A New Fitness Platform

Posted on December 29, 2011 by FitPro

The new fitness platform is not the step, bosu, or any other exercise tool.  This fitness platform is the underlying technology that has been created and put into action for the Fitness Pro Travel website?

Yoga or Fitness on the Beach

Your Fitness Specialty in the Tropics

Now, only two days away the move will begin.

A couple more things i want to cover with you this time to ensure all 13,000 members are prepared:  1) The site will be shut down on Friday the 30th at 11:59pm EST.  2) Have you take a look at the side-by-side view of each of the premium account types.

Getting a bit more indepth on those…

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Fit Pro Details

Posted on December 22, 2011 by FitPro

So many details go into making a move.  Whether from one house to another, or as I’m finding, especially when moving from one website platform to another.

Simple links to various informational pages that have been built over the years or updating contact templates or automatic order responders… each require much attention to detail so that no major items are missed.

With just over a week before our currently scheduled website move I want to remind all 12,000+ members that it might not be a bad idea to do your own house cleaning with your account.

Make a copy of past or future trips scheduled

Note you bio, experience, and education descriptions, what groups you are in, and which other pros you have already connected with.  While I don’t expect any major issues in any of these areas from the move, it is likely best to be safe all the way around (yes, we are making an entire backup of the existing site, but not all that easy to grab so we’ll be trying not to need it).

I do expect that some links, directions, even potentially some content will be askew and I hope that all community members will take the time to inform us of any issues you run into.  There are bound to be some that we will not find or notice.

See Ya on Moving Day!

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Booking A Resort Fitness Teaching Vacation

Posted on December 14, 2011 by FitPro

Only 3 weeks to new platform launch…

Barbie booking tropical vacation

We’ve covered the methods for updating your fitness professional profile at Fit Pro Travel.  We then covered the various ways to search and select the location for your teaching vacation at a tropical Caribbean resort that best fits you and your guests preferences.

Today, lets cover your booking process…

First, know that when you utilize the Fit Bodies teaching vacation programs, don’t wait for them to call you.  You’re account has been reviewed and its up to you to review the travel opportunity options and follow that up with adding specific dates to your cart for your own fitness teaching vacation.

Second, recall that if you can navigate to the booking page (the one with “add to cart”) your account is approved to book any available dates from the drop down date menu.

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Never Dull When Explosive

Posted on November 23, 2011 by FitPro

I was just adding some information to the Workouts For Athletes site.  It hasn’t been a high volumn website and for the past year has been primarily targeted to the occupational athletes of the Everett Fire Department.

I was adding some thoughts I have had on a book I’ve been reading, “Practical Programming for strength training” by Rippetoe and Kilgore.  In the current section there is much talk about explosive or near explosive (fast) training utilization as it better utilizes the full neuropathways to active more muscle into action.

Makes sense as with speed you end up in a get ‘er done mode.  No screwing around so full use of all appropriate neuro innervasions is going to happen.  For athletes this is essential and for all others a safe but similar action is beneficial as part of your periodization.

Below is a blog post from Functional Path Training, which had this little line that matched my above mentioned book reading.  “Certainly force is part of the equation, but very slow heavy overloaded movements serve to dull the nervous system and interfere with the high speed coordination demanded in performance.”…………… Therefore I share.  :-)

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Sorting Hat of Fit Pro Vacations

Posted on November 22, 2011 by FitPro

Making it as easy as possible for you to find, select, and book the perfect setting for your Fit Bodies teaching vacation has always been a high priority at Fitness Pro Travel.
Improving this sorting & finding functionality has continued to be a prime goal in the current site changes as well.


Highlighting Some of the Options You’ll Have:

Search Box – similar to current and in the same left hand border available for you to utilize from the moment you log in.

Shop Travel Spots – is a section just below the search box that gives you a quick link to several new categories for searching by directory.

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Red Warning Pop Ups

Posted on November 21, 2011 by FitPro
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A Fitness Community

When you do log into your Fit Pro Travel account within the new fitness pro travel community website you may notice your first red warning pop up right off the bat.

There are several reasons you might run into one of these, credit card info entered incorrectly or failure to fill in all fields that are required in a form are common ones you might expect.  But, within the FPT community and the Fit Bodies teaching vacation program there are a few unique and new ones you may notice…

A FEW EXAMPLES

“You need to add a profile photo“.  This message comes in a red box and lands at the top of your “my account” page until you add at least one image of yourself for your profile.  You may change the photo as often as you like, but if you remove it the red box message will be back to advise you once again…. A profile photo is required of all accounts prior to utilizing the travel program.         Continue reading →

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Updating Fit Travel Tutorials

Posted on November 4, 2011 by FitPro
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I was thinking today of adding another topic for those of you following along to keep you in the know for upcoming Fitness Pro Travel site.  There are many small changes you will see right away, several others you won’t notice at all, and still more to follow up shortly thereafter.

What sent a small chill down my neck was the fact that I need to update the entire fit travel tutorial series.

It’s not a huge deal, but will take some time.  I will send out another link for all who went through it the first time so that you have an opportunity to run through it once again and catch all the fine details of the site changes.

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Sharing Your Fitness Content

Posted on October 31, 2011 by FitPro

The Fitness Pro Travel website has always offered opportunities for the fitness professional to utilize content marketing.  Posting events, articles, blogs, bulletins, groups, and more have been available for several years.  They have been an easy method to reach more than 12000 fitness professionals…

We’ve been talking about some of the changes to the new Fitness Pro Travel that will be released in the next few weeks.  Sharing your content is one of the areas that just got more valuable.

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Search-Research-Book: How to

Posted on October 20, 2011 by FitPro

There have been a few questions popping up lately on how fitness professionals actually select and book a teaching vacation.  If you’re unsure on how the community or the travel program works ==>CLICK HERE<==

You’ll go to module 1 of the Fit Pro Community tutorial.  It’s all about finding things including finding and booking the Fit Bodies Teaching Vacation Opportunities… If you want to sign in for the full tutorial, login to your Fit Pro account and look to the lower end of the right border to sign yourself in.

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Your Fitness Specialty at Fit Pro Travel

Posted on October 19, 2011 by FitPro

Continuing on with a few insider insights to the upcoming improvements and changes at the Fitness Pro Travel site.  I thought I might mention a bit about the Fitness Specialties currently available to you in the community.

There are two aspects to the available specialties.  When creating your account, as before, you can check one or more of 15+ fitness specialty formats.  For being part of the community, participating in the conversations, or promoting your services within you only need to designate whichever of those options best fits your role in the fitness industry.

The second aspect that draws so many fitness professionals to Fitness Pro Travel is to have their account and specialties reviewed for inclusion to the Fit Bodies, Inc. teaching vacation program.  And, here is where a few minor changes have taken place…

Personal Trainer
Personal Trainer
Golf Pro
Golf Pro
Group Fitness Instructor
Group Fitness
Tennis Coach
Tennis Coach
Yoga Instructor
Yoga Instructor
Cycling Instructor
Cycling Instructor
Zumba Instructor
Zumba Instructor
Pilates Instructor
Pilates Instructor

These 8 specialty positions are currently offering availability for the fitness pro to become an international fitness presenter through the Fit Bodies program… So What Changed?

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