Like all good training regimes you need to build a solid foundation and this is what Stage 1 delivers for you:

• The application of cycling physiology and kinesiology
• The core riding positions and their application in a multi-level class meeting the individuals physical and sporting needs
• Using music and profiles to elicit emotional responses that
motivate, inspire and direct the individuals form and technique
• Monitoring methods to maximize participant education and
achievement
• Understanding of different dynamics, communication and teaching
methods needed in high adherence group exercise
• Learning of key components, importance and benefits for
your participants of building a solid aerobic foundation

This certification breaks down the science behind 'Power' and gives you the practical understanding on how to deliver power-based training on any bike equipped with a power meter (display of watts).

• What Power is?
• Why we need it?
• Power and training zones
• Why and how do we use Power?
• The Limitations of Power
• The advanced aspects of Power
• The relationship between Power, Heart Rate and RPE
• Power Testing – the start point for programming
• Power training application – programming a power cycling session
• Power and it’s relationship to Strength, Speed and Endurance

Aging is inevitable and great advances have been made in our understanding of the ageing process and with it the implications it has on our body's ability to function to its maximum potential. If you're over 30 or coach athletes greater than this age group then this module will explain how to:

• Understand the essential adaptations to an athlete’s training schedule
• Adapt the ‘standard’ training protocols to ageing athletes
• Deliver relevant cardio and resistance training programming
• Maximize the bodies changing systems to ensure continued performance

Advance your group exercise classes and personal training sessions by learning the principles behind coaching a team, or individual participating in competitive cycling. You will learn:

• What the key factors are in competitive cycling performance
• How to find out where an athlete’s individual fitness is right now
• How to structure successful training in different cycling disciplines
• How to be a fitter, faster, stronger cyclist

Whether you are looking to develop the cross training fitness or are an aspiring or practicing triathlete then Dri Tri can offer the understanding of how to:

• Safely and effectively teach fusion workouts on 3 core pieces of cardio equipment; indoor cycle, treadmill and
• Apply triathlon based training routines for all athletes who wish to improve speed, power and endurance aspects to their fitness
• Offer ‘cross-training benefits’ that can be used as an ‘active recovery’ training tool across all sports

As Joe Friel said in his blog 'Heart Rate and Training' in 2009;

“220 minus age to predict max heart rate. If you do that, you might as well had guessed. The formula is close to useless for individuals."

This module will take you through the minefield of information related to this key factor of every athlete's training:

• What is the best formulae and when to use it
• How to apply the right energy zone to deliver relevant training outcomes
• How to utilize the full range of monitoring methods

Learn the science and latest research behind the impact of music on performance, successful class programming and retention. This module will give you the in-depth knowledge on how to use music as a coaching aid for:

• Performance
• Motivation
• Recovery

Overtraining and its impact is a well-studied syndrome in elite athletes but it can impact on any 'mere mortal' that takes their training seriously and then suffer the consequences of this phenomenon. For coaches and athletes it is important to know:

• How to recognize the symptoms of overtraining
• To be able to implement the necessary changes to training
• How to maintain progression without developing overtraining
• Develop strategies to pre-empt overtraining

Periodization is now a mainstay of athletic training to maximize performance and minimize fatigue. You will learn the theories underlying periodization and how to practically apply them to be able to:

• Target the metabolic systems and motor patterns that are important to athletes in cycling and sports
• Structure a training program in a competitive athletes year

It's one of those things that we all know that we should do, but some of us very rarely do it. But is it all that beneficial? Everyone knows the answer to that – right?

Well conventional theories on stretching might be doing you and your students more harm than good; this module will answer the questions related to this much-misunderstood area of health and fitness:

• If and when we should and when shouldn’t we stretch
• What does stretching actually do to the body
• How stretching can actually reduce and improve your performance

This learning resource is offered as a part of the Indoorcycling Group's commitment to increasing the battle against cancer and awareness of its impact on our communities. The module will discuss the positive role and impact a health professional can have in mitigating some of the affects cancer has on an individual. In studying this module will not qualify you as a 'fully trained expert' but you will gain an in-depth understanding of how to deliver practical exercise programming and the many aspects associated in working with Survivors; the module will cover:

• Your role as part of the multi-disciplinary team of those working with Survivors
• What are the benefits of the group exercise setting for Survivors
• What are the positive impacts exercise has on the symptoms of cancer
• The range and type of treatments used and the impact on exercise
• How exercise can mitigate some of the symptoms of cancer
• How to structure training programs to assist in rehabilitation
• The improvements to the quality of a person’s life that exercise brings

This module will explain the difference between 'every day' and 'training' nutrition that is required by the fitness and sporting athlete who wishes to:

• Optimise their overall health
• Improve their sporting performance
• Reduce the risk of injury or overtraining

The principal aim of this program is to examine the multiple components of physiological and emotional responses to music combined with visual imagery, its impact on sporting performance, exercise adherence and the response elicited in a participant in offering the 'complete experience' to indoor cycling. To this end the following objectives will be defined and discussed:

• A grounded theory of the use of music, real world video footage, computer generated gaming imagery and principles applied in fitness equipment and group exercise disciplines
• The impact of altering music tempo and intensity on students’ emotional, affective and behavioural responses
• The relationship between music, forward motion imagery in identifying the neural origins of the experiential phenomena
• The role of motorneuron excitability in the physiological, emotional and behavioural responses experienced in the combined experience of music and forward motion video