Please Join Our New Facebook Group – Celebrate Indoor Cycling

by John | Jun 3, 2017 | Engage Your Students, Instructor Training, KEEPING IT FUN, Master Instructor Blog, Promote and Build Your Class

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone! Waking up to -3° F this morning reminded me again how thankful I am for Indoor Cycling 🙂 I felt today would be the perfect time to announce our new Facebook group - Celebrate Indoor Cycling  Celebrate Indoor Cycling is dedicated to...

ICI Podcast 340 – Are you part of the SilverSneakers FLEX program?

by John | Apr 26, 2017 | Best Practices, Engage Your Students, Free Podcasts, Instructor Training, KEEPING IT FUN, Promote and Build Your Class, Your Fitness Business

Here's a great opportunity for Indoor Cycling Instructors and Studio Owners to attract and serve a new demographic of riders - active seniors! With over 12 MILLION members and 13,000 locations, SilverSneakers is a kind of quiet giant in the fitness industry....

A Matter of Perception

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...

Options for finding the BPM (beats per minute) for any song

by John | Oct 19, 2016 | Instructor Tips and Tricks, Instructor Training, KEEP IT FUN, Music

This is cool I saw this online tool, after following a link posted by Kor180 studio owner Maja Kermath on Facebook. After trying a few tracks that came to mind, it worked so well that I felt I should share it with you. https://songbpm.com The songbpm.com tool searches...

ICI Podcast 349 – Learn to use the power of exercise to promote creativity from Dr. Wendy Suzuki Ph.D

by John | Sep 19, 2015 | Big Box Instructor, Creativity Indoor Classes, Engage Your Students, Free Podcasts, Health and Wellness, Instructor Training, Promote and Build Your Class

Here's a creative exercise for you to try. Imagine that tomorrow you begin marketing your Indoor Cycling classes differently... Instead of focussing on physical benefits of increased strength, endurance or weight management/loss, what would happen if your marketing...

Does ClassBuilder and Schwinn’s Class Tamer iPhone Apps work with Apple Music?

by John | Jul 2, 2015 | Instructor Tips and Tricks, Instructor Training, iTunes, Music, Spotify

Do ClassBuilder and Schwinn's Class Tamer iPhone Apps work with Apple Music? This person on Facebook said they both do... which would be very cool. So I renewed my efforts, fought through the confusion and she's right! I was able to open an Apple Music playlist that...