Ideal Performance indoor cycling instructor training options
2 day live indoor cycling instructor training courses
This comprehensive training delivers everything you need to create, plan and teach safe, effective and motivational indoor cycling* classes for a variety of fitness levels. Using the most up to date guidelines we teach techniques you can safely use on any of the popular fixed gear studio bikes available.
With a reputation as the most thorough, health and safety focused training with greatest variety of teaching styles, students repeatedly report this course gives them much more than just great indoor cycling instructor skills. It continues to revolutionise the way people look at indoor cycling and themselves!
Accredited by Skills Active and awarded REPs CPD points accordingly, courses are created and delivered by top group indoor cycling trainer Debbie Kneale, whose warm, professional presenting style, attention to detail and technical expertise has earned her a reputation for enjoyable and consistent training excellence in the UK and abroad.
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To help ensure you become a confident, professional group indoor cycling instructor, Ideal Performance 2 day indoor cycling instructor courses include:
- How to screen clients properly for indoor cycling suitability
- Setting up bikes correctly and coaching others to do so effectively
- Performing and coaching all the indoor cycling techniques used
- How to identify and rectify potential problems in order to maximise gain and minimise risk for equipment as well as anatomy!
- Selecting moves and adapting for different levels of cycling skill and fitness
- Putting different classes together - including class design, preparation and format, take away choreography and classes ready to teach immediately!
- When and where to incorporate suitable stretch options
- How to source, choose and use music most effectively for indoor cycling
- Psychological impact of different teaching styles
- Effective communication and advanced teaching skills
- Legalities, especially insurance and music issues and practical solutions
- How to positively prepare yourself for your teaching role and develop within it
- Essentials of anatomy and physiology, including energy systems, principles of training, fitness theory overview and biomechanical considerations in relation to indoor cycling
- Written and practical assessments
All delegates receive comprehensive training resources to support their learning and appropriate certificate upon successful completion.
Where resources allow, our 2 day live indoor cycling instructor training courses also provide a valuable introduction to NeuroCycling™ and it's advanced communication techniques.
The live course fee is currently £200 which includes:
Pre course support
2 days training with top indoor cycling presenter and coach Debbie Kneale
Comprehensive training manual - given at the training (Or have it sent by post before the training for just £6 P&P- make your choice when booking)
1 written and practical assessment and marking
Certificate - plus 16 REPs CPD points for those on the register
Personal individual post course feedback
Ongoing post course support directly from Debbie
Also for your comfort and to aid our positive learning environment we provide classroom / conference facilities for theory sessions on our freelance group indoor cycling courses, so no having to sit on the floor or remain on the bikes for theory parts as with most other providers!
Please note - Our indoor cycling instructor training DOES NOT expire!
Because the principles and techniques we teach are sound and thorough, they will continue to be relevant and valid over time, so we not insist that you redo training or take additional training with us to remain qualified, as some providers do!
We do offer opportunities for instructors to refresh and advance their skills when they choose to and many come back to do more with us becuase they valued the training, not because they had to to remain qualified!
We believe good instructors will continue to learn of their own volition and we support this.
Also - Ideal Performance instructors can get copies of their instructor certification if needed for a small fee. (We understand some providers will not provide copy certificates, insisting instead that you must redo the training to get another!)
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- *Indoor cycling training is often referred to and known by many people as Spinning ®, but officially Spinning ® is a trademark created by the Spinning ® originator Johnny Goldberg (Johnny G) In conjunction with cycle makers Schwinn, Johnny G created the first specially built indoor cycle and instructor program, which he trademarked as Spinning ®.
When Spinning ® very quickly became hugely popular other manufacturers began creating their own version of the original Spinning ® bike and associated instructor programs - the quality, duration and content of which are known to vary greatly.
- Originally Johnny G worked with Schwinn, so only they officially held the rights to call their courses Spinning ® instructor courses and their classes Spinning ® classes. Later Johnny G moved his Spinning ® instructor program and name to Mad Dogg Athletics and so now only they hold the right to use the Spinning ® name for instructor courses and classes.
- Unless you have done the official Johnny G Spinning ® indoor cycling instructor training you should not call yourself a Spinning ® instructor, or your classes Spinning ® classes.
- The term 'indoor cycling' (or similar) should be used to describe all other cycling classes and instructor programs.
- In fact Spinning ®, Spin ® and Spinner ® are all trademarks. Many venues who advertise they run Spinning ® classes or courses or advertise they have a ''Spinning'' or a "Spin" studio, may not always be using the term correctly and may not offer official Spinning ® classes or courses, but instead be using the term to cover any use of fixed gear indoor bikes in a group cycling class format.
- Whilst we would not encourage you to use the words Spinning ® or Spin ® to describe classes, courses, studios or yourself as an indoor cycling instructor unless you have permission to do so, it is our experience that when asking about 'indoor cycling classes' or 'indoor cycling courses', very often venues and staff initially say 'No, we don't have that here' but if you then go on to ask the same person if they have 'Spinning ® classes or courses' there, the answer is often 'Yes, we do Spinning here'
- All 'Indoor Cycling' instructors, do be aware of this when looking for classes and work or you might find you are missing out by not applying at centres who tell you they do not have indoor cycling there, when really they do, it is just that they only recognise 'indoor cycling' as Spinning ®'!
