I teach an amazing group of people in my M/W/F boot camp at the Mission Valley YMCA. I've written about them before here, so suffice it to say I like them a lot and they're a hardworking group. You have to be to get to the gym at 5:30 and go through an hour boot camp. Try it sometime.
I'm writing today because I have a few minutes and wanted to express my gratitude to these amazing people. You see, I, unfortunately, am resigning as instructor for the class after this Friday, as my schedule has become a bit unwieldy and I need time for my personal training clients and my old friend sleep. Which led to this sequence this morning ...
1) I arrive to class at 5 am, bleary-eyed, and begin setting up. Preparation is important to me. I like for the class to feel like I've thought about things before they get there
2) Class starts, I run everyone through a 5-minute warm up that is pretty standard
3) I start the second part of the warm-up (a jump-rope drill). If you're new to class and I ask you to "pick a number from 1-10," be careful
4) A class veteran, Jeff, comes up to the front of the class, and asks to make this announcement:
"Hi everyone. I have a petition here to ask the Y to open a new boot camp on Tuesday/Thursdays (one does not exist now), and to keep Jesse on as the teacher, since he is leaving this class. If you want to, please sign the form and we'll see if we can get one started with Jesse as teacher." (paraphrasing, but this was the jist)
5) The entire class signs the paper, and many people say some very kind things to me about the way I teach the class, etc.
You can probably guess that what Jeff and the class did for me made my day in many ways, and that I will certainly be teaching that class if it gets opened ... I honestly had no idea that people felt that positively about my class. What a great way to start the day.
THANK YOU YMCA BOOT CAMPERS!!!
Love and kisses,
Jesse
