Putting Heart Rate Monitors to Use, Part 1

by Jim Karanas | Sep 21, 2023 | Instructor Training, Master Instructor Blog, Zone based Heart Rate Training

  By Team ICG® Master Trainer Jim Karanas Now that more of your students wear heart-rate monitors (HRM) (see previous post “How To Get Your Students To Wear a HRM”), you must teach them how to use one. An important first step is sometimes lost when introducing...

Intervals

by Jim Karanas | Aug 25, 2023 | Master Instructor Blog, Zone based Heart Rate Training

By Team ICG® Master Trainer Jim Karanas Interval: n., the amount of time between two specified instants or events. You teach indoor cycling, so you know intervals. If you asked another instructor for the workout he/she used in class that morning, odds are...

ICI Podcast 33 Keiser Instructor Certification and New M5 Elliptical Trainer

by John | May 12, 2023 | Certification, Free Podcasts, Keiser Cycling, Zone based Heart Rate Training

This Podcast is was originally published on February 22, 2009, I have updated it with our new Podcast host information and I am representing it now. I hope you enjoy it, Joey Keiser Master Trainer Suzette O'Byrne and I discuss the initial response to their new...

ICI/PRO Podcast 348 Beat Down Audio Profile with Krista Leopold

by John | Apr 15, 2023 | Audio PROfiles, Instructor Training, KEEPING IT FUN, Mental Toughness, Zone based Heart Rate Training

As promised, here's Krista Leopold's Indoor Cycling Class Profile; Beat Down! Training Type: LT Intervals Working HR Zones: 4 Total Class Length: 55 min Objective and Intensity After recently being inspired by a boxing match I watched at the nail salon of all places,...

I didn’t need to see this… even if I could

by John | Mar 12, 2023 | Zone based Heart Rate Training

This came in the mail yesterday and all I could think was, "this has to be for my dad. It can't be for me." 🙁 No, I'm not going to apply... I guess it just one more predictable thing that comes with reaching the half-way-point. (I'm 50 at the end of the month and I've...

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...