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...

ICI Podcast #177 – Problem Solved – Two Threshold / Three Zone Heart Rate Training In a Blink

by John | Jan 1, 2022 | Best Practices, Instructor Training, Zone based Heart Rate Training

For the past two year's or so I have been lobbying for a universal "Standard" for the description of Heart Rate Training Zones. The purpose is to get all of us talking with a common language, so we aren't confusing our students and help them reach their weight loss...

Where are you with Heart Rate Training?

by John | Dec 23, 2021 | Instructor Training, Zone based Heart Rate Training

A common theme in conversations I am having these days is; "today we we find ourselves right here... what do we need to do differently if we want to end up somewhere else next year?" I have created a short survey (it should only take about 2 minutes) to learn where...

Heart Rate and FTP Zone Calculators

by John | Nov 26, 2021 | Training With Power, Zone based Heart Rate Training

Math, for some of us, isn't our strong suit... especially when you are trying to compute specific training zones on the fly using Lactic/Anaerobic Thresholds (LT/AT) or Functional Threshold Power (FTP) MTB coach Curt Wilhelm has created two easy to use, online tools...

Life Time Fitness to unveil their new EDGE Cycling format & LT Connect Heart Rate Display System

by John | Oct 27, 2021 | Big Box Instructor, Zone based Heart Rate Training

Updated 10/30 below Short notice... it's tomorrow night. Here's the email invitation I received: EDGE Cycle kick-off with Bahram Akradi & quests This will be the 1st class offering in Minnesota of our “new” EDGE CYCLE signature Indoor cycle format! Expect to have...

ICI Podcast 4 Metabolic Testing The Difference Between Knowing and Guessing

by John | Sep 28, 2021 | Free Podcasts, Zone based Heart Rate Training

This Podcast is originally from 2008, I have updated it with our new Podcast host information and I am representing it now. I hope you enjoy it. While the New Leaf systems are not easy to find anymore, KORR Medical Technologies (https://korr.com/) does have Metabolic...