10 things about me as an instructor
Teaching Step Aerobics and What a Strange Trip it's Been...
- 41. Never in my dreams did I think I would be teaching aerobics.
- 42. First it was just looking for a class to take at the gym during lunch, then I got better at the class (Step), then they couldn't find instructors to teach at noon, then...
- 43. The gym manager joked and asked me "So when are you gonna teach?" I said, "moi?"
- 44. I was never someone who would say no before trying anything. Plus the fringe benefit of getting paid for working out - how cool is that?
- 45. The last time I could not fall asleep all night was the night before my first class.
- 46. Thought I would suck and it will be over with in two weeks. That was 1993. I am still teaching.
- 47. Most class taught in a day: 4. Different Ballys clubs taught: 15. Earliest class: 5:45 a.m. Latest class: 11 p.m. Biggest class: 95 people. Smallest: 2.
- 48. Total number of classes taught since 11/16/1993: probably over 3,500
- 49. At the current level of my classes, I call a 4-beat move every 1.6 seconds, or 38 moves per minute.
- 50. I get paid less than a newhire. Go figure.
