Use YOUR Workout as Inspiration for your Next Class

by Jennifer Lintz | Jul 26, 2014 | Class Work-Sets, Engage Your Students

By Jennifer Lintz, Registered Dietitian and ICI/PRO Contributor If you strive to bring variety to your classes, consider using your personal workouts for inspiration. Certainly, going to other instructors' classes and perusing the web can be a great way to pick up new...

ICI/PRO Podcast 304 – Four Corners (2 ways) Audio Class PROfile from Chrispins

by John | Mar 23, 2014 | Audio PROfiles, Best Practices, Class Work-Sets, Instructor Training

Spinning® Instructor and music expert Chris Hawthorne provides our latest class profile that uses the four cornerstone movements in the Spinning program®: Think of this profile like a square track.  You will be taking your riders around the track four times.  The...

Performance Cycle Class Week 7 – Performance Drinking Games

by John | Feb 2, 2014 | Class Work-Sets, Instructor Training, Master Instructor Blog, Training With Power

One of the many benefits of riding and training indoors, is not worrying about crashing and ending up on your head. So we practice our; pedaling technique, or Sprint form or whatever, without thinking about balancing or where we're going. Now if we were riding our...

Performance Cycle Class Week 5 – HILLacious Climbing

by John | Jan 19, 2014 | Class Work-Sets, Master Instructor Blog, Music, Training With Power

In keeping with the Nonlinear Periodization training prescribed by Coach Troy, today was a combination day of strength (climbing) and building endurance @ Threshold HR/Watts.  Experienced cyclists know what a real climb feels like. While Indoor Cycling may get close,...

Performance Cycle Class Week 3 – Nonlinear Periodization Begins!

by John | Jan 5, 2014 | Big Box Instructor, Class Work-Sets, Master Instructor Blog, Training With Power

Today was the official launch of the Life Time Fitness Performance Cycle Winter training series. These classes are hosted at many of the LTF clubs around the country and the plan is for all of us to deliver similar formats, following the same nonlinear (or is it...

Performance Cycle Class Starts Today!

by John | Dec 22, 2013 | Class Work-Sets, Instructor Training, Training With Power

I wait all Fall for this! Today (Dec 22nd 3013) starts my Sunday Performance Cycle Class at the Eden Prairie Life Time Athletic Club and I'm as happy as a pig in slop!!! These classes are pure, unadulterated training for cyclists. No nonsense, no feeling like I need...