by John | Jul 16, 2018 | Big Box Instructor, Instructor Training, Training With Power
Indoor Triathlons are very popular here in the frozen north, offering club triathletes the chance to swim bike and run long before its warm enough to be outside. In the past, the Life Time club where I teach used Spinner NXTs with a Spinning computer for the bike leg....
by John | Apr 10, 2018 | Best Practices, Big Box Instructor, Class Work-Sets, Instructor Training, Latest News
We all like our specific brand… Ever notice how, if you teach on multiple brands of Indoor Cycle, your class presentation changes a little from one to the other? From the distance all the IC's from FreeMotion, Keiser, Schwinn and Star Trac, look pretty much the...
by Dunte Hector | Feb 9, 2018 | Audio PROfiles, Big Box Instructor, Class Work-Sets, Instructor Training, KEEPING IT FUN, Master Instructor Blog, Music, Spotify, Training With Power
Ride Name: The Loud Ones Work Set Length: 13:44 + 7:17 recovery [21 minutes] The Sprint Shift on the new Stages SC3 bike is your interval training solution. Left position for easy, Center position for medium, Right position for hard. Make micro-adjustments with the...
by John | Aug 13, 2017 | Big Box Instructor, Certification, Instructor Training
I get the “Where can I get certified as a “Spin®”,”Schwinn®” or simply an Indoor Cycling Instructor?” question a lot. While trying to be helpful, more often than not my response is “I'm sorry, but you are asking the wrong...
by Joan Kent | Jul 19, 2017 | Big Box Instructor, Instructor Training, KEEPING IT FUN, Master Instructor Blog, Strength Training
If you’ve done stomps in your cycling workouts, you may think I’m crazy when I say this, but I’ve always liked them. They’re extremely tough but appeal to that twisted part of me that enjoys hard training. (I know: you’ve got that part, too.) If you...
by John | May 7, 2017 | Best Practices, Big Box Instructor, PRO Podcasts, Training With Power, Zone based Heart Rate Training
I prefer to limit the mathematical computations many Instructors typically ask of their classes. For example you'd never hear me say; “now I want everyone at 85% of their FTP” or… “this next interval is 30 seconds in Zone 5B which is 103 to...
