About
Suzi is a Certified CanFitPto Fitness Instructor Specialist, CALA Group Aquafitness Leader, CCAA Certified Seniors Fitness Instructor, licensed Hip Hop Hustle Instructor and a licensed Zumba, Zumba Gold, Zumbatomic, Zumba Toning and Aqua Zumba Instructor living in Nova Scotia, Canada.
Having obtained her college degree in Business Administration, she comes from a strong business background having spent over 5 years as an accredited insurance agent for a local brokerage before making a complete change in careers going from a 9-5 office job to a career in fitness.
Although the road hasn’t always been easy, she hasn’t regretted her change in careers once. Now she gets to earn a living while helping to make people fitter, stronger, healthier, and *hopefully* happier. She gets to spend hours each day dancing in her Zumba classes and loves to see the change in the confidence of her participants from week to week as they become more in tune with their bodies and less self conscious.
But don’t be fooled, Suzi (and this blog) aren’t all about fitness, in addition to being a fitness instructor, Suzi is also a wife,
a sister to two brothers (and three brothers-in-law, and two sisters-in-law), the aunt to an awesome 9 year old nephew and an adorable 6 year old niece, the adopted mother to two furry little tykes. A long lanky orange tabby named Pekoe 
and a short rollie pollie grey cat named Ollie.
She has been known to be the occasional runner,
a lover of movies, an obsessive reader, a terrible tennis player, an awesome Super Mario gamer (even if she is the only one to think so! 
), a lover of food (especially dessert), a hater of peas, an adorer of both sleep and Mini Coopers, and is one of the most accident prone people you will ever find.
No matter what, Suzi refuses to take herself too seriously. If you can’t act silly, laugh at yourself and have fun, what does the rest even matter?
Thanks so much for dropping by my blog, why not take a look around and stay a while? I hope you find something you like – and I hope you’ll visit again soon!
xoxo,
Suzi
P.S. If you want to read a few more posts about me you can find some here:
- The “Real” Confessions of a Fitness Instructor
- Overcoming Insecurities
- Taking the Plunge – Why I Changed Careers
Love the layout Suzi!
Congrats on following your passions! Wow. It must be tough though…not the same “security”? as in the typical 9-5 job? How do you deal with that?…
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Interestingly, I don’t have any security concerns. I am technically employed by one recreation dept and at the local University in their athletics dept. but those classes only make up about 30% of my income. During the year (Sept-May) those classes give me almost all of the income I *need* to survive, but I make most of my money through the classes I run myself. I live in an area where there aren’t many fitness instructors to being with, and even fewer with my specialties (seniors fitness, aqua fitness & all the different types of Zumba) so I normally have more classes than I know what to do with.
I think it also helps that I come from both a business and finance background so I know how to handle the business end of things.
This is a really good question though – I think you’ve inspired me to write a post about it!
Hi Suzi! I’m will be taking CALA Group Aquafitness classes this July, Currently I live in Ottawa and I heard aquafitness instructors are in high demand. They get paid about 30$/h by the city of Ottawa. I will be moving to BC in September and I heard they dont get paid much over there. I was wondering ifyou know how much Aquafitness instructors get paid if they are just starting? I can’t find information anywhere!
I don’t think there is any standard out there for how much aquafitness instructors get paid regardless of if they are experienced or not. I think that most places pay anywhere between $15-$35/class with $20 or $25 being the most common. Having said that, I have never taught a class in BC so I don’t really know what the average would be there. Sorry I couldn’t give you a better answer! If you have any other questions please feel free to email me
suzi@confessionsofafitnessinstructor.com
I’m glad I read this today! I actually just put my 2 weeks in at my 8-5 office job to pursue my passion of personal training. I’d also like to get into the group fitness world! I’d love to teach spin or a strength type class. Thanks for be inspiring
How Exciting! {and scary} I’m excited to read all about your transition on your blog!