Cuing the Console — Change is GOOD!! was designed towards the instructor that may be new to teaching with a console in front of them, and/or to the instructor who may be new to teaching indoor cycling in general. The goal is to construct a simple, easy to CUE class, but not necessarily just an “easy” ride!
Sometimes when we attend a conference or weekend workshop we come home really jazzed with all the new information and want to spend it all on Monday morning’s class! Or we try to emulate and teach EXACTLY like the presenter we listened to in the training but perhaps still question- “how do I make it MINE??” This profile is designed to help you speak in your language and convey your message in a fun, easy way!
Traci Kann was the winner of our Ultimate Instructor Class Profile contest!
She won a prize package that included accommodations at an all inclusive caribbean resort from FitBodiesInc where she will be the guest Spinning Instructor for the week!
She also received $500.00 from Team ICG to use toward her travel expenses and a one year enhanced subscription to Indoor Cycling Music 🙂
What follows is her presentation of Ladder Stepdowns – A Descending Interval Workout.
Profile Description
This ride was inspired by a running workout described in “Runner’s World” magazine a few years ago. While the workout in the magazine was designed to be done on foot and not on an indoor bike, and while it was presented a bit differently than this rides in terms of timing and the total number of intervals, the basic concept remains the same. The premise is to experience a range of paces from common road race distances, from the marathon to the mile. As the simulated race distance decreases, the intensity of the interval increases.
With the Resolutionists descending en-mass on your club or studio, Cycling Fusion's Tom Scotto and I felt you would benefit from an Audio PROfile that would get them off on the right foot peddle for 2013.
Strong Foundation is a 30 minute class you can teach repeatedly during a weekend open house event or as a regularly scheduled introduction to Indoor Cycling!
Tom spoke very highly about Gene Nacey being the patron saint of beginner Indoor Cyclists. You can hear Gene's ideas here.
Our plan is to discuss his strategies and techniques for teaching effective Foundation Classes to the brand new to exercise participants we will all see the first week in January.
Meet Vanessa Wilkins Team ICG® Master Trainer, Indoorcycling Group® in partnership with LIVESTRONG® Fitness by Matrix. Vanessa provides our latest Audio PROfile:
Winning Team – Don’t Stop Believin’
Intro:
Living in San Francisco when Giants Baseball is CRUSHING IT has been fantastic. Our nutty city was really brought to together. There was camaraderie among the people living here. Our team spirit sat and clung over the bay like damp fog. As a winning city, our people seemed a little more kind and jovial to one another. The vibe is still undeniably contagious, and I am sure this is true in any city where you have a winning team. Men walk tall and proud with full, lush, uncut and untamed beards. And if you met any random stranger dressed in orange and black (which was too often to count), you could, without a second thought, walk up, stand nose to nose, and obnoxiously shout “Let’s go, Giants!” and expect to be rewarded with a chorus of cat calls, cheers, fist pumps, and high fives from those around you.
I found teaching a cycling class during our playoff and World Series winning streak extremely challenging, and close to unbearable. (It is important to note that the cycling studio where teach sits directly across from the stadium. The challenge of getting to class alone was difficult.) Not only was I a bit distracted because I wanted to be watch the game instead of teach, but my regular packed class had dwindled to a select group of die-hard cyclists, who, although super-fans, HAD to get in a ride. I really wanted to capitalize on this event in my hometown, and I think the “team pulling together” is a concept we can never tire of using.
This is the view from the Cycling Studio at Couples Tower Isle in Jamaica! It's one of 65 tropical resorts where our Grand Prize Winner can spend a romantic week 🙂
Today begins the start of the Ultimate Instructor Class Profile Contest part deux!
The Grand Prize winner will receive All-Inclusive accommodations on a working fitness vacation, at any of the 65 Caribbean Resorts available at FitnessProTravel.com + $500 cash from Master Trainer Jim Karanas with Team ICG® that you can apply toward your plane tickets!
To help our PRO members get excited about entering and creating their own ultimate class profile, I invited Krista Leopold – of Welcome to the Jungle Audio PROfile fame – to help us learn how she creates:
Unforgettable Rides: 3 Steps to Creating the Ultimate Instructor Class Profile that Riders Remember
Many of us already do things like plan for holidays or use events to theme our rides, such as the Tour de France or the Olympics. But you don't have to wait for something on the calendar to impact your students. Today, we are going to take a basic profile and give it a makeover. In the end we will be left with something that makes our students say “WOW. That was incredible!” My goal is to provide you with a game plan to bring some bling to your old profiles. I am going to walk you through the steps I take to transform a basic profile into an experience your riders will want more of!
This Audio PROfile from Team ICG® Master Trainer Jim Karanasmay completely change how you teach… but only if you're open to the challenge to adding some movement to your class.
If you are a straight-up indoor-cycling instructor, and/or a roadie, you are likely never going to attempt to teach a Mountain Rider class. However, if you enjoy the trail as much, or even more than, the road, then I hope these ideas will help you bring the trail to your students.
I recently offered Mountain Rider for the first time in North America at Can Fit Pro in Toronto. I was amazed at how many instructors attended class because (a) they ride off-road, and (b) they wanted the experience of riding off-road. Some were roadies who were actually concerned about their lack of off-road skills — as if I was going to ask them to bunny-hop a log.
Some basic class suggestions will set the stage:
1. Tell your class participants that, for today, they must forget much of what you’ve previously taught them about indoor cycling.
2. Mountain biking does work with energy zones, power, intervals and threshold, but pure, senseless fun needs to be a major part of the class design.
3. Simulation begins with education. Teach them about the trail. Are we on a fire trail or single track? What’s the surface? What are the conditions? In mountain biking, the trail surface and conditions change the experience completely. This needs to be part of your cueing.
4. Introduce and use off-road terminology: fire roads, single track, rollers, washboards, high-side/low-side.
Download the complete Mountain Rider presentation PDF here.
NOTE: To access the videos referenced by Jim – please create a FREE account at http://www.ic-pro.org/en Then, once you are logged in, you can click the link to view the videos – links to each is in the PDF.
Many respondents to the ICI/PRO member survey asked that these Audio PROfiles have additional detail. Let me know if Jim's PROfile has what you were asking for [wlm_firstname].
