by Jim Karanas | Dec 23, 2023 | Master Instructor Blog
By Team ICG® Master Trainer Jim Karanas My thanks to everyone for the numerous responses to my post last week on the Commoditization of Indoor Cycling. As captured by those responses (Chuck”™s in particular), differentiation is the strategy necessary for...
by Jim Karanas | Sep 21, 2023 | Instructor Training, Master Instructor Blog, Zone based Heart Rate Training
By Team ICG® Master Trainer Jim Karanas Now that more of your students wear heart-rate monitors (HRM) (see previous post “How To Get Your Students To Wear a HRM”), you must teach them how to use one. An important first step is sometimes lost when introducing...
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...
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....
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...