On the evening of March 7, in the Lightsoul Lisu Fitness Space located on Yanjiang Road in Hecheng Street, Gaoming District, several young people in sportswear were scattered on the push machine and treadmill for exercise. In the training room next to her, Wang Yayi, a gym partner, is adjusting and correcting the students' movement posture. Under her guidance, the trainees are sweating profusely and improving their posture through the accumulation of training.
Originally a nurse, Wang Yayi has shaped a good posture and developed a positive and optimistic attitude towards life by insisting on fitness training. In the past few years, she has transformed from a nurse to a fitness coach and embarked on a new career track, taking pleasure in passing on the concept of a healthy and optimistic life. Nowadays, she is more actively involved in the road of entrepreneurship, bravely chasing dreams, through the opening of fitness venues, leading more students to harvest strong physique through fitness training, train a strong heart, and pursue the life they want.
Wang Yayi is demonstrating the operation of fitness equipment. Courtesy of respondents
Insist on fitness to harvest positive energy
Wang Yayi is a post-90s smart person, after graduation, she became a nurse step by step according to her family's wishes. Flipping through a photo from a few years ago, she was wearing a plus-size nurse's uniform, which was a good sentence compared to now. At that time, with the increase of work pressure, coupled with irregular life and rest, diet was not controlled, Wang Yayi reached more than 160 pounds when she weighed the highest.
In the process of long-term medical care work, Wang Yayi is more and more aware that excessive obesity is a "time bomb" installed on the human body, which will induce many diseases. To improve her posture, she began to go to the gym for a workout. When Wang Yayi first began to participate in fitness, there were not many fitness institutions on the market, and the quality of fitness instructors was uneven, many coaches began to teach after a period of time of fitness, and they did not master many principles, and it was easy to mislead people. The first fitness coach Wang Yayi met was like this, many of the actions taught were not very standardized, and once the trainees developed bad movement habits, they needed to spend more time to adjust and correct, and it was easy to be injured.
After changing the fitness coach, Wang Yayi began to learn fitness knowledge through the Network, she started from the principle, studied the essentials of fitness actions in a step-by-step manner, clarified the previous action and then continued to practice the next action, and slowly corrected the previous wrong cognition. Repeating the fitness action itself is boring, but she firmly believes in the accumulated strength, and keeps her fitness without moving, and after a period of time, Wang Yayi's weight slowly drops, and her appearance has become much better.
"If there is something in the world that will be rewarded as long as you pay, it must be fitness." Wang Yayi said that after tasting the sweetness, Wang Yayi was more enthusiastic about participating in fitness training. She is increasingly enjoying the vibrant atmosphere in the gym. After the fitness has achieved results, Wang Yayi hopes to share her fitness experience, lead more people to change through fitness, and begin to develop in the direction of professional fitness coaches.
Wang Yayi is planning to assign monthly tasks. Courtesy of respondents
Starting your first business was tough
Because of love, for the fitness industry, Wang Yayi is full of curiosity, in the process of serving as a personal trainer, Wang Yayi also specially enrolled in classes to learn fitness theory, and maintain the habit of going out for further study every year, slowly improving the teaching level.
Later, some of Wang Yayi's students will also recommend relatives and friends to come to the gym, as the number of students increases, Wang Yayi's course schedule for several months has been filled, but the manager of the gym still continues to arrange for students to give her, hoping that she will add some students to the existing courses. Wang Yayi does not agree with his approach, she believes that in order to teach the effect, it is necessary to invest a certain amount of time to give targeted guidance to each student, if there are too many students, there may be a situation that cannot be taken into account, and the quality of the course and the reputation will decline.
At the beginning, the reason why Wang Yayi gave up a stable job and became a fitness coach instead was to love fitness and hope to pass on the concept of health. She doesn't want fitness classes to be formalized. In order to be able to really free your hands and feet and do what you want to do. In 2018, Wang Yayi decided to take a new step and opened a fitness studio as a partner. However, because of the first venture, Wang Yayi lacked experience and did not have a thorough consideration in the choice of partners. After the studio opened, a disagreement quickly arose between the partners.
Soon, Wang Yayi and another partner chose to withdraw from the partnership. Under the impact of the epidemic, Wang Yayi encountered many problems such as funds, and once fell into the fear of restarting her business, often self-doubting. At this time, a friend of Wang Yayi also fell into a state of depression due to business debts and sudden divorce. Although Wang Yayi is in a difficult situation of entrepreneurial failure, she does not forget to lend a helping hand to her friends and brings them to train together every morning. Gradually, the changes brought about by fitness allowed friends to regain self-confidence, and Wang Yayi also got inspiration and motivation from friends and found the enthusiasm for entrepreneurship again.
Start a business with passion
Starting a business from scratch, Wang Yayi and her friends also experienced various things that backfired. When they found the right venue and intended investors, life once again joked with them, investors withdrew, venues collapsed... Obstacle after obstacle is like a sudden storm, as if to destroy the buds that have just emerged.
In the confusion, the people accompanying her gave Wang Yayi a lot of support and encouragement. Fitness coach Ah Shang and Wang Yayi met because of like-minded acquaintances, learned that Wang Yayi wanted to start a new business, he finally chose to quit his high-paying job in Guangzhou, and went to a place where he was not familiar with life to set sail again. Another member of the start-up team, Xiao Xi, is Wang Yayi's girlfriend, before, she was affected by a thyroid surgery error, and she has been worried that her voice line cannot be a coach, and later, she plucked up the courage to become a coach, and slowly had her own member fans, they used actions to inspire Wang Yayi not to give up lightly.
Behind Wang Yayi, there are also a group of relatives and friends, a group of loyal students, to help her make up for her financial knowledge, determine the brand tone, participate in the planning and design without compensation, accompany her to see the venue, their efforts, so that Wang Yayi put aside doubts, more confident to move forward again.
In the early stage of entrepreneurship, Wang Yayi and the start-up team also had to stay up late to do coolies, lay floor mats, cut mats, and move equipment... Staying up late is the norm, and they used to see the 4 a.m. smart together. In 2020, after 5 months, from finding a venue to communicating design, from indoor aromatherapy to equipment assembly, with the concerted efforts of everyone, Lightsoul Lisu Fitness Space was finally formed and opened.
After the base camp was built, Wang Yayi was more determined to implement her original intention to the end. Wang Yayi hopes that through fitness, students can harvest a strong physique at the same time, have a strong heart, in the face of life can not only ride the wind and waves to cut through thorns, but also pick chrysanthemums under the eastern fence leisurely, Lightsoul Lisu fitness team believes that this is the essence of fitness. In the Lightsoul Lisu fitness space, fitness instructors recruit students not to put the amount first, more attention to whether the students are firm in the idea of fitness, they will be private fitness plans for students, give students scientific guidance, encourage students to pursue the desire to achieve plastic fat loss, postpartum repair and other effects step by step.
On the evening of March 7, after the fitness class, Wang Yayi was collecting feedback from the students and adjusting the dietary arrangement. Inside the shop, a snow-white kitten passes through the hallway of the fitness room. The kitten is named Li Gui Crisp, which was originally an abandoned sick kitten that Wang Yayi encountered on the way to find a shop. At that time, the entrepreneurial team still did not give up the treatment of it in the case of hundreds of thousands of loans, and now, with its tenacious vitality, the kitten has long recovered its health, and it is not at all visible that it was once sick and weak. Lightsoul is like a precious crisp, growing under the care of a group of passionate entrepreneurs, calling and guiding more and more fitness enthusiasts to pursue a better state of life together.
Text/Foshan Daily reporter Xie Wenjun