Course detail

Indoor Cycling

CESA-TV-ICEAcad. year: 2024/2025

Indoor cycling (spinning) is taught in the winter and summer semesters in group lessons under the guidance of licensed instructors. Students enroll according to the performance and the degree of mastery of stationary bicycle riding techniques (Z, P, MIX, S, S fit, S physio). Lesson, accompanied by music, is reminiscent of mountain biking, alternating between sitting and standing, fast and slow sections.
The whole teaching program is focused on the development of fitness for beginners and advanced. The size of the load is adapted to the condition of individual exercisers. Special lessons are prepared for people with low fitness and overweight, as well as for athletes in the form of fitness training.

"Students are hereby notified that physical contact between instructors and students may occur during sports lessons for the purposes of correcting exercise techniques, movements, game-related activities, or providing necessary assistance and safeguarding health. Should a student prefer to avoid physical contact, they are required to inform the instructor in advance, acknowledging that they assume responsibility for any potential adverse effects on their health."

 

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

1

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Mgr. Olga Taušová, Ph.D.

Department

Centre of Sports Activities (CESA)

Entry knowledge

PE knowledge and skills at secondary school level are required.
We recommend clean cycling shoes or indoor sport shoes cycling pants with antibacterial liner,  own drinking bottle, andtowel.

Annual stress test in sports and PT medicine (parameters for working with heart rate) is highly recommended.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Credit on the basis of active participation at lessons, ie regular attendance with records in the attendance list; 2 unexcused participations are allowed).
Regular attendance with registration in the attendance list, 2 unexcused absences are allowed, apologies orally for absences in advance directly in class or by email in advance, but no later than 24.0 hours after the date of class.
Compensation for missed and unexcused hours always in agreement with the teacher directly in the specialization or in specific hours at the Machina Fit Center. The compensation is recorded in the attendance sheet or the teacher issues a written confirmation if the attendance sheet is not available.
Other possibilities of compensation are in block teaching, at courses and at CESA sports events (eg Christmas games, Sports Day, one-off weekend educational events).

Professional guidance - lecturers:
Ing. Lea BOLECHOVÁ, e-mail: lea.kovacsova@gmail.com
Ing. Tomáš HORT, e-mail: t.o.mhort@seznam.cz
Ing. et Ing. Kateřina JANČÍKOVÁ, e-mail: katerina.jancik@seznam.cz
Marián KOVÁCS, e-mail: kovacs@cesa.vutbr.cz
Ľuba KOVÁCSOVÁ, e-mail: kovacsova@cesa.vutbr.cz
Ing. Michal KÖNIG, e-mail: michalkonig@seznam.cz
Bc. Natálie ONDOVÁ, e-mail: nat.ondova@gmail.cz

Aims

Influencing fitness and physical performance, strengthening health, deepening knowledge and experience in the field of physical culture and creating a positive relationship to physical activities and a healthy lifestyle.
Realization of a student in a chosen sports branch with the aim of maintaining and improving physical and mental condition, relaxation, relaxation and compensation of one-sided sedentary employment. The result of learning is the creation of a positive relationship to physical activities, the acquisition of new and improvement of previously acquired skills, knowledge and competencies in selected physical activity.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Hana Lepková a kol. Jak dokonale zvládnout indoorcycling. Grada, Praha 2007. ISBN 978-80-247-1748-7 (CS)
Jitka Dýrová, Hana Lepková a kol.: Kardiofitness vytrvalostní aktivity v každém věku. Praha, Grada, 2008. ISBN 978-80-247-2273-3 (CS)

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Type of course unit

 

Physical education course

12 hod., compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Mgr. Olga Taušová, Ph.D.