All I want for Christmas
With the season of giving upon us, I have a question for all of the Indoor Cycling instructors out there. What one "gift" could your facility add to your Indoor Cycling studio that would help you improve the experience you try to create for your class participants?
Leading with Lollipops by Drew Dudley
I teach indoor cycling at multiple facilities in the Denver area but I spend most of my work week at Greenwood Athletic and Tennis Club. Greenwood is my "home club". This is where I'm a personal trainer, teach indoor cycling, HIIT (High Intensity Interval...
The Weekly Ride – 121718 The 2018 Holiday Ride
Welcome to the The Weekly Ride by Cycling Fusion Welcome to our new era of The Weekly Ride, you get: Full Ride PDF Apple Music Playlist Spotify Playlist File to Download the Ride directly into My Fitness DJ (Yes, no Programming) The Ride will be available for purchase...
Free Music Friday – The Cars Mashups & Remixes
I've been a Cars fan forever - they were the soundtrack of my senior year in highschool. Yes I know that dates me, but these we cassettes - not 8 tracks 🙁 Turns out I have a bunch of Cars fans in my Thursday class (we're all of similar vintage) so I thought it would...
Zoning Success Story
If you've followed indoorcycleinstructor.com for any length of time you know that I'm a huge fan of the 2T/3Z method of Heart Rate training which is the basis for Zoning. That simple Blue/Yellow/Red response from my Blink Heart Rate monitor is (to me) the perfect way...
Black Friday and the start of our new PRO/Deal of the Week!
Amy and I taught our Thanksgiving day class to Epic Redwing, the latest Indoor Cycling DVD from Epic Planet! - which was kind of weird actually... teaching a class of 50 while riding to a video of ourselves... at least we knew the profile 🙂 But the class loved it...
ARE DVDs DEAD?
By Team ICG® Master Trainer Jim Karanas and ICG® Marketing & Product Director Gary Warren Forward Motion Video was first produced for, and used in, Indoor Cycling classes in the form of DVDs. DVDs paved the way for production companies like Virtual Active to bring...
My Last Ride on The Spinner Blade Ion
Today I ended a turbulent 3 year relationship with the Spinner Blade Ion. A courtship that began with high aspirations for a long, happy and powerful future has deteriorated into one complication after another and I no longer have the energy to keep the blue...
ICI/PRO Podcast #242 – Strong Foundation 30 Min Intro Class Audio PROfile
12/29 - download and playlist added. With the Resolutionists descending en-mass on your club or studio, Cycling Fusion's Tom Scotto and I felt you would benefit from an Audio PROfile that would get them off on the right foot peddle for 2013. Strong Foundation is a 30...
More on preventing carpal tunnel / hand numbness in your students
Back on May 30th of last year, this post; Correcting Student’s Form — Proper Hand Position discussed a problem that a rider in my class was experiencing. Her hands were going to sleep after riding for 30 or so minutes. I offered my suggested solution once I...
ICI/PRO Podcast #191 – Selling endurance to your class
As you and your class transition into February 2017, it's often beneficial to begin adding some additional time in the saddle. Longer classes should (and often need to) be at a lower intensity. So while a longer, endurance focused class has value, getting members to...