Inspire Fitness in Birmingham, Alabama is a full-service fitness facility that offers Spinning?, yoga and strength training. Their core Spinning? program is one of the area?s most popular, featuring top of the line Star Trac Spinner? Blade? bikes and a diverse program certified by Mad Dogg Athletics. The Inspire Fitness philosophy centers around longevity, sustainability and helping their clients become fit for life. Owners, Spin? instructors, and coaches Kelly Creel, her husband Stephen Creel, and their business partner Gabe Rios have over 45 combined years of participation in fitness and athletics and are passionate about changing the lives of their clients for the better. They use time-tested, well-researched exercise science to help their clients formulate a plan to reach new levels of fitness and well-being. TourDeFIT.com sat down with Kelly to learn about the experience at Inspire Fitness, why Spinning? is such a great fitness activity, and her vision of turning around the obesity problem in Alabama:
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Kelly on the classes offered at Inspire Fitness:??We really believe in the Spinning? program at Inspire Fitness and it is our core product. Spinning? has been around for several decades and it?s not a fad. Spinning? is safe and proven effective. We?re an official Spinning? facility through Mad Dogg Athletics and we are very passionate about the program. It meets participants where they are and can fit with most anybody?s fitness level. We offer different levels of our classes so clients can participate no matter where they are in their own plan. Our Spinning? 101 class is a great place to start because we teach the basics of Spinning? including bike setup, safety, different pacing, and how to use your own breath to manipulate your heart rate throughout the ride. We also offer a Zen-style Spinning? class which is essentially yoga on a bike; yoga in the mental sense, not physical sense. During this class, we do affirmations and visualizations throughout the class and we have a meditation video we show on our theater system. We feel Spinning? should be visual as well as kinetic. During our more advanced classes, we often show videos of mountain climbs which are a lot of fun and the participants really enjoy watching them. It?s something else to look at instead of always staring at an instructor the whole ride! We also offer yoga which is designed to support the Spinning? classes. In our experience, clients who participate in Spinning?, as well as active road cyclists and other outdoor sports enthusiasts, need yoga because they tend to become tight in their back and hips. We offer strength training as well. My husband and I are both Certified Personal Trainers. We feel strength training, yoga and Spinning? represent three important pillars of fitness: cardiovascular training, strength/stability, and flexibility. An optimal training plan should include training time spent in each category in order to support your other activities, whether that includes sports or just daily living ? which is why we offer all three.?
Kelly on the experience at Inspire Fitness:??The experience we try to give is a very personal experience. We offer one-on-one attention to all of our clients. We know our members by name and in some of our packages we offer fitness coaching. We make sure we sit down and talk with clients and get to know where they are coming from and where they?ve been. We think this personal attention and desire to help people reach their goals is what keeps people coming back. We also have an open door policy and we can work with anybody at any level based on their needs. We have off-season athletes who come to our studio, and we also have people who are just ?coming off the couch.? We even have seniors and adults with developmental disabilities. We have a very diverse range of clients at Inspire Fitness. Another thing we do which I think contributes to the experience at Inspire Fitness is offer many different payment options. This was a key component in our original business plan. We had so many friends through the years express frustration that they were locked into gym contracts, so we wanted to offer something where people felt they could keep their gym membership and still workout with us. Studio-type fitness centers are exploding right now in major cities, and they often offer a menu of services that people can pick and choose from, kind of like your favorite neighborhood restaurant. We have seen the vast majority of people who start with us will pay as they go, but eventually come back and get the unlimited monthly membership. We don?t have any fees for canceling ? we wanted people to feel like they are part of a community and that they aren?t locked into anything. We want our services, classes and teachers to keep people coming back, not because they have to avoid paying some termination fee.?
Kelly on having an official Spinning? license through Mad Dogg:??Since we are an official Spinning? facility we have to keep up with several requirements. All of our instructors have to be certified within the official Spinning? program, which they are. We also have to carry special bikes. Right now we have the Star Trac Blades which are top of the line. We are the first studio in the Birmingham area to have the Blades and we are so excited to have them. They offer the smoothest and safest ride plus they look pretty cool! Mad Dogg also requires us to refresh our training every year. We are required to continue our training in order to keep our certifications current. Lastly, we are given a lot of material by the Spinning? program as far as formatting our classes, teaching various energy zones, official Spinning? rides we can follow and more. This keeps us fresh as teachers and coaches, and we can tap into these resources whenever we need to.?
Kelly on yoga and strength training at Inspire:??We were fortunate enough to find an area that would support us having all three activities in the same location. We have enough floor space to have ample room for all of our services at 3,000 sq. ft. We divided the studio into three areas ? the upstairs loft has Spinning? and on the main floor we have yoga on one side and strength training on the opposite. The yoga area is somewhat cozy, so we typically limit our yoga classes to about 10 students per class, but we have so many classes that we haven?t yet run into any scheduling conflicts. We are able to offer more one-on-one attention with smaller classes and we?ve found that today?s clientele prefers that lower student-to-teacher ratio.?
Kelly on the obesity problem in Alabama:?The state of Alabama in 2012 has been reported by the CDC to be 50th in the state rankings as far as obesity, Pre-Diabetes and other preventable diseases. Our vision at Inspire Fitness is to have our clients become their own experts on how to stay fit and healthy and to reverse that trend of having Alabama come in last. Education is our passion and we want to teach our clients to become self-sufficient and set their own goals to take it to the next level. We don?t want to be at the bottom! Obesity and preventable diseases are very complex issues, and there are a lot of different factors in this part of the country that add up to create this ?perfect storm?. The first one that we see over and over is poverty. Poverty and poor nutrition often go hand in hand. Studies show that it?s tough to pay for healthy foods if you?re on government assistance. It?s very difficult to eat healthfully if you are in poverty, and even more difficult to feed an entire family. Another issue is lack of education. Nutritional education falls to the wayside when you are in a state that has very few resources for education in the first place. I really admire what Michelle Obama and the CDC have done with the federal public service campaigns, ?Let?s Move?, and the ?ChooseMyPlate.Gov? website, respectively; I direct clients to this website when they have questions about what to eat to support their physical activities. The ChooseMyPlate guidelines went from a pyramid to a plate and it really helps me as a fitness provider and coach to communicate more easily to the people I?m trying to reach. Lastly, there aren?t a lot of public parks in Alabama and everything is so spread out that people are often forced to drive everywhere. We are hit with a triple problem in this state ? poor education, high-poverty and a reliance on cars and public transportation wherever we go. We hope to change this by providing support and awareness, sharing what we know and what we?ve learned through the years working with clients, and simply helping teach people to make good choices which will hopefully lead to additional good choices. We want to reverse that downward spiral of sedentary lifestyle ? obesity ? injury ? disease by catching people early in the cycle, and providing compassion, positive encouragement, education, and coaching to those who are already further along in the cycle.?
?The state of Alabama in 2012 has been reported by the CDC to be 50th in the state rankings as far as obesity, Pre-Diabetes and other preventable diseases. Our vision at Inspire Fitness is to have our clients become their own experts on how to stay fit and healthy and to reverse that trend of having Alabama come in last. Education is our passion and we want to teach our clients to become self-sufficient and set their own goals to take it to the next level. We don?t want to be at the bottom! Obesity and preventable diseases are very complex issues, and there are a lot of different factors in this part of the country that add up to create this ?perfect storm?. The first one that we see over and over is poverty. Poverty and poor nutrition often go hand in hand. Studies show that it?s tough to pay for healthy foods if you?re on government assistance. It?s very difficult to eat healthfully if you are in poverty, and even more difficult to feed an entire family. Another issue is lack of education. Nutritional education falls to the wayside when you are in a state that has very few resources for education in the first place. I really admire what Michelle Obama and the CDC have done with the federal public service campaigns, ?Let?s Move?, and the ?ChooseMyPlate.Gov? website, respectively; I direct clients to this website when they have questions about what to eat to support their physical activities. The ChooseMyPlate guidelines went from a pyramid to a plate and it really helps me as a fitness provider and coach to communicate more easily to the people I?m trying to reach. Lastly, there aren?t a lot of public parks in Alabama and everything is so spread out that people are often forced to drive everywhere. We are hit with a triple problem in this state ? poor education, high-poverty and a reliance on cars and public transportation wherever we go. We hope to change this by providing support and awareness, sharing what we know and what we?ve learned through the years working with clients, and simply helping teach people to make good choices which will hopefully lead to additional good choices. We want to reverse that downward spiral of sedentary lifestyle ? obesity ? injury ? disease by catching people early in the cycle, and providing compassion, positive encouragement, education, and coaching to those who are already further along in the cycle.?
Kelly on how to stick with your New Year?s Resolution: ?I have several tips that I give to my clients. The first is to share your goal with somebody outside of yourself. If you share your goal on social media, all of your online friends now know that your goal is; for example, to exercise consistently or make better food choices. They might ask you about it and hold you accountable for it. You might inspire someone! You?re being a leader, not only for yourself ? but also for your friends, family, and acquaintances. If you kept it inside and didn?t share it the level of accountability wouldn?t be as high. Sharing your goals ? and not being bashful about sharing your successes, too ? will also help build your confidence and keep you more consistent. I also ask my clients to really look hard at their obstacles and do some soul-searching on their most common excuse. Then we examine that obstacle and often find there?s something deeper going on. For example, I was talking with one of my early teachers about how so many people say they don?t have time to work out. She shared with me that in her experience, people who say they don?t have enough time to work out usually do have time ? the true obstacle tends to be a deeper or less obvious issue such as avoidance, low confidence, a tendency to put others? needs ahead of their own, even a prioritization or scheduling issue. I then have them open up their calendar and look at it with the idea that exercise and self-care is a number one priority. This way they can start planning their fitness routine in advance. This is why our online reservation system, MindBody?, is so great, because we suggest our clients book their classes 7 days in advance, and record it in their schedule as if it is a doctors? appointment that they can?t cancel. Our clients who book their classes ahead of time in MindBody have a less than 5% cancellation/no-show rate. Once they build that consistency, they realize then that time may have just been an excuse and it is often possible to fit everything in if you plan for it. Plus, consistent exercise tends to boost energy, so clients have more juice left over for a great life outside of exercise! The time just tends to open up.?
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