Training with Power
Indoor Cycling Power Research #7: Good News, Bad News
Different Methods Same Skewed Results Let”™s start with the good news. I”™m sorry, I was completely pulling your leg. I really don”™t have any good news. I know, that”™s terrible — you can throw pencils and small farm animals at me next...
ICI Podcast 361 Life Time Fitness Takes Rhythm & Movement Classes Mainstream with AMP Cycle
I've felt that it was only a matter of time, before one of the mainstream Big Box clubs added an official Rhythm and Movement class offering. Last month Life Time Fitness introduced AMP Cycle - from this video it appears to be a no-holds-barred, full on party, that...
Simple and Progress Profile for Aug #1 – Don't Burn the Toast
Pace yourself, Don't Burn the Toast. 5-minute warmup 4 x 4-minute intervals with 1 minute 30 seconds recovery after each 2-minute recovery after the fourth 4-minute interval 4 x 2-minute intervals with 1-minute recovery after each...
All about the balance in your class.
I had been to plenty of cycling classes before this one. I had sat through the militant instructors, rigid with instruction. I had pedaled through classes where the coach was crouched, hidden behind his music. But here I sit, perched on a bike in the center of the...
More observations from our students
This is getting to be a bit of a trend, people writing about their experiences in a Spinning class. Here's another from ChicagoNow.com called Spin Classes are Cool (for men too) Like we need to told that 🙂 I've been spinning since I stopped going to my...
Simple and Progress Profile for July #2 – Hang On
How long can you HANG ON? Workout Basics: 5-minute warmup 3 x 4-minute intervals with 30 seconds recovery after the 1st and 1 minute after the 2nd 1-minute recovery after the third 4-minute interval 3 x 3-minute intervals with 30 seconds recovery after...
5 Reasons Instructors (that would be you and me) Need A Professional Headshot
Update 12/11/16 - I thought of this post after an unnamed contributor responded "no, sorry" to my request for a new picture to include in an article. There were two things that got me really motivated to get a professional headshot last week. The first was talking...
Naked Indoor Cycling
Great Deal on Carbonite Online Backup
I've been a loyal Carbonite customer since 2008 and see having a system for regular, daily backups of your computer as a Best Practice. They've saved me from multiple Hard Drive failures where I would have lost everything. All my music, all my files and...
Intervals
By Team ICG® Master Trainer Jim Karanas Interval: n., the amount of time between two specified instants or events. You teach indoor cycling, so you know intervals. If you asked another instructor for the workout he/she used in class that morning, odds are...
Indoor Cycling Class As One Long Climb – Very Nice!
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...