The Sugar Made Me Do It: Is Grazing a Type Of Binge Eating?
It’s New Year’s resolution time again. For some of your participants, that may mean weight loss goals. Don’t worry; there’s no list of weight-loss tips below to pass along to your classes. But I have been thinking about eating behaviors. Grazing is one eating...
Is Indoor Cycling a fad… or a fading trend?
A recently published survey by ACSM about trends in fitness has spawned a number of articles; here, here and here. ACSM's top 20 fitness trends makes no mention of Indoor Cycling - going so far as to suggest its inevitable demise. My review of the survey finds it...
Top Indoor Cycling Songs of 2014
2014 was another great year for music. Many of the songs that made my list this year dropped in the second half of the year and a few actually came out in 2013 with remixes that dropped in 2014. And I may have cheated here or there with songs that came out in late...
Why I Love Teaching To Music
With over 1800 articles in our archives there's a good chance that our ICI/PRO members may have missed some of our best stuff. So every Wednesday we are republishing some of our favorite articles and podcasts - enjoy! By Team ICG® Master Trainer Jim Karanas I love...
How would your riders respond to this saddle?
I was perusing a cycling website when I came across an article about this innovative ESSAX Shark bicycle saddle: Essax is a brand of bicycle saddles located in the province of Alicante (Spain). Our company has over 25 years experience in the manufacturing of technical...
Free Music Friday – Loving this track from the movie The Equalizer
I'm loving my iPad to pass the time during long flights. I download a few movies from iTunes or Amazon, cue them up on the plane and before I know it I've arrived at my destination. My younger daughter Carly came along with me to Naples this week and we watched The...
Merry Christmas from our family to you and yours!
Amy and I want to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
The Power of 3 – Three Song Harmonically Mixed Indoor Cycling Set – “Like Warren Miller Only Better”
The Power of 3 - "Like Warren Miller Only Better" "Outside" by The Foo Fighters "Bone Thugs-N-Chili Peppers" by The Melker Project "Vertigo (Redanka Power Mix" by Peter G ReWerk As many of you know, I live in Colorado and skiing is one of my family's favorite winter...
Losing Weight To Increase Power
As a nutritionist, I hear many clients say they want to lose weight — to look better, have more energy, improve their health. But losing weight can also help you increase your power on the bike. Ratios intrinsically provide two ways to improve the ratio — by...
ICI Podcast 336 – Meet Sight and Hearing Impaired Instructor (and Author) Rebecca Alexander
The title of the cosmopolitan.com article sent in by an ICI/PRO member hooked me immediately; What It's Like to Teach a Spin® Class When You're Going Deaf and Blind. What would it be like to be losing both your vision and hearing? Can you even imagine how challenging...