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Amy (the senior Group Fitness Instructor) joins Jennifer and me to discuss what happened at our very first conference.
The big news on Friday night was the announcement of our new Instructor Discount Program featuring Pear Izumi shoes and clothing.
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We had a near disaster at this years conference that could have been easily prevented. Without using any names, one of our scheduled presenters contacted us three days before the conference to tell us her computer's hard-drive failed and she lost her presentation power-point + everything everything else on her computer. The last time she had backed up her computer was many weeks before the failure and now she was looking at $500.00 or more to have a service “recover” as much data as possible. She had to literally reconstruct her entire presentation using her handout.
Had she subscribed to an automatic backup service like Carbonite this would have been a minor inconvenience, instead of a major panic.
I talked about this during my presentation on using iTunes and explained how I had a similar hard-drive failure last year. Because I use Carbonite, I was able to purchase a new hard-drive locally (about $70.00) and with a few clicks restored everything in just a few hours. I lost nothing.
Did I mention she uses a Mac? She could have easily borrowed someones computer, downloaded the files she needed and be ready to present in about 5 minutes.
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Amy (the senior group fitness instructor in the Macgowan household) and Barbara Hoots interview a handful of ICI/PRO attendees at the conference in Boston, October 2010. See what you missed?!
That had to be the most humbling, exhausting and yet energizing experience of my life 🙂
I have sent out the link to download the session outlines to all the attendees. There are a few missing and I will have them up later today.
We couldn't have pulled off our first Indoor Cycling conference alone and I really want to thank the following people:
And everyone who participated! It was a blast and I can't wait until next year!
How often do you introduce complete silence into your class?
Exhibit 13 -( Blue Man Group 8:50) is a 9/11 tribute. The first 4 minutes are quite somber, fading out for over 30 seconds of silence. What follows sounds connected, but very different in the emotion it communicates, building to a very intense finish.
I have found this song works very well at the end of a 90 minute class. Everyone is tired and during the first four minutes I will use the music to describe the pain and fatigue you feel at the end of a long climb or race. As the music tapers off I ask my class to lift their heads only to see that they have fallen off the back; no more sounds from the group we were with. During the silence I ask everyone to reconnect with why they are here today and decide if you are OK being dropped. The second half begins a sort of “re-birth” where everyone can find the energy to fight their way back, and not content to just reconnect, attack the finish.
This video only includes the front half of the song.