Wham! There goes another Christmas Cookie!

That’s what I would say after a high intensity segment in my Holiday class this morning. On a short recovery segment with an approaching challenging climb with attacks, I told them to prepare to burn off yet another cookie. (Who knows if we really did calorie-wise – but who cares? It’s a fun way to motivate).

If you are doing 3-minute hard intervals, you could call each effort a “bite of pecan pie”.

I had a full class this morning – it made for a really energetic class. The music was fun, but as I told them, thank God they only have to hear it once a year!

Here’s wishing you full classes and lots of calories burned!

Let ICI/PRO be your “IV” and “Sieve”

A new member posted the most amazing comment on an indoor cycling forum about ICI/PRO that I would like to share with you. Below, I edited only a few misspelled words (I bet she was sooo excited she wrote so fast!) but you can see the actual post on Innercycling right here.

Funhog,
I have to say what you and John have started is nothing less than spectacular! I paid my yearly membership to the SPIN and got a few discounts on workshops and one Intro certification in 3 years. I just signed up with your new program and already suffer from information overload, more information is available to me now than I have time to digest. I will forever be a subscriber! Thanks so much, you are helping me beyond measure.

Thank you Blackdog for your comments. I wish I could express how happy it makes me feel to know that we are benefitting and helping other instructors like you. (Blackdog, email me if you are reading this).

We are so very grateful to all the instructors who have placed their trust in us by becoming a member – we will not let you down!

If you are still doubtful about the value of ICI/PRO, or still wondering why we aren’t providing all of this for free, please take the time to read the rest of this post – you might discover something you didn’t realize about us. We are truly a new concept in IC instructor training, and you’ll see what I mean about being your “IV” and “seive”. Read more…

MixMeister Express Academy – Now Open To New Students

When I got frustrated using MixMeister® Express I asked Keith Burnage, the creator of Cadence Revolution, for help. Keith is an expert in building seamless playlists for both his Spinning classes as well as his weekly music Podcast.  As he walked me through the parts I wasn’t understanding I thought, “I bet there are lots of Instructors who could use some help with MixMeister Express.”

The more we talked the more we got excited about what we are calling the MixMeister Express Academy.

Keith has created a series of 8 Step by Step Video Tutorials (+ a few I added) designed to eliminate frustration and have you quickly up to speed building your own seamless class playlists in about an hour.

• Video #1 Setting up iTunes and converting music to the proper format for use in MixMeister
  
• Video #2 Introduction to MixMeister Express and importing your music library
• Video #3 Building your first seamless playlist
  
• Video #4 Learning cross-fading techniques for smooth transitions
  
• Video #5 Using beat-matching for a professional sound
  
• Video #6 Exporting your seamless playlist to CD or iPod
• Video #7 Advanced music mixing techniques
• Video #8 Lengthen and shorten songs
• Additional Tips and Tricks + Student requested Videos
  
• These Videos are for Windows XP and Vista users only
  

Includes Email support for MixMeister Academy Students!

The MixMeister Express Academy – Fall Semester IS OPEN NOW- Registration is here.

CycleOps Introduces Joule

In the world of Indoor Cycling 2.0, every bike would have a Joule.

Joule provides an intuitive and customizable dashboard for managing all the metrics needed to tell you what you’re doing during a ride. At any moment you can see power, heart rate, cadence, speed, time and other basic data.

Unfortunatly it only works with the CycleOps Pro 300PT