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CBUS Hip Hop Fitness part 2

February 23, 2017

Once I received the confirmation that I was heading in the right direction with the Hip Hop Fitness program. I began to devise a plan as to how I could grow the program. That plan involved me getting exposed to as many people as possible. Mind you I quit my previous career of graphic design + marketing to pursue this Hip Hop Fitness dream. Let me repeat. I left a 6 figure career behind to pursue this dream. This meant that I had time on my hands. I used that time to apply and audition for jobs at various commercial gyms around Central Ohio. All the jobs I auditioned for I ended up landing. By the time I was done with my hip hop fitness instructor job search. I was scheduled to instruct 21 classes a week all over the city. 


Twenty one classes a week was a little tough I must say. I was doing three classes a day on average. Sometimes I taught classes back to back. I was tired and wore out. This put a lot of strain on my body. Imagine teaching 21 classes a week for over a year with no break, no vacation. I remember taking one sick day off due to acquiring the flu. After the fever broke the first 24 hours I was back in class. This was the only way I was able to make a living at the time plus It was part part of the plan. The classes I taught reached the upper nineties to the hundreds so it was evident that my plan paid off big time 😁. Once I started seeing these results. I sought to develop my program outside the commercial gyms. I was trying to figure what was the best way to go about this. An opportunity appeared to me via an Zumba instructor who was leaving the commercial gym grind to start her own thing. 

I must say that I was excited about this initial offer. I began to dream of all the possibilities it would afford me. Breaking free from the world of someone trying to tell me what to play, what to do, how to do it and when to do it. I left a few of the gyms that I was at in order chase the independence this Zumba instructor had promised me. It was originally told to me that I would be able to do my own program and run my own business. This didn’t happen. The instructor actually started paying me $15 per class. This was significantly less than what I was making at the other gyms. They told me that they were going to let me do my own program in a little bit but for now that it’s best that I work for them. I did so with the premise of thinking that I was going to prove myself and show my worth. This arrangement went on for 6+ months. 

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Mr. Nicholson currently runs a graphic design business in Gahanna, Ohio as well as provide hip-hop fitness dance instruction at Life Time Fitness, Urban Active Fitness, Diamond Dance & Fitness and Phlex Fitness among others.

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Michael Demetrius Nicholson was born on March 2nd in Brooklyn, New York.

Paul Roberson is one of my heroes who inspired me to be who I am today.

While in New York. It was discovered that Michael had artistic talent. He began drawing life like portraits at the age of 6 years old. He began dancing at the age of 8. This prompted his parents to enroll him in schools for the gifted and talented. This experience even more so fostered Michael’s creative talents. He later attended the High School of Art and Design where he studied commercial art and photography.

Michael received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Ohio Wesleyan University. He originally attended the university to double major in French and theology but decided that his passion was in the arts.

Mr. Nicholson currently runs a graphic design business in Gahanna, Ohio as well as provide hip-hop fitness dance instruction at Life Time Fitness, Urban Active Fitness and Diamond Dance & Fitness.

To all you haters,
to all you trolls,
close your eyes
and picture me rollin'.

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