All potential nominees will be contacted by email in November for screening. Nominees will be required to submit additional information to be scored and judged by our expert panel.

To narrow down the nominations and make the process fair and impartial, all instructors will be ranked based on the same series of criteria with a range of points given to each category (years of experience, education, community involvement, etc.) Each entry is scored anonymously by our panel of fitness industry experts to keep the process as unbiased as possible.

The total number of nominations received for a single instructor does not affect the outcome of our scoring system. This is not a contest to be won by votes!