Video – I Hold On by Dierks Bentley
I love music. One of the reason I enjoy teaching indoor cycling so much is that I get to hear the music I love on rockin sound systems numerous times per week and to top it off, I get paid for it. I'm on an endless search for songs that I can add to the soundtrack...
The Power of 3 – Keep it Simple and Progress – Profile (Aug 2015 Week 3)
Below you'll find Week 3 of August's Keep it Simple and Progress indoor cycling profile. Riders should start seeing, in their wattage numbers, and feeling how their bodies have adapted to the two previous weeks of high intensity intervals. Good Luck! Click here...
The Power of 3 – Three Song Harmonically Mixed Music Sets – Fast, Slow then Stand
This week I went with a mix that included the magically mixing ability of Peter Gonzalez, the soulful voice of Elle King and finished it off with the rocking guitar of Van Halen. I think it worked. The beauty of harmonic mixing is that you can mix all these genre...
What Athletics and Sugar Have In Common
My coach, Jim Karanas, used to say that athletic performance triggers the ego. It brings forward conflict, discomfort, anxiety, self-defeating thoughts, and doubts about what’s possible and what’s not. In athletics, you do what’s necessary. You have the above...
Favorite Track of The Week
A few weeks ago I noticed a new playlist along the left side of my main Spotify page titled Discover Weekly. I hadn’t put it there myself, so I clicked on it to see what it was all about and I was pleasantly surprised at the incredible mix of songs that it included....
Get Lost in the Moment Video
Sometimes I need a cool video to play as a warm up song. This video is perfect! Beautiful scenery, classic rock song and a smooth flowing video that everyone can appreciate and "Get Lost in the Moment." The entire, full length, movie is available for download...
The Power of 3 – Keep it Simple and Progress – Profile (Aug 2015 Week 2)
Below you'll find Week 2 of August's Keep it Simple and Progress indoor cycling profile. When I started this progression last week I was VERY concerned that my classes were going to complaining about the significant recoveries, but after the first week my...
This might be the start of trouble in IC music land
The music industry is figuring out that a great Indoor Cycling class is built on a fabulous playlist. Now they're making noises that they feel they should be charging fitness studios a higher rate for their commercial performance licenses... SoulCycle IPO Highlights...
The Power of 3 – Three Song Harmonically Mixed Music Sets – Out With the Old in with the New
This week I was asked by a class participant to NOT play "Stairway to Heaven" in a class she was planning on attending. I was shocked that someone would ask me NOT to play what many people still consider the greatest song of all time. If any of you have ever...
Would this create a more beneficial pedaling workout?
I just became aware of a new Indiegogo campaign for an innovative* method of pedaling a bicycle. Similar in functionality to a KrankCycle, the Caron Bicycle uses independent left/right crankarms that create 6 different pedalling movements. They have their crankset...