Real Fit Shannon Fable, fitness industry thought leader: Your words have power
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About Shannon
Shannon Fable, 2013 IDEA and 2006 ACE Instructor of the Year, is a sought-after speaker, author, and thought leader in business development and strategic innovation. She has spent more than two decades helping impressive brands such as Anytime Fitness, Schwinn®, Power Systems, ACE, Silver Sneakers, FIT4MOM and BOSU®. Fable served as Chair of the ACE Board of Directors, co-founded GroupEx PRO®, a cloud-based group fitness management tool, and is the Director of Content & Production Strategy for Intelivideo. As a certified Book Yourself Solid® Business Coach, she helps fit pros navigate the industry and make more money.
Show notes
*Trigger warning: disordered eating, bulimia*
- From ballet to cheerleading (and why dancing and cheerleading never felt like “fitness”)
- Cheering for the University of Florida in college
- Shannon’s journey from disordered eating and excessive exercise to finding joy in movement
- Infertility
- Disordered exercise
- Being on bedrest for over two months during pregnancy
- The moment Shannon realized she needed to change the way she cued her group fitness classes
- The toxic group fitness class cues that instructors should never use (and what we should say instead)
- Trying to raise a daughter with healthy body image
- Being mindful about conversations around food and body image with her daughter
- How Zoom has made us more self-conscious about our appearances since the pandemic started
- How gymnastics and dance can lead to an unattainable pursuit of perfection (and how it feels to have her daughter in gymnastics)
- Why fitness instructors need to acknowledge that each participant shows up to class with their own motivation and why it’s important not to make assumptions
- Why we need to get rid of group fitness classes with names like “buns and guns."
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