Armor wrote:
Obviously the majority of people go to a gym to sweat and burn fat/tone up so those type classes will always be the bread and butter but Pilates has a niche market imo, my biggest problem with it is that its going to take a good while before i'm any good at it.
It does but in the gyms im around pilates looses money again you pay for the hall. It was making money until about 18 months ago. We have a really good instructor level 4 or something and it was successful originally. Now its down to one class a week that's less then half full. Now the old pilates clients doing TRX ect. TRX started 5 months ago and has 10 full classes a week and its more expensive than pilates. So after 5 months its outselling pilates 20:1. And growing in popularity still.
The body weight stuff is listed as the next big think they've started doing instructor coarses for it. Dunno if it will be a hit or not. Im not sure where you are but all the fads hit America first so have to see how it does there and how they market it. The reason i brought up the body weight stuff is that if it takes off you could uses loads of pilates stuff in that class. Give yourself and edge.
To be honest the best way to make money is a "fun" bootcamp. Girls wanna be silly for an hour and loose weight. like splitting the group and having then hope over each other and racing one group against the other. And tag everyone who does the class on facebook.
