by John | Jun 3, 2025 | Instructor Training, Your Fitness Business
Fox & Friends ran a special segment this morning, highlighting the job opportunities in the fitness industry. Master Instructor Kari Nicolle from CycleBar said that they would be opening 50 new locations this year, requiring close to 700 new hires. That's an awesome...
by John | May 31, 2025 | Zone based Heart Rate Training
In this post I mentioned that I was using a Blink Heart Rate monitor because I can't see the numbers any more. It's flashing light shows me when I'm below JRA ( T1 or aerobic threshold), between T1 and T2 (T2 is anaerobic threshold) or above T2. Very simple. I like...
by Jim Karanas | May 28, 2025 | Master Instructor Blog
By ICG® Master Trainer Jim Karanas Building a class profile can be one of the most enjoyable aspects of teaching Indoor Cycling. Instructors sometimes find it stressful because they feel they”™re “out of ideas.” There are many approaches to class design. A...
by John | May 25, 2025 | Engage Your Students, Free Podcasts, Instructor Tech Help
Meet Spinning® Instructor/Personal Trainer and Fitness blogger Darcy Knoblich! Darcy is doing a fabulous job connecting with participants and other instructors, while promoting herself online through her website darcyknoblich.com. I really enjoyed interviewing Darcy...
by Christine Nielsen | May 22, 2025 | Engage Your Students, Instructor Training
Guest post from ICI/PRO Member / Contributor Christine Nielsen HEAR - SEE - FEEL There are many models which attempt to explain and categorize the ways in which people learn new material. Most of them are very arcane and debates abound in the academic community about...
by John | May 19, 2025 | Instructor Training, Zone based Heart Rate Training
Now I think we can start working on some solutions. While researching this article I learned that the the 80/20 rule is also called the Pareto principle. It's more of a rule of thumb drawn from multiple examples where roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the...