Bring Heart Rate Training Into A School Near You

by John | Dec 18, 2022 | Engage Your Students, Instructor Training, KEEPING IT FUN, Training With Power, Zone based Heart Rate Training

  While most of us are focused on adult fitness, Sally Edwards and her Heart Zones company are doing some pretty amazing stuff with middle and high school aged children - using display training technology to motivate kids and get them active 🙂   I love...

Solving Student’s Technical Problems

by John | Dec 3, 2022 | Best Practices, Engage Your Students, Mental Toughness

Question from an ICI/PRO member: Hey john, I had a rider wearing a Timex HRM in class yesterday and it would not pick up her heart rate on the Keiser console of any of the bikes?  It does work on other equipment in the facility (treadmills etc.) Is there a reason for...

Remove Resistance to Build a Larger Following

by Chuck Cali | Nov 12, 2022 | Engage Your Students, Master Instructor Blog

by Team ICG® Master Trainer Chuck Cali As I prepared to support ICG at IHRSA 2013, I considered the ICG tenet that learning is about removing resistance. I had just gotten back from a bit of Vegas shopping.  A nice saleslady asked me what I was doing in Vegas and told...

Why Exercise Shouldn’t Be Just One Thing

by Joan Kent | Nov 9, 2022 | Engage Your Students

Because I work in different fitness environments, I see different approaches to health and fitness. In one gym, the equipment and the personal trainers focus almost entirely on strength training. Cardio is secondary, and done while watching TV — with that level of...

Forgive me… I’ve forgotten your name

by John | Nov 6, 2022 | Engage Your Students

Back to business this morning at the "Spa" (Minnetonka LifeTime Athletic Club & Spa) after the summer break. Everyone calls it the Spa because it's full name is just too much of a mouthful, especially in the early AM. It's amazing how consistent (or maybe habitual is...

Help your students have their best season ever with this video from Joe Friel.

by John | Oct 7, 2022 | Engage Your Students

This may be of value to you and those training endurance athletes in your class. Triathlon coaching legend Joe Friel, author of The Triathlete's Training Bible, gives you essential tools to have Your Best Season Ever. Topics in this presentation include- Goal Setting,...