Formats, modalities, and trends in group exercise are constantly evolving. Methods of Group Exercise Instruction, Third Edition With Online Video, explores the most common group exercise modalities, enhancing readers’ marketability by giving them the skills to lead dynamic, safe, and effective classes. This text highlights the commonalities of a variety of group exercise formats through training principles, correction and progression techniques, and safety tips to enhance the skills of both group exercise leaders and program directors.
Methods of Group Exercise Instruction, Third Edition, moves from theory to practice in a logical progression. Rather than simply providing routines, this book helps instructors develop the core skills needed for creating routines, use proper cueing, and adapt their teaching to new modalities. Teaching techniques convey appropriate training for each muscle group and methods for warm-up, cardiorespiratory training, muscular conditioning, neuromotor training, and flexibility. In addition, starter routines, modification strategies, and instructor assessment criteria are presented for seven class formats: kickboxing, step training, stationary indoor cycling, sport conditioning and boot camp, water exercise, yoga, and mat-based Pilates. The text also touches on alternative modalities, including dance-based classes, fusion, and mind - body training.
Part I: Fundamentals of Group Exercise Instruction
Chapter 1. Best Practices
Chapter 2. Social Aspects of Group Exercise
Chapter 3. Foundational Components
Chapter 4. Traditional Concepts
Chapter 5. Coaching-Based Concepts
Part II: Primary Components of Group Exercise
Chapter 6. Warm-Up and Cool-Down
Chapter 7. Cardiorespiratory Training
Chapter 8. Muscular Conditioning and Flexibility Training
Chapter 9. Neuromotor and Functional Training
Part III: Group Exercise Modalities
Chapter 10. Kickboxing
Chapter 11. Step Training
Chapter 12. Stationary Indoor Cycling
Chapter 13. Sport Conditioning and Boot Camp
Chapter 14. Water Exercise
Chapter 15. Yoga
Chapter 16. Pilates
Chapter 17. Alternative Modalities in Group Exercise
Carol Kennedy-Armbruster, PhD, is a senior lecturer in the school of public health in the department of kinesiology at Indiana University at Bloomington. During her more than 30 years of teaching and training fitness leaders, she has served on the American Council on Exercise (ACE) and the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) credentialing committees, and she chaired the IDEA Water Fitness Committee. Her research interests are translational research for physical activity and functional movement experiences for an over-40 population.
Mary M. Yoke, MA, MM, has more than 30 years of experience teaching and training group exercise leaders. In addition to leading group exercise classes on a regular basis, she is a lecturer in the school of public health in the department of kinesiology at Indiana University at Bloomington, where she teaches several undergraduate courses in exercise leadership. She is an adjunct board member and master trainer for the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America (AFAA) and served on the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) credentialing committee for six years.