If you've trained with us in person or online, subscribed to Barre Now or follow us on social media, you may be wondering how it all came to be. How do we deliver all the barre content online and the in-person trainings across the globe? Well, we're taking you behind the scenes of Barre Intensity. Read on to learn a few fun facts and more about us.
You've completed a Barre Intensity training over the weekend in person or online, but are you certified? Over the last year we've been asked quite often, will I be certified after this training? We're here to explain the difference between trained and certified and why we believe in the two.
Stay on top of your barre teaching game by understanding the five categories of cueing. These are categories we review during a Barre Intensity instructor training and require our barre certified instructors to incorporate. As trained barre instructors, we’re responsible for leading safe, effective and fun classes and the words we say will help us get there.
If you're a group fitness instructor, dancer or barre enthusiast, you might have thought a time or two “I wonder if I can become a barre instructor”? If the thought has crossed your mind more than once, the answer is probably yes, you can do it. If you're looking for a bit more assurance than just taking our word for it, read our 10 signs you have what it takes.
As a barre instructor, there are many factors that can make or break your barre class, but at the top of the list are the words you say to keep your class flowing, educational, impactful and fun. We're sharing with you a bit of what we teach during our barre certification program, shhhhh don't tell, as we review our 5 step verbal cuing guide. Start applying these tips NOW to take your barre classes up a notch.
Recently I read an article in The Huffington Post “Is Your Barre Class A Fake? Why It Matters and How To Tell”. The article addresses a handful of items, one of them being why a weekend of barre training isn’t enough. I’m here to tell you differently.
The Barre Intensity barre instructor training consist of either a Two Day, 14 hour, or One Day, 10 hour, session. This is far from the 100 hour barre specific training course others in the industry recommend. As a fitness educator I cannot disagree with the fact that more time in a quality training is better than less – so why am I OK with conducting a weekend barre certification?
"Bridge" is a common position of the body executed in a barre fitness class to work the glute and hamstring muscles. Throughout our instructor training weekends we've received a handful of questions from trainees regarding optimal body alignment. We dug a bit deeper in to the top three questions and share our thoughts with you here.
Our method aims to sculpt the body as a whole and burn a few calories while doing so, we teach with alignment in mind, and our instructors strive to create an energetic environment that keeps our participants motivated to push harder. We are proud to share the Barre Intensity method because we know it works. But we’re not the best fitness program out there, and here’s why.
For new instructors out of their barre certification, know that transitions are important, but don’t expect to perfect them just yet. It’s one of many skills of a group fitness instructor and not usually the first one on the list to be mastered. Truthfully, we’re not certain transitions are every fully mastered. If you have been teaching consistently for more than six months and have never thought about your transitions between each and every single move you execute, now is the time.
If you're a group fitness instructor, dancer or barre enthusiast, you might have thought a time or two “I wonder if I can become a barre instructor”? If the thought has crossed your mind more than once, the answer is probably yes, you can do it. If you're looking for a bit more assurance than just taking our word for it, read our 10 signs you have what it takes.
How many of us barre instructors have cued our clients to use their low abs? If you are raising your hand high saying “yes, me, all the time” it’s time to take that cue a bit deeper…
A quick glance at our abdomen shows us that our muscles run deepest to most superficial, not low to high. So if there is really no such thing as our low abs, what are we trying to say? Read this quick barre training guide as we tackle the two main culprits of the "low abs" cue: Leg Lowers and Reverse Crunches.
