I'll be at the Club Industry fitness show in Chicago Thursday and Friday meeting with our new sponsor/contributor LiveStrong Indoor Cycling by Matrix and record a formal introduction to all of you to learn more about them. While I'm there, I will be participating in some virtual rides lead by LiveStrong's Master Instructor and Head of Education, Jim Karanas. Jim's rides will feature some stunning video produced by their partner Virtual Active. I got a sneak peak of these cycling videos while I was in San Francisco last month. The quality rivals anything you've seen in a theater… seriously, they're so good you'll think they were CG (computer generated) and I know your classes will love watching them.
Will you be there? If so I would love to meet you and possibly ride with you at the LiveStrong Indoor Cycling display at Booth # 901 .
The hidden agenda…
Transitioning participants towards a Power-â€focused class can be difficult to implement without their buy-â€in and understanding. Use this ride as an example of how to incorporate Power specific concepts without the need to get on the soap-â€box and shout the benefits of Power training from the roof-â€tops…. In other words, you can sneak it in…ssshhhh!
This PRO Podcast is intended to be used in conjunction with the BIG RIDE video of this complete class which you can find here.
Dallas can get hot but has an amazing amount of energy, or maybe Salt Lake City?
We're just not sure…
Two things we do know is that Boston has served us well for the past two years and the North East isn't an optimum location for many of you. Because we are always open to your ideas, we've put together a short survey for you to tell us where you would like to attend the 2012 ICI/PRO Conference.
I love a good long tune and today’s Free Music Friday Favorite is 7minutes long. It has a “dream pop” type vibe to it, but don’t let that throw you off, because I have found it to be very useful in discovering either T1, or T2. The Verve is certainly
not a new (or still intact) band, but “The Rolling People”, from their Urban Hymns CD is a great 81 bpm tune with good coaching breakout time at 2:30-3:15. The first two minutes I ask my class to start adding load s-l-o-w-l-y. At 2:30, I explain either T1 or T2 (whichever we are discovering) and then we HIT IT! It works well, because we still have plenty of time left to find our threshold. Here is The Verve and “The Rolling People”, circa 1997:
For your free track I wasn't able to find a remix of The Rolling People, but I was able to find another song from The Verve that would make for a focused 72 rpm climb; Appalachian Springs. Listen all the way through and you will find a built in recovery at the 5:50 point of this 7:34 tune. The Verve – Appalachian Springs by cuzzoni
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 BIG RIDE where she had everyone working together as teams of 4 on the new FreeMotion S11.9 Indoor Cycles with Power.
Coming to ICI/PRO Members Oct 10th – Cameron and I recorded a special PRO Podcast where she explains how she uses this format to introduce Power in a fun and inviting setting.
ICI/PRO members will be able to download Cameron's complete PROfile.pdf so you can introduce this class to your club or studio as early as next week.
