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Burnout, Fitness professional development Ericka Thomas Burnout, Fitness professional development Ericka Thomas

Refilling your well

I don’t care who you are, you are not a bottomless well of energy. 

Not only is your job to refill other people but you also have all the other obligations and expectations in your “real life” outside the gym and studio. If you discount these things or ignore them for too long that’s when the burnout creeps in.  And for fit pros that burnout can kill your career. So what do we do?

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Mind Body Connection, Brain Health, Memory Ericka Thomas Mind Body Connection, Brain Health, Memory Ericka Thomas

Partnering with your brain part 3: Foundations of memory and learning with Collin Jewett

Now there's a lot going on in your head when you're standing in front of a room teaching a class. Whether you teach math, or kickboxing, history or yoga. There's a process that our brains go through to lock information in. As teachers, instructors and coaches. we need to be aware of that so we can support our students and clients in their learning process. Today, you're going to hear about a foundation that you need to learn just about anything, what memory hooks are and how to use them. How to create a location filing system for your memories, and why forgetting is important to this one's going to be good.

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Mind Body Connection, Brain Health, Memory Ericka Thomas Mind Body Connection, Brain Health, Memory Ericka Thomas

Partnering with your brain part 2: How stress kills creativity and limits learning with Collin Jewett

An unsung and underappreciated piece to being successful as a fitness professional is creativity. Today’s episode is a mindset reset on what creativity is and it’s value to learning and memory. Collin and I discuss how to use creativity, curiosity and imagination to help our brains adapt to perceived environments and how stress can kill creativity and limit our success learning or remembering things.

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Partnering with your brain pt 1: Why context matters for memory and learning with Collin Jewett

The body, nervous system and movement are intricately connected to how we learn and remember things. And one of the biggest fears for our aging populations is memory loss, dementia and alzheimer’s. Movement is a key aspect to maintaining brain health so it makes sense that we should expand our understanding of that connection.

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