5 Heart Rate Teaching Tips for Indoor Cycling Instructors

Posted 22 January 2009

by Coach and Trainer: Alinda L. Perrine, OD, MPH

  1. Maximize Your Effort. A heart rate monitor helps you maximaize your teaching because you direct your students with specific heart rate cues. Using a heart rate monitor doesn’t mean you need to teach “harder,” it means you teach smarter by staying closer to your workout plan. Your heart rate provides the real time data to keep you on your plan.
  2. A Method To the Madness. Using a heart rate method, such as the ZoneX™ Elementary Method or the Anchor Method, provides clear direction. Indoor cycling creates high energy. Thus, when you teach with a heart rate monitor with clear direction, you provide a method in the midst of high energy. Make sure the high energy in your class becomes productive work.
  3. Escalate Fitness. Instructors who teach with heart rate soon began to associate gains and changes in their students’ levels of fitness. For example, instructors who use recovery rates as an assessment of fitness will see changes in fitness in 2 months. Students quickly understand improvement in fitness regardless of the change in weight or body size.
  4. Keep it Personal. As the instructor, be sure to encourage students to individualize their workouts. Students recovering from illness, should feel free to back off 5 or 10 beats during the workout. Likewise, if today’s workout plan is recovery and your student is training for an upcoming race, he may need to increase 5 or 10 beats. A heart rate monitor allows each student to make a personal decision about their workout, yet you are teaching to a class of many.
  5. Teaching is a Process, Learning is Progress. You may not have perfect presentation skills or the best music, but teaching with a heart rate monitor will provide education and direction to your class. Remember- your teaching career is a process; what your students learn is progress. Provide heart rate information as part of your teaching process.

For the most comfortable and accurate heart rate monitoring try NuMetrex. NuMetrex heart monitoring apparel provides a comfortable alternative to the traditional heart monitoring strap. The seamless NuMetrex heart sensing garments have sensors knit directly into the fabric. A small transmitter snaps into the front of the garment, captures your data and sends it to your watch or cardio equipment. Heart rate is a great motivator that enables you to monitor your fitness goals and calories burnt.

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