High Cadence Climbing Techniques
Besides sporting those fabulous sideburns, Tour de France leader Bradley Wiggins is demonstrating how to climb effectively using a much faster pedal cadence than the riders that surround him. I've been counting his pedal RPM during the climbs and today as I watched,...
Spotify Troubles?
"The trouble with becoming dependent on technology... we're then completely at the mercy of something we have near zero little control over." Anonymous I learned a valuable lesson this past Thursday night > check your device to ensure your...
How You Look – What do you see in the mirror?
In Tom's previous post he talks about watching yourself on film to identify non-verbal movements / behaviors that if changed, could improve your class. But what if the whole camera setup and production is too much of a hurdle for you right now... how about this baby...
The Power Of The Right Click
Question from a PRO member: is there any way you can listen to a podcast and cruise the ICI website at the same time? Often I am tempted to hit a link while listening and then I am thrown off the podcast. Frustrating. I hate it when PRO members are frustrated, I can...
ICI/PRO Podcast 289 – Lead The Pack! Class PROfile with Schwinn Cycling MT Denise Druce
Schwinn Cycling Master Trainer Denise Druce presents our latest class profile; Lead The Pack! About Denise: Denise Druce is widely considered one of the leading health and fitness professionals in the state of Utah. She is the producer in a series of 28 home workout...
Ride For A Reason Benefiting St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Ever since the loss of my mother, nearly 30 years ago to lung cancer, I have raged my own personal war against cancer. Understanding the battle against all cancers might be a bit too large for me I decided to focus on raising funds to battle childhood cancers. For the...
Sally Edwards Comes To Global Ride
Sally Edwards and Gene Nacey are teaming up for a very special Heart Zones Training Seminar, Workshop, and Qualification September 26th and 27th. This training will be held at Gene's Global Ride Indoor Cycle Studio in Lower Burrell, PA (near Pittsburgh) Sally Edwards,...
ICI Podcast 286 Is Harmonic Mixing the secret to the perfect Indoor Cycling class playlist?
Have you ever had someone say something so revolutionary, that it smacks you hard in the face and knocks you completely off balance? It happened to me today and I'm still reeling with the potential of this exciting new method of creating great class playlists. Let me...
What can you learn from Chef Gordon Ramsay?
If you are interested in improving your class numbers or making your studio more profitable, I feel Chef Ramsay could help a lot... let me explain. On the remote chance you have never seen his TV show (he must have over a dozen to date) Chef Gordon Ramsay is a very...
I asked, but Santa didn’t bring me one of these
I must not have been good enough this year. The Ciclotte is a design concept Indoor Cycle that has a lot of appeal to me. Can't you see a whole room of these in some edgy uptown Manhattan club? Where they have a bouncer in full kit standing at the door checking to see...
Not Again@#$%^&**&#$%^&*
It's dark at 5:30 am and I'm one not to have many lights on in the morning. Yesterday I wished I had as I knocked my Dell laptop off the kitchen counter and it hit the hardwood floor with a loud CRASH. I stood there in the dark and began to hear a Click - Click -...