Who is Greg Hooke?

Published: Thursday 15 Sep 2022

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  1. What do you do?

    Group Fitness Instructor.

     
  2. Which group fitness classes do you take?

    Body Pump, Les Mills Tone and Fab Strength.

     
  3. What hobby or interest do you wish you could get more people into?

    Group Fitness, of course.

     
  4. What drove you to be a Group Fitness Instructor?

    Changing people’s views about what they can achieve. I believe that “there are no whingers, just winners! Carpe Diem!

     
  5. What do you bring to your class?

    Professionalism… Approachability…Imagination…Skill…Humour (ask the members about my Dad jokes).

     
  6. Where do you see yourself in 5 years?

    Still instructing. As I get older, I refuse to “let the old man in!” We might age, but we don’t get old.

     
  7. How long have you worked at Aqualink?   

    Almost 10 years.

     
  8. Winter or summer?

    Summer.

     
  9. Mountains or beach?

    Beach.

     
  10. Who’s your favourite sports team?

    Collingwood

     
  11. What fashion trend do you hope makes a comeback?

    None

     
  12. What’s the worst/best fad you participated in?

    Shoulder Pads

     
  13. What’s one hobby you’d love to get into?

    Playing the piano

     
  14. What’s one item you can’t leave home without?

    My phone

     
  15. What’s one item you want to own that you don’t?

    A beach house in Hawaii on a cliff facing the ocean

     
  16. What’s one song or artist that you’re embarrassed to admit you like?

    None

     
  17. What’s one song you have completely memorised?

    None... too busy memorising all the music tracks for my classes.

     
  18. What’s one irrational fear that you have?

    Snakes on planes

     
  19. What’s the first concert you ever went to? Or what concert would you like to go to?

    Rolling Stones at the Palais.

     
  20. What’s your go-to karaoke song?

    My Way.

     
  21. What’s your most hated household chore?

    Ironing.

     
  22. What’s your most used emoji? Do you use them?

    🙄….. too often! A picture is worth a thousand words!!!!!!!!!

     
  23. What food have you tried that was out of your comfort zone?

    Garden snails in Vietnam.

     
  24. Who would play you in a movie about your life? Who would be the supporting cast?

    Joel Egerton.  Anyone game enough 🙄

     
  25. What’s the strangest/funniest question a participant has asked you?

    Hey Greg, how do I tone up my “abominables”?

     
  26. Something people don’t know about me?

    I am a French fry freak…. I would crawl across a burning desert to get to a plate of French fries!

     
  27. Which six people would you love to have dinner with? (Also could be deceased).

    Barack Obama…Oscar Wilde…Katherine Hepburn…Harper Lee…Jane Goodall…Sir Ian McKellen.

     
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