Doug Rusho was last year's Cycling Fusion Male Instructor of the year and he presented at the 2010 ICI/PRO conference. Doug provides this new Audio PROfile.
This profile is called “Progressive Endurance.” It is designed to give our students what they need (endurance base), and then rewarding them with what they want (High Intensity). This profile is progressive in intensity, slowly building through the endurance zones and finishing with high intensity(HIT).
This is a compromise in terms of pure base building, but provides a teaching opportunity to educate the benefits of base building, while still keeping the “hammerheads” engaged because of the high intensity to come.
Here's your Spotify PRO/Playlist! Deezer. We have made every attempt to replicate the original playlist. In some instances the tracks specified were unavailable in Spotify. When necessary we have substituted individual songs of similar length and tried to maintain the Instructor's intent.
I have received quite an education about improving the acoustics of a room from Ryan Gibbons, an Applications Specialist with Auralex® Acoustics, Inc. In the interview posted below Ryan describes the typical problems that may exist in your studio and offers some suggestions on solving them. If after listening to this interview you would like more information they have a very comprehensive online resource available at http://www.acoustics101.com/
If you would like a free acoustical analyses of your studio, that includes their detailed recommendations for making improvements, you can contact Ryan directly:
Ryan Gibbons
Applications Specialist
Auralex® Acoustics, Inc.
6853 Hillsdale Court
Indianapolis IN USA 46250
317-842-2600 | 1-800-959-3343 rgibbons@auralex.com | www.auralex.com
Auralex doesn't sell direct, instead they use distributors like GuitarCenter.com
Julie Erdmann from Tri-ing to be athletic.blogspot.com is back with another entertaining picture-post about her second Indoor Cycling class – Send the Men in the White Coats
I have gone back to spin class. Twice. And let me just tell you, it has *not* gotten easier.
The 2-minute “warm-up” is really nothing more than a way to weed out the wussies (and I totally want to wuss out but the bikes are in a circle so everyone would see me leave.)
Now, if you decide to stay for the rest of the class, you are in for a treat an hour of pure torture.
Amy had already submitted this Friday Favorite before we got our deal to provide you with a FREE track every Friday. I hated to see it go to waste so I thought why not a Hers and Mine this week?
From her: You probably have deducted by now that I like to include entire CD’s for my Friday Favorites, and this FF is no exception. Of course our class members like recognizable tunes, but mine have told me they enjoy hearing the “B” side songs from the bands as well. This Canadian band started playing together in high school and released the Them vs. You vs. Me CD in 2007. The hit single “Paralyzer” will be recognized by most and makes for a great climb at 60 bpm. See the “Paralyzer” video by the band Finger Eleven here:
“Talking to the Walls” (80 bpm), “Gather & Give”(84 bpm), “I’ll Keep Your Memory Vague”(88bpm), “Falling On” (90bpm), “Lost My Way”(90bpm), and “Them vs. You vs. Me”(100bpm) all make for great flat road work. Two very interesting songs to use at 6/8 tempo are: “Change the World”, and “Window Song”. One of these days I'll have to tell you how I use 6/8 tempo music (commonly known as a waltz) to teach the rhythmically challenged in my class ride to the tempo of the song. Have a fabulous week everyone!
And now for something FREE from me 🙂
Am I the only one who's taste in music tends to ebb and flow with the seasons? One minute I'm digging out my old 70's favorites when I have something very intense planned, then endurance season comes around and I find I like to use interesting electronic music for the long steady efforts I have everyone suffering through.
I found this track from a band called Moleman and it fits right into a steady Zone 3 climb. 86 RPM and I can already here myself describing how the road starts upward at the 1:00 mark. Get their cadence locked in and then add the load (friction bikes) or start-em slow with a big gear and accelerate to 86 RPM (magnetic resistance bikes)
Click the orange square for your free download. The buy links are for purchasing additional tracks from this artist Moleman “Escapism” (mp3)
from “Moleman EP” (Velcro City Records)
Gene Nacey tipped me off about this new Freemotion S11.0 Indoor Cycle
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 crank. This may prove to be an improvement if it reduces or eliminates the need for frequent calibration. Why is this important? Because some question the accuracy and repeatability (consistency between one bike to the next) from a system based on calculated power; i.e. the Keiser M3 and the Schwinn AC performance.
I'll be digging in further and will report more soon. I find all of these new bikes with power to be simply fascinating. We all have a front row seat to watch Indoor Cycling 2.0 unfold and blossom right before our eyes 🙂
“Escapism”
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