Instructor Chris Nielsen was one of our Ultimate Instructor Class Profile winners with her Going the Distance profile!
Training Type: Endurance
HR Zones: 3-4
Effort: moderate to hard
Class length: 60 minutes, includes ~9 minutes for cool down and stretch
This profile was developed as part of a series to show that endurance classes can be as engaging and informative as rides with higher intensity. This class gives the instructor an opportunity to simultaneously address effort management, pedaling mechanics and related form issues, universal mental challenges and also introduce some outdoor bike safety topics. The intent in mixing all of these facets into one class is to help people understand that there is much more to an endurance ride than just mindless pedaling.
Instructor Carole Harrell shared this awesome 11 minute mashup over on our Celebrate Indoor Cycling Group – The Ultimate Mashup of 2014. 55 track remix by Robin Skouteris. Listening to it, I don't recognise many of the tracks… but there's a good chance that your class may know them. As I think about it, you could do a fun “Name That Tune” game where you have anyone how knows the song yell it out.
http://youtu.be/igZA100ZTQ0
If you don't see a download link in the Soundcloud player you can find it here.
Fitness Connect from IDEA is something I feel all of us Group Fitness Professionals and Fitness Studio owners need to jump on soon. I'm scheduling an interview with IDEA's head of business development for a future Podcast. In the mean time if you are an Indoor Cycling Instructor with a Spinning® or other certification, Group Fitness Instructor, Personal Trainer or you own or manage a Fitness Club or Studio here are a few thoughts about why I feel you need a profile there.
1) Rise above the noise and be found by standing on IDEA's shoulders. The internet is an enormous place. Search engines sift through billions of web pages in their effort to deliver a relevant result to what could become your next client, member or student. Your profile on Fitness Connect has a much better chance of being displayed because www.ideafit.com is seen as a respected source by Google and other search engines.
Gene Nacey and Tom Scotto kept this a secret during the ICI/PRO conference … Cycling Fusion and Stage 5 Cycling have merged their Indoor Cycling certifications into one. They will operate under Cycling Fusion for Indoor Cycle Certification and Stage 5 Cycling will continue to provide Outdoor Cyclist training.
Lots to understand about what this means and we try to answer your potential questions in this interview with Gene Nacey and Tom Scotto. Information about our lost Podcast episodes is here ICI Podcast — The Lost Episodes
