Quad Cities Business News reached out to Nanci Bosick, a woman with a varied career, geared at uplifting and empowering others. As a fitness instructor and teacher of self-defense, Bosick is involved with many different groups throughout the region.
1) Describe your career.
I work as a personal trainer, self-defense instructor and teach group fitness classes at Anytime Fitness. My day starts as early as 5am for Boot Camp and ends as late as 6:30PM at the completion of my R.I.P.P.E.D. class. I work with all fitness levels and ages and feel blessed to be able to spend my days helping others attain the goals they have set for themselves.
2) How have you seen the workforce change in your lifetime?
When I began working in the fitness industry 14 years ago there was only one gym in Prescott Valley and the number of fitness classes offered were limited. Now, there are many different classes for all interests, such as SpNR (An indoor cycle class), R.I.P.P.E.D. which stands for Resistance, Interval, Power, Plyometric, Endurance and Diet, Pound (A class where you use drum sticks) Booty Barre (ballet and Pilates inspired class), aerobic kickboxing, Silver Sneakers and Yoga just to name a few.
3) How have you seen the importance of the fitness industry evolve and how do you think it might continue to evolve? I feel like more people are seeing the benefit of exercise and proper nutrition and are making the commitment to themselves and their families to getting and staying healthy. Programs such as Silver Sneakers and Silver & Fit are being offered by insurance companies for their clients to attend classes at participating gyms at no charge. The healthier a person is the less they spend on health care.
4) Describe your volunteer work.
I volunteer at high schools, women’s shelters and for groups such as Girls Scouts to teach self-defense. I feel very strongly that if people have information on how to keep themselves safe that we can reduce the number of violent incidents that may occur.
5) Why do you believe it is important to empower women?
Once a woman or girl’s eyes have been opened to the ability to keep themselves safe they become confident and are more likely to help others in need. They recognize the importance of listening to their intuition, telling others where they will be and maintaining a safe distance between themselves and people they don’t know; they learn to use body dynamics instead of strength and they know that they will be going home to their loved ones at the end of the day.
6) Is there anything else you would like to add?
In addition to teaching Escaping Violent Encounters 4 Women, I also teach it to Fire and EMS providers. There is a widely recognized but little acknowledged problem threatening fire and emergency medical service personnel: injury through assault. The frequency of assault on Fire and EMS providers is alarming. While most attacks are not life threatening, the risk of serious injury is evident and unpredictable. EMS providers need an effective and reasonable plan on how to avoid an attack, and also know how to defend themselves once attacked. With Defense Tactics 4 EMS we are working to train staff with a reasonable, liability-conscious, effective means of preventing and avoiding assault by patients, their family or bystanders. www.dt4ems.com
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