On Tuesday morning I flew to Chicago for the Club Industry Show being held at the Hyatt Regency. For convenience, I stayed in the Hyatt which also had the dual benefit of being an easy walk to my son and daughter-in-law’s building. After school each day – my son is a second year MBA student at Chicago Booth and my DIL teaches high school math – we were able to get together for dinner and to hang out. I had so much fun and I’m so glad I made the decision to attend the conference!
I’m super pumped after attending my three days of classes and can’t wait to start seeing my clients again this week. I was able to pick and choose lectures from six difference tracts catering to club owners/managers, sales teams, wellness coaches, personal trainers, etc, and decided the following classes would best serve my needs:
- Taking the Science Out of Nutrition
- Eight Systems to Make Your Training Department Financially Successful
- How to Work with People of Size and Train Their Brains for Weight Loss
- Effective Exercise Programs to Engage Desk Jockey Members
- How to Generate Seven Figures With Thirty-Minute Training
- Using Physician Referrals to Build Your Personal Training Business
- Boomers and Boot Camps
- How to Successfully Lead a Boot Camp Program
- Contraindication for Specific Conditions and Diseases
- Pump Up Your Personal Training Department
- Hush, Hush: Eating and Exercise Disorders in the Gym
- Forming Strategic Partnerships With Allied Health Pros
My brain is still churning with so much information swirling around in there, and I’ll need to take some time to go through my notes before I can really make the most use of what I learned.
Besides attending lectures, visiting the trade show, and trying to eat healthy, I did a lot of walking around the city and went on a couple of runs. Finally, on my third visit to Chicago in the past year, I got my running-past-the-bean picture!
After running through Millennium Park, I headed down to Lakeshore Trail and ran along Lake Michigan. I love running along there even if I’m running on concrete the whole time.
I also found this lovely park near Lake Shore Drive and thought it worthy of a picture.
As much as I enjoy having a gym in our basement so there’s never an excuse not to workout, I realized this week in the hotel gym that I miss the motivation others around me provide. Not surprisingly, the gym was packed each morning with other fitness enthusiasts and people-watching helped make my time go by more quickly! Here’s how my week went down…
Fitness tools beyond the equipment in my gym that I used during the week included:
- Rodney Yee’s Complete Yoga For Beginners (affiliate link)
- Rodney Yee’s Intermediate Yoga (affiliate link)
- Rodney Yee’s Yoga Conditioning For Athletes (affiliate link)
- Teeter Hang Ups Inversion (affiliate link)
Cameras used for blog photography include:
- GoPro Hero 4 (affiliate link)
- Canon Power Shot Elph (affiliate link)
- iPhone 6S (affiliate link)
- Questions:
- Does your job require business trips or that you attend conferences?
- Do you use hotel gyms when you travel?
- Did you race this weekend?
Have a great week!
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I did race today. 🙂
I work out at home because it’s convenient for me, but you’re right, you do push yourself harder in a group. Almost all those lectures sound so interesting!
I used to do conferences when I worked; now I just travel for races. 🙂
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Congrats on your race! I love the desert pic of you with your medal.
I know you enjoyed your conference, especially the added bonus of spending time with your son & DIL. I can imagine, though, there is a lot of information to sort through. I intended to do more sightseeing after my race, but it just didn’t happen. I wish now I had. I did not see the bean! Thanks for linking, Deb!
Was that your first trip to Chicago? I’d never been until my son moved there last fall. I really love visiting!
I’ve lived here my whole life and I don’t have a running past the bean picture! LOL!
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I don’t have a picture of me running past the Washington Monument so I guess we’re even! LOL
You had some great scenery for your run!
I love the Chicago scenery and love my runs whenever I’m there!
No travel perks for my job. I workout at home. Nd, yes, I did race this weekend 😉 I LOVE that pic of you and the Bean!!
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No travel perks for me either – I paid for everything myself out of my business. And thanks, I was all about getting a picture with the Bean!
Dang, I am a gym manager…they should have sent me to that conference!!! Sounds very informative and I do love the bean running photo…very cool shot!
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Thanks! It was a great conference. Not nearly as big as IRSA, though, which I liked.
I love Chicago! I’d like to know what that first topic is about. And the topic about desk jockeys, since that’s me!
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Taking the Science out of Nutrition focused on incorporating nutrition into the day-to-day activities at the gym – including simple tips posted around the gym (eat more veggies and fruits), healthy fifteen-minute dinners to prepare, etc. The gym manager who gave the presentation even has a kitchen at his gym and someone who teaches cooking classes. Everything is taught by a registered dietitian, but she keeps it simple and straight forward so people don’t get caught up in thinking it’s too complicated eating healthily.
Effective Exercise Programs to Engage Desk Jockey Members focused on exercises to strengthen the back and increase flexibility to the chest since “desk jockeys” spend so much time hunched over a computer. It also focused on creating quick and efficient workouts since this population is usually incredibly busy and can’t dedicate a lot of time toward their workouts.
Sounds like a great conference. I would love all of those topics. I travel a lot for work and always use the hotel gym… I get nervous running in cities I am unfamiliar with so I usually stick to the treadmill while traveling.
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I’ve been to Chicago enough now that I’m familiar with where and when it’s safe to run; otherwise, I’d have been running on the treadmill, too. One morning I had to run at 6 AM before the conference began so I kept it inside on the treadmill that morning.
I raced yesterday. 🙂 I’m not good at working out when I travel. I get nervous about running alone when I don’t know where I am, but I’ve gotten better, but I don’t like hotel gyms, so outside is usually the option. Fun weekend running around Chicago!
I don’t think it’s all that bad to take some time off when you travel – depending on where you are in your training cycle. It’s always better to be safe than sorry, especially if the hotel gym isn’t an option.
I don’t think it’s all that bad to take some time off from running when you travel – depending on where you are in your training cycle. It’s always better to be safe than sorry, especially if the hotel gym isn’t an option.
It sounds like a great conference! And definitely a nice excuse to get together with family 🙂
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Yes, it was!
If I ever get to Chicago I must get my picture in front of the bean! No I’m stuck in my office for my job. Other than the bank and office supplies runs, that is it. 🙁 If I traveled for work, I’d use hotel gyms if I couldn’t find a blogger in that city to run with!
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Now I need to get a picture of me running in front of some of the DC tourist attractions! LOL
Oh, I love that bean photo!
I used to work in a position that required travel. I loved it, but times have changed. Mr PugRunner travels once every month and a half or so for conferences and meetings relevant to his business. Sometimes I get to go with him, but we always try to make time to travel on our own or as a family. It’s one of our hobbies.
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I think I would like traveling for work as long as I didn’t have to more than every few months. My husband used to travel way too much way back when he worked for AOL, but these days it’s quite infrequent when he has a business trip. I’ve never traveled with him, but if he has to go back to Austin, TX, that’s a trip I’ll consider tagging along on!
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