Can an Indoor or Outdoor Cyclist measure their power using only Heart Rate? I personally find it hard to believe, and yet CycleOps says their new PowerCal will do exactly that. Now if I had seen this advertised on some late night infomercial I wouldn’t have given it a second thought, but CycleOps is one… 
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Tech Tuesday – Measuring Power Using Heart Rate?
ICI Podcast #196 – Go Cycle Studio is using the Top Power Display from Performance IQ
Meet Emmy Ragali, the owner of Go Cycle Studio in Chicago IL. Emmy is the first Beta instillation site for the Top Power Display System from Performance IQ. I wanted to learn first hand what Emmy’s experiences were using the Top Power display to show the wattage and RPM of each Keiser M3 her participants are…
ICI Podcast #178 – It Was Like Presenting at Indoor Cycling Graduate School
Between sessions last weekend Master Instructor Cameron Chinatti took me aside and told me how impressed she was with the quality of Instructors at the conference. Wanting for you to hear it first hand, I invited Cameron back for a post conference interview for the latest episode of the ICI Podcast. We also discussed Cameron’s…
Schwinn AC Performance vs. FreeMotion S11.9 Indoor Cycles with POWER
I now have access to both Schwinn A.C. Performance Indoor Cycles and FreeMotion S11.9 Indoor Cycles in a super secret location* I’m planning a comprehensive review of both cycles over the next couple of months. Both the Schwinn AC and FreeMotion have the latest Power Consoles from each manufacture. I’ve already had the the chance to teach…
ICI/PRO Podcast #153 – Climbing Strength Intervals Audio PROfile
Master Instructor Tom Scotto delivers our latest Audio PROfile Climbing Strength Intervals. PROFILE OVERVIEW This profile is called Climbing Strength Intervals. It is a simple profile that focuses on four 3- minute climbing intervals designed to test and develop muscular strength. Riders can track their heart rate and/or power during the class to gauge their…
FreeMotion Indoor Cycling Bike with Power from Foundation Fitness
Gene Nacey tipped me off about this new Free Motion Indoor Cycling Bike with power from a company called Foundation Fitness. What’s interesting about this Indoor Cycle is that it uses magnetic resistance (the best system in my opinion) and it’s wattage readings are based on measured power, through a strain gauge in the left…
Video Report From Gene Nacey at IHRSA
While I was in Boston last week meeting with Tom Scotto, Bill Pryor and Kenji Freedman, Gene Nacey was at this years IHRSA in California. It’s the largest fitness equipment show in the USA and Gene was there checking out all the new Indoor Cycling bikes (or should I say cycles) that offer Power. Take…
ICI/PRO Podcast #141 – YOUR Numbers Audio PROfile with Tom Scotto Pt 2
As promised here is Part 2 of Tom Scotto’s YOUR Numbers Audio Profile where Tom explains how you can help your students to begin to learn their Heart Rate and Power (watts) numbers. I would love to know how many of you are teaching on the Keiser M3 or New Schwinn AC Performance Indoor Cycles…
What WAS I thinking!?!
While there are lots of local races throughout the season, there is only one “in my back yard”. So naturally, I like to do either the MTB race, or the Road race. I did both one year, and well…let’s not go there. Since I took the entire year off my normal MTB schedule, and our…
Training Turned Upside Down
Training for improved climbing is one thing. Training for the Dirty Dozen is another. Given the fact that probably less than 1% of the hills one normally climb are as steep as those of the Dirty Dozen, it doesn’t make sense to train for this level of power requirement. That is, unless you actually want…
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