Bring Heart Rate Training Into A School Near You

by John | Dec 18, 2022 | Engage Your Students, Instructor Training, KEEPING IT FUN, Training With Power, Zone based Heart Rate Training

  While most of us are focused on adult fitness, Sally Edwards and her Heart Zones company are doing some pretty amazing stuff with middle and high school aged children - using display training technology to motivate kids and get them active 🙂   I love...

Intro to ZONING in a CAN short video

by John | Oct 31, 2022 | Instructor Training, Zone based Heart Rate Training

If you teach "Club Athletes", what many of us see as the majority of the student in our classes, and want to educate your students / clients on Heart Rate training program, I highly recommend you look into Zoning Fitness. In the video below, Chuck Cali and Sally...

ICI Podcast 260 Understanding Heart Rate Variability HRV and measuring HRV using the ithlete iPhone app

by John | Jul 31, 2022 | Free Podcasts, Zone based Heart Rate Training

When should you go hard... and when should you take it easy? It's a great question. Often our response depends on very subjective feelings = we may think we know, but we really aren't completely sure. As Jim Karanas pointed out in his Intervals post this week, we are...

ICI/PRO Podcast 339 Understanding the floors and ceilings of training with power

by John | Jul 13, 2022 | Best Practices, Big Box Instructor, PRO Podcasts, Training With Power, Zone based Heart Rate Training

I prefer to limit the mathematical computations many Instructors typically ask of their classes. For example you'd never hear me say; "now I want everyone at 85% of their FTP" or... "this next interval is 30 seconds in Zone 5B which is 103 to 106% of your LT/AT heart...

Why we need a standard method to describe heart rate training zones part 1

by John | May 28, 2022 | Instructor Training, Zone based Heart Rate Training

Should we adopt a standard method of describing Heart Rate Training Zones? My argument is that until we (I'm talking about everyone in the fitness Industry) all speak with consistent language, manufactures will continue to put stickers like this on fitness equipment. ...

How To Get Your Students to Wear Heart Rate Monitors

by Jim Karanas | Apr 25, 2022 | Zone based Heart Rate Training

By Team ICG® Master Trainer Jim Karanas Everyone agrees that indoor cycling classes using heart rate are more effective and even more fun to teach.  This post is not about which HR training principles to use or the best way to determine training zones.  You or the...