by John | May 12, 2015 | Best Practices, Big Box Instructor, Instructor Tips and Tricks, Instructor Training, KEEPING IT FUN, Music, Presentation Skills, Spotify
This has become an almost regular habit for me. I'll cue up the New Music Tuesday playlist published by Spotify and then drag promising tracks into my Future To Use folder. Some weeks are near complete washouts. This week has what could be a complete class of songs......
by John | Feb 17, 2015 | Big Box Instructor, Class Work-Sets, Display Training, Instructor Training, KEEPING IT FUN, Master Instructor Blog, Presentation Skills
We had some excellent questions from Studio Owners this past weekend during our Full Psycle/PRO PIQ workshop. Paul Harmeling addressed these two related questions during the Q&A - I wanted to offer my thoughts on it here: When, or how often, should we be using using...
by John | Feb 2, 2014 | Class Work-Sets, Instructor Training, Master Instructor Blog, Training With Power
One of the many benefits of riding and training indoors, is not worrying about crashing and ending up on your head. So we practice our; pedaling technique, or Sprint form or whatever, without thinking about balancing or where we're going. Now if we were riding our...
by John | Jan 19, 2014 | Class Work-Sets, Master Instructor Blog, Music, Training With Power
In keeping with the Nonlinear Periodization training prescribed by Coach Troy, today was a combination day of strength (climbing) and building endurance @ Threshold HR/Watts. Experienced cyclists know what a real climb feels like. While Indoor Cycling may get close,...
by John | Jan 5, 2014 | Big Box Instructor, Class Work-Sets, Master Instructor Blog, Training With Power
Today was the official launch of the Life Time Fitness Performance Cycle Winter training series. These classes are hosted at many of the LTF clubs around the country and the plan is for all of us to deliver similar formats, following the same nonlinear (or is it...