Krista Popowych Wins Fitness Industry Academy Award
Two weeks ago a great friend of Active Management, Krista Popowych won the BIGGEST award for a fitness instructor in North America (if not the world) the 2014 IDEA Fitness Instructor of the Year.
IDEA Health & Fitness Association is one of the world’s leading organisation of fitness and wellness professionals, delivering world-class content and continuing education to fitness professionals. The San Diego-based IDEA Health and Fitness Association that honoured Krista earlier this month bills itself as the world’s largest organisation for fitness and wellness professionals. It manages a database of 250,000 personal trainers and fitness instructors it has accredited in Canada and the U.S. You can visit www.ideafit.com for more information about IDEA Health & Fitness Association.
So when they give out an award it is a big deal.
Krista told me it was “Like winning an Academy Award.”
She formerly headed up programing at the Fitness Group in Kitsilano and won Canadian Presenter of the Year from Canfitpro, a national training and accreditation organization, in 2003 and 2008. Leading up to the 2010 Winter Olympics, she was the manager of programs and services at the Richmond Olympic Oval, helping to develop the post-Olympic team for its massive fitness centre. She also hosted the Canadian fitness television show, The Caribbean Workout, reaching 35 million viewers. She is now an independent consultant as a ‘trainer of trainers’ who specialises in educating other instructors about motivating clients to get the best results possible on their road to fitness.
Can you see why she won?
Several years ago Krista and I met at IHRSA and have been mates ever since. She has been to Filex and hopes to come back again maybe with her husband and 2 kids!
From everyone Down Under Krista a high ‘Congratulations!’
Justin is the Managing Director of Active Management, which he began January 2004. He offers coaching to businesses worldwide in everything from start up and design to marketing and sales systems. Justin also facilitates four Australian and New Zealand ‘fitness industry roundtables’ events, which allows him to see a huge cross section of business models.