Jenna, and I'll be guiding you through |
| 0:11.0 | the next 30 to 40 minutes of today's episode. |
| 0:14.9 | Before we get started, is today anyone's first episode? |
| 0:19.0 | If you guys can't tell, this is my instructor voice, so you probably already read the title |
| 0:24.1 | for this episode. |
| 0:25.1 | I'm talking all about my experience going through fitness instructor training. |
| 0:28.9 | It's a lot of words, wow. |
| 0:31.2 | Because I finally bit the bullet, made the decision to just jump ahead first, and go through |
| 0:37.1 | training to become a bar instructor, and you may be wondering, wait, what? |
| 0:41.5 | I thought you said you were going to be a Pilates instructor months ago, and I was, turned |
| 0:46.8 | out that was not for me, there's a whole story to it, and before I get into today's episode |
| 0:51.3 | all about just fitness instructor journey, I wanted to share just some quick life updates. |
| 0:57.7 | Number one, addressing the elephant in the room, I am orange as hell today, because I |
| 1:02.7 | went to the CMT Awards last night, and I did a little self tanning, I have not self-tanned |
| 1:08.8 | in probably like six months. |
| 1:12.6 | I don't know, I've been ditching the self-tanner lately, Alex Cooper has been inspiring me. |
| 1:18.2 | I just feel like sometimes when I self-tanned I look really dirty, and it ages me, and then |
| 1:22.4 | it doesn't make my makeup look as good, so I did self-tanned, that's probably why I'm |
| 1:26.9 | very orange in this video, just ignore it, okay? |
| 1:30.3 | If you don't watch my podcast episode, then you have no idea what I'm talking about, but |
| 1:34.5 | if you do, my podcast is also available on YouTube for anyone who likes to watch. |
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