Minneapolis is America's fittest city!
This doesn't mean I want to stay here... but Minneapolis was an awesome place to raise a family 🙂 From USA Today Where in America should you go if you want to be "healthy, wealthy and wise"? TODAY's special series looks at top places in the US in each category – and...
Performance Cycle Class Week 5 – HILLacious Climbing
In keeping with the Nonlinear Periodization training prescribed by Coach Troy, today was a combination day of strength (climbing) and building endurance @ Threshold HR/Watts. Experienced cyclists know what a real climb feels like. While Indoor Cycling may get close,...
Free Music Friday – Drug Music Addition
Any time I play a classic rock song from the 70's, I refer to it as "Drug Music". Let's be honest here. If you're looking out at a sea of 50ish male faces in class, there's a good chance that more than a few "experimented" during their teenage years. A huge part of...
Three steps to coping with inconsistent power meter readings on Indoor Cycles
It's a fact of life for all of us teaching power based classes; inconsistency in the watts readings between cycles. Some brands seem to be better than others. Certain bikes seem to be always right, while others are never even close. Calibration is done more frequently...
Pack light and Carry On!
We just had a lovely long weekend in Phoenix, AZ for my niece's wedding. I have a 'thing' about paying to check luggage . So, I carried on everything I needed for 6 days-rehearsal dinner and wedding day attire, plus jackets (it gets cold there when the sun goes down),...
Indoor Cycling Roots: Rhythm, Timing, Breathing
By Joan Kent Johnny G, legendary creator of Spinning and all indoor cycling, as well as Kranking, teaches three elements of training — rhythm, timing and breathing. From him, I borrowed the idea of opening each quarter of training with these concepts, one each day....
Quickly convert a Spotify playlist into something Deezer can open and play
Spotify is awesome for delivering your class music - at least for those of us teaching in a country where it's available. Seeing so many visitors here from Canada - where Spotify doesn't work, we decided it would be helpful to build a simple, free tool that will...
Free Music Friday 1/10/14
I put this flat road into John's and my profile for New Year's Day and caught him by surprise! 🙂 In a good way- I think 🙂 These guys were one of the most influential 'hair metal' bands of the 80's. (I wonder if they still have hair today?) It was fun using...
So Much Better Than the Dollar Store!
Just a short little post today to tell you about a great product I found for $1.00!!!! If you're like me, every once in awhile you get an unsightly pimple....zit....shaving bump (for our men) - whatever we want to call it. ELF (Eyes, Lips, Face) has a great...
Top Indoor Cycling Songs Of 2013
When it comes to choosing music for my classes, I like to include several different genres in my playlists. Many that I create include a mix of classic rock, electronic, pop, and occasional country song and sometimes even classical. I always include at least a few...