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Archive | July, 2009
ICI Podcast #52 – Star 3 Instructor Barbara Hoots on Six Ways To Grow Your Indoor Cycling Class
Barbara Hoots and I discuss how you can grow your Indoor Cycling classes using the same techniques she has successfully used to grow her own Spinning classes. SIX WAYS TO GROW YOUR CYCLING CLASS 1. Create an Ambiance which allows students to disappear from the real world. Paint the walls dark, add mood lighting to… 
Lance Armstrong’s new team sponsored by RadioShack.
This will be good for Our Indoor Cycling classes! Link to the NY Times article. American Armstrong announced as the stage was finishing that he would start a new team next season sponsored by electronics wholesalers RadioShack. Lance Armstrong has been a very positive roll model to many of our typical Spinning class participants. His…
20 Years of Step Aerobics started with Gin Miller
What Johnny G is to Spinning & Indoor Cycling, Gin Miller is to Reebok Step Aerobics. This year at IDEA they are celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Gin’s creation. Gin’s story is very similar to Johnny G’s. They both needed to train differently, created a prototype, developed programing and through force of will and enthusiasm…
Spinning – Star Trac Bike with Power? OK so when?
Ok, so Schwinn has introduced their new bike that includes magnetic resistance and Power indication (Watts readout) and are rolling it out at this year’s IDEA conference. Jay Blahnik is heading up their programing. (Yes, I’m working to get him on the Podcast…) So where is the Spinning – Star Trac bike with power and…
ICI Podcast #51 – ACE Promotes Safe, Effective Indoor Cycling Classes
The latest issue of ACE Certified News features an article: Create Safe, Effective Indoor Cycling Classes. The author, health and fitness writer Karen Asp joins me to discuss what she describes as the “Five Common Mistakes” made by Indoor Cycling Instructors. Karen also explains what motivated the American Council on Exercise to contract her to write…
Thoughtful note from Melbourne, Australia!
I love getting emails like this and wanted to share it with you! Hi John, I just wanted to say “hi” and also a big “thank you”. I teach cycle classes in Melbourne, Australia. I was looking at some inspiration for my Cycle classes and found myself totally hooked to your podcasts, which opened a whole new world…
Survey Says!
Thanks to all of you who participated in the the 2009 Indoor Cycle Instructor Survey! I have lots of great feedback that I will be able to use and I will be sharing some of it with you very soon. Congratulations to listeners / IC Instructors Richard Messer from Canyon Lake, Ca & Joseph Edwards…
Review of Red Pedal Tool
I got a nice note this morning and I wanted to share with you. Hi, John, I was out of town and was excited to have the tool for schwinn triple link pedals waiting for me! I tried it today and it works like a charm. I demonstrated its use to one of the gym…
ICI Podcast #50 – Celebrating Independence (from Spinning) day!
Give up your Studio’s Spinning credentials because you want to use a different Indoor Cycling bike? Blasphemy! And yet Gene Nacey from Global Ride Studios has done exactly that. Gene is a firm believer in the value of Indoor Cycling 2.0 and wanted his studio to have bikes that include Gear Indication, Cadence and a…
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