Last month I said I was going to be doing something surprising on the 21st of January. Then, a few days later, I said that the surprise sadly had to be postponed until February due to an ice/snow storm in Pittsburgh.

February is almost over and the surprise happened yesterday.

I’m a certified Spinning instructor!

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A little background: I started regularly attending spinning classes with my mom and sister in the fall and my mom commented on how it didn’t seem too hard to teach a class. I agreed (to an extent.. lol) and thought nothing of it.

Fast forward to Christmas. My parents bought me the materials/orientation pass/exam to become a certified Spinning instructor through Maddogg Fitness.

I was really surprised and nervous.

I had to read the instructor manual before the spring semester for PSU began and my orientation (class day of learning) was scheduled for January. I couldn’t attend the January orientation because Pittsburgh got a mega snow storm so I rescheduled for February.

Going into the class yesterday I had so many thoughts swirling through my head as to why I couldn’t become an instructor:

• I’ll never get hired, I’m too young
• I’m too shy to teach a Spinning class
• I don’t even know if I’ll like Spinning
• I haven’t done Spinning long enough
• I don’t have cycle shoes, biking gloves, etc.

Now that the orientation is over and I’m certified, I feel a lot more confident, but not 100% confident in my skills and abilities. I think part of this is my personality. I’m a perfectionist and I want to teach “the best class” and feel like a teacher. I know these feelings will come with experience.

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So this post doesn’t become too long, my next post will discuss:

• What the orientation was like
• What the exam was like
• What I plan to do with my certification

Hope you’re having a great weekend 🙂