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I am thinking about taking the L-1 Course - its $1000 bucks... Wife thinks I am crazy but If I teach a few classes a month I can get free membership?  Dont know if I will really have the time to do any teaching, its not like I am going to take off of work to make $20 bucks an hour?  Owners of the gym are looking for people to do some Saturday classes so they dont have to work 6 days a week.. I do enjoy yelling at 40 year old women wearing yoga shorts and sports bras?

 
I am thinking about taking the L-1 Course - its $1000 bucks... Wife thinks I am crazy but If I teach a few classes a month I can get free membership?  Dont know if I will really have the time to do any teaching, its not like I am going to take off of work to make $20 bucks an hour?  Owners of the gym are looking for people to do some Saturday classes so they dont have to work 6 days a week.. I do enjoy yelling at 40 year old women wearing yoga shorts and sports bras?
Didn't @engineergurl do this a few years ago? 

 
I think she did? I wonder if she ever coached somewhere or if that was just before she moved back to Ga?

The owner used to have 3 part time coaches, basically members who got the "training" - but 2 have moved away so I can tell he is feeling a little stretched thin.  His wife used to coach about half the classes but lately she isnt doing more than 1 a day. Not sure whats up.   He asked me about it last weekend, but I sort of feel like I should be able to do most all the harder  movements first, which he says isn't required - 

I am working on a 5 year plan to exit the FT engineering world so who knows, I wouldn't mind being a part owner in one of these down the road.

 
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I think I have passed on too many opportunities to sell. So it will be here until it dies or is in the red...

Well maybe exit engineering is too strong but looking to exit full time engineering working for someone else... would like to do something else as I slide into retirement..

 
I think I have passed on too many opportunities to sell. So it will be here until it dies or is in the red...

Well maybe exit engineering is too strong but looking to exit full time engineering working for someone else... would like to do something else as I slide into retirement..
That's the only reason I've branded/logo'd up my racecar.  I don't do work now, but if I ever have the space to do side jobs, the car/"brand name" will be recognizable...

 
That's the only reason I've branded/logo'd up my racecar.  I don't do work now, but if I ever have the space to do side jobs, the car/"brand name" will be recognizable...
Yeah I also would like to do some things that I enjoy even if they don't pay fatty money, I really think once I get 2 of the 3 kids through college I will be through the worst of it and not really need as much salary by then...  My grandfather retired early from the mechanical engineering world to open up a small camera store.  

Hopped on the air bike at my NOT-CROSSFIT gym this morning and holy shit why is that so hard? 
Assault Bike? Yeah they are no fun, especially for those of you with short legs  😉  Yesterday one of the 4 rowers broke and the guy next to me had to finish out on the assault bike. In my head I was just like, dont make eye contact with him and feel obliged to trade!

 
Assault Bike? Yeah they are no fun, especially for those of you with short legs  😉  Yesterday one of the 4 rowers broke and the guy next to me had to finish out on the assault bike. In my head I was just like, dont make eye contact with him and feel obliged to trade!
Yeah, one of those. The only bonus was that I felt like I was in a Whitesnake video while I was on it. 

 
I wish one of the gyms I go to would get an assault bike.  I feel like its about the only thing you can use to get an hour's worth of cardio in about 17 seconds.

 
I like how it tricks you into thinking using your arms really hard will make it easier....

 
Fuck! So the woman who's been teaching my morning classes quit. When my gym moved into its new location, a lot of things worried me because it seemed like they jumped in without a business plan. So now she's leaving for all kinds of reasons and I'm doubting they'll be able to replace her anytime soon and now they've posted, "Hey, so morning classes are now evening classes. Hope that's not a big deal. We'll have times figured out tomorrow." WTF?! That's a BFD! Now I am doing the "do I join a new gym?!" scramble. 

 
that really sucks!  Is she going to a new place or just something else?

You are more than ready to move up to the cult!

Plus $110 a month for unlimited is a total steal!!!

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that really sucks!  Is she going to a new place or just something else?

You are more than ready to move up to the cult!

Plus $110 a month for unlimited is a total steal!!!
Looks like the new owners of the gym want her to work for free and she has a problem with that?! She is also looking to continue her personal training business, so we're looking at maybe continuing with her. 

$110 is more than the $75/month I'm doing now, but from the webpage I'm (shudder) interested. I'd get to lift big weights! Do you go everyday? 

 
But why on earth would they want the instructor to work for free? Are they short of cash?

I started out going 3X a week then 4X and now do 4-5 depending on work, They usually  have Saturday workouts but no Sunday. Saturdays are usually something "partner" workout related or lots of running (like 200M and 400M's) when its nice weather with some other BS mixed in (but its usually fun) -  For a few weeks I did 6 days a week and that really kicked my ass so I backed off from that.

I think you would like it, from stalking your HITT gym online,  the only major difference would be weights &  with new people they are very restrictive on weights until they feel you know the movements - for example it was very humbling for me, anything that was overhead I was only allowed to do them with just a broomstick for the first few weeks, then worked up to the ladies bar, then the 45 lb empty bar then weights.  You figure we are their revenue so if I get hurt because I dont know how to overhead squat and dont come back then they dont get paid.

Most follow a similar format but ours is:

Monday / Friday - Lower Body 

Tuesday / Thursday  - Upper Body 

Wednesday - Usually some high intensity cardio bullshit (wall balls, rowing, kettlebell swings, jump rope, etc) - around 30 min

Saturday - "Partner Workouts"

example from last Saturday:  ( and if you cant do pull ups then you do something like banded pull ups, ring rows, etc same for toes to bar,  lots of options to do other movements that suck equally) -   Id say less than 30% of the people at our gym do these "as prescribed" 

So my partner and I would do 10 cal's each until we each got to 50, 10 PU's until we each got to 50, etc)

          Teams Of 2 AMRAP x 30 Minutes100 Calorie Row100 Pull-ups100 Burpees100 Toes-2-Bar

 
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But why on earth would they want the instructor to work for free? Are they short of cash?
I'm guessing yes. They bought the building the moved into and I know from the listing it was over half a million (fatty cash). They also bought a ton of new equipment. On top of that, their main instructor/co-owner for all the kid ninja stuff broke his clavicle during the move (a giant wall fell on him). 

I think anyone else would have looked at the situation and said, "Hey, our fitness instructor is bringing in the cash for us right now. We should pay her and listen to her," but not the new owners. They totally lack any business acumen and it's awkward to watch it all fall apart in the first week in the new space. We were guessing it would fall apart, but not this fast.

I'm still on the hook to train for two half marathons this spring, which means running on Tuesday and Thursdays. The other days are rest or cross training and I've been liking lifting to cross train. 

Turns out one of the crossfit gyms is even closer to my house than my current gym. Score!

 
Oh so the old gym owners sold recently?   I bet that has to be a tough transition, especially if people are not good at playing nice with the people who pay them.

Well hopefully she can at least line up other work? (or was it a part time gig for her?)

There is a gal at our gym who qualified for Boston using our owners plan - she was doing 3 days a week XF and then running other days, she swears it made it so much easier to hit that time (something I have zero interest in)  - But I think those partner sessions Wednesday and Thursday have been a huge help for my running personally.

I think 90% of these gyms are full of the most mellow people you will ever meet - if you dont get that vibe when you go in just try the other one.  Kim (the wife) emailed the guy that owns ours and just set up a time to come in and talk - She went solo for a few months before I went -  Kim is actually super introverted when she isnt drinking so it was hard for her to do that but she was happy after the first day (if that info helps)

But hopefully we can compare murph scores this year!!!

 
Sounds like CSB needs to just make this gym work for her, by diving head first into the lucrative world of gym ownership and bringing the AM instructor back :D  

 
I wonder how many gyms with coaches / instructors really understand the  value of a good one.  Ours only has one part time coach at the moment, a fellow gym member who started coaching a few months ago. she is okay but just very quiet,  Its interesting to see the class sign ups shift based on what class she is teaching. Classes that are normally full with have 2-3 people in them.  I think the guy that owns are gym is just very good at his craft, its a "huge" drop off for anyone I think.  - But I sort of feel more comfortable being yelled at or corrected during  a class (because I don't want to get injured) and when I have a coach / instructor who doesn't ever say anything to me than I know they are either just inexperienced or afraid to speak up.

We used to have another female part time coach who was excellent, she was also a chemical engineer and just started travelling too much to do it anymore..

 
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