When I first started teaching, I just left with a stack of fivers. It was great. I had a part-time job anyway so those fivers were my going out & food money, the job covered the mortgage and the bills and my credit card was fun for everything else. Plus I was in my twenties, the future seemed a long way away and I was 100% sure everything would be fine in a few years time and I’d just suddenly be great at managing it all.      I f**ked up SO BAD the first year I had to prepay

Yep it’s always nice when you deliver that EPIC session when everything goes smoothly, you dance or coach like a dream and you finish feeling like a fitness guru. It’s great. But anyone who teaches knows that generally doesn’t happen week after week.  The speakers at my school had a loose connection which meant that every time we got to about the 38 minute mark, the sound would drop off. I guess it got all hot and bothered, a bit like me teaching in the summer. They eventuall

The fitness world has changed over the last 5 or 6 years… I believe in a more accelerated way because of the amount of time we spent on our devices over the lockdown years. Fitness professionals all talked about resistance training, getting back into the gym and the like. Folks of 40, 50 and 60 used social media more and learned how to have access to information they perhaps wouldn’t have thought of looking before, or might not have thought applied to them. These gave natural