Group cycling classes such as RPM, Keiser and Spinning have grown considerably in popularity over the last decade. Being able to plan and deliver fun and challenging group cycling workouts will certainly boost your popularity and reputation as an instructor! 

This comprehensive course is designed and presented by coaches at Toguri Training, a Montreal-based coaching service for cyclists. It 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!

You will cover topics such as biomechanics, riding positions, safety and bike setup through to cueing proper cycling interval workouts, effective music selection and building periodized class plans that save you prep time while offering your clients a dynamic way to progressively build their fitness through indoor cycling.

Presenters: Scott Toguri McFarlane and Michelle Paiement 

Scott Toguri McFarlane

Scott Toguri McFarlane is a former Elite racer, and the founder of Toguri Training Services. For more than a decade, his approach to training has helped aspiring professional racers, provincial team members, and recreational cyclists of all ages and ability achieve their goals, including gold medals at National and Provincial Championships. He has taught fully subscribed spin classes for over a decade, and led spin certification programs designed by Toguri Training since 2006.

Michelle Paiement

Michelle has been active in the fitness industry for more than 20 years. Michelle specializes in designing and teaching a variety of innovative and challenging fitness classes, and delivering performance-based personal training. Michelle has enjoyed many podium finishes in competitive cycling, culminating with her title win of Masters Road Race Champion in 2007, and taking second place in 2008. Michelle brings this particular expertise to her group cycling and Computraining classes taught at Toguri Training Services located at the YM-YWHA Ben Weider JCC.

This course will be presented in English.

HSG reserves the right to cancel workshops due to low enrolment. Participants will be informed if a workshop is cancelled. The participant may then choose either to take another workshop or receive a full refund. Participants wishing to withdraw from a workshop must notify the organizer before the start of the session. The refund consists of the workshop fee, less a 10% administration charge.