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I have a confession.
I’ve been a bit quiet on the email & blog front recently… which is a little odd for me because I love writing and jus
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Anna Martin
- Jul 13
- 3 min
Promoting Fitness Classes In Your Local Area - Marketing Ideas for Fitness Instructors
Whilst numbers are definitely back on the up, promoting community fitness classes locally still requires effective marketing strategies...
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Anna Martin
- Mar 20
- 2 min
Dispelling myths without calling people out
On the daily we hear things that we don’t agree with and we probably wish our client base wasn’t exposed to. Sometimes we REALLY want to...
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Anna Martin
- Mar 13
- 2 min
Self Comparison is the Thief of Joy?
We’ve all done it. Scrolled through social media and seen a video of another instructor all busy and buzzing and feeling that green eyed...
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- Mar 30, 2022
- 3 min
Top 5 Courses/Qualifications for ETM Instructors After Qualifying
There are no two ways about it, group exercise is the mainstream and people of all shapes, sizes and interests are attracted to classes...
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Anna Martin
- Mar 23, 2022
- 3 min
5 Systems That I Could Not Live Without
I know, we are run off our feet most of the time. Life is a bit hectic as a self-employed class instructor, personal trainer or dance...
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Anna Martin
- Feb 21, 2022
- 3 min
Inspiring & Feeling Inspired
Oh my, we really do work in a job where we expend a lot of energy on motivating and inspiring other people to live their best lives....
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Anna Martin
- Feb 17, 2022
- 4 min
Top Tips for Surviving Self-Employment
All those years ago when I quit my job as a Key Account Manager for a freight forwarder, little could I imagine what lay ahead for me....
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Anna Martin
- Feb 7, 2022
- 4 min
Looking After Our Best Product - ourselves..
The difference between being a brand new injury-free fitness instructor versus one that has been around the block a few times is pretty...
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Anna Martin
- Jan 3, 2022
- 4 min
Diary of a Group Ex Instructor - Blog 3
Diary of a Group Ex instructor Starting 2022 - A little bit weird January has always been my best pick up time. I would put my timetable...
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Anna Martin
- Dec 20, 2021
- 7 min
Building PT from your Group Ex Business
With everything we have had to deal with in group ex over the last 15 months, it’s no wonder lots of instructors are adding personal...
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Anna Martin
- Dec 8, 2021
- 3 min
Diary of a Group Ex Instructor - Blog 2
What a weird ass year we are coming to the end of. And to be quite honest it still feels like it should be October but instead most of us...
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Anna Martin
- Dec 1, 2021
- 4 min
Building that January timetable - Guilt Free
It’s a toughie, deciding what you should put or keep on your timetable for January, especially this January in particular. I’ve had a lot...
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Anna Martin
- Nov 1, 2021
- 2 min
Planning a Booty Blast Class
This has to be one of my most popular non-cardio classes. For shizzle. It’s not fair to judge our resistance classes on the same scale as...
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Anna Martin
- Oct 25, 2021
- 3 min
Diary of A Group Ex Instructor - Blog 1
Well, this weekend we hit FitJam, my first face to face event since Jan 2019 and it did not disappoint. I was KNACKERED before I left,...
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Anna Martin
- Sep 1, 2021
- 3 min
The Flaws of a Group Ex Instructor
Aren’t we so hard on ourselves?! We spend so much time worrying about what we aren’t so great at that we forget to celebrate the things...
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Anna Martin
- Jan 1, 2020
- 5 min
How to plan a banging non ETM warm-up…. quick & easy!
Creating your own freestyle classes can be a daunting prospect. And I will not deny I LOVE teaching pre-choreographed workouts, they...
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Anna Martin
- Jan 1, 2020
- 8 min
My Top 5 Tips to Resistance Train the Shizzle Out Of Your Class
My resistance classes have always been my biggest retention tool. They have been my USP in my local area, bridging the gap between doing...
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Anna Martin
- Jan 1, 2020
- 3 min
The Dance Fitness Artillery
So I'm currently dying after teaching dance fitness for the day in a local school for their 'Health Awareness Day'.... I had Year 1s...
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