Entertaining work out today

So I thought I would try a different Goodlife this morning just to change things up a bit.  I ended up doing a body combat class at Victoria Terrace with a rather interesting instructor.  Actually, this guy was hilarious!  My first impression of him was not so good.  He was a little geeky and did not look at all like an instructor if you know what I mean (belly, bad posture, no muscle tone, etc) and all I could think of was: “Great!  Just my luck!  I should have gone to my usual Scarborough location”

Nevertheless, thankfully Goodlife’s classes are pretty standard and if you go to them often enough they are all pretty easy to follow.  Anyway, once he gets his music set up, after almost bursting our ear drums, he stands in front of the class and randomly starts to stretch (encouraging us to do the same).  We get started and of course I think to myself: “Just what I thought! He not only looks like a bad instructor, he is one!  His form was terrible, he was completely off cue and had no rhythm.   I kept wondering how this guys passed his instructor testing. But after the warm up, I began to see that although he was lacking in technique, he made up for it with his personality and motivational style.  He made me laugh and actually have fun, and because I knew the moves, it did not matter how horrible his instructions were.  He said things like: “o.k. now, I want you to wear your attitude… like a sweater vest!” I thought that was hilarious.  Then when the Pirates of the Caribean track came up (which is one of my favourites), he says to us: “Arrrhg, ships a-hoy…. That’s Ships ahoy not Chips ahoy!” Lol! Now I know why this guy passed his exam. He kicked butt on everything else that was not related to technique and instruction!  His motivation and passion for what he does was completely evident.  He is the only instructor I have seen actually run the two laps around the floor with us at the end of the class and not turn to his music.  He admitted to us his weakness to push ups and yet still chose to include them in his routine.  And the most impressive thing was that he knew all of his regular participants by name and very attentively asked each of them how they were. 

I’m glad I gave this guy a chance.  Although he is probably one of the worst instructors I have ever seen, he made me laugh and my work out was fun ;-)