ICI/PRO Member Price Increase Nov 1st

by John | Oct 20, 2010 | Latest News

Starting November 1st the annual cost of a new ICI/PRO membership increases to $144.00.

Current members will see no changes. Your subscription rate will never change 🙂

A number of people have asked me why? So here are a few reasons:

1. Waking up not knowing what you will be teaching today is a horrible feeling.
2. Waking up knowing exactly what you will be teaching, because you have a new Audio PROfile to listen to, is a wonderful feeling
3. We want to give Instructors a reason to subscribe now, before the increase so they will Be Ready for the beginning of this year's season.
4. The $24.36 increase is less than half of what you will save on a single pair of Pearl Izumi men's P.R.O. Cycling Shorts $130.00 retail vs. $78.00 PRO member discount.
5. Purchase two pairs of PRO shorts, a jersey and a few pairs of socks and your membership was essentially free.
6. We should be charging double! New subscribers get access to all of last year's Audio PROfiles – 26 and counting!
7. Subscribing now locks in your subscription rate for life.
8. $144.00 is just $12.00 a month, $2.76 per week, or just $0.39 per day.
9. The other 536 ICI/PRO members are waiting for you to join them 🙂

If you have been on the fence, it's a great time to jump off. Being Ready this year is easy.

Just claim your $1.00 7 day trial membership.

ICI/PRO Conference Video Interviews

by John | Oct 15, 2010 | Latest News

Amy (the senior group fitness instructor in the Macgowan household) and Barbara Hoots interview a handful of ICI/PRO attendees at the conference in Boston, October 2010. See what you missed?!

That was fun!

by John | Sep 11, 2010 | Latest News

Not sure I want to experience a week like that again 🙁

The most important thing is that www.indoorcycleinstructor.com is up and running in time for the one year anniversary of  ICI/PRO which is September 12th 2010 – tomorrow!

Cool Stuff and Random Observations From IDEA

by John | Aug 8, 2010 | Latest News

Here are some of what I came away with from IDEA.   I do plan to expand on some of this with Jennifer as a new Podcast episode soon.

• My biggest takeaway from the entire conference… I saw approximately the same Threshold Power (240 watts) on the Schwinn AC Performance, Keiser M3 and CycleOps Indoor Cycles. I know it isn't exactly scientific, but I took classes on all three power bikes and I was encouraged to see they all read similar power. This Threshold Power squares with Cycling Fusion's Power Charts that predict ~ 1.2 – 1.6 watts per pound for a reasonably fit cyclist – I'm 160lbs x 1.5 watts per lb = 240 watts.
• Does the “F” word belong in your class? How about a conference session? I talked with an Instructor who was very upset about the language used in a Saturday 7:30am session.  I'm digging into it more…
• Based on many of the Instructors I saw here in Southern CA  you can never be too fit, too thin or too tan 🙂
• I have a bunch of short video Interviews, including Paco Gonzalez who will be presenting at our October conference.
• If you ever get the chance to attend any training where Jay Blahnik is the presenter… GO!
• Everyone needs a profile (Instructor and/or Club-Studio)  on IDEA Fitness Connect . IDEA launched Fitness Connect this weekend as the largest fitness professional directory, connecting more than 16 million consumers to more than 100,000 fitness professionals with credentials verified by the top 14 fitness certification bodies. Completely free and you do not need to be an IDEA member.
  

  Your profile on these sites coming late in 2010

  I have already set up mine (and the two clubs where I teach) here.

• TRX is going to take over the fitness world… it's only a mater of time…

More to come.