Today www.indoorcycleinstructor.com is TWO YEARS OLD!
What started as a bit of a whim has grown into something kind of special, don't you think?
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Originally posted 2010-08-02 10:16:11.
Host of the Indoor Cycle Instructor Podcast - the #1 Internet radio show for and about Spinning / Indoor Cycling Instructors and Cycling Studio owners.
John is a member on the AFS (Association of Fitness Studios) Advisory Council.
Holding certifications from; Schwinn, Heart Zones, Team ICG and Life Time Fitness, John's held regularly scheduled cycling classes between 1998 and 2015 when he moved to Florida.
When the weather permits, you'll find him riding and leading outdoor groups by himself or with his Tandem partner (wife) Amy.
John is a member on the AFS (Association of Fitness Studios) Advisory Council.
Holding certifications from; Schwinn, Heart Zones, Team ICG and Life Time Fitness, John's held regularly scheduled cycling classes between 1998 and 2015 when he moved to Florida.
When the weather permits, you'll find him riding and leading outdoor groups by himself or with his Tandem partner (wife) Amy.
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It’s a testament to your passion combined with your entrepreneurial spirit John! And we’ve got another exciting anniversary coming up next month, don’t we?! 😉
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY ICI JOHN AND JENNIFER FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY GRATEFULL HEART FOR ALL THIS TWO YEARS OF GROWING TOGETHER AS A BIG FAMILY
KEEP PEDALING , DON’T STOP PLEASE.
Sharon Altman says: August 2, 2010 at 6:36 pm
Hi Jennifer
I just want to say thank-you for this amazing world you have opened up, Joining IC Pro nearly 1 year ago was the best thing I could have done ,I have learn’t so much from you and the amazing guests that you have had on.
I love listening to the podcasts and taking notes, as well as sitting down with your profiles and writing them out for myself into a condensed version with your great queing and profiles I have become an amazing instructor over the Last year. I feel that I have grown so much . I am a Madd Dog spinning Instructor who owns a Spinning Studio ,I have it in my house, yes with the correct Insurance and Spinning bikes I have 9 classes a week and 8 bikes I have had this studio for 2 years in September. I love teaching Spinning and you have helped me to really make a name for myself, because I teach exactly the way I’m
supposed to the safe and correct way.
I can’t thank you enough for sharing.
Hope to see you in Boston..
I just joined this blog a couple of months ago and I wish I joined earlier! So much information you are providing and the podcasts are perfect for my car rides to and from work! I’ve been trying to catch up on the past 2 years of podcasts!! Keep up the great inspirational work, definitely planning on seeing you in October in Boston!
John and Jennifer,
Thanks to you guys and this web site, I feel that I’m growing into a great indoor cycling instructor. I look forward to the next 2 years of your advice, wisdom and excellent guests!
thanks for the wonderful teaser/tutorial for using our music and itunes. vacation coming up and plan on reorganizing my music. should keep me quite occupied. one question though, if you use the BPM counter you recommended, how do you calculate RPM from that. seems there would be a difference since one is HR the other cycle speed.
Renee.
I know it seems confusing because we use the same verbiage, but the bpm of a song is not related to HR at all, it’s the beats-per-minute of the song. RPM is pedal revolutions per minute. To translate BPM to RPM it depends on the energy of the song. Some songs you can use the exact bpm = rpm. For example, a fast song with 90 or 100 bpm you would pedal quickly on a flat road at 90 or 100rpm.
But often songs work better if you pedal on the “half beat”. For example a 120-140bpm song is obviously way too fast for pedaling, but the half-beat is perfect for a climb of 60-70rpm. And often (but not always) the energy of a song translates to a hill as well, because the heavy downbeat is emphasized on the half beat (say, on the 70 vs the 140bpm). Trance/electronic songs tend to have this characteristic, whereas a lot of rock songs are more BPM = RPM. In this sense, a 100bpm song actually has a faster energy than a 140bpm song.
Does that make sense?
I find my ear really tends to like electronic climbing songs of 120-130bpm which keeps me on the slower rpm of 60-65 for climbing if I follow the beat. So I am trying to fill my iTune coffers with songs I can pedal on the higher climbing spectrum 70-80bpm/rpm.
John tends to use beat more than me in general, but I use it a lot for climbs.
Hope that helps!
Thanks for replying Jennifer,
I talk about the Training Rate of the song – which is as Jennifer pointed out is typically 1/2 the actual BPM – but not always…
It’s what you “hear” in the music that’s important and your computer can’t hear anything.
Time flies when you’re having fun, here’s to many more years to come.