Thursday, 4 February 2010
The First EKI in the New OLF Training Centre
Last weekend was a big weekend for OLF. After working tirelessly for weeks to get the new OLF Training Centre ready, we finally opened the doors to customers on Saturday. It's been a long term goal of both BJ's and mine to have a training centre where we can run our courses, host competitions and training clubs. The realisation of that goal has only really just started to set in after a great weekend with our first Extreme Kettlebell Instructor Course of 2010. With 30 people coming on the course we welcomed Judit Rago, a top kettlebell sport lifter and Trojan lifting club member to the team. 
In addition, Andy Marshall was also there to form an exceptional team of 4 instructors ready to put these budding lifters through their paces.
As we opened up on a cold, frosty Saturday morning, we set about getting the centre ready for its first guests who would be soon joining us from near and far. With the heaters on and the hot water urn rumbling away, the trainers started to arrive with trepidation and excitement. After navigating your way to the OLF Training Centre, it's always a surprise and somewhat of a shock when you open your eyes to what you have just walked in on!
As the numbers grew and the atmosphere built, it was time to start the first EKI of 2010. Gathering round, we did are usual introductions and welcomes before cracking on with the mornings theory. As I sat back and took a few photos of the group it was a pretty cool site to see so many trainers in our own training space! As the day progressed it just got better. We worked long and hard on all of the lifts, taking us right through to 5pm. Having Andy and Judit there as well made it very easy for everyone to get a lot of one to one attention. Day 1 tends to be a very challenging day for the trainers as we deliver so much information in such a small time. By the end of the day it was clear to see most of the group were mentally and physically knackered. Now BJ and I on the other hand, although completely shattered after the build up to this course were buzzing! It was a great moment for us, seeing all of this hard work come together. Seeing 30 PT's swinging bells and learning from us was a great feeling and we can’t wait for the next course.
Our aim to treat every course we run like an event is coming together nicely now that we have our own place. We had our shop open all weekend, selling products and courses. We ran boxing; Olympic Weightlifting and kettlebell sport demos. All in all, and we’ll be forever improving this, we aim to make every course a real experience for trainers. It's a chance for trainers to come and learn, be inspired and go away and better their business.
As day 1 drew to a close we disappeared home for a quiet night and a chance to catch up on some missed sleep, in the hope that we'd be feeling fresh for Sunday morning. Now it's kind of hard not to feel fresh when you walk into the training centre. Firstly, because it was slightly cold and secondly, there is nothing better than the feeling you get walking into this place. I think everyone on the course would agree it just makes you want to train!
So day 2 kicked off nicely with some demos and then the assessments. Once we'd got through the assessments and everyone was suitably warmed up we did a full run through of all of day one's lifts. Just to hammer home those teaching points. The afternoon was gearing up to be quite a big one with Andy planning his beasting session to finish off the trainers and send them home with a sweat on. Both BJ and I were slightly worried at this point, Andy had a spark in his eye which we could tell meant he was going to work them hard! That he did, with a killer 5 set conditioning circuit that he uses with his MMA athletes.
In addition, Andy Marshall was also there to form an exceptional team of 4 instructors ready to put these budding lifters through their paces.
As we opened up on a cold, frosty Saturday morning, we set about getting the centre ready for its first guests who would be soon joining us from near and far. With the heaters on and the hot water urn rumbling away, the trainers started to arrive with trepidation and excitement. After navigating your way to the OLF Training Centre, it's always a surprise and somewhat of a shock when you open your eyes to what you have just walked in on!
As the numbers grew and the atmosphere built, it was time to start the first EKI of 2010. Gathering round, we did are usual introductions and welcomes before cracking on with the mornings theory. As I sat back and took a few photos of the group it was a pretty cool site to see so many trainers in our own training space! As the day progressed it just got better. We worked long and hard on all of the lifts, taking us right through to 5pm. Having Andy and Judit there as well made it very easy for everyone to get a lot of one to one attention. Day 1 tends to be a very challenging day for the trainers as we deliver so much information in such a small time. By the end of the day it was clear to see most of the group were mentally and physically knackered. Now BJ and I on the other hand, although completely shattered after the build up to this course were buzzing! It was a great moment for us, seeing all of this hard work come together. Seeing 30 PT's swinging bells and learning from us was a great feeling and we can’t wait for the next course.
Our aim to treat every course we run like an event is coming together nicely now that we have our own place. We had our shop open all weekend, selling products and courses. We ran boxing; Olympic Weightlifting and kettlebell sport demos. All in all, and we’ll be forever improving this, we aim to make every course a real experience for trainers. It's a chance for trainers to come and learn, be inspired and go away and better their business. As day 1 drew to a close we disappeared home for a quiet night and a chance to catch up on some missed sleep, in the hope that we'd be feeling fresh for Sunday morning. Now it's kind of hard not to feel fresh when you walk into the training centre. Firstly, because it was slightly cold and secondly, there is nothing better than the feeling you get walking into this place. I think everyone on the course would agree it just makes you want to train!
So day 2 kicked off nicely with some demos and then the assessments. Once we'd got through the assessments and everyone was suitably warmed up we did a full run through of all of day one's lifts. Just to hammer home those teaching points. The afternoon was gearing up to be quite a big one with Andy planning his beasting session to finish off the trainers and send them home with a sweat on. Both BJ and I were slightly worried at this point, Andy had a spark in his eye which we could tell meant he was going to work them hard! That he did, with a killer 5 set conditioning circuit that he uses with his MMA athletes. After the trainers had recovered and we'd given them a few demos, we said our goodbyes and the OLF Training Centre had officially had its first course.
Thank you to all of the trainers that came on the course, thank you to all those who help in getting the OLF Training Centre up and running, a special thank you to Steve and Ritchie from Escape for doing the flooring. Finally, we look forward to seeing all of you down here at some point to the home of continuing professional development!
For information on all 2010 courses go to http://www.optimallifefitness.com/
posted by Tommy Matthews @ 14:32
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