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...
by Jim Karanas | Jun 1, 2017 | Master Instructor Blog
By Team ICG® Master Trainers Jim Karanas and Joan Kent Over 12 years ago, Jim developed an athletic training program that eventually earned the tagline “Stop exercising. Start training.”  At ICG®, we think there”™s a difference between the two, one that people...
by Jim Karanas | May 26, 2017 | Engage Your Students, Master Instructor Blog
By Team ICG® Master Trainer Jim Karanas I”™ll switch gears from my recent posts on using public speaking techniques to enhance our teaching to talk about what we say. In The Art of Cueing, I discussed the use of cues to bring depth to the class and make it more than...
by John | May 25, 2017 | Instructor Training, Master Instructor Blog
The road isn't segmented into definable sections... it flows along as one continuous, undulating strip of asphalt. Your cyclists may appreciate your class more if it flows like the road they ride. Here's why & how... Common practice for many of us is to construct a...
by John | May 23, 2017 | Best Practices, Instructor Training, Master Instructor Blog, Presentation Skills
There I was, enjoying another instructor's class JRA (just riding along) in my own little zoned out world. I get that way often, when I'm aerobic and don't have to focus on teaching. It's typical for this to happen to me in a class where the instructor tends to offer...
by Gino | May 5, 2017 | Master Instructor Blog
If you are a data-geek, you”™ve stumbled onto the right blog. If you love learning about the science behind your training, you should find these posts pretty interesting. If you”™re the type who likes to not only know what, but has to know WHY training is prescribed...