Jim Karanas | Indoor Cycle Instructor Podcast

Intervals

by Jim Karanas | Aug 25, 2023 | Master Instructor Blog, Zone based Heart Rate Training

By Team ICG® Master Trainer Jim Karanas Interval: n., the amount of time between two specified instants or events. You teach indoor cycling, so you know intervals. If you asked another instructor for the workout he/she used in class that morning, odds are...

Formatting Live Classes with Video

by Jim Karanas | May 27, 2023 | Master Instructor Blog

By Team ICG® Master Trainer Jim Karanas Video impacts Indoor Cycling more than any other form of Group Fitness. With the advent of Forward-Motion Video (FMV), the indoor cycling instructor can integrate the video into the ride profile for the day”™s class....

Video and Indoor Cycling: The Next Step

by Jim Karanas | May 3, 2023 | Class DVDS & Videos, Indoor Cycling Group - Team ICG

A defining feature of outdoor cycling is the uncertainty of the open road. On a new route, we never know exactly what will happen. The road makes each ride unique, especially since we move so fast and so far. That visual excitement has been missing from indoor...

Power, Part 1: What About the Watt?

by Jim Karanas | Jan 11, 2023 | Master Instructor Blog, Training With Power

By Team ICG® Master Trainer Jim Karanas - The Watt. Ten Newton Meters. Ten times the force necessary to raise 1 kg 1 meter vertical in 1 second. Clean. Absolute. The cyclist”™s preferred training statistic. Whether it”™s power-to-heart rate ratio, sustainable watts...

Training Formats for Class Design, Part 2

by Jim Karanas | Sep 19, 2022 | Master Instructor Blog

By ICG® Master Trainer Jim Karanas Last week”™s post covered variations in intervals and ladders. This week”™s covers variations in pyramids and steady-state workouts. PYRAMIDS A pyramid is a training technique that is essentially two ladders back to back, one...