Spotify App Shows Where You Yell GO!!

by John | Mar 7, 2015 | Big Box Instructor, Instructor Tech Help, iTunes & Spotify Training, KEEPING IT FUN, Music, Spotify

This Where's the Drama app for Spotify gives you a visual representation of the changes in loudness of any track in Spotify's library = changes that many of us will use as cues.   NOTE: for an unknown reason there's no sound for the first 14 secs.  It's super...

Free Music Friday – One Hundred RPM

by John | Mar 6, 2015 | Big Box Instructor, KEEPING IT FUN, Music

I love to cue 100 RPM's! One hundred is such a fun number > it rolls off your tongue with ease + there's a certain power the word. You can repeat it > ONE HUNDRED, over and over during an interval, without it ever sounding repetitive or getting stale. Everyone...

Above and @ Threshold Profiles – “It should feel like you’re taking a bath in a tube full of lactate”

by Dennis Mellon | Mar 2, 2015 | Audio PROfiles, Big Box Instructor, Dennis Mellon, Instructor Training, Music, Training With Power

  We've all heard the causality dilemma, "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?".   Ancient philosophers have been debating this question since the beginning of recorded history.  Indoor cycling instructors have been asking themselves a similar question,"What...

Free Music Friday – More Rhythmic Confusion

by John | Feb 27, 2015 | Big Box Instructor, Engage Your Students, Instructor Tips and Tricks, Music

I've been getting much of musical inspiration from Movie soundtracks as of late. I'm still digging Zack Hemsey — Vengeance that I first heard used in the movie The Equalizer. The beauty of the Internet (at leased for now) is how easy it is to find best soundtracks,...

Free Music Friday 2/20

by Amy Macgowan | Feb 20, 2015 | Big Box Instructor, Instructor Training, Music

Continuing to use music out of my comfort zone, I bring you this week's Free Music Friday. A 62 rpm climb to encourage your class to truly feel what's going on with their bodies. I coach them to be okay with, and embrace, however the intense work is feeling- good or...

Free Music Friday the 13th!

by Amy Macgowan | Feb 13, 2015 | Big Box Instructor, Instructor Training, KEEPING IT FUN, Music, Spotify

Do you find yourself using the same kind/ genre of music for specific work? For example, does most of  your 'climb' music sound much the same, and your 'flat road' music has a tell tale sound as well? Mine does! When my daughters hear my playlist they'll say, "Oh,...