ICI/PRO member Holly Mishoe sent me this very cute picture of the newest member of the Mishoe family; Tyler Jackson Mishoe.
He is such a cute little guy. Hopefully soon he will sleep thought the night but right now he is very hungry and loves to eat all night long.
Congratulations Holly and I'm betting your class will be excited to see you back in the studio when you are ready!
It's been a busy week for ICI/PRO members. Charles Hilgartner – everyone knows him as “Spook” – opened InSync Cycle, his new Indoor Cycling Studio this weekend. Spook's studio is running Keiser M3's and is the only dedicated Indoor Cycling Studio in the Baltimore MD area.
Congratulations Spook!
Here's the article featuring InSync Cycle in the Cockeysville Patch
This Saturday, InSync Cycle, the area’s only dedicated indoor cycling studio, promises to help beat the winter freeze with its grand opening celebration. Located in the former Casey’s Coffee shop in Hunt Valley, next to Valley View Farms and the Dutch Market, InSync Cycle is a studio that offers high energy, low impact daily spinning classes set to music and led by skilled instructors.
Modeled after similar studios like Soul Cycle in New York, Body Cycle in Philadelphia and Velovoomin Bethesa, InSync is the only indoor cycling studio in the Baltimore metropolitan area. Owner and master instructor, Charles “Spook” Hilgartner, says InSync captures three important benefits: “a ‘pay as you go’ program, guaranteed online reservations up to a week in advance and seven days of free workouts starting this weekend.
Besides running Cycling Fusion Indoor Cycling, Gene Nacey also produces the Global Ride series of Indoor Cycling Class Videos. One of my favorites is the Pittsburgh Dirty Dozen climbing race. It features 13 “bring them to their knees” climbs that are perfect for your next climbing class. The countdown timers show the length of each interval as well as the length of each recovery.
Gene just sent me a link to a story about the Pittsburgh Dirty Dozen done by Pittsburgh TV station WQED. It has a lot of detail that you could use to really spice up your class narrative. I suggest saving it for the recoveries, no way you will be able to talk during the actual climbs, if you ride with your class like I do 🙂
ICI/PRO Member and Contributor Barbara Hoots was featured in her local paper the Albany Herald
“From the lighting to the music to the actual cycling, it’s a total experience. No one wins in a spin class. It’s not about competition.”
Hoots should know. She took a local spinning class shortly after outdoor enthusiast Johnny Goldberg (“Johnny G”) and his good friend John Baudhuin (who co-founded Mad Dogg Athletics) came up with the concept circa 1992, but her passion wasn’t ignited until she made several trips to Miami to train under master instructors.
When she fell for spinning, she went all in.
SPINNING A NEW LOOK
“I came back to Albany and asked Tony if he’d give us some space for a spinning room,” Hoots said. “He had an area that I think had been for women only that he said we could use. I recruited John Medlin, who’s a phenom with a skill saw, to redesign the room and started negotiating with others who could help with the makeover.
“We redid the whole room – the look, the lighting, the sound system – added a few more bikes and once we found acceptance in the community, we couldn’t keep people out. Now we have a waiting list for all our classes.”
Powell, who opened Tony’s 29 years ago this May, has seen every fitness fad and fashion that’s made the rounds come and go at his popular gym. But he says he’s never quite seen anything go over the way spinning has since Hoots’ program evolved into a local craze.
“We’ve offered spinning here since it started; I think we started with 15 or so bikes,” he said. “It did OK, but once Barbara started teaching and making changes to our spinning room, it’s just become a phenomenon. It’s such a unique activity; from the atmosphere of the class to the state-of-the-art sound system, spinning is the total fitness experience.
“Spin classes here have become the hottest ticket in town. If you don’t get to a class a little early, you’re not going to get a seat. And we’re up to 55 bikes.” Read the rest if the story.
You can learn more about Barbara – Spinning Indoor Cycling Studio Design
From AccuWeather.com Chief Long Range Forecaster Joe Bastardi may have bad news.
I'm forecasting full classes till March
While cold weather is of course a part of winter, the persistent nature of colder-than-normal conditions and a lack of brief warm spells people can typically look forward to during midwinter have been unusual this season. Temperatures since Dec. 1, 2010 have averaged below normal from Boston and New York City to Chicago, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Atlanta and even Miami.
Temperatures are expected to continue averaging below normal in many of these places, from the northern and central Plains into the East, through at least the middle of February.
I can't help but smile knowing Amy and I are leaving Sunday on a Working Fitness Vacation in Jamaica 🙂
Sheryl knows how to bring in the cyclists.
Outdoor cyclists can be very particular about their bike fit and setup. So much so that many won't come to your class because, after hundreds of hours on their own bikes, they don't feel comfortable on the Indoor Cycles in your studio. Then there's the issue of those who train with a Power Tap (or some other power measuring device) on their bike and yours don't have anything.
ICI/PRO Member and USA Certified Cycling Coach Sheryl DeBoer has found the solution: LET THEM BRING THEIR OWN BIKES!
Sheryl said in her email to me;
I had 36 riders the other night and this is December. What will January be like?
I demanded offered to have Sheryl on a future episode of the Indoor Cycle Instructor PRO Podcast so stay tuned for something in January!
This will be an ICI/PRO Members Only Podcast. If you aren't a PRO member yet, a Monthly or Annual subscription would makes a great Christmas present to yourself 🙂
