19/04/2026
I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend! This message is for fellow group fitness instructors who have tried to create a balance between delivering an effective class while preventing themselves from entering burnout phases. Teaching group fitness since 2009, one of the aspects of teaching which I found was occurring quite often was trying to manage and regulate how all the participants were feeling by re-enforcing what I knew one participant would find funny or what I knew the other would find helpful. Creating a rapport I find is important but I also realise that participants can manage their own feelings and this would allow more space for me as the instructor to be more present with the class, let the music speak, enjoy my job more with a more relaxed state of mind, which the members feed from. I find this balance seems to work for me and the members based on how my teaching has evolved, teaching in smaller class groups and also learning more about the body. Being a qualified soft tissue therapist now as well, being more focused on symptoms/issues if for example they have osteoarthritis, I am more focused on that which reduces the overthinking loop of worrying if it is something as an instructor that I have done anything wrong.
Out of interest, has any other fellow instructors found this or has it been different? Enjoy the rest of your weekend all 😀.