Revenge of the Friend

by John | May 25, 2021 | Instructor Training

This story and drawing was originally posted March 24 2011 in the New York Times. By Spinning Instructor Christi Clancy THEY kissed! Nobody kisses in spin class. A roomful of sweaty people panting atop steel bikes with 30-pound flywheels is no place for romance, and...

Comparing Spinning’s® Friction to Stages – Keiser or Schwinn Magnetic Resistance

by John | Jan 29, 2021 | Instructor Training, Master Instructor Blog, Product Reviews, Training With Power

NOTE: this was a previous review from 2013 that continues to remain accurate when applied to any of the magnetic friction Indoor Cycles available today. Many Indoor Cycle manufacturers claim a connection with cycling outdoors: 100% Authentic – Spinning is...

Matrix IC7 Indoor Cycle Powered By ICG®

by John | Sep 19, 2020 | Instructor Training, Training With Power

Matrix and the Indoor Cycling Group (ICG®) debuted their new IC7 Indoor Cycle with power at IHRSA last month. In many respects it's different from any group cycle on the market today. You could go so far as describing a number of their technical innovations as...

High Cadence Climbing Techniques

by John | Jun 6, 2020 | Instructor Training, Master Instructor Blog, Training With Power

Besides sporting those fabulous sideburns, Tour de France leader Bradley Wiggins is demonstrating how to climb effectively using a much faster pedal cadence than the riders that surround him. I've been counting his pedal RPM during the climbs and today as I watched,...

I asked, but Santa didn’t bring me one of these

by John | May 19, 2020 | Product Reviews

I must not have been good enough this year. The Ciclotte is a design concept Indoor Cycle that has a lot of appeal to me. Can't you see a whole room of these in some edgy uptown Manhattan club? Where they have a bouncer in full kit standing at the door checking to see...