Female fitness cycling instructor

This is definitely not a short-term career that relies on youth. On the contrary, the inherent empathy advantages of gender and the accurate perception of women's fitness needs make it easier for you to accumulate stable users than male coaches of the same level. As long as you have the right skills, you can do it for 30+ or ​​40+, and the income limit is not lower than any fitness segment track.

May, who I know, is the best example. She is 42 years old. She worked as an administrator in a state-owned enterprise for 15 years. After giving birth to her second child, she gained 142 pounds. She still has an old knee injury and it hurts even after running two steps. She slowly lost 30 pounds by following the video and practicing riding. Later, she simply took the test. She got her license and worked as a coach in a studio. Now she has been working in a chain studio in Jing'an, Shanghai for three years. There are more than 80 members who regularly take classes with her. Last month, she received group classes, personal training, and merchandise, which earned her nearly RMB 30,000, which is more than double her previous salary.

There must be some people who want to argue, saying that the female coach is not physically strong enough to handle three or four high-intensity interval classes in a row, and it must be a male coach who can do it. In fact, this statement has been outdated for a long time. Now the fitness circle is divided into two groups: one group is on the competitive racing route, focusing on improving power and mileage. It is true that male coaches have a natural advantage in explosive power and endurance, and it is easier to attract high-end players with their competition resumes. ； But the other group is following the mass fitness route. Now 80% of users who enter cycling classes are ordinary women who want to lose fat and tone their bodies, but are afraid of injury and thick legs. What they want is not to be beaten down by the instructor until they vomit. What they want is someone who can accurately get her "week-old ride" The anxiety of "My legs are two centimeters thicker", I can squat down and adjust the height of the seat cushion by three centimeters to solve the problem of knee pain, and I can see at a glance that she is using her waist to compensate for the force. Female coaches who have stepped on the same pitfalls and experienced the same anxiety have a much higher perception of these things than male coaches.

I went to May's class last week and met a young girl who had just graduated. After 10 minutes of class, she squatted on the ground and rubbed her knees. She had taken a class with a male instructor before. When she was in pain, the instructor said, "Tighten your core and hold on, novices are like this." At that time, May directly explained the rhythm of the class. Kanade slowed down, squatted down and touched her patella, and asked her to do a few single-leg lifting movements. He immediately found the problem: she habitually pressed her center of gravity forward, relying entirely on the quadriceps muscles on the front of her thighs. The seat cushion was also lowered by two centimeters. The bending angle of her knees was too high to cause pain. After adjusting the cushion, he taught her to lower her weight onto the sit bones and use her gluteus maximus and hamstring muscles to push down. During the remaining 35 minutes of the class, the little girl never complained of pain during the entire class. Now she regularly attends May's classes three times a week.

I have seen a user survey of a certain head fitness platform in 2023. When female fitness users choose cycling classes, 72% will give priority to female instructors. The first reason is that "they better understand my fear of thick legs and the need to build muscle mass", the second is "they don't push me hard to the intensity that I can't stand", and the third is "movement demonstrations are more reference." You see, the market has already voted with its feet, and the needs of ordinary users are no longer getting stronger.

Of course, this does not mean that female coaches have no bottlenecks at all. I have also encountered young girls who have just entered the industry complaining that high-level users have come to ask about the content of racing training, but they have no competition experience and cannot handle it. Some people are worried that they will not be able to handle high-intensity classes during their menstrual period. In fact, there are solutions to these problems. If you can’t take the competitive route, just thoroughly understand the subdivision of female body adjustment. For example, designing cycling courses specifically for users with false hip width, sunken hips, and weak postpartum pelvic floor muscles will make it easier to create personal IP. ； As for the menstrual period, nowadays, more formal studios will not force coaches to give high-intensity classes. You can give low-intensity fat-burning classes three days before the menstrual period. You don’t have to stand the whole time. You can sit and follow the rhythm and correct the movements one by one.

If you really want to get into the industry, I would like to give you some solid advice. Don’t spend tens of thousands to sign up for an international certificate class that sounds very high-end. It’s useless. Go to a gym near your home and take riding lessons from different coaches for three months. First, you can figure out for yourself what will make your legs thicker, what posture will hurt your knees, and what height should the seat cushion be adjusted for people of different heights. These real experiences can convince members better than any certificate.

I used to have the stereotype that cycling instructors must be young girls in their early 20s with long legs and thin waists, until I met May. During class, she wore a high ponytail and the end of her hair was soaked with sweat. When she saw someone secretly lowering the resistance, she would smile and tap the other person’s handlebars, "Hey, hey, I’ll watch. I’ll lower the resistance and I’ll give you two more gears next time." After class, I got together with the members to complain that the recent sugar-free milk tea was getting sweeter, and said that her son was last in the exam recently, which was very vivid.

Is there any standard template for a female fitness cycling instructor? It doesn’t matter whether you are a mother, a newly graduated college student, or an ordinary person who was overweight before and then lost weight. As long as you really understand cycling and really take the needs of members at heart, that’s enough. After all, people who come to class never want a perfect coach, but a fellow traveler who can really help them become healthy and beautiful.