by John | Jan 13, 2026 | Engage Your Students, Instructor Training
I had forgotten how challenging it is to teach a completely naked Indoor Cycling class! I'm in Jamaica with Amy this week, teaching at Couples Tower Isle on a working fitness vacation. Jamaica is well know for sun, rum, Red Stripe beer, the clear blue ocean and a very...
by Joan Kent | Dec 29, 2025 | Engage Your Students, Master Instructor Blog, Mental Toughness
By Team ICG® Master Trainer Joan Kent Do any of your students struggle with motivation? Have any of them missed classes, perhaps several in a row, because they “just didn”™t feel motivated”? For a number of years, I”™ve been an instructor/nutritionist...
by Krista Leopold | Dec 26, 2025 | Engage Your Students, Instructor Training
What if you could get inside the minds of your students? It”™s common to hear compliments from your regulars about what you are doing well, but what about the students who come once and decide never to return? Last week, we explored the importance of...
by Dr. Shannon | Sep 15, 2025 | Engage Your Students, Learn Leadership Skills
Are you still as deeply passionate and in love with instructing as you used to be? If the answer is yes, good for you! If it is not, then good for you! You are about to be reminded of some things that perhaps you have forgotten. It was the spring of 1985 and I will...
by John | Aug 28, 2025 | Engage Your Students, Instructor Training, KEEPING IT FUN, Presentation Skills
Talking after class with members, is an infinite source of feedback for me. Today was a great example. My friend Georgia Green and her friend Mark were in class this morning. You met Georgia and learned about her and Mark's plans to ride 10,000 miles this summer...
by John | Aug 25, 2025 | Engage Your Students
The question I asked was "how many of you are training for something?" Over 80%, of a full class with 50 bikes this morning, raised their hands indicating that they were training for something... I wasn't specific as to what, only are you training? Even though this...