by John | Apr 4, 2019 | Big Box Instructor, Instructor Tech Help, Music, Your Fitness Business
Do you have noise problems / complaints from neighboring businesses? Have you changed class times or cancelled classes to keep the peace with another class in your club? This maybe a solution... Message from Facebook this morning: Hi there! My name is Naomi and I have...
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, Presentation Skills
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 | Sep 18, 2017 | Big Box Instructor, Engage Your Students, Instructor Training, KEEPING IT FUN, Master Instructor Blog, Training With Power, Zone based Heart Rate Training
The computer industry has an acronym: G.I.G.O which stands for: GARBAGE IN = GARBAGE OUT It refers to the idea that if your input data/information is inaccurate (GARBAGE IN), then any computations, using that inaccurate data/information can't be anything other than...
by John | Apr 22, 2017 | Big Box Instructor, Instructor Training, Promote and Build Your Class
My article about teaching a Cycle Sculpt class, that included using weights on the cycle, brought out a lot of strong comments on my Facebook. Understandably many of the commentators expressed concerns about safety: I think the rub for me John is safety. Weights on a...