Where Does Reformer Instructor Confidence Come From?

Starting any new skill can be challenging and scary, particularly a skill like public speaking or reformer class instruction. Feelings of overwhelm and anxiety can quickly take over, rocking your confidence and inhibiting your natural expression. So how do you find the most confident and authentic teaching version of yourself? 

Embracing The Struggle

In order to grow we must push our comfort zone. Anxious feelings are a right of passage, the price of entry to the next best version of yourself. This energy is transformative, choose to see it as excitement and it will energise you.    

Preparation Is The Key

Confidence teaching group reformer comes from preparation. The intimate understanding of how every reformer exercise feels can only be achieved through hours of personal practice on the machine. Ultimately every instructor must understand the relationship between every body position, spring tension and consequently loaded muscle groups. If you can explain to your clients what they will feel and where they will feel it (in every exercise), you are on the right track to becoming an outstanding instructor. 

Find A Mentor

Finding the right mentor can take months to years off your carrier development. Find a mentor teaching the way you want to teach. Spending time around high performing instructors will make you better. They have a way of lifting everyone around them. Make time to see your mentor or mentors weekly for the best results.

The Journey Continues

The best instructors are still learning! With a growth mindset you will be open to the everyday opportunities to improve. Often stress is a good indicator of an area of potential growth waiting to be explored. 

- Nathan Ross Rees