Live Workshops

Live Workshops

Take your coaching to the next level and earn CEC credits towards your certification renewal with our live workshops. Taught by our Master Instructor Team, our workshops challenge and build your teaching skills.

Two-Hour Workshops

Workshop format: Lecture plus practical application, ending with a ride. Each workshop offers the following credits:

• SPIN® CECs
• AFAA CEUs
• ACE CECs

*NEW* Stage Presence for Spinning® Instructors
Your stage presence as a Spinning® instructor is what creates that indescribable wow factor during class and beyond. This course is packed with tips and tricks to elevate your skills so that your personal stage presence announces your confidence and experience and wins over the crowd every time. We will explore highly effective concepts you’ve never considered bringing into your class to create a genuine and successful stage presence through energy, charisma, appearance and first impressions. Unlock the traits that great Spinning® instructors use to create magical connections and unforgettable experiences.

*NEW* The Power of Rhythm in Spinning®
Rhythm riding and power training are often considered to be opposite styles of indoor cycling. But they can actually exist in the same class! This course reveals they are like yin and yang. They are incomplete apart but perfect together. Let’s explore how riding to the beat of the music and matching movement to rhythm and refrain can enhance the Spinning® experience. This course will break down the walls between rhythm and power and demonstrate how to use all tools seamlessly to create rides with the perfect balance of music and metrics. Learn to use the power of rhythm to train smart, improve performance and achieve results all while grooving to the beat!

*NEW* Watt's Your Power: Understanding Metrics for Spinning®
Training with power doesn’t have to be complex to be effective. This course is designed to demystify power by blending the thrill of challenge with the satisfaction of cutting-edge practices. Learn the concept of power, how it is measured, and why it is used by athletes and enthusiasts in their daily training. We'll determine your Personal Spinning® Threshold (PST) using the SPINPower® test protocol, and you’ll learn how to teach it to your students as well. In addition, learn how PST relates to Functional Threshold Power (FTP), explore the different FTP test protocols and apply these concepts in your classes. By educating your participants on understanding their individual power thresholds, you will empower them to manage their intensity more effectively, leading to better workout outcomes. Get ready to embrace the data-driven revolution!

*NEW* Power Training Design for Spinning® Instructors
Do you want to train and teach with power but don't know where to start? In this workshop you will learn how to create training routines for yourself and your students. Power training is most effective when planned with periodization, starting with low-intensity endurance rides and moving up to strength, speed and stamina. Power is more than a theoretical concept; it's something you feel and experience. Put it to practice and perfect it on the power bike! Take away new class design ideas and a plan to create exciting power training programs.

*NEW* Peak Power Values for Spinning® Performance
Are you looking for new ideas to bring to your classes? Are you new to training with power or looking for new tools to add to your instructor toolbox? This course spotlights Peak Power Values and the fun and effective ways to bring PPV into your class profiles. You will learn how to coach riders to determine their PPV values in a class setting, and you’ll understand the physiology behind training the cardiorespiratory and muscular systems to a peak level. It’s the perfect mix of scientific knowledge and fun tools that you can implement into your classes right away.

Let's Jump!
This workshop explores and defines the various Jumps techniques in the Spinning program. Technique discussions center on higher cadence Jumps along the flat roads and strongly-loaded Jumps in the hills. Other key performance areas covered in this workshop include: counting, rhythm stroke strategies and resistance loading.

3-Part Cues
Learn and practice how to connect and motivate riders during Spinning® class using a technique called three-part cuing. In this workshop, you’ll learn some of the most impactful phrases, corrective cues and technique tips to address everyone in your class by communicating through auditory, visual and kinesthetic cues.

Art of Recovery
Recovery is one of the most powerful Energy Zones™ in the Spinning® Program, so explaining its importance to our students is not only necessary, but it's also very rewarding! In this workshop, we look in depth at the amazing benefits of recovery and why it is so important in our training. We will experience ways to understand it for ourselves so that we can allow our class participants to grasp its benefits and reach their fitness goals in the safest and healthiest way possible.

The 5-Step Sprint
An authentic cycling skill, sprinting challenges the body’s ability to attain and recover from high levels of power output. You learn the step-by-step techniques for preparing, cueing and executing flat road Sprints and Sprints on a hill with safety and efficiency.

Creative Climbs
Challenge your riders with new ways to climb and they’ll enjoy the ride to the top. This workshop identifies, discusses and demonstrates several strategies for engaging, safe and fun climbs with techniques you can use in many class formats.

Interval Energy Zone™
A favorite of Spinning® instructors and enthusiasts, experienced riders can achieve true fitness gains, enhanced performance and metabolism with the Interval Energy Zone™. This workshop defines three types of Interval EZ rides: aerobic, anaerobic and aerobic/anaerobic, and the right work-to-rest ratios.

Loops and Ladders
Learn a variety of aerobic and anaerobic options to design rides for cadence building, resistance loading, transition practice, and interval training. You’ll come away from this workshop with pre-designed profiles and the knowledge you need to create your own unforgettable rides.

Music, Movement, Motivation
Music is a powerful class element you can use to enhance the rider's experience — make your class more than just another ride. Learn to correlate music and rhythm with movement to elicit an emotional response. Remember — Certified Spinning® Instructors, you can check out a new Spinning playlist posted weekly!

Race Day Energy Zone™
A Spinning® Master Instructor teaches you how to prepare your riders for a safe, high-powered Race Day Energy Zone™ ride — the ultimate challenge. A Race Day ride simulates a time trial, an all-out effort against the clock. It’s an opportunity to apply the Energy Zone training you and your riders have practiced to a peak performance effort.

Resistance Loading & Cadence Building
Loading and unloading resistance and cadence are great ways to spice up your classes while providing a challenging, engaging workout that will help your students to increase strength, endurance and cardiovascular fitness. Learn how to develop profiles that will keep your riders focused and excited by using different resistance loading and cadence building techniques.

Strength Energy Zone™
Seated and standing climbs are the main terrains of the Strength Energy Zone™. And because this zone includes anaerobic and aerobic work, it challenges lower body muscular endurance as well as the cardiovascular system — learn how to help your riders climb with more power, strength and mental stamina.

Strength, Hills and Power
Deliver real fitness benefits for your riders. The Strength Energy Zone™ and climbing hills are great for building intensity and simulating outdoor cycling. During this workshop, you’ll advance your knowledge and skills with new techniques for hill climbs and learn about the physiological basis for training on hills.

Four-Hour Workshops

Workshop format: Lecture plus practical application, ending with a ride. Each workshop offers the following credits:

• SPIN® CECs
• AFAA CEUs
• ACE CECs

*NEW* SPINPower – STRONGER
SPINPower STRONGER highlights the strength foundation principle giving you strategies to turbocharge your Spinning and SPINPower rides. Spinning and SPINPower instructors will learn advanced methods to boost strength needed to pedal with more power, specifically within a cadence range of 60–80 RPM. The reward is positive fitness responses in the muscular, energy and cardio-respiratory systems. Whether you’re looking to lose weight, build lean muscle, or achieve a new level of fitness, using resistance will have the greatest effect on burning calories, driving your pedal stroke to the top of that hill, moving you in and out of the saddle and pushing the boundaries when extra power is needed.

Creating a Journey Ride
The Spinning® program is one of the fitness industry’s leading pioneers in creating experiential exercise. This workshop presents everything you need to know, from A to Z, to create your own journey rides. Set yourself apart from the rest by learning how to design and skillfully present theme rides that bring out your strengths as an instructor while giving your riders a memorable experience that will have your riders coming back for more!

SPINPower® Personal Spinning® Threshold
Broaden your knowledge of the SPINPower® program by examining the various metabolic points during exercise to better understand threshold training, and learn how to use your Personal Spinning® Threshold to establish individualized SPINPower® Zones. Spinner^® Chrono^™ Power are required to host this workshop.

Cadence, Heart Rate and Class Design
Understanding the relationship between cadence, resistance and intensity is key to coaching classes that meet riders’ training goals. Co-developed by the Spinning education team and cycling expert Joe Friel, this workshop teaches you to correctly use cadence and resistance as training variables.

Creative Coaching
Learn innovative techniques to help riders improve their fitness. This workshop covers the fundamentals of creating effective Spinning classes by considering the 4 Ps of class design — populations, purpose, planning and progression.

Heart Rate Training
This workshop provides an in-depth look at the five Spinning® Energy Zones™, complementary terrains for each zone, effective heart rate training ranges and health-screening preparation. (This workshop includes a 75-minute ride.)

High Intensity Training
Applied correctly, high intensity training can help riders overcome fitness plateaus and enhance overall fitness. But too much of it can cause overtraining and burnout. Come learn how, why and when to use high intensity training, and more importantly, when not to.

Profile Designs and Heart Rate Games
Improve fitness by focusing on how the body responds to both rest and stress, as muscle cells rebuild to slightly higher levels after each cycle of effort and recovery. Enhance your training knowledge so you can help riders achieve improved physiological adaptations. Learn new course designs, creative ideas, drills and techniques to use immediately in your Spinning® classes.

Spintensity™: Periodization
Learn and understand the benefits of using a heart rate monitor and identifying effective heart rate training ranges. Then take an in-depth look at how to develop a periodized training plan using the various Spinning Energy Zones™.

Spinning® Language and Visualization
Learn to communicate and coach effectively with descriptive images and metaphors that promote greater energy, confidence, focus and ability. You’ll be able to tap into your students' senses with vivid imagery and evoke an emotional response to jump-start their thinking — and your classes.

Mental Training: Approach and Skills
As we develop fitness and physical abilities, we also need to sharpen our mental edge for ultimate performance. Learn tools, techniques and skills to find a center with power, develop complete focus and practice calmness with strength.