<span style="font-weight: 400;">The rivalry between these 2 professionals has been apparent for years, often with a ‘them and us’ type of mentality in gym facilities. </span>

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<b>The Rivalry</b>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Many PT’s do not think it is possible to safely coach a group of different levels at one time AND to music!</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">PT’s get frustrated by new members simply going straight into classes when they have not been coached into good movement by them first.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">PT’s can also get frustrated by Group Ex Instructors who simply beast their participants ruining their knees and backs.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Group Ex Instructors often do not really understand why 1:1 PT is popular since it must be SO boring exercising with one person.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Group Ex Instructors see PT’s doing group PT and wonder why they don’t simply send them into the classes?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">ALL Group Ex Instructors KNOW the challenges they face teaching exercise to a group of people.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Group Ex Instructors get frustrated by... </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">..the newbies who ALWAYS stand at the back?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">..the participants who never tell you about their injury until halfway through the class?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">..the fact everyone is so different you have to be seriously skilled at your verbal cueing to get everyone doing the same thing but within their limits?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">..that you have newbies with advanced in the same class?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">..that your clients ask you impossible questions about their bodies that you really don’t feel are possible to answer when you start your next class in 20 seconds?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Now most of you will know group exercise has certainly been a passion of mine for almost 30yrs because I really enjoy the atmosphere of a group. The key principle being that we have a lot of fun while getting fit.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Asking your PT client to break into their favourite dance moves probably isn't appropriate in one to one sessions right!?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Then there are also the ‘moments’ like when one of the very quiet ‘back row’ girls came up to me at the end of a class with tears in her eyes, put her hand on my arm and said emphatically; </span>

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<i><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Thank you I really needed to laugh like that after the week I have had”. </span></i>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Now I have no idea what happened to her that week, and I don’t need to, but that demonstrated how we can even unknowingly be helping others within the group setting without individuals feeling exposed.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">BUT</span>

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<b>Group Exercise Also Drives Us NUTS Too!!</b>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Everyone is different, moves differently, has different body types, different injury history, different lifestyles, are different ages, has different levels of fitness and different characters. Hell we all wake up in different moods some days!</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">As we look at one person who we feel could squat a bit lower, we worry about saying it out loud as the one who is already almost at full range may try to go further due to hearing the verbal cue for someone else to go lower!</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Encouraging one to do a tuck jump while simultaneously saying to others to simply box jump.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">It seems the days of beginners, intermediate and advanced classes have gone!!</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">So for those PT’s who might consider group exercise as unsafe or is ruining people, please recognise how we can work TOGETHER for the health of our gym members.</span>

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<b>Let’s Work Together!!</b>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">So with good intention, often I find myself doing ‘clinics’ at the beginning or at the end of my classes to educate them on WHY they might be unable to squat or what a good deadlift should look like, how they can use foam rollers or should see a one to one professional for bespoke exercise prescription.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Sometimes I have done handouts and have been known to set them homework or tasks to make them aware of their own physical abilities. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Their movement issues often have nothing to do with </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">technique </span></i><span style="font-weight: 400;">because no amount of teaching points, coaching cues or guidance can help them during a group class or even if I try speaking to them individually afterwards. Just this week we had a 4 Sign and foam roller education for 10 minutes before the class. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Out of 22 participants just 3 had used a foam roller and none really understood what it was for! Most knew me and so had done my 4 Sign pelvic anti spasm previously so we all did that prior to starting the class, while I explained how these complementary preparation techniques were not really even a warm up, they were actually </span><i><span style="font-weight: 400;">preparation for the warm up!</span></i>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">However what I do recognise is that some of these individuals really do need some one-to-one training, to improve the way they move with bespoke exercises. This is where I refer them to the PT within the club. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">I am stunned that ALL clubs don’t have this set up as a trained SYSTEM!!</span>

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<b>A Member/Participant Pathway System</b>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Now if both Group Ex instructors AND the PT’s within the club had common skills AND were given a system to follow when someone presented with a particular issue this would solve a lot of this. Group Ex instructors support who they can (the low risk participants) and identify the higher risk ones to refer out the their PT colleagues. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">The PTs learn to assess and correct intrinsic biomechanics and prepare members for the classes while giving them some bespoke training. </span>

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<b>What Group Ex Instructors Can Do</b>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">OK so I recognise not all group exercise fans/participants are going to buy into some one to one sessions but with a little bit of education on what could be causing their knees to cave in during lunges during our classes can go along way - they trust us!!</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">More often than not they have just spent 8 hours sitting at a desk after driving to work and then they drive to your class and expect their hips and spine to function normally!</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Group Ex participants make up a huge % of gym membership, they are super keen to improve the way they look and move and are an avid and trusting audience that come back to see their group fitness instructor week in week out, often multiple times a week.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Imagine how many members we influence up to every week AND while getting paid to market our ideas to them. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Group Ex instructors you could approach the PT’s in your gym and ask them if they would like you to refer your participants to them. If they are open to this (they would be daft to turn you down right?!) ask if you could sample a session so you could talk to your people about it.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Group Ex instructors could design handouts that help clients beyond your classes and cross link it to the PT’s.</span>

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<b>What PT’s Can Do</b>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">PT’s really should start talking to the Group Ex instructors more, building a relationship with these passionate professionals who can directly refer people with good reason and regularly. Maybe offer to train the instructors at a reduced rate or even for free so they can talk about the benefits of your one to one training to their class members.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">PT’s could design a small group PT package or a special arrangement for these participants where they can share the cost with their friend and still enjoy the ‘group’ feel even if it is just 2 or 3 of them for example.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Even as PT’s you might want to consider delivering group exercise as a paid way to advertise yourself to a new market of gym members!?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">For those clients you have, who can’t afford as many session as you feel they need each week, you could suggest they attend your Group Ex colleagues classes to ensure they are more likely to reach their goal, by increasing their activity levels and keeping them moving.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">So I recognise many of you may well be doing some of this already but for those who aren't it might be something to seriously consider. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">There is room for all types of exercise from group to one to one - lets work together for better duty of care of our people, right!?</span>

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