Shannon Fable, 2013 IDEA and 2006 ACE Instructor of the Year, is a sought-after speaker, author, and thought leader in business development and strategic innovation.  She has spent more than two decades helping impressive brands such as Anytime Fitness, Schwinn®, Power Systems, ACE, Silver Sneakers, FIT4MOM and BOSU®. Fable served as Chair of the ACE Board of Directors, co-founded GroupEx PRO®, a cloud-based group fitness management tool, and is the Director of Content & Production Strategy for Intelivideo. As a certified Book Yourself Solid® Business Coach, she helps fit pros navigate the industry and make more money.

*Trigger warning: disordered eating, bulimia

Show notes

• From ballet to cheerleading (and why dancing and cheerleading never felt like “fitness”)
• Cheering for the University of Florida in college
• Shannon’s journey from disordered eating and excessive exercise to finding joy in movement
• Infertility 
• Disordered exercise
• Being on bedrest for over two months during pregnancy 
• The moment Shannon realized she needed to change the way she cued her group fitness classes 
• The toxic group fitness class cues that instructors should never use (and what we should say instead)
• Trying to raise a daughter with healthy body image 
• Being mindful about conversations around food and body image with her daughter 
• How Zoom has made us more self-conscious about our appearances since the pandemic started
• How gymnastics and dance can lead to an unattainable pursuit of perfection (and how it feels to have her daughter in gymnastics)
• Why fitness instructors need to acknowledge that each participant shows up to class with their own motivation and why it’s important not to make assumptions
• Why we need to get rid of group fitness classes with names like “buns and guns.”

Links
Indistractable by Nir Eyal
No Sweat by Michelle Seger
Chalene Johnson

Connect:
Website: Shannonfable.com 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shannonfable/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sfable/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/sfable

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