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Five Fun Facts about Barre Intensity: Barre ...

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.

Five Fun Facts about Barre Intensity: Barre Instructor Training Around the World
Online/Live Certification
Barre Intensity
Barre Intensity Difference: Trained vs. ...

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.

Barre Intensity Difference: Trained vs. Certified
Teaching Tips
Barre Intensity
5 Cueing Categories - Barre Certification Tips

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.

5 Cueing Categories - Barre Certification Tips
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Stephanie Lyons
Become a Barre Instructor: 10 signs you have ...

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. 

Become a Barre Instructor: 10 signs you have what it takes.

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Barre Certification: Post Training Support

Barre Certification: Post Training Support

Now that you've completed our barre training workshop, you have a beautiful manual, a head full of great information and a look at what make us Barre Intensity, but how do you apply these great tools to your next class?

Through the help of our online video resource, Barre Now, we’re able to offer all Barre Intensity trainees FREE post barre training support covering: alignment, transitions, exercise refinement and even full classes. These video resources reinforce the information learned during the Barre Intensity barre certification weekend training and better prepare you to teach your first, or next, barre class.

Five Fun Facts about Barre Intensity: Barre Instructor Training Around the World

Five Fun Facts about Barre Intensity: Barre Instructor Training Around the World

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.

Bring the Boom to the Virtual Barre Room

Bring the Boom to the Virtual Barre Room

Lights, camera, action! It's official, fitness has a permanent place in the online space. If you're new to teaching virtual, let us help you translate your in-person barre skills to virtual. We're giving you a few good tips and pointers on how to bring the "boom from the classroom" to the virtual barre room.

3 Ways to Effectively Teach Barre Exercises

3 Ways to Effectively Teach Barre Exercises

A good barre instructor is more than just the exercises they teach. Throughout our Barre Intensity instructor certification, we stress, it's not what you teach but *how* you teach it. Creative choreography is coveted amongst barre instructors, but creativity means little when it is not taught with purpose. Read on to hear about our three ways to effectively teach barre exercises.

Find Your Path: Barre Intensity Instructor Training

Find Your Path: Barre Intensity Instructor Training

An in-depth barre instructor training has many parts with a myriad of benefits for those ready to dive in. Which barre training pathway works best for you? Read on to find out.

Is a Barre Training Course Important?

Is a Barre Training Course Important?

If you're looking to take a barre training course and wonder, is it important in order to secure a job as a barre instructor? Read on. We're asking the questions and bringing you the answers, suggestions, and requirements from studio owners, managers, and hiring directors all over.

How Much Does a Barre Instructor Make?

How Much Does a Barre Instructor Make?

You might be in search of a side hustle or even a full-time role as a leader for one of the most popular workout trends, but how much does a barre instructor make?  We’ve combed a few cities and states to find out the average pay of barre instructors today to help determine if a barre certification is right for you.

Barre Training Tips: Hip Hip Hooray

Barre Training Tips: Hip Hip Hooray

The hip joint and the many muscles of the hip are one of the most complex in the entire human body. Those muscles of the hip provide movement, strength, and stability to the hip joint, the bones of the hip, and thigh. Let's take a look at the muscular anatomy of the hip which includes flexors, extensors, adductors, abductors, and rotators. We're listing their functions, examples of barre exercises that work to strengthen the hip in a barre class and their benefits.

Barre Intensity Difference: Trained vs. Certified

Barre Intensity Difference: Trained vs. Certified

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.

Barre Certification Tips: Barre for the Beginner

Barre Certification Tips: Barre for the Beginner

The Barre Intensity technique is challenging. It's fast-paced, requires some coordination and leaves participants sweaty at the end. But what about those beginner clients? Not to worry, they can still enjoy an impactful Barre Intensity class while working at their appropriate level. Use these barre training tips to adjust your next class for the beginner group: those still working on their coordination and barre strength.

5 Cueing Categories - Barre Certification Tips

5 Cueing Categories - Barre Certification Tips

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.

Beating the Burnout: 5 Barre Training Tips

Beating the Burnout: 5 Barre Training Tips

It's that time of year when we all start to reflect, set goals and recharge for the new year ahead. But how do you avoid that burnout as we finish the year out? We are giving you five barre training tips to help you keep refreshed as you refocus your barre instructor training for the new year ahead.

Barre Training Tips: Concentric, Eccentric and Isometric Contractions

Barre Training Tips: Concentric, Eccentric and Isometric Contractions

Since we as barre instructors are also considered movement specialists, we want to let you in on some of those movements, how they work, why they burn and how to connect a little deeper with your barre training.

Today we explain concentric, eccentric and isometric muscle contractions, what they mean and where you can find them in your barre class exercises.

Barre Training Tips: Verbal Transition Tactics

Barre Training Tips: Verbal Transition Tactics

In our Barre Intensity Instructor Training & Certification weekends, many of our barre trainees express: "I don't know how to organize my thoughts.", “I don’t know what to say for a transition.” and ask “What's the most important?”. We’d like to give you five barre training tips to help you strengthen those verbal transitions.

In no particular order here is what we like to teach in our Barre Intensity Instructor Training & Certification weekends.

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Five Cues to Deepen Your Abdominal Crunch Exercise - Barre Certification Tips

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Five Cues to Deepen Your Abdominal Crunch Exercise - Barre Certification Tips

An abdominal crunch seems easy enough. You lift and you lower, engage your core and keep space between your chin and your chest. What more can there be right??? There's more, a lot more in fact and we're sharing our five cues from head to toe (really just to the low back) to deepen the crunch. The next time you're teaching your barre class, give a few if not all of these a try. If you're not yet teaching barre but would like to, check out our online barre instructor training and certification program. 

How to Squat - Barre Certification Guideline

How to Squat - Barre Certification Guideline

The squat. One of the most standard fitness exercises. When executed properly it effectively works muscles all throughout the front and back of the lower body. As fitness instructors, we cannot take for granted that everyone in our classes knows how to squat. I was at the gym this morning, not teaching, just working out. I noticed a man "squatting" while being lead by a personal trainer in a small group fitness setting.  The man was doing EXACTLY what I tell all of my trainees in a Barre Intensity Barre Certification not to do; he was moving from the knees without recruitment of the hips. 

Finding Your Inner Core - Barre Certification Online Workshop

Finding Your Inner Core - Barre Certification Online Workshop

We love fitness education, in particular topics that pertain to barre, and sharing our knowledge with instructors all across the world. It's truly the continued education pieces that make our barre training and certification program so valuable.  One of our most recent educational pieces focuses on the core. We mean the ENTIRE CORE- your inner core, back, glutes, scapular musculature, and the brain-body connection. Now if you've been in the fitness industry for years you're probably thinking "I already know how to connect my clients to their core" but do you really? Here we break down the five segments of our Core Connections Online Workshop and share a few sneak peak clips of the content. 

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