Episode 109: Industry Tea with Lauren George

What We Cover In This Episode:  A look at who Lauren is and what she does in the fitness industry [1:54] How exercise needs differ based on age and gender [5:08] The importance of cross-training and modifying your workouts often [9:49] What Lauren does to encourage people to workout using more than one modality [10:59] The way that she became a multi-modality trainer and got started in business doing this [14:50] The moment when Lauren realized that she was passionate about teaching other instructors [18:47] Some of the challenges she faced in both the brick-and-mortar and online spaces, and how she overcame these obstacles [20:28] Lauren's favorite project that she's worked on to date [25:22] Quotes:  "I think that's why it's so important for people who are teaching classes, and who are calling themselves personal trainers, to actually have legit certifications and to go through real training, and make sure they have it down pat before teaching a class of 20-plus people." [Montse, 9:53]  "Our bodies need to do a lot of different things. We do a lot of different things in our everyday lives, and at a certain point, probably earlier than a lot of us want to admit, our bodies can only handle so much." [Lauren, 11:19]  "If our goals are really health-oriented and overall wellness-oriented, we can definitely argue that there are certain fitness modalities that are better for certain goals." [Lauren, 12:33]  "If you're going to have a successful virtual studio, then you really have to be conscious of how you are going to replicate the community that people feel in an in-person studio, [but] virtually, because if you don't you're going to have people join and cancel because they think nobody notices." [Lauren, 23:10]  LINKS:   Lauren's Website & Instagram Globals News Article, Best exercises for women by age: What to focus on in your 30s, 40s and beyond fitDEGREE's Business Portal https://calendly.com/fitdegree/support [email protected] https://www.instagram.com/fitdegree/ ​​https://www.instagram.com/fitspot_guru/   https://www.instagram.com/fitdegree_nick/ https://www.instagram.com/megan_fitdegree/ https://www.fitdegree.com/blog  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChJ5rK6zWPXjbxtUQx3ys9Q