I taught a complete Round 35! I have a job interview tomorrow!

So last night I taught round 35 from start to finish and incorporated 3 turbo sections! Overall it was about an hour and 20 min workout but the girls there were DEAD by the end! However I finally started to incorporate motivational energy instead of just cueing moves, which I intend to work on more on Thursday’s class!

I received round 36 in the mail but haven’t gotten to it yet. Maybe this weekend or Friday Claudia and I will go over it.

There is only a couple weeks left before my deadline to apply for a teaching job at a gym passes! I have till April 15^th to apply! So it’s turbo every week as much as possible till I’m ready!

On April 7^th Claudia and I are going to start the process to be ACE certified (American Council on Exercise) for group fitness, and I intend to get my personal trainer certification following that shortly from ACE.

 

The BIG news is though that I have A JOB INTERVIEW TOMORROW! I am applying for a claims adjuster trainee position at Wawanesa and I was called for a job interview tomorrow. I am very excited at this opportunity and I definitely am excited at the prospect of becoming completely adept in this field.  Plus if I get the job I’ll only have ONE JOB! I’ll be able to focus on fitness again and enjoy LIFE a little! Seriously though!

 

Alright short blog today, maybe update lata?

 

Peace cabrones

 

Joey

Happier than I’ve been in a while!

 

So, things are going well with group exercise. I have already improved on teaching and my friends at work who come to my class have already improved a lot! I totally feel that on my deadline to apply for a job on April 15^th I’ll be more than prepared!

I taught on Monday and taught more or less a full round, although I couldn’t remember the finale I was able to improvise one, and of course I didn’t learn the official legs or abs section but I’ve taken the class enough that I can piece the workout together on the fly.

Yesterday I was at work and I just so happened to have clothes anyway and leena, mayer and rosa were at the little gym there and asked me to teach.

 

I was able to teach up to the turbo and do a quick cool down and head out.

I’m happy and very excited about teaching, and I look forward to developing my coaching skills and perfecting my form. I defiantly would enjoy a career in this field.

With that, I’ve decided I don’t like accounting/administrative positions. I mean, there is money in them, as I do make a considerable amount of money now that I’m in it, but I seriously don’t enjoy work.

I was considering going back to SDSU to get an MBA, but I may go for a Masters in Physiological Biology. That way, I can qualify to work in biotech industries, or work in nutrition and fitness. Plus I’ll have a Masters degree, so if anything doesn’t make it, I can always teach.

 

Not to mention my bachelors is in Psychology, a very biological oriented degree that has deep roots in chemistry and its relation to the human body. I think me having a BA in Psych and an MA in Bio would be excellent for a career in fitness or biological research. What do you think?

Not to mention, I have a high enough GPA to be accepted into a graduate program for Molecular Biology!

 

Maybe I WILL return to school this year!

 

On top of it, I have to confess, I’m in love with Claudia, and she’s going to have my babies, well my philosophical babies.

 

Haha anyway, seriously though, I thought of a business we could open together. After I have more biological qualifications, we could open a luxury private fitness center in an affluent city like La Jolla.

 

 It would be smaller, but would only offer excellent and quality machines with the frills like TV’s mounted in each machine, and martial art or exotic fitness classes. All the while offering nutrition counseling and multiple types of massage as a part of the membership package.  It would be more of a fitness and health center or spa. What do you think?

Wanna invest?

 

We’ll call it Morpheus Spa and Fitness Center. As in Morpheus, the god of sleep and rest and our logo could the black lotus flower.

 Oooo I’m getting excited!

 

Looking forward to the Future.

 

 

Peace cabrones

 

Joey

 

I taught my first class of turbo!

I taught my first session of turbo yesterday! So, I’ve been practicing with Claudia once a week and after our most recent jam session I started to feel it click, as in I didn’t need to count but generally knew where the moves should be in relation to the beat of the music. I had gotten to the point where I could talk to Claudia while doing the round and was able to give more complex cueing while breaking down difficult moves. At the company I work for we have a small gym that employees can use, I offered some of my lady co-workers an opportunity to try out a turbo kick lesson for free of course so I may practice teaching people that have never taken cardio classes before. Not to mention it is convenient for me to teach a class right after work to vent out some stress. I plan on doing this at my work for some time and until I’ve completed my ACE certification so I’m really prepared when I audition for a job. Last night was the first class I’ve ever really taught to someone. The tiny group there had NEVER taken a group exercise class. I started by sampling all the moves and explaining things like a twist or a bob and weave, and went over the importance of form and injury prevention. When I started teaching I had forgotten how difficult turbo is to follow the first time you ever take it! My participant did very well though for the first time however, but I was able to modify the round and simplify it to the point that I could be followed reasonably well for a first timer. During the round I noticed how hard my class was working, I had turned up the intensity the entire time because I was nervous and was trying too hard to display energy and to have flawless form while teaching. I realized though that I was working out my newbies too much! I took the opportunity for the first time to switch to low intensity and reassured how important it is to work out at your own pace. I did the turbo (only once! They were TIRED!) I moved onto the recovery ending in the abs and cool down as I’m not so quite confident on the finale and beyond yet. However I’m going finish learning the round tonight with Claudia and I will try to teach all sections of the round Monday night to my coworkers. My class was totally impressed and even some of my co-worker skeptics were turned into believers and look forward to my next lesson. I also have more people attending my next lesson on Monday because of the good word that my class put out! I already need a bigger gym! -Stoked -Joey

Discovering My Muse

riday, February 20, 2009 

Discovering my Muse
Current mood: accomplished
I guess you could say regardless of whatever I’ve accomplished you could say I’ve had issues. Emotional, physical, whatever other generic synonym you could use to label the category I’m sure I’ve had an issue with it. 

I was driving to work today, listening to my iPod through the car stereo, and I came across orchestrated music that I used to love in high school. I had a reflective nostalgic moment that ended in a disturbing brief mental collapse.

I couldn’t seem to gather some sort of cognitive resilience to provide a reason for my daily toil. I couldn’t provide a reason that it was 6 in the morning, and I was driving nearly 35 miles to get to a job that I find pointless. 


Why was I working so hard, and so much? To be respected by others, or acquire some sort of satisfaction through academia? Is the ability to purchase material things, or control people (pay for labor) really worth all this? What happened to that kid that could spend a full day listening to a cello, a viola, a piano, what happened to not needing a reason to create or compose, but to do it for the sake of novelty, and self discovery? 

What the FUCK am I doing and why am I not happy?


It was a strange austere moment, it was as if through a whole lifetime looking at others through a critical eye; being judgmental, hypercritical, disparaging, that I had forgotten to step out in front of a mirror and let what I have become, what I have made myself into, be criticized by that same eye. 

It was a horrifying feeling, to not understand why I exist as I do. I was felt as if I were ghastly, staring into a fabricated mirror that failed to reveal a reflection. All I could see was a lack of creation, a lack of purpose, a living façade designed to appear complete.

It’s so easy to reveal the demons of others, their failures, their weakness, and then utilize the shortcomings of others and conceal them from your own image, to disguise weakness, shroud ignorance, and even hide fears from yourself.

I was nothing more than a salesman that constantly sold myself a product that stated who and what I was. True this could have been an acquired trait through my 23 years of life, or a long term lesson learned to stop thinking about who or what I was, and to just act like who or what I am. I guess I was meddling where I don’t belong in thoughts of antiquity, to be, or not to be, is that REALLY the question? eh?


For once I felt as if I was a man. I had never felt that I could be referred to as a man; I was merely a young male, or still a boy. To be able to stand in front of that mirror, and not convince myself that I was great, to not ignore my shortcomings, but to stand there and reflect, to take in what I am and as I exist in completion. To find the strength to confront my weakness and incorporate it into my being, to stop hiding from myself and to finally grow, as a man, as an individual.


My muse to exist as I do, is nothing more than my reflection. An unaltered, imperfect reflection. However the desire to change how I see my reflection, to see it complete, unaltered is what keeps my muse for existence strong. To be able to improve my critical eye, so only a genuine image is reflected in that cruel mirror; an image that I can stare back at with a stern critical eye and say, “This is Joseph Perry.”




My muse comes from me, and as a man it is my ordained responsibility to provide the strength for my muse to survive, or else I shouldn’t bother referring to myself as a man, but as a boy.


-Peace cabrones

--Joey