<span style="font-weight: 400;">It is the question on everyone's lips, so let's explore it….</span>

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<h1><b>What Has Changed?</b></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">One way of looking at this is that we have been shunted forwards 10-15 years when it comes to technology in our industry.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Those (like me) who have always been adamant about the face to face aspect of our work have had to adapt very quickly to survive the effects of the virus and being forced into a lockdown. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">We have had to find ways to communicate online to stay in touch and offer our help while everyone has had both limited access to or no access to resources in gyms or facilities. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">We have had to get creative with bodyweight, household items, engagement tactics and communication skills. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">We have been encouraged to find lower cost solutions for those less financially able to afford our services either just now or always have.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">All of this also under the cloud of fear about the risk of losing our vulnerable loved ones.</span>

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<h1><b>What Has Happened As A Result?</b></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">We have become more technically savvy maybe, I certainly have!</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">Our confidence dropped and then rose again as we discovered solutions. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">We realised (having underestimated) how much we COULD do online AND how much clients could enjoy it!</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">We discovered new commercial pathways to reach even more people, maybe even your old school buddy who now lives 300 miles away…! </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">How cool is that!</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">We also realised maybe how little we could spend by stripping back our costs out of necessity. I am sure many of us have noticed how much we might have been spending on things we probably didn't really need…!?</span>

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<h1><b>What Does This All Mean?</b></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Well if I am honest, we all feel a certain degree of anxiety simply due to these unprecedented circumstances and the unknown. Yet I also feel there are positive things we could take from this whole experience, long term. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Having done a small poll on social media to ask what people did NOT miss during lockdown, I learned it has been a break for those who were stuck in that groundhog day, rushing around with no time to think, frustrated by not quite getting everything done, working long hours and feeling stuck in the slog. I also asked in my poll what people did miss and almost unanimously they stated physical contact, hugs and human contact.</span>

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<h1><b>What Does The Future Look Like For The Fitness Industry?</b></h1>
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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Online training is here to stay &amp; so the quality will improve dramatically</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Teaching PT’s how to deliver an online service will become apart of qualifications </span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Online training will expose weak players</span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Group training will overtake 1:1 for the face to face aspect of exercise for cost effectiveness </span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Training clients all over the world will be commonplace</span></li>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">While we have been discussing the effects of Covid-19 on our future, I also want to mention here my previous blogs about CIMSPA’s Chartered status and how they are both moulding the future of our industry. </span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">So further predictions with this in mind…...</span>

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 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Displaying your insurance &amp; qualification certificates will become a requirement </span></li>
 	<li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Clients will want to know you have Chartered Status</span></li>
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<h1><b>What Should We Do? Expect?</b></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">This really comes down to us, each of us individually and collectively.</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">If we listen, learn and invest into a carefully thought out future business plan that has all of the old traits blended with our plethora of new traits - surely that can only mean one thing?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">We will bounce back!</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">The UK (and everywhere) has been conditioned for the last 3 months to think about their physical health, to invest wisely into it, to take care of their mental health, to support each other….WE are the movement and exercise experts. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">WE are the ones who have sustained whatever we could offer and some are now able to offer more services than ever before, with lower costs, at lower prices!!</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">It is our voices that have been heard when we demanded more standards, better education, more skills, better recognition and look at us now!</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Everyone wants to access our services and there is plenty of room for everyone too.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Together we have the skills, the ability and the resilience to provide what the government has encouraged the entire nation to stick to above anything else over the lockdown - movement and exercise.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">With the emergence of fabulous applications like <a href="https://herspirit.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">HERSPIRT</a>, the rapid growth of <a href="https://www.cimspa.co.uk/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">CIMSPA</a> who have absorbed REPS membership and education companies doing all they can to offer you online education programmes in an endeavour to support you while you have the time to study during lockdown….we are still adapting and growing in a fluid economy that is unable to predict anything. </span>

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<h1><b>Can We Predict What The Future?</b></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Sure why not?</span>

<span style="font-weight: 400;">We can schedule time for positive action…... right now! Go on, do it! Find your diary….we will wait!</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Ok now you're back, we can book CPD’s and courses to improve our knowledge and skills while we can and while its cheaper! Yes add this to your diary now….</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">We can hone and practise our ability to deliver movement programmes online - with a view to this complimenting our face to face services. </span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">If we ALL do ALL of the above sure we can predict a bright future for our wonderful industry?!!?</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">PLEASE don't get left behind...reach out if you need some help!</span>

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<h1><b>What Can WE Do To Help YOU?</b></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: 400;">We would like to hear from you about your biggest struggles, your ideas and thoughts for the future and ways in which you feel Biomechanics Education might be able to help…</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">One thing you have been asking of us has been online education and so we have done this and created an entire portfolio including the amazingly popular LOCKDOWN BUNDLE </span>

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

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">You also asked for cheaper monthly payments for the <a href="https://www.biomechanicseducation.com/biomechanics-coach-diploma-2/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Biomechanics Coach Diploma</a> payment plan so here it is:</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">We DO NOT want to make anyone financially uncomfortable but we DO want to help!</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">Our brand new £100pm plan gives you ALL you need to up skill, in your own time, with blended learning resources and both online and face to face workshops that are all CIMSPA &amp; STA accredited.</span>

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<span style="font-weight: 400;">We want to help as so many of you are wanting to access this course so we have created a plan that we hope will help at this current time!</span>
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