ICI Podcast 300 – Meet London’s Cyclebeat Studio Owner Greg Allon
Cyclebeat is a beautiful Indoor Cycle Studio located in what was an old English pub in the commercial district of London. I couldn't decide which of these pictures to use, so here's the view as you walk in - fantastic... unless you're actually after a pint 🙂 ...
Free Music Friday – 2/23 Great track to solve the Power Meter problem
It's a fact of teaching Indoor Cycling classes using power... not every meter shows consistent - repeatable watts indication, no matter which brand you're riding. Faced with this (often times frustrating) inconsistency you have two choices: Throw your hands up as if...
The Multi-purpose Powder from long ago…
I found this powder way back in the cupboard of our master bathroom. I remember buying it l-o-n-g ago when the kids were little. They had terrible diaper rash and none of the standard gooey ointments were doing the trick. I called my mom, a nurse from the 50's,...
Free Music Friday Valentines Day 2/14
Happy Valentine's Day- and for you today a climb that builds and builds at 66 rpm. It can be used many different ways. Currently I'm using it to qualify PTP- personal threshold power, approximatey 12 minutes into my profile. The tune is 3:52 long, and I like a PTP...
Indoor Cycling Power Research #5: Show Me The Numbers!
Time To Dig In So we’ve painstakingly done everything possible to setup and prepare our methods for a solid research project — at least as solid as any “non-university” research setting can hope for. We’ve not only established a consistent protocol for...
ICI Podcast 298 – Understanding Parkinson’s Indoor Cycling with Dr. Jay Alberts
Dr Jay Alberts discovered the value of cycling as a relief of symptoms for people who suffer with Parkinson's disease, while riding a tandem bicycle in Iowa during the RAGBRAI - the ride across the state of Iowa. Based on his observations of the reduction in symptoms...
Free Music Friday 2/7
This is a great flat-road tune by a Panamanian-American singer/songwriter/rapper and musician born in 1979. I love that it builds continuously throughout the entire 4:16. I was riding downstairs, alone with the music blasting, and John commented on how much he liked...
Indoor Cycling Power Research #4: Chasing Reliability
Let’s recap what we’ve done so far in our video blog series: 1. We have introduced the whys and wherefores of this Indoor Cycling Power research project 2. We’ve shown exactly how the Garmin Vector pedals get mounted to the Keiser m3 indoor cycle bike 3. We’ve...
The solution was right in front of me….
And yours might be too! I've been experiencing low back and knee pain for over a year. When it got to the point when I couldn't climb stairs one-footed anymore, I finally consulted my OB/GYN at my annual appointment (it just so happens he takes John's and my classes...
Performance Cycle Class Week 7 – Performance Drinking Games
One of the many benefits of riding and training indoors, is not worrying about crashing and ending up on your head. So we practice our; pedaling technique, or Sprint form or whatever, without thinking about balancing or where we're going. Now if we were riding our...