by Christine Nielsen | May 22, 2025 | Engage Your Students, Instructor Training
Guest post from ICI/PRO Member / Contributor Christine Nielsen HEAR - SEE - FEEL There are many models which attempt to explain and categorize the ways in which people learn new material. Most of them are very arcane and debates abound in the academic community about...
by Jim Karanas | May 1, 2025 | Engage Your Students, Master Instructor Blog
By Team ICG® Master Trainer Jim Karanas Motivation to exercise has spurred fitness discussions for decades. Having taught Group Fitness classes for over 30 years, and Indoor Cycling since 1995, I've noticed that, when a person successfully integrates exercise into his...
by Karen Casler | Jan 22, 2025 | Engage Your Students, Instructor Training, KEEPING IT FUN
Some riders are present to train and give 100% every class. Many, however, are present simply to be…present. Through The Customer”™s Eyes When was the last time you really looked at the Indoor Cycling experience you offer through the eyes of your customer? The riders...
by John | Dec 23, 2024 | Engage Your Students, Instructor Training
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....
by John | Nov 14, 2024 | Best Practices, Engage Your Students, KEEPING IT FUN, Master Instructor Blog, Your Fitness Business
Five million viewers of ABC's "Good Morning America" TV program were treated to a wonderful promotion for Indoor Cycling this past week. As I watched I just couldn't help myself and began humming REM's Shiny Happy People. That was exactly what I was seeing >...
by John | Oct 12, 2024 | Best Practices, Engage Your Students, Instructor Training, KEEPING IT FUN, Learn Leadership Skills, Presentation Skills
4/1/16 update - not an April Fools joke, rather I'm re-publishing this today to help a friend with this issue. I heard a very disturbing story this morning, from a regular in my 6:00am class. What follows is a sad example of what happens when an Instructor isn't the...