While Performance Enhancement Specialist Dennis Mellon and I were getting warmed up to record his Audio Class PROfile Mashup – HIIT vs. Party on the Bike, we spent a few minutes discussing his thoughts and observations on coaching with power. Were his participants seeing any improvement after a full winter training indoors with power? If so, how are they comparing their performance year to year? Has Star Trac been able
Bring Heart Rate Training Into A School Near You
While most of us are focused on adult fitness, Sally Edwards and her Heart Zones company are doing some pretty amazing stuff with middle and high school aged children – using display training technology to motivate kids and get them active 🙂 I love seeing active kids who are enjoying fun activities…  they’re our future Instructors and participants! Use this contact form to request more information. Thinking many
Adding Cadence / RPM to a Star Trac Spinner® NXT or Spinner® Pro Indoor Cycle
We talk a lot about the new Indoor Cycles with consoles that display a rider’s performance data; Power /watts, RPM, distance, calories. Training with Power is fabulous if your club or studio as invested bikes recently. It’s even more fabulous when all of that data is connected to a display training system like what’s offered from Performance IQ or Spivi. Either system really adds to the fun factor, while delivering
ICI Podcast 321 – Meet Spinning® studio owner Suzanne Olson from Pure Energy
Spinning® studio owner Suzanne Olson, along with her 4 partners, runs Pure Energy in Paoli, PA . Suzanne joins me to discuss how she ensures a quality experience for her participants, in their multi-format fitness studio. Pure Energy’s Facebook page. https://www.buzzsprout.com/161023/687753-ici-podcast-321-meet-spinning-studio-owner-suzanne-olson-from-pure-energy.mp3 Studio Specifications: Opened April 1st 2014 Formats offered: Spinning, Yoga, Barre, Aerial Yoga, Pilates, Zumba, Boxing and Ugi + wellness programs. 6,000 sq ft, broken into 5 studios Website designed
Are you the annoying type?
Are you annoying some of your current (or potential) participants? You know, rubbing those folks who are of a different/opposite personality type than yours the wrong way? I recently came to the conclusions that there’s a good chance that I do at times – please let me know if any of this makes sense to you… Yesterday I gave a presentation to our sold-out group of studio owners and Instructors
Questions about Leasing Indoor Cycles and Studio Equipment?
I’ve been doing some consulting with potential cycling studio start-ups and a common question has been; should I consider leasing vs. conventional financing / paying cash? My feeling is (to use the expression) Cash Is King for any small fitness business. If you listen to any of the past interviews (you’ll find them here) I’ve done with Indoor Cycling Studio Owners, there are two common themes that keep coming up:
ICI Podcast 353 – When Is It Time For Your Second Studio?
I can’t remember ever talking to a new studio owner, who didn’t express the dream to open & own a second… and possibly a third studio once their first was established. Which raises an interesting question… When is the right time to open a 2nd studio? And should you? Studio Owner Nancy Katinas owns The Revolution, a pair of Indoor Cycling studios in upstate New York. She joins me to
Club Industry 2015 – My Video “Show Me” Indoor Cycling Class
I’m on my way to Chicago for Club Industry 2015 to show off the new Stages SC3 Indoor Cycling bike. Cameron Chinatti and I will be leading a bunch of free training session, if you’re in the area please stop by and ride with us. Here are class descriptions and registration links: Here are the descriptions and form links to register for each: 8:30-10:00 – Oh no! Not the Power
Heart Rate Display Training Contributes to Women’s World Cup Victory
The USA Women won the World Cup finals in soccer yesterday! The US team coaches are using heart rate training, aka Heart Zones Training, extensively in their preparation for what lead to this victory. I wanted to share with you an article released yesterday about how that training is accomplished using training load points and player position specificity – and comments that I made in that regard in the article.
Prescriptive Exercise – Your Doctor writing a prescription for YOU to attend indoor cycling classes
A national policy of Prescriptive Exercise would be the holy grail* for small studio owners. Imagine; A new client walks in with her doctor specified exercise regimen for you to “fill”, just like at a pharmacy. As an approved provider, you and your studio would provide the required exercise and then bill the clients insurance company… and not at your normal class rate – at a much higher rate in recognition
Annual meeting of Cycling Studio Owners?
John, I feel we need an official organization of Cycling Studio Owners + an annual conference where we can all meet and learn from each other. I’ve heard this dozens of times from Studio Owners, including this past IHRSA and last month at our Full Psycle/PRO PIQ training in Chicago. That’s a great idea, I would say repeatedly, followed by;Â So who’s going to organize it? Well… you are John –
