{"id":10412,"date":"2023-08-30T11:06:56","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T11:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/?p=10412"},"modified":"2023-08-30T11:24:16","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T11:24:16","slug":"welcome-the-almost-active","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/welcome-the-almost-active\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;Almost Active&#8217; &#8211; Webcast with Claire Burlison"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Walking into a class for the first time can be super-intimidating; taking that first step into the studio is a challenge often put off by many. Claire Burlison thinks of these people as being the &#8216;almost active&#8217;.<\/h2>\n<div>Listen to Claire, founder and brand Director of Clubbercise share her wisdom &#8211; it comes from personal experience. Claire lists out her top tips and explains how you can gently support the &#8216;almost active&#8217;. We all want to create the kind of place where beginners and people who lack confidence feel comfortable.<\/div>\n<h3 class=\"gmail_default\">FitPro&#8217;s Teresa Wheatley chatted to Claire about encouraging the &#8216;almost active&#8217; into the studio and how we can have them with us for a lifetime &#8211; Claire covers:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"gmail_default\">The power of a walkthrough video<\/li>\n<li class=\"gmail_default\">Buddying up<\/li>\n<li class=\"gmail_default\">Creating a conducive atmosphere perhaps by dimming the lights<\/li>\n<li class=\"gmail_default\">The power of promoting the benefits<\/li>\n<li class=\"gmail_default\">To give a freebie<\/li>\n<li class=\"gmail_default\">How to truly make people feel welcome.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"gmail_default\">Smash down those barrier for your newbies &#8211; some of them may even go on to become your future front row crew!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"GMT20230811 101526 Recording gallery 1280x720\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5FszSXqXfns?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>A little bit more about Claire&#8230;.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10508\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/ClaireBurlison-Headshot.jpeg\" alt=\"Headshot of Claire Burlison\" width=\"320\" height=\"320\" \/><strong>Claire Burlison &#8211; Founder and Brand Director, Clubbercise<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Successful fitness entrepreneur with a unique background&#8230; Claire did very little exercise herself until she turned 30 and discovered dance fitness. She started her career as a graphic designer then moved into marketing management and brand consultancy before launching <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clubbercise.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Clubbercise<\/a> in 2013. Today roughly 100,000 people worldwide are taking Clubbercise classes every week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walking into a class for the first time can be super-intimidating; taking that first step&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,3074],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-group-exercise","8":"category-webcast"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10412"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10543,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10412\/revisions\/10543"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fitpro.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}