IHRSA Convention

Every year, the International Health, Racquet and Sports Association (IHRSA) puts on a Convention and Trade Show where people from all over the world who are involved in the Fitness Industry can come together to teach, learn, and share their ideas. It is a great place for networking and for people to showcase new and old products to other fitness enthusiasts out there. This year, the Annual IHRSA Convention happened to be held in the lovely city where I reside–San Diego! And since BOSU was taking part in the Trade Show, the other interns and I were lucky enough to get to attend the event this year. So this past Friday, Mike, Sterling and I got together and headed downtown to the Convention Center. Walking in, I thought everything looked really amazing. There were a ton of different company’s showcasing their products and equipment and it was really cool to get to jump on the different machines and try this stuff out. Another cool thing we got to do that day was getting to meet and take a picture with a San Diego Chargers player Larry English! Pretty awesome…
We were not really dressed appropriately to do too much activity that day, so we mostly just walked around checking out the different booths and hitting up a bunch of places giving out samples of energy drinks and power bars (although I did try out a little rock climbing). But Saturday, we were more prepared and came dressed to work out just in case we wanted to try out any of the equipment.  Before wandering around on Saturday though, we sat in on a class that Steve had signed us up for dealing with Membership Sales Training. We missed the first 35 minutes or so because we thought it started at 10:00AM when it actually started at 9:00AM, but we were still able to pick up a few valuable tips from the speaker on some good sales techniques. The Trade Show started shutting down around noon that day, so we really did not have much time to get to walk around afterwards, but either way, I’m very happy that we even got to attend such a great event!