Welcome to ICI/PRO
We are an international community* of Indoor Cycling Instructors that count in the thousands along with hundreds of Cycling Studio Owners and Health and Fitness Club Managers focused on what we call Indoor Cycling 2.0™ – the transition from entertainment based exercise (fun, but without purpose and rarely effective) to results driven training (the stuff that works, just ask any real endurance athlete)
Cirque du Soleil DVDs = a fantastic endurance Indoor Cycling class
Great music, incredible feats of strength and concentration plus some very funny physical comedy. What more could you want to entertain your class during a long endurance ride? Cirque du Soleil are by far my favorite for a long ride indoors. What I like best about…
Heart Rate Monitor Survey – Early Results
Thank You to the 354 of you who have completed our survey! It is greatly appreciated. Because I chose to keep the survey anonymous, if you asked me to contact you I don't know who's who. Please contact me directly. My goal is to collect 1,000 responses. If you haven't…
New Feature – Full transcriptions of our best Podcasts!
One of the questions we asked in our latest survey asked; would you be interested in a transcription of our Podcasts? Based on a 87% result in the affirmative, my assistant Laura and I have been busy creating transcripts of our most educational episodes. Not an easy…
Is a 20 Minute Threshold Field Test realistic for your class? Part 3
In Part 1 and Part 2 of Is a 20 Minute Threshold Field Test realistic for your class? I was trying to make the point that although completely appropriate for Endurance Athletes, these 20 minute assessments aren't really appropriate for the typical students in our…
ICI Podcast 3 What to eat?
Monday's I'm up at 4:30 to teach my 5:45am cycling class. Many mornings the last thing I want to do is eat something, although I know I probably should. My club has a lot of smart people so I asked our nutritionist, Tyler Young, her thoughts on what all us early…
Think Like A Researcher – Blog Post #9
Long climbs of modest grades are the ideal terrain for Muscular Endurance Before we get to the fun of actually conducting our experiments (from a nearby but unknown location comes the sound… “ Moo hoo hoo ha ha ha” said with a deep and ominous voice) — sorry about…
ICI Podcast # 223 – Full Day Heart Zones Certification Online
In the past, if you wanted to earn a Heart Zones Certification you needed to attend a live conference or workshop. Not any longer… now you can attend online 🙂 Cycling Fusion is hosting a live Heart Zones Level 2 Certification on September 22nd. The presenters of…
Teaching In a world where nothing is permitted
A member called to my attention that per their Terms and Conditions, Spotify is only permitted for personal use. Meaning that you agree not to use it in commercial applications. “That's not good” I thought and I immediately went to read what he…
Zoning – So Innovative Its Patented!
Now, as a patented inventor myself, I'm intimately aware of the difficulties of securing a US Patent. Hat's off to Sally Edwards and Chuck Cali for making the case that their Threshold Training System is truly original and worthy of U.S. Pat. #8092381! On January 12,…
ICI Podcast 268 Evo Indoor Cycles and TriCore Indoor Cycling
I was intrigued by the new Evo Indoor Cycle when I saw it at this past IHRSA. The first thing I noticed was there's no big flywheel… and it moves side to side. Once I discovered that there was an educational component to the Evo, I knew I needed to learn more…
Recovery Required!
In my last article entitle “Make Recovery Work” we looked at how we as instructors can efficiently use recovery time to our advantage. Two of the main points were to use recovery as a time to provide instruction to prepare our riders for what is ahead and as a way to…
When in doubt… re-boot the Pig
Our family has nick-names for just about everything; Ruby, Jade, Baby Rocket and Scootie are in actuality; my red Mazda 3, Abby's green Mazda 3, Amy's black Acura TL and Carly's Honda Scooter. No, you don't want my car insurance bill 🙁 But when one of them (or some…
Happy New Year!
I spent the morning volunteering at the Life Time Fitness Commitment Day 5K run in downtown Minneapolis. It was the perfect morning to prove your commitment to fitness; sunny and 10° below zero… that's -10° Fahrenheit = painfully cold. That's why the smart…
It's never too early for Christmas Shopping
As the “Senior Group Fitness Instructor” here I insisted that John set me up with an ICI/PRO membership. Now I'm using it to take advantage of the Pearl Izumi discount program. It dawned on me that I could do a bunch of Christmas shopping for my Instructor…
The Weekly Ride – 07/09/18 Strength
Welcome to the The Weekly Ride by Cycling Fusion Ok, this is the week that I have been working towards, this is our new era of The Weekly Ride. This week and moving forward you will get: Full Ride PDF Apple Music Playlist Spotify Playlist File to Download the Ride…