Just wanted everyone to see that I have committed to doing the Life Time Fitness Triathlon on July 10th this summer 🙂
We started our 2 hour rides (up from 90 minutes) today and my iPod was in charge of the playlist. It did a great job!
We did what I call my Endurance Shuffle Class. HR is to stay in upper Zone 2 to lower Zone 3 while every song change requires some change in the rider. It could be; position, intensity, focus, cadence, load, emotion, pedal technique, anything so long as it was something. I encouraged them to just go with whatever the song lead them.
They may own an Indoor Cycling/Spinner bike or are a cyclist, who rides their road bike on a trainer or rollers.
Over the next week I would really appreciate it if you would ask your class and then give me a rough estimate of the percentage of your class who train at home.
Athletes know all too well the benefits of using imagery before competition.
A tennis player will imagine his powerful topspin-slice first serve. A golfer will rely on imagery to review her plan of action for her next swing. A baseball player will use imagery to get motivated for when it’s his turn at bat.
With proper execution, imagery can also be used during your indoor cycle classes to correct and improve the technique and intensity of your participants. With your guidance, they can mentally perform specific skills and have those skills transfer to the body.
For example, you can introduce an exercise where your participants image a cheetah running through the wild. When your participants image a cheetah, they will stop bouncing up and down start powering through by focusing on moving forward.
To help your participants create a fluid pedal stroke, you can ask them to image the wheels of an old fashioned train where they can understand the meaning of a circular and fluid motion.
Imagery should also be used to help your participants correct their mistakes and improve. For best results, group fitness instructors should implement the following practice during class:Â (1) identify the mistake, (2) and providing feedback about how to correct it, and (3) suggest an image they can use to help them focus on the specific skill.
Call to Action: Take some time before your next class to identify the top three most common mistakes or improvements that your participants need to focus on. Then, identify an image that will help your participants understand your instruction. The next time you teach a fitness class, challenge yourself to introduce one image to your participants.
Believe and Achieve,
Haley Perlus, Ph.D.
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They're coming In just 2 days and this is your one chance this year to change their lives. Why not use one of our excellent Audio Profiles that are part of ICI/PRO to catch a few?
Your class will swell with “resolutionists”, those people who every year re-commit to an exercise program but some how disappear by March.
They made this DVD just for me!
OK, not really. But it is exactly what I have asked for; a long climb without a bunch of distractions. I need to thank Allen Jones from Epic Planet for sending me a sample of this DVD – a small perk of this job 🙂
If you asked a frequent participant of my Indoor Cycling Class, “what is a typical class of John's like?” They would tell you “endurance training with long efforts with lots of load (resistance).” In other words, long climbs! This new Indoor Cycling DVD, Epic Tucson, from Epic Planet is perfect for this type of class. It starts with a short warmup and then up, up, up! The whole climb is over an hour. I used it today (I subbed for Amy so she could sleep in). Because we were not at the top by the end of the official class, I asked “who wants to stay to see the top?” More than half stayed and we finished it. I'm doing it again tomorrow if you would like to come.
Here is the Trailer. You can get your own copy Here
Update: Allen Jones just emailed me with a $10.00 discount off Epic Tucson if you use the coupon code ICI at checkout. Good until Dec 24th 2009
Athletes know all too well the benefits of using imagery before competition.