What Athletics and Sugar Have In Common

by Joan Kent | Aug 18, 2015 | Engage Your Students, Health and Wellness, Master Instructor Blog

My coach, Jim Karanas, used to say that athletic performance triggers the ego. It brings forward conflict, discomfort, anxiety, self-defeating thoughts, and doubts about what”™s possible and what”™s not. In athletics, you do what”™s necessary. You have the above...

Favorite Track of The Week

by Christine Hawthorne | Aug 14, 2015 | Instructor Training

A few weeks ago I noticed a new playlist along the left side of my main Spotify page titled Discover Weekly. I hadn”™t put it there myself, so I clicked on it to see what it was all about and I was pleasantly surprised at the incredible mix of songs that it included....

The Power of 3 – Keep it Simple and Progress – Profile (Aug 2015 Week 2)

by Dennis Mellon | Aug 12, 2015 | Audio PROfiles, Dennis Mellon, Music

  Below you'll find Week 2 of August's Keep it Simple and Progress indoor cycling profile. When I started this progression last week I was VERY concerned that my classes were going to complaining about the significant recoveries, but after the first week my...

This might be the start of trouble in IC music land

by John | Aug 12, 2015 | iTunes, KEEPING IT FUN, Music, Spotify, Your Fitness Business

The music industry is figuring out that a great Indoor Cycling class is built on a fabulous playlist. Now they're making noises that they feel they should be charging fitness studios a higher rate for their commercial performance licenses... SoulCycle IPO Highlights...

The Power of 3 – Three Song Harmonically Mixed Music Sets – Out With the Old in with the New

by Dennis Mellon | Aug 11, 2015 | Dennis Mellon, Music

    This week I was asked by a class participant to NOT play "Stairway to Heaven" in a class she was planning on attending.  I was shocked that someone would ask me NOT to play what many people still consider the greatest song of all time.  If any of you have ever...

Would this create a more beneficial pedaling workout?

by John | Aug 10, 2015 | Health and Wellness, KEEPING IT FUN, Latest News, Strength Training

I just became aware of a new Indiegogo campaign for an innovative* method of pedaling a bicycle. Similar in functionality to a KrankCycle, the Caron Bicycle uses independent left/right crankarms that create 6 different pedalling movements. They have their crankset...