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Fitness Finding the Best Fitness Kickboxing Instructor By Melodee Meyer Y ou like the idea of having a fitness kickboxing program at your school but who’s going to teach it? You’re already working too many hours on the floor and, let’s face it, you don’t look good in spandex. trained other martial arts instructors to teach classes at your school, we can talk about adding a fitness class. If you have hired and trained martial arts instructors at your school, you know that just First things first. Have you ever because someone is a black belt successfully hired and trained a or a champion fighter or a great martial arts instructor for your technician, it doesn’t mean that school? If not, then stop reading they are necessarily a great teacher. this article!!! DO NOT start a Fitness Well, it’s the same thing in fitness Kickboxing Program --- start an kickboxing. Instructor Training Program! You The best fitness kickboxing need to spend more time ON your instructors I have ever met are business, not IN your business so teachers first, and kickboxers it’s time to empower others to second. They’ve never won a teach. Once you have successfully 46 Dojo Digest • April 2014