Waking up at 9am to do electrical work with Snickers wasn't how I anticipated my Monday morning to start off but it's how it did. With the exception of basically just our main club lights, when a light bulb goes in the club it needs to be tended to from the ceiling down which means you can't simply just inscrew the bulb and replace it, no, because that would be too expected and too easy. Instead, we have to climb into the ceiling and crawl around with a head lamp on and then figure out the wiring. And given the fact that some parts of the ceiling aren't as "supportive" as others, meaning they can't hold so much weight, this means I am the lightest so I have no choice but to do the job. The possibility of crashing through the ceiling is always there but thankfully has yet to happen... Key word here being "yet".
We got our computer serviced the other day so I had lots of "fun" reloading various programs and sorting out the printer connections. Ended up calling in the professional when I reached a point with the printer where I envisioned myself happily smashing the window with it. I figured it was cheaper to pay the professional than replace both the rented printer and large window. Turns out 24/7 service for the printer is free, bonus there!!!
By 3pm we had continued and conquored many fine tuning renovations, had cleaned the club, and had already been training a couple of members. I was supposed to start training at 2pm but with the printer driving me bonkers and one of my workout partners/Hulkie showing up late, distractions with more work that needed to get down set me back. Finally started my training at 3:30pm.
At 5pm we were buzzing with members and our many fans were working at full speed, trying keep our members cool and our club ventilated. From 6-7pm, a total of 18 Hulkies walked in for training so them plus those still training from the earlier hour meant we were packed. Three of the 18 were first timers, new members, so they had to be weighed in, measured, picture taken, toured around the club and then out through a stretching/warm-up. K-Gere was there when we were at our peck busy time, just sitting there watching and then he decided to take video of everyone. There we were, Snickers and I drowning in a packed club full of members all wanting and deserving our attention. I had to leave my crossfit class to continue without my lead for the sake of showing some new members the club and Snickers then had to leave his padwork to show them how to stretch. "Please don't fill us getting killed!" I told him. And we were getting killed, by our standards that is. You see, we really try to give a more personal training kind of touch to our club, meaning there's not a member that comes in to train that isn't approached, helped or coached by either Snickers or I. At 6:43pm I counted 26 people in the club. A big club can handle a big crowd but you have to remember that it's still just Snickers and I running this place.
The notion of hiring someone is definitely a much discussed issue but there is no easy solution. If we hire a friend, someone that we trust, then the expectations are different. I think that they're not only different but harder because this person does know how much the club means to us. But if you hire a stranger than how do you fully trust them with your business?! We don't know them from a hole in the wall yet are expected to trust them with handling the membership fees and whatnot. Today many members paid their fees, two of which bought 6 month memberships. A total of just over two grand came flowing in today.
I would love some kind of assistant, at least for an hour or two on Mondays. Today I felt stuck at the juice bar dealing with membership formalities when I wanted nothing more to be pushing members through training. On days like today I feel more like a manager and less of a coach and professional athlete. Don't get me wrong, I love sporting the many and vast array of responsibilities (I'm a bit of a happy control freak like that) but it can be as overwhelming as it is frustrating at times. These so-called overwhelming, frustrating times tend to always happen on a Monday -- Mondays are by far our busiest day of the entire week!!! Today was definitely no exception to just how busy we get. We were so busy today that when I most randomly got smacked in the head with a 10kg kettlebell I didn't even have time to check my forehead. I simply yelled out in Korean, brushed my hair over it to cover it up and then continued on the path I was headed. I had a crossfit class to do and 13 people waiting for it to start. By the time work finished, I had totally forgotten about it that is until Snickers asked me why I had an "egg" on my head. Holy swollen forehead, such random injuries come with the job.
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