What is the dollar value of a Personal Training session these days?

by Ryan Hogan | Monday, July 19, 2010

Some years ago when I first moved to Sydney, I *gasp* took some time off exercising after having taught classes for more than 10 years. After a few months of getting rather porky and feeling pretty unfit, I decided it was time to make my way back into the health club scene. I promptly joined a local chain of gyms and began working in earnest to lose some of the beer and pie weight accumulated over the previous six months.

After working very hard on my own for a while, I decided to do some research into hiring a personal trainer to help me achieve my fitness goals. By this stage I was already working at Network and being immersed back in the fitness world I was sure that a PT would be just the thing to whip me back into shape. After speaking to the personal training manager at the club I was a member of, I was referred to a trainer who promptly interviewed me and did a very thorough needs analysis. We then moved on to the sample workout which was outstanding.  ...read more

One word to describe the reality of teaching with PPCA Free Music - FINE!

by Ryan Hogan | Wednesday, July 07, 2010

For this blog post I am putting on my ‘instructor’ hat as opposed to my sales manager one. Working at Network has given me some great insights into the inner workings of how clubs are changing over to using PPCA free music – but being an instructor I have also experienced it personally.

Along with many of my colleagues out there who have been teaching for a long time, I have had to recently restock my entire music library in order to continue instructing. I must admit that when I first heard news of the PPCA’s plans to massively hike up the cost of using original music in classes, and then when the Tribunal hearing ruled in its favour, my reaction was of surprise and dismay at the thought of not being able to use most of the music I have collected over the years. But, as with everyone else, I immediately began researching where I could acquire this new ‘PPCA-free’ music and began to buy.  ...read more