ICI Podcast #115 – Pain Prevention Expert Leslie Mueller Will Be Presenting at the ICI/PRO Conference

Triathlete and Pain Prevention Expert Leslie Mueller will be presenting at the ICI/PRO Conference this October. Leslie will be teaching two sessions on Body Alignment Exercises for Cyclists.

Instead of just stretching our students and sending them out the door, Leslie will help us to understand how to return Indoor Cyclists to proper alignment through a series of exercises you will be able to bring back to your next class.

You can learn more about Leslie and how you can Train and Race Pain Free

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ICI Podcast #114 – What Was Cool, Notable and Disappointing At IDEA This Year

Keiser's Suzette O'Byrne preps us for a class on the M3

Jennifer interviews me about my experiences at the IDEA Fitness Conference.

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ICI Podcast #107 – Breathe Denver Indoor Cycling Studio Owner Sarah TV Russell

Breath Denver's Sara TV Russell Living The Life

Breath Denver is the Indoor Cycling studio that hosted the Stage 5 Cycling Instructor certification that Jennifer and I participated in this past weekend. I’m fascinated by people who follow their passion, take a (big) risk and start an Indoor Cycling studio. Breathe Denver owner Sarah TV (Tobitha Vay) Russell is just such a person and she lives the cycling / studio owner lifestyle. Sarah has a very compelling story and we had a chance to sit down and discuss the all the hurdles she overcame before opening her studio.

You can learn more about Breathe Denver at Sarah’s web site here.

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ICI Podcast #106 – Are you sprinting properly?

Jennifer used  ICI/PRO Podcast #105 – Explosive Power Audio PROfile with Tom Scotto from Stage 5 Cycling in her class last week.

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ICI Podcast #102 – Conference Announcement

We’re doing it!

The very first Indoor Cycle Instructor PRO conference is happening on October 8th – 10th in Boston MA!
Jennifer and are very excited (and a bit frightened) at the prospect of hosting a conference that will include a maximum of 250 of our fellow PROfessional Indoor Cycling Instructors.

This year’s theme is Be Ready! And we intend to help you be exactly that

Listen to the Podcast first and then here is a page with the initial details - much, much more coming soon:

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ICI Podcast #98 – Analyzing Indoor Cycling Techniques from a Personal Trainer’s Perspective

ICI/PRO Member and Personal Trainer Doug Rusho joins Jennifer and me to discuss “Analyzing Indoor Cycling Techniques from a
Personal Trainer’s Perspective” As Doug describes it “There is no wrong in fitness, just risk and reward.”

This is part one.  ICI/PRO Members will find part two, ICI/PRO Podcast #99, in their Super Secret iTunes feed.

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ICI Podcast #96 – Perfect Breathing with Al Lee and Don Campbell

Available now worldwide, Perfect Breathing – Transform Your Life One Breath At A Time (Sterling Publishing 2009) is a book that can change your life. In it, authors Al Lee and Don Campbell illuminate a simple, dynamic pathway to limitless human potential based on not only some of the most contemporary scientific information ever compiled, but on proven teachings and techniques.

ICI/PRO Member Carole Hollis was the winner of my copy of Perfect Breathing. When I asked her permission to list her name, this was her response: “Of course, you may use my name but only if you add that I look forward to each and every pod cast.  Being a member of ICI/PRO has been the BEST investment I have made in my professional career.  I know it takes a lot of time to put this program together.  I thank you for this and I wish you a great return for your investment.”

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ICI Podcast #93 – The Gateway to outdoor riding

Your students are looking to you for help reaching the gateway.

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How can you tell if your Indoor Cycling students ready to move outdoors and confidently tackle some reasonable climbs?

Gino Nacey says they need to be able to sustain One Watt of Power Per Pound of body weight. Gino sees this as a key measurement of fitness and we discuss how to get your students to this level of power with his new Power Training eBook for Indoor Cycling Instructors.

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ICI Podcast #90 – Jennifer is back from Down Under and an interview with the Founder of eGreen Revolution

Jennifer Sage is back from Down Under and we discuss a few of her experiences in New Zealand.

Then is my interview with Jay Whelan, Founder and CEO  of The Green Revolution™. His company has created a product that generates usable electricity from a Spinning Indoor Cycling bike.  Or as they say: connects health + energy + environment by turning human effort within the health club into usable energy.

One big advantage of this product is how it adds a Power Meter to the bike, saving a club from needing to upgrade to keep up with the change to Indoor Cycling 2.0

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ICI Podcast #88 – Start Your Own Indoor Cycling Studio? Bill Pryor from Spynergy Consulting can help.

Bill Pryor with his partner/sister Alex

As promised last week, here’s my interview with Bill Pryor about his experiences starting his own Spinning Indoor Cycling Studio.  You can contact Bill here.

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ICI Podcast #86 – The Sleep Doctor and the Zeo Sleep Monitor for Endurance Athletes

If you can measure it you can improve it. That’s a big part of Indoor Cycling 2.0 where we use measuring tools to help us improve physically.  When I saw that there was a device that can measure both the quality and quantity of sleep you get I had to know more about the Zeo Sleep Monitor.

The people at Zeo Inc. introduced me to The Sleep Doctor, Dr. Michael Breus and he joined me to discuss how your sleep can be improved and with it, your athletic performance.  They were kind enough to provide me with one of their sleep monitors to use and I will posting my observations in the future.

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ICI Podcast #85 – Finish Strong Training System From Jade Ng

Have you ever thought of creating a comprehensive training program for your members to help get them really fit? You want to incorporate many areas of the gym, not just your indoor cycling class; you want to do the research to make sure the program follows a stepped approach using proper training principles; you want to provide the participants assessments and educational and motivational material along the way. But the amount of work to put it together is daunting so you just never get there!

What if you could take a self-funded, turn-key program that has been proven to work, that will bring profits, teamwork, excitement and success into your facility?

Jade Ng from Finish Strong Training Systems joins Jennifer and me to discuss her turnkey program for fitness clubs. To help ensure the success of the 6-phase, 12-week program, FSTS provides training videos for instructors and personal trainers on the focus of each phase and how to teach the suggested classes. Educational and motivational videos are provided for the participants to help them stay on track. Both Dr Haley Perlus and Jennifer were invited to create some of the videos and training information, and they are honored to be a part of the program.

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ICI Podcast #82 – Meet Ben Greenfield our newest ICI/PRO Team Member

Ben Greenfield is our newest ICI/PRO Team Contributor. Through his new RockStar Triathlete Academy, Ben has promised to help me with my training for the three Multi-Sport events I have committed to this summer.

Besides all of his education and experience as a competitive endurance athlete Ben is an Indoor Cycling Instructor just like us. He knows how to use a Spinning Indoor Cycling class to train for competitive endurance events and how to build a class that focuses on training (what I call Indoor Cycling 2.0). You can learn more about Ben here.

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Update: I’m joining Ben Greenfield’s Triathlon Rock Star Triathlete Academy as I train for my first Triathlon. John

ICI Podcast #78 – This new ChestLick product helped save his life!

Happy New Year!

I don’t think I have done this before. I’m going to suggest that you forward this interview on to your participants & fitness friends to hear. It’s a compelling story of the importance of wearing and using a Heart Rate Monitor + an excellent example of being your very own medical advocate!

Imagine you are married to an IronMan distance endurance athlete. You learn that instead of flying off to compete in his next IronMan Triathlon, your husband is scheduled for open heart surgery. During his recovery and subsequent training he becomes an avid Heart Rate Monitor user but is frustrated by his monitor’s inconsistency.  So you find and begin distributing a product that will make his heart rate monitor perform like it should. I does. So well in fact that it leads to a second open heart surgery, preventing a certain heart attack.

I have been using ChestLick for about a month now and can attest to how well it works and how cleanly and easily it goes on.

ChestLick is a newly-developed, state-of-the-art, athletic heart rate monitor spray. ChestLick is used to ensure that your heart rate monitor is able to immediately and accurately receive the signal from your chest strap. Because ChestLick is so effective and unique, there are worldwide patents protecting the formula! This formula is non-residue, non-staining, and hypo allergenic!  This same electrolyte spray is used in hospitals around the world.

Melinda would love to send you a sample. You can email her info@chestlick.com or visit www.chestlick.com to order some today.
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ICI Podcast # 74 – 5 1/2 common computer problems and what to do about them

If you are anything like me, your life revolves around your computer. Email, FaceBook, iTunes, on-line shopping and this website are all inaccessible without a working computer. Since we have an official “Geek” here at IndoorCycleInstructor.com, I thought I would offer some of his wisdom and experience to listeners like you.

Meet Microsoft Systems Engineer (and my brother) Dan Macgowan!

Dan joins me to discuss 5 1/2 common problems he routinely sees in personal and small business computers.  Dan’s expertise is with PC’s but you Mac users will want to pay attention as well. The solutions and preventative actions Dan recommends apply to all types of computers.

Here is the link to the new FREE antivirus protection from Microsoft that Dan recommends in the Podcast.

Dan’s suggestion for Automatic On-Line Backup is Carbonite. More info here.

Mozy is the other online backup provider we discussed. Mozy info here.

You can contact Dan dan@indoorcycleinstructor.com

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071 ICI Podcast #71 – Indoor Bike Maintenance Expert Jeff Wimmer

Jeff Wimmer’s name came up during our interview with Johnny G last year. (I’ve been trying to get him on the Podcast ever since)

Jeff and his company StudioCycles is recognized by most of the Indoor Cycling Bike Manufactures as the expert when it comes to maintaining those poor bikes that are so often ridden hard and then put away wet.

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ICI Podcast #68 Amateur, Hobbyist or Professional … Which are you?

Do you consider yourself an Amateur, Hobbyist or Professional Indoor Cycle Instructor? Listen to this podcast and then post your response here.

In this episode we announce that starting in January, CEC’s are included as part of an ICI/PRO Platinum Membership.

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ICI Podcast #64 – Master Instructor Janet Toussaint on how to sell endurance training to your class

One of the things that most excites me about the potential here at ICI and the technology we are tapping into, is that we have created a platform that allows us to seek out and interview some of the most progressive and experienced people in indoor cycling and bring them to you, our listeners and members. Where else can you hear interviews with the pros on subjects that help you grow as an instructor? (Except at an expensive conference once a year!)

We certainly do not know everything there is to know about indoor cycling, but we know how to seek it out and bring it to you. I have so many mentors I’ve learned from over the years who I would like to bring into the discussion at ICI. With every new person we interview, you will learn a different style, a different approach, or perhaps a new twist on something you haven’t considered.

Today we are speaking with Master Instructor Janet Toussaint from the Boston area. I met Janet eleven years ago in Santa Monica at a weeklong Master Camp for Mad Dogg Athletics. Janet had joined the Spinning MI team the year before I did (and left MDA two years before I did). At this camp, the entire MI team had to go on a challenging 40-mile very hilly outdoor bicycle ride with Johnny G; many of us still talk about that ride to this day. (Those were the days – Master Instructors were expected to have at least some cycling skills and experience!)

Janet was always one of my favorite Master Instructors and her sessions at WSSC were riveting; there was something about her gentle but powerful voice that made you want to listen when she spoke. It was the teaching style that I wanted to emulate as I developed my own style.

One of Janet’s expertises is teaching endurance. She ran the Spinning program for years at the Boston Athletic Club and not only got the instructors to buy into the concept of teaching a moderate intensity ride, but the large member base as well. Now that is a tough challenge when all they seem to want is high intensity all the time – I am sure many of you are faced with a similar challenge.

In January of 2003 Janet came out to visit me in Vail on a ski vacation with her son JP. When we weren’t skiing, I made her teach Spinning at my club! We were in the middle of a base building program at the time so I had her teach an Endurance workshop to my instructors. She had such a positive impact on our instructors and our program and I still use some of her special cues and metaphors that she used to motivate riders.

When you hear Janet’s passion, I am sure she will inspire you too!

John and I enjoyed this discussion so much that we decided to go deeper into the subject of endurance and scheduled even more time with Janet. For ICI/PRO members, we will offer two additional podcasts that you will receive in your Super-Secret iTunes feed. The next interview will go more deeply into the essence of teaching an endurance ride. Even more exciting, the second one will be  an audio PROfile on Janet’s own favorite endurance ride, The Endurance Connection, replete with her all-star cueing, coaching and playlist.

If you have difficulty coming up with motivational things to say in your endurance classes, you won’t want to miss any of these podcasts!

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ICI/PRO Podcast #63 – Our first Tele-Seminar!

Jennifer and I thought we would let everyone get the chance to listen to the recording of our first Tele-Seminar. The next one is scheduled for November 1st.

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ICI Podcast #60 – Teach a few classes in exchange for a week on the beach in Jamaica.

This year is going to be different! You see for years Amy and I have traveled with FitBodies Inc. We could because Amy is an ACE Certified Group Fitness Instructor, which is the primary requirement to participating in this fabulous program: teach a few Group Fitness classes each day in exchange for a free stay at an All Inclusive resort in the Caribbean. Everything changed when Suzelle Snowden, the owner of FitBodies, Inc send me an email that said they now have openings for Indoor Cycling Instructors!

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