Speaker 1: Okay, so I have to tell you about step today
Speaker 1: because it was just, I don't know, it was just fun,
Speaker 1: like genuine fun, and not because it was easy, because
Speaker 1: it was not easy. People were sweating, people were kind
Speaker 1: of like, oh my gosh, like that was good, but
Speaker 1: like everybody was so into it and we were laughing,
Speaker 1: we were cheering, we had a lot of like hands
Speaker 1: in the e woo. We had some messing up on
Speaker 1: the step, we had some cracking up, and we had
Speaker 1: like Okay, we're just gonna pick it right up and
Speaker 1: we're going to lower our expectation of perfection. And I'm
Speaker 1: just sitting at the front watching this happen and I
Speaker 1: can see everybody and I'm like, Okay, this is it.
Speaker 1: This is exactly the thing. Because yesterday on here I
Speaker 1: talked about wanting to build a space where beginners feel welcome. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so like that was kind of that whole episode yesterday,
Speaker 1: and today, walking into teaching the step class, it reminded
Speaker 1: me that it's actually more than just being beginning friendly.
Speaker 1: It's not just being welcome, but it's also something else too.
Speaker 1: And my favorite moment as a coach, and I coach
Speaker 1: a lot of classes, I've coached like over five thousand classes,
Speaker 1: and I've been doing this for over a decade, almost
Speaker 1: fifteen years actually, so I've had a lot of moments,
Speaker 1: but my favorite moments every single time is when I
Speaker 1: stop hearing like, wait, am I doing this right? And
Speaker 1: I start hearing people laughing instead. That to me, that
Speaker 1: shatters glass ceilings as an instructor, because usually when like
Speaker 1: that's usually when people stop worrying about what everybody else
Speaker 1: thinks in the room. And to me, my like hit
Speaker 1: nail on target is creating a room where people are
Speaker 1: okay to mess up and there's not a lot of
Speaker 1: expectation on themselves because like, that's when people start doing
Speaker 1: their best work. And I said that in class today too,
Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, when we first started, we had a
Speaker 1: few people that were stepping with me for the first
Speaker 1: time returning back to step, and we've had people that
Speaker 1: have been doing step for years as well in class.
Speaker 1: So I have to find a balance to both of
Speaker 1: those things and make sure that it is extra engaging.
Speaker 1: But the number one thing is that I want it
Speaker 1: to be a space where people don't feel pressured, and
Speaker 1: all the room was they were just connected all to
Speaker 1: each other and to me and it was it was
Speaker 1: so fantastic. And like when we have that expectation of
Speaker 1: we have no expectation, we're just gonna move and have
Speaker 1: a good time, that's when people end up a learning
Speaker 1: what the movements are and also working the hardest because
Speaker 1: then they're not so rigid in their movements. They can
Speaker 1: actually be like paw paw paw, and like when they're
Speaker 1: stiff and self conscious and watching everybody else out of
Speaker 1: the corner of the corner of their eye, Like that's
Speaker 1: what people would imagine that a fitness class would be like.
Speaker 1: But the contrast to that on the other side of
Speaker 1: the spectrum, when they're not caring and like, it's it's
Speaker 1: like more enjoyable. But it's also easier to pick up
Speaker 1: when we're not like hyper fixating on having that exact
Speaker 1: step at that exact moment. So that to me, is
Speaker 1: what creates consistency. It's creating a space that also people
Speaker 1: feel comfortable to return to. And I know when people
Speaker 1: hear this is a fun workout, and truth be told,
Speaker 1: years ago, I used to be this person too, Like
Speaker 1: you hear this is fun and your brain goes okay,
Speaker 1: So that's obviously not a real workout. Then it's like
Speaker 1: the bouncy Castle of fitness. But everyone left sweaty today,
Speaker 1: every single person, so respectfully wrong. Just because it's fun
Speaker 1: doesn't make it easy. It's fun and it's exciting, and
Speaker 1: it's an incredible workout. And this is genuinely what I
Speaker 1: wanted the Transformation Station to feel, like the entire I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say not just the existence of the Transformation Station
Speaker 1: when I first opened my first location when I was
Speaker 1: in my twenties, Like this is what I always aimed
Speaker 1: to hit the mark of and I kept falling short
Speaker 1: when I was younger, like falling short, falling short, And
Speaker 1: now like finally I've been able to cultivate that. And
Speaker 1: it's had to consist of a lot of boundaries and
Speaker 1: things that we talked about in the previous podcast about
Speaker 1: being behind, showing you behind a little bit behind the
Speaker 1: curtain of the gym. So like with those things, what
Speaker 1: is it with great with great things, because there's like
Speaker 1: great responsibilities or something. But anyway, like I always wanted
Speaker 1: a place where you can work hard without feeling like
Speaker 1: you have to impress anybody. I don't want to be
Speaker 1: there if I have to work so hard to impress people.
Speaker 1: This is what we are, this is what we have
Speaker 1: to offer. I'm here to have a good time, if
Speaker 1: you're here to have a good time. I want to
Speaker 1: work hard. You want to work hard. Let's move our
Speaker 1: bodies to the best of our abilities while having fun
Speaker 1: and not having that pressure of stress. Because I'll always
Speaker 1: say life is stressful enough. When you walk into the
Speaker 1: transformation station, I want your defense mechanisms to go deflated.
Speaker 1: You're allowed to learn something within our space. You can
Speaker 1: mess up a step, laugh about it aloud, you can
Speaker 1: yell and scream when you figure it out. No one
Speaker 1: is giving you a mark, no one's grading you. And
Speaker 1: then other people are like, yeah, I did that too,
Speaker 1: And then all of a sudden, the whole room is like,
Speaker 1: this is on fire. This is amazing. And I think
Speaker 1: that's the part of fitness that people miss because kindness
Speaker 1: doesn't mean lowering your bar. Fun doesn't mean lowering your bar.
Speaker 1: It's not let's take it easy on everybody, it's opposite. Actually,
Speaker 1: kindness it gets people to the bar. It's helping someone
Speaker 1: believe that they can actually reach and attain said bar.
Speaker 1: Today was literally proof of that. When people feel comfortable,
Speaker 1: like actually comfortable, not performing, comfortable, not worried. When they
Speaker 1: feel actually comfortable, they push themselves harder, not less, hard harder.
Speaker 1: And that's the gym that I want us to be.
Speaker 1: That's exactly it. That's the whole thing. I want people
Speaker 1: to feel comfortable that they can be themselves and have
Speaker 1: a good time and work to what their best ability
Speaker 1: is and feel free in the space. They don't have
Speaker 1: to feel like they're being judged, all right, So short
Speaker 1: and sweet two for two every day we're to Rea
Speaker 1: in a short podcast. Come check out the next episode tomorrow.
Speaker 1: This is it, so I'll catch you next time.