42: Dads Who Empower - Rob Glick

In this deeply personal episode of Group X Appeal, Kimberly and Terry welcome fitness industry pioneer Rob Glick for an honest conversation about how fatherhood transformed his approach to both career and wellness. Rob opens up about overcoming imposter syndrome, the art of role modeling healthy behaviors for his children, and why fitness should energize rather than drain you. If you're a parent struggling to balance your own health journey with family demands, Rob's insights will inspire you to trust the process and show up authentically.

What You'll Learn:

• ✅ How fatherhood can profoundly reshape your fitness philosophy and career priorities
• ✅ Why role modeling healthy behaviors is the most powerful parenting tool you have
• ✅ How to reframe fitness as an energy source rather than another life drain
• ✅ Why connection and relationships should be at the heart of your fitness approach
• ✅ The importance of giving children space to develop their own unique identities

Perfect for working parents and anyone seeking to model wellness while navigating the beautiful chaos of family life. Rob's journey proves that trusting the process—in both parenting and fitness—creates the foundation for authentic success.

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Transcript

When it comes to shaping the fitness industry from the ground up, today's guest is a true original. He is a creative force, a trailblazing presenter, a master educator, and yes, he is also the father of our amazing son Tyler. Welcome to Group X Appeal. Today we are thrilled to continue our Dads Who Empower series with the one and only Rob Glick. Rob has helped innovate some of the most recognizable fitness formats out there.

His career has taken him to international stages, inside corporate boardrooms, and into the hearts of thousands of instructors and class attendees across the world. Rob we're celebrating today is more than a fitness icon. He's a dad who shows up, a man who's navigated life, love, fatherhood, and reinvention with passion, authenticity, and heart.

This conversation is full of the real stuff, how being a father has changed him, how he's evolved over time, and how he continues to empower others by staying true to who he is. Let's welcome a man we both respect deeply, not just as a fellow fitness professional, but as an amazing human being.

Kimberly/terry (01:44)
Welcome to Group X Appeal. Kimberly Spreen Glick here with Terry Shorter. We are so glad you joined us today. We are continuing our series called dads who empower and we happen to have my favorite dad on today because he happens to be the father of our son, Tyler Glick.

Rob Glick (01:58)
Yeah

Kimberly/terry (02:02)
And that is the fabulous Rob Glick. So Rob, how are you my dear?

Rob Glick (02:07)
Fantastic. So good to be here with you both.

Kimberly/terry (02:10)
So glad to have you. Thanks for joining us today. Absolutely. Appreciate you taking the time. We know how busy, busy you are doing all the things. So thanks for taking the time to chat with us.

Rob Glick (02:20)
My absolute pleasure. This will be fun.

Kimberly/terry (02:22)
So you've heard the intro you've got a little bit of background about Rob But we're gonna dig quite a bit deeper So we wanted to kind of first find out Rob if you can share with the listeners if you can kind of share how you found group exercise What you love most about it and why you're still doing it to this day

Rob Glick (02:41)
Yeah, it's

quite a funny story. was going, know, it, can over? I start over? Sorry. Okay. Yeah, it's such a funny story. So I grew up with my first love being surfing. And when I was surfing all the time, you know, people were talking about this thing called aerobics, which was anything but, it was completely anaerobic. Like, I'm gonna go check this out. And I went to a,

Kimberly/terry (02:48)
No, go for it.

Right. True.

Rob Glick (03:10)
called Nautilus and I tried it and I was terrible at it but I was intrigued. was like, my gosh, this is hard but very fun. And so started going regularly and ⁓ just kind of fell in love with it and just started to become something that I would do in my off time, go over to this Nautilus gym and take classes and never thought about teaching. And then a number of years later,

there was a place in Mission Viejo, California called the Road of Body Works and that became the place. And I started going there and taking classes. my gosh, they were so fun and so intense and just such a great camaraderie. And I was in school thinking I was going to be a pilot. But back at that time when you went all the time and people would ask you, ⁓ you should teach. And there was a deep part of me that I wanted to so badly. I looked so up to the instructors.

and I wanted to be them or at least be one of them. ⁓ So I had at my college, I was doing a junior college at the time called Orange Coast College, they had a fitness specialist program. So I took anatomy and physiology and jumped into this program with a gentleman by name of Leon Ski that ran it and I fell in love with it. Changed my major, went into exercise science, athletic training, nutrition.

Kimberly/terry (04:11)
⁓ huh.

Rob Glick (04:36)
transferred to Chapman University to Chapman and got my degree in ⁓ exercise science with a focus on becoming a physical therapist. Just loved learning about the human body so much and you really like what a miracle we are. And so I started in my internship in physical therapy but that whole time in order to pay for school I was working in different gyms and different health clubs and teaching and doing all of that. started

Kimberly/terry (04:45)
Hmm.

Rob Glick (05:05)
teaching and personal training was brand new. And people would ask me to train them and I'm like, you know, I know how to train me, but I don't feel comfortable training you. So as soon as I finished that program, I started out more confident and feeling like I could help people. And so I was doing some personal training, teaching classes, getting my degree in what I thought would be to be a physical therapist. And after I started doing my internship in physical therapy, I quickly realized I like

this group fitness side. like this personal training side because people are coming to me for help and asking if I can help them versus a life situation putting them in my care. And both are wonderful and have so much respect and just think so highly of that field. But for my character, for my personality, I really gravitated more toward people saying, how can you help me versus, oh man, I had this injury and now I'm here. And so

Kimberly/terry (05:38)
Right.

Hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Rob Glick (06:01)
I just stayed in the health club industry and I thought probably I would say for the first 10 years this was something that I would do until I figured out what I wanted to do. yeah, I know right, must have been 10, 15 years later that I woke up and go, ⁓ wait, this is what I do. This is, yeah. And I, through all of that I had an opportunity to buy one of the clubs that I was a trainer in, the owner.

Kimberly/terry (06:10)
How'd that go?

doing this.

Rob Glick (06:28)
said hey, know, I'm kind of want to focus on something else and you're here all the time, would you like to purchase it? And I was like, my God, yes. So I purchased, it was called the Girls Gym in Newport Beach and I owned that health club and then that's when Group Fitness was just blowing up and I had the opportunity, as you mentioned in the intro, to start traveling around the world and teaching all over the world and I just loved that so much, how to make a choice. So I sold that club.

Kimberly/terry (06:43)
Mm-hmm.

Rob Glick (06:55)
moved up to LA, started teaching in some of the premier boutiques up there, Voight Fitness and Dancing, or later Madonna Grimes Fitness Theater, and just traveling and presenting. So that's kind of a short overview of about 15 years.

Kimberly/terry (07:07)
Mm-hmm.

And traveling he did like you go to Europe and basically live there for a month to three months just teaching and presenting right? This is crazy

Rob Glick (07:19)
Absolutely, yeah. I a friend of mine

who had a studio in a place called New Chateau, Switzerland. So during the week, Monday through Thursday, would guest teach at her place. And then just every weekend there was a conference somewhere, whether it in Italy or France or Spain or Portugal or Germany or Scandinavia whatever. So every weekend you go to a conference, teach for three days, teach at her place, be gone for three weeks to a month, come back and go back to the studios in LA.

Kimberly/terry (07:48)
Load Trotter. Right? Quite a life. ⁓ gosh.

Rob Glick (07:50)
Yeah,

it was fun, very fun.

Kimberly/terry (07:54)
All right, well, we got some questions coming your way. And the first one we have for you is, how has being a father influenced your approach to your personal fitness and to your work?

Rob Glick (07:56)
you

You know, I think it's that almost...

stereotypical thing people say that you can't explain it until you have children and I completely respect all of the people out there who are listening who choose not to have children and that's a great path to and what you're doing with your life especially if you're listening to group X uphill because you've dedicated your life to helping others but for me you know I have never known that kind of love that the kind of love the second my first was born her name is Danny

and she came into the world and you're like, okay. And it was so interesting because the second she's born, there's a level of responsibility. I was still very immature, just so immature. And then she comes and you're like, all right, I'm responsible for this life 100%. Especially in those first couple years of their life, there's just, if they don't have strong...

parents, they're supporting them and family, then they can't survive, right? And so just changed everything. It literally changed everything. It changed my relationship to love. It changed my relationship to relationships and definitely understanding that responsibility.

Kimberly/terry (09:13)
Mm-hmm.

Yeah, life changing for sure. Yeah, it's like a shift in priorities. It is. Did you find that you ended up being less focused on your personal fitness because you have this additional responsibility or did it cause you to be more focused because you wanted to be strong and healthy as a dad?

Rob Glick (09:26)
Yeah.

Yes, that's such a good question. don't think I was conscious about it at the time. Just, you know, like really into being there for Danny as much as I could and just, you know, like just so in love with this human being and at the same time, very focused on what I was doing, right? Just so focused on. So I don't think it became, I became conscious of your question until our son was born, Tyler, because now I'm an older dad, right?

Kimberly/terry (09:47)
Mmm.

You

Mmm. Mmm.

Rob Glick (10:13)
and I've got this sun coming into the world and I'm like, wanna do the things. Like wanna surf with him, I wanna ski with him. I wanna be able to play with him at the level that he wants to play throughout his entire life. And so in order for that to happen, my focus on fitness took a whole different approach, right? A whole different like just level of need that I'd never thought about before because before it was just.

Kimberly/terry (10:14)
not that old.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Rob Glick (10:42)
doing the thing, It's just what I did. It's just what we did.

Kimberly/terry (10:46)
Mm-hmm. You got it. So and what strategies Rob have you found? You know now most effective for making quality time with your family while managing your career and and I realized that you know It's like you just said your your career has evolved Quite a bit but to date what are some of those strategies that have been most effective for you?

Rob Glick (11:09)
You know, I mean, it's such a good question and unfortunately, if you being completely candid and authentic, that work-life balance has always been a work of life for me. Luckily, I'm passionate about what we do and I look forward every day to going and figuring out. And what shifted, I think, a lot, like in those younger, immature days of teaching, it was about being on stage.

Kimberly/terry (11:17)
Mm-hmm.

Sure.

Yes. It shows.

Rob Glick (11:39)
and now it's about helping people, right? But my love and passion for the industry has only grown just the way I approach it has changed so much. So still everyday thinking how can I get more and more people to make the choice to find their joy, find their passion, the thing that they decide to choose to have a healthy, active way of life, you know? And that hasn't changed ever. ⁓ It's just become so much more focused on

Kimberly/terry (11:39)
Mm-hmm.

Rob Glick (12:06)
the members, people who come to classes, the people that we get to touch. In that, with my kids, it's just as much integration as possible. How can we spend time doing these things together? And it's been so wonderful. My daughter's kind of approach to fitness was dance, and supporting them through dance, and being at their dance shows, and just showing up, right? And then I think the most important thing is role modeling.

Kimberly/terry (12:15)
Mm-hmm.

Rob Glick (12:35)
Right? Like I think, you know, it doesn't matter what we say, it matters what we do. You know, I still got so much work there and in so many places in my life to be the best role model I can for our son Tyler and for girls. But you just watch it evolve, right? Like, especially with Danny and Jordan, my two daughters, you know, you don't know that your healthy way of life is having an impact on their life because they're young and they're kids and they're doing their thing and they're...

Kimberly/terry (12:35)
Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Rob Glick (13:04)
eating how they eat and all that kind of stuff. But then you see as they mature into these amazing women that wow, making a deliberate choice to have a healthy and active life and being conscientious about what they eat and how they take care of themselves and how they take care of each other. Okay, there was something there, right? And our son Tyler, he's like, I can't even talk about it. It's just...

Kimberly/terry (13:25)
Sure.

He's a beast.

Rob Glick (13:32)
I don't even know, think he just came into this world with a mission. People are like, it's because of you and Kimberly. I'm like, I wish I could take credit. I can't take Yeah, exactly, right? It's more like control rather than credit, right? He's just so self-driven and so self-motivated. yeah, know, predetermined, right? That's just the human that he came into this world. And I think that that's been one of...

Kimberly/terry (13:40)
I always tell people, like, we're just trying not to screw it up.

Mm-hmm. Very determined.

Rob Glick (14:02)
you know, my biggest lessons in being a parent is to try to just give them space to grow into the human that they're going to be and give them that space to be this independent individual, whoever it is, you know, and I'd be lying if I'd say there wasn't struggles along the way, you know, I love to surf. Tyler hated the sand in the beach, right? It was like, are you doing to me? Like, know, what? And then, you know, you just give the space. ⁓

Kimberly/terry (14:26)
Mmm.

Rob Glick (14:32)
to let him be who he is and find his way. And now, you know, he's asking us to go work out every day. And it took him to his place called Storm, you know, gets there at five and I pick him up at 845, you know, and yeah, and there's no pressure from us whatsoever. None.

Kimberly/terry (14:34)
Yeah.

Mm-hmm. Yeah.

serious.

Yeah, none. Yeah, if

anything there's pressure to try to figure out everything new he asked everything that he wants to do

Rob Glick (14:58)
Yeah, and to like find the balance, right? Like, okay, you

you're 12, you've got a long time of this. But he's just unique in that way. And it's wonderful to be able to be a witness to the humans that all three of them are.

Kimberly/terry (15:10)
He's hungry.

But I'd have to say

just, you know, obviously having front row seats for Tyler in particular, I think that one of the reasons he may have gotten bit by the bug of being, you know, getting into working out and everything is because you would take him, you'd take him a lifetime with you and he'd see and experience the environment and get more and more comfortable with the environment. Next thing you know, he's loving the environment. Yeah, wanting to work out and wanting to try classes and do the different workouts. And I think we had a lot of quality time.

you know, when Tyler was young and we would travel quite a bit for conferences and such, he was always with us and we either had, you know, a grandparent or, you know, ⁓ an aunt and uncle or something along the way. So that when we were busy with work, he had additional supportive family. the fact that like he's always been with us when we did all of those things, it's not like every time you had to go to a conference, you traveled and you were away from him. Like,

Rob Glick (16:11)
Exactly.

Kimberly/terry (16:11)
Like we were kind of this little traveling circus. I think, and it's funny because I was just talking to Rob's parents not too long ago and we were really reminiscing about those times because it was such amazing quality time, the different cities we got to experience together, the different hotels, restaurants, all the different hotels and how they spoiled Tyler to death. It was cool. It was a way to do it. Yeah.

Rob Glick (16:30)
Yeah, yeah

Yeah, he'd be on stage, right?

So he'd get bit by the bug again, just being in that environment for sure when we were running Empower and doing all those conferences. And you know, I know, right? It's so funny you have that shirt on today. Yeah, it's just fascinating. And that's honestly like all I can hope for them is they find their joy. And Danny, my daughter, she was here today taking class.

Kimberly/terry (16:40)
Yeah, sure.

Empower. It's on purpose.

Rob Glick (17:00)
and Jordan's just blossomed into this amazing young lady that's just got this traveling spirit and she's a dive master living up in Santa Barbara and out in the water helping people learn to dive and you know it's just it's just cool right I mean you know right

Kimberly/terry (17:07)
Mm-hmm.

active. is great.

Well, you set a great example. Such a great example, such a nurturing example. And I don't think there could have been a more positive environment that your kids could have grown up in. Than the one that they did. So.

Rob Glick (17:31)
Yeah, I mean it's

funny because my daughter, again, she just had a baby, so I'm now officially a grandfather. yeah, right? she's just a couple days over six months, she was here today too, London. And I shared with her, said, know, I mean honestly, like we just talked about, know, all that, think that we're gifted with these human beings that come into our lives. like Kimberly said, our best...

Kimberly/terry (17:38)
Congratulations, Grandaddy!

Aww.

Mmm, so blessed.

Rob Glick (17:57)
if we can kind of stay out of their way and just give them the environment to grow into the human beings that like predestined to be, they want to be, that gives their spirit the opportunity to rise up and fully develop. you know, I think again, getting to watch all three of them in their own unique ways is, it's so fun. And, know, it's hard to stand back and watch them make choices that you wish they'd make a different choice, but it's just part of the process.

Kimberly/terry (18:16)
Yeah. ⁓

part of the process and the best seats in the house. know, Good for you. Love it. Yep. So how would you guide other dads to help them encourage their kids to have a healthy relationship with health, fitness, wellness?

Rob Glick (18:29)
Yeah.

I think it comes back to role modeling, Like really like recognizing and again, you know, we all have those opportunities. I have to look at my relationships to electronics and go, hey, that's what I'm role modeling to my son. Right. I said it for you. I said it for you. Right. And just recognize that lectures are worthless. Right. Like don't lecture kids. Just set the example. You know, and

Kimberly/terry (18:57)
I'm not saying a word.

Mm-hmm. ⁓

Rob Glick (19:14)
then watch them mature into the human beings that they are based on the examples and the environment that they've been in and try to give them the healthiest environment to grow up in. so I would just say that. Give them the space to be the people that they were predestined to be and be mindful that what you're doing speaks much, much louder than what you're saying.

Kimberly/terry (19:40)
What you're saying requires a lot of trust

for sure. Yeah

Rob Glick (19:44)
Yeah,

⁓ one of the best things that I ever experienced, there's this program, I think it's out of Germany called RY, and it's for infants, and it's so interesting because it's the antithesis of like that helicopter parent, and for infants, the whole thing is, you can only have your child go to it until they can walk. And so they put all these infants in this space, and in the middle they put all these like ⁓ colanders, and it's all like just...

things that you'd have around the house, they try to have it be natural things like wooden spoons and stuff like that. And then they put them in the middle and you just, your job is to just let the infants experience the space. And the parents, like again, more for their, I think for their own ego and their own concern than for the kids, would watch and you watch the infant go over and maybe they pick up one of the wooden spoons and then the other one picks up like this colander and.

They're playing uniquely, or individually, and then one of them sees the other one, sees a spoon, they're kind of interested. They crawl over and they grab the spoon. And the parent wants to jump in go, honey, you need to share, come on. And you can't. That's the guidelines of this class. You just have to watch. And the only way, the only thing we can interact is if somebody's gonna get hurt, right? If there's a safety situation. Otherwise, you gotta trust in the experience.

Kimberly/terry (20:56)
Right. Don't jump in. Yeah. Observe.

Right.

Rob Glick (21:06)
But it's so fascinating because one of three things would happen. One of the, like, the child would grab the spoon back. The child would cry, or the child would move away and get interested in something else. And to have, like, just let that happen, right? And to let them already start to have an emotional health of figuring it out on their own, that just really stuck with me through all of the kids. And just be like...

Kimberly/terry (21:22)
Mm-hmm.

Rob Glick (21:34)
that process. I think it's our approach to yoga, right? Let the students find the space within and have the experience and try to intervene as little as possible as opposed to the opposite.

Kimberly/terry (21:39)
be.

Sure. Great, great life lesson. I know, right? That's awesome. Thank you for sharing. So how, Rob, do you use your experience as a parent to connect with and better serve your clients and community who are balancing fitness and their family responsibilities?

Rob Glick (21:54)
Yeah.

You know, it's funny too in these few years of being in this industry, what's changed the most for me is right, is about the realization that this is all about connection. You know, we are in the business of connection and relationships and we're in a performing art that like, you know, you could go and watch a play and sit in a seat, you could go and watch a concert and sit in a seat, but you got to participate. You know, you got to participate with us and in this active

Kimberly/terry (22:19)
Just a couple.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Rob Glick (22:44)
hopefully healthy way of life. And it's about those connections. And I think whatever you can do to create a bond so that there's a relationship and it's not like I'm the teacher and you're the student. It's about, we're all in this together and this is a time for us to come together to think about taking care of ourselves so we can be better available to others in a healthy body, in a healthy mind, hopefully.

Kimberly/terry (22:58)
bright.

Mm-hmm.

Rob Glick (23:12)
It helps build relationships. Talking about your kids and sharing those stories ⁓ really helps for all the parents that are in the room and for the people that aren't, the anecdotal portion of that, you know, still brings a sense of humor, a lightness and a connection that everybody can find and experience. yeah.

Kimberly/terry (23:22)
Sure.

Yeah. No, that's great. Yeah. Bringing that, bringing the human element ⁓

in is super, super key and lets people know that, you're, approachable, that you're relatable and you know, you are just another person just like that. Yeah. hear him into and the fact that, okay, here for the parents in the room, like here's another parent who is making fitness a priority. So it kind of affirms their choice to be a parent because so often

Rob Glick (23:50)
Yeah.

Kimberly/terry (24:03)
Yeah, we think, okay, if I'm not with my kid, then I experience this guilt that I'm not with them. But then if I'm with them, then there's guilt for not doing this other thing, whether it be work or self care or fitness, whatever. So I think by, again, like you were saying earlier, setting the example, this time it's the example for the participants and the clients versus your children. So it's good stuff.

Rob Glick (24:08)
Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, I think you

speak to this all the time in your classes and it's so true and you share the quote all the time, but it's just that whole idea that you can't help others if you're empty, right? You've got to up, you've got to fill up and you've got to have extra or you get depleted and the instructors out there get depleted and they get burnt out and it's because they're running on empty. So it's like, you you've got to take care of yourself through all of the things, through recovery, through nutrition, through sleep, through fitness.

Kimberly/terry (24:36)
Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Rob Glick (24:55)
and through friends and fun, right? You've got to do that so that you have the ability to be available to all of your relationships, especially your kids. And so I think that's the mistake, right? When people go, I just don't have time for working out, they get burnt out, right? They feel bad. And it's the opposite of what people think, and it's so strange, Like, fitness gives energy. It doesn't take it away. And you have to remember that. like, I'm so tired. I need to go work out. You have to be able to I'm so tired. I can't go work out. But if you do, you'll have more energy.

Kimberly/terry (24:57)
connection.

Mm-hmm.

Right. Right. Right.

Yeah. Funny how that works.

Rob Glick (25:25)
And so when you feel that mindset, you've got to go, right? You got to go.

You got to wake up. You got to go. Your whole day is better. And then your relationships are better. And again, back to your children, you're just more available to them because you've checked that box. You're not thinking, my gosh, when am I going to get my fitness in? I'm not feeling great in my body. I'm not feeling great in my skin, all that stuff. You're like, that's done. Now I can really show up.

Kimberly/terry (25:32)
Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, harmony achieved. that. So you just gave a great piece of advice when it comes to self care in particular, but if you could give yourself, your younger self, another piece of advice when it comes to thriving as both a dad and a fitness pro, what would that piece of advice be?

Rob Glick (25:52)
Yes.

man, think just faith and confidence, know, just trust. think that, you know, it's so funny, I'm still anxious and nervous every time I step in to teach a class after all these years, you know, every time. And it's like, just knowing like, my job is to show up for them and be there for them and, you know, use all of these years of experience to just help and serve and just

Kimberly/terry (26:14)
Mm.

Yes. Me too. Me too.

Rob Glick (26:41)
Like getting in your head only is, it's bad for everybody, right? So I think if I could tell my younger self anything, you you're not an imposter, you are exactly where you're supposed to be, show up and give the gifts that you've been given to share and let everything else take care of itself. Yeah.

Kimberly/terry (26:46)
Mm-hmm.

Let it go great advice.

Hope everybody's listening So this is this is off the question list however, you mentioned something about you know having that that ⁓ in that sense of being an imposter Do you still have that that sense? Do you still feel that even now to this day ever? I like the imposter syndrome

Rob Glick (27:07)
Thank

Sure, you

know, honestly, it's so interesting because I've just developed a new program called CTR, core tone and reform. And you know, when I when I was young, I did stop Pilates with John and just this incredible training and it was so good. And at that time, my journey took me the yoga path and the Pilates path, right? Now, you know,

Kimberly/terry (27:35)
Mm-hmm.

Sure.

Rob Glick (27:52)
just always again trying to figure out how to get more people a healthy and active, know, plies has come full circle. So this opportunity and it's been on my mind for a long time to really develop an athletic reformer workout. And, you know, I've felt this in different situations, you know, it's kind of like when people used to argue about rhythmic riding and real road riding on a stationary bike and they'd be like, okay guys, let's begin. And it's a stationary bike, okay? You can approach it as a simulator for real riding. That's the great thing.

Kimberly/terry (28:13)
Sure.

Rob Glick (28:22)
And you can have a great time on it. But it's for cardiovascular health and we're in the business of getting people to move more, right? At the end of the day. Or the argument of warrior sculpt or yoga sculpt, or whatever call it, it's not real yoga. And I'm like, okay, I don't know how we define real yoga because real yoga is about helping to stop the fluctuations of the mind to be present. And I find when people are most active and in the thing and the flow, they're present, but that's another topic. But that's okay.

Kimberly/terry (28:26)
Yeah.

versus yoga. All right.

Sure.

Rob Glick (28:51)
and so the same thing so now initially i'm going okay i am not the parties expert and i know i'm not the place expert i've leaned into a lot of people are a lot smarter than me but i can use all of my awareness of body movement to bring that to this new program and deliver an exceptional experience on a reformer

Kimberly/terry (29:16)
Yeah. you're.

Which by the way, he has been doing, cause that program has launched at the Irvine lifetime and is crushing it. Every single class has a wait list of many. That's amazing. Congratulations. I think I saw a screenshot of a wait list of like 60 some people, like trying to get into one particular class. Love it. That's unheard of. So I think you did okay.

Rob Glick (29:33)
Yeah, some of them. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And it's wonderful. Yeah.

But it's but it's the same thing to your question, you know, I had to come to grips with it and go, okay. And that's what's so wonderful is like, if you really want to learn about Pilates, I have so many amazing people that I will refer you to, to learn the essence of classic Pilates really done in the in the way that Joseph

Kimberly/terry (29:53)
Mm-hmm.

Rob Glick (30:01)
Claudi's had set it up to do. Now this is a cousin of Claudi's, like cardio kickboxing. I would never say to somebody, if you want to learn self-defense, take a cardio kickboxing class. Not the way. I'm going to be worried for you in an alley if you think that your cardio kickboxing is going to get you out of trouble. So it's the same thing here, but if you want to get more in touch with it, exactly.

Kimberly/terry (30:13)
Good luck with that.

Hahaha

Unless they have a body bar.

Rob Glick (30:29)
And you want to better posture, better alignment, better movement control and have a great time and improve your kinesthetic awareness and posture and core connection. This is going be fantastic for you. And if you love to do it and you move more and wherever it takes you on your journey, amazing. But, to answer your question, yeah, it's a huge win. But walking in the room and having people who know a lot more about Pilates than I do, you run into that, you're like, you know, that nerves and imposter syndrome and all that stuff.

Kimberly/terry (30:40)
Sure.

Yeah, that's a win.

Well, I think that, I appreciate your honesty, you know, ⁓ it's refreshing to, to hear someone of your caliber, your experience, ⁓ still have that in this case, very temporary sense of that imposter syndrome. because for people who are newer, the newer instructors out there, I think it's really important for them to hear that. It's important for me to hear that too. And I consider myself.

Rob Glick (31:04)
you

Kimberly/terry (31:24)
kind of experience now to kind of just sort of so that is that's awesome to hear and I love the fact I love the analogy that you gave for the yoga examples the kickboxing example so true spot-on so true and you know what I love I love that you took on the challenge of launching this program knowing that what you bring to the table is something that can make it successful which it has

Rob Glick (31:26)
No, no.

Totally. Totally.

Kimberly/terry (31:50)
And that doesn't mean that you didn't do your homework because I know very well that you did. I mean, I think for the last six months he's been to every Pilates studio across Southern California just studying and everything. doing your homework. Yeah.

Rob Glick (31:50)
Thank you.

Didn't do right, that's what we do right and again you

know I'm just I'm a huge fan of every place you know that has dedicated and committed themselves to make people healthier.

Kimberly/terry (32:10)
Yeah. Fantastic.

So anything else that you would want to share with our audience with regards to, you know, being a parent who works in the health and fitness industry, creating that alignment, thriving in what you do or just in general.

Rob Glick (32:30)
All I think I'll say in parting is just have the confidence and the and faith in yourself of what you're doing and how you're living will rub off. And if there's those moments that your children are taking a path that is unsettling, just continue to be a great role model.

Kimberly/terry (32:40)
Mm.

Can I share one little,

little anecdotal story? This is actually really sweet. ⁓ When our son was younger, he, like every other kid pretty much on the planet, liked sugar. And there are certain influences in his life that...

like to supply him with sugar because it made him happy. so like he really, liked candy, he liked baked goods. Any other kid on the planet, right? And so Rob and I would talk about it and be kind of concerned that really, you know, he's, he's really leaning into this, you know, unhealthy eating pattern and you know, cause knowing what we know where our brains automatically goes, like, you know, future diabetes and all this stuff. And now fast forward just a few years later. And now what I'm hearing is,

us trying to get our son to eat more. Well, I try to get him to eat sugar so I can too, because our son doesn't eat sugar anymore, but he's on like a no added sugar kick, but just trying to eat more period. know, like honey, if you're going to work out that hard, you've got to more protein and things like that. It's so interesting. So that's a perfect example of just trust. Like we were worried.

Rob Glick (33:51)
Exactly. Yeah, it is so interesting.

Yeah, just trust.

Yeah.

Kimberly/terry (34:00)
And

we've even talked about this and kind of joked about it that we were worried at one point and then look what happened. Look how it played out. And what, did that worrying get us? Probably these gray hair wrinkles, it didn't change the game. It's all good. Part of the process. I love it. Well, good stuff. Well, Rob.

Rob Glick (34:05)
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Few more wrinkles, few more wrinkles for sure. A little less hair up here, but you know. Yes.

Kimberly/terry (34:22)
Share with our listeners where you can be found, where they can follow you and also any other projects that you're currently working on that you're proud of and that you're excited to share.

Rob Glick (34:32)
Sure, super proud of the CTR program, so please come experience it a lifetime. And all of our classes, our classes are phenomenal. Our yoga, Life Power Yoga Cycle, you know, what we call our signature group training, but GTX, alpha conditioning. So please come and be our guests. You know, all three of us teach at Lifetime, so you could be our guests at a lifetime. Reach out, you can find me on Instagram, I'm posting all the time, so please just.

Kimberly/terry (34:40)
They rock.

Rob Glick (34:59)
DM me, send me a message ⁓ on Instagram. I would love to hear from you. My Insta is Rob, R-O-B, Glick, G-L-A-C-K-1. And yeah, stay in touch. ⁓

Kimberly/terry (35:11)
one and only. I

love it. Awesome. Well, that conversation was personal, powerful, and packed with perspective as well. And as you heard, Rob Glick isn't just a fitness pioneer. Like we said earlier, he's a dad who understands really the real strength that it's not just found in exercise. It's found in the everyday moments in the choices that we also make to grow and

Also how we show it for people that we love. Yeah, absolutely. Well, Mr. Glick, thank you so very much for sharing your journey. I knew some bits and pieces of it, but it was awesome getting to be able to share from your perspective with all the listeners and those who watch us on YouTube. you know, you for as long as I have known you, you've always been an innovator.

Rob Glick (35:47)
Yeah.

Yeah.

Kimberly/terry (36:04)
You've always been resourceful. You're one who continues to evolve, to inspire, to empower, which is why when we had our event, we called it Empower. You lead with intention. Empower. There she goes, pointing at her boobs again. Empower. ⁓ And then of course, you're an incredible role model, which is exactly what you want to be, an incredible example, and just an incredible dad to Tyler. So thank you for that.

Rob Glick (36:17)
I

Thank you,

and both you, Kimberly, Terry, thank you so much, and I have the pleasure of taking your classes, and you're such amazing fitness professionals, so thank you for all you do and all the lives you've touched.

Kimberly/terry (36:39)
Thank you.

Well, so to all of you listening, if this episode moved you and I'm sure it did, please, we encourage you and appreciate you passing it on. Tag a dad, a mentor or somebody who really needs to hear that the greatest legacy we leave isn't what we build, but it's who we build up along the way. So amen. Yeah.

Rob Glick (36:59)
Do it with nothing.

Kimberly/terry (37:02)
Definitely like subscribe if you're on YouTube, leave comments or send us messages over on Instagram and ⁓ we'll get back to you. We love to hear from you. If you have any questions, if you have any questions for Rob, let us know. We'll pass those along to him and make sure you get connected there. I know we just really appreciate you being a part of the group X appeal family. Yes. So that's what dad to empower is all about and we're still getting started. So thank you Rob Glick for joining us today. So awesome to have you and ⁓ you were, you were on our, our list of like

the key like gotta have gotta have. He a gotta have when we first started the podcast. We created a list and you're on our gotta have list and then we decided to do the dad series. It's like oh yeah of course. That's awesome. Thanks for saying yes. So that's it for episode number 42. I'm Terry Shorter. I'm Kimberly Springglick and we encourage you to have a great day and why? Because it's a great day to have. It sure is.

Rob Glick (37:33)
Thank you. Thank you. you.

Thank you so much. I appreciate it so much you too. ⁓

Kimberly/terry (38:01)
Peace out. Much love.