How effective are you at coaching to specific levels of exertion? Do you use the RPE Scale? Or some percentage of age predicted maximum heart rate? As an old bicycle racer it was common for me to reach my max heart rate at the end of a sprint. How many of your participants have really been to (and know)...

Too cool for words! imagine, your legs are toast but the rest of you is screaming for more! Hop off your Spinning bike and on to a Krank Cycle for another hour to complete your workout. THE UPPER HALF! Kranking is a brand new group format from Johnny G that can compliment your indoor cycling classes...

Monday’s I’m up at 4:30 to teach my 5:45am cycling class. Many mornings the last thing I want to do is eat something, although I know I probably should. My club has a lot of smart people so I asked our nutritionist, Tyler Young, her thoughts on what all us early spinners should be eating...

I found the music I use as the “bumper” between the intro and the interviews on Garage Band. The song is called Base of Life, by Luke Gallen. You can download it free here along with lots of other great music. Base of Life has an “E” level Training Rate – it communicates...

I got a compliment this morning and I wanted to share it with you. I subbed a class at a club where I don’t normally teach. It’s common to see members I recognize and two people I knew came in and set up right in the front. Seeing some familiar faces was very motivating and we had a great...

In the process of doing the research for this BlogI came upon this site; www.indoorcyclingstore.com They don’t sell anything but Indoor Cycling Bikes. How cool is that? There must be a whole lot of “Spinners” out there. Anyway I found this bike they have for sale. From the site: The...

The Indoor Cycle Instructor Podcast is now available in the itunes Podcast Directory! You can subscribe by clicking the orange chicklet below. Subscribe in a reader New to Podcasting? What’s with this Subscribing thing? Once you subscribe, iTunes will check each day to see if I have posted a...

This is part two of my interview with Suzelle Snowden from Fit bodies inc. In this episode we discuss Suzelle’s FITBEACH educational vacation for fitness professionals where you can collect CECs on the beach in Negril, Jamaica. FITBEACH is coming up November 4-8, 2008 so check it out soon! Here is...

My wife Amy and I commit to taking a warm vacation each year. You could say we are addicted to our annual trip to Jamaica or Mexico. Sometimes we even bring our kids. We never could have afforded our 15+ trips without the help of my guest Suzelle Snowden from Fit Bodies Inc. and their Fitness Pro Travel...

I’m still in the process of setting up this Podcast Blog. Everything I try to do is a learning experience. Here are the links to the two music counting tools I reference in the Introduction to Training Rates video. Mac version: click picture Windows version isn’t as pretty but it works well....

Hi there, A number of years ago I created a new method of organizing music in to what I call Training Rates. I wanted (needed) to categorize my music (first in Windows Media Player, then in iTunes) in a way that made sense for both my Spinning classes and for running with my iPod. Training Rates are...