Black Friday Sales on DVDs from EpicPlanet and Cycling Fusion
If you're getting bored with your old Indoor Cycling DVDs and want to avoid the aggressive crowds at the mall, these two companies are offering special discounts this weekend. You can shop from the safety of your own home. epicPLANET.tv is offering a 25% discount on...
Deep cleaning time?
While deep cleaning the carpets today, (overnight guests coming for Thanksgiving and a Yorkie that's untrainable....) I got to thinking about my Clarisonic experience. The correlation being deep cleaning- not dirty carpet and naughty dogs! Clarisonic skin care systems...
When is Deezer's Music Service Coming to America?
It sounds like Deezer Music will finally be available in the USA in 2014. I can't wait to see what happens, once Spotify has a proper competitor. From theverge.com Music streaming service Deezer will launch in the US in 2014. French company Deezer currently has 5...
A Different Kind of Cardio Emergency Procedure
If you run high-intensity trainings in your classes — and I’m guessing most of us do — you may have had a participant experience extreme difficulty during or just after a hard bout of work. In such cases, I’ve seen the skin turn absolutely white or ashen — or,...
How Squinching Will Make You Look Good in Photos – And To Your Class
If you hate how you look in pictures, or wonder if you appear confident on the bike, I suggest watching the video below. If you–or the people you take photographs of–always look bad in images, then help is at hand. Professional portrait photographer Peter...
Free Music Friday 11/22
Sometimes a girl needs a little inspiration! And when I do, I simply run back to the dock at Nordstrom. Honestly, Tony (yes, his real name!), has the best music jamming at all times as he keeps things copacetic at the Mall of America ! In his own words, today...
Slacker Teenagers
You never know when something you say, will resonate with your class. I subbed yesterday morning - a climbing day. I'm not sure where it came from*, but as I was encouraging everyone to recruit their hamstrings during one of a series of intervals above PTP** (Personal...
Tech Tuesday – Multitasking with Spotify
Great question from ICI/PRO member Karin... Hi John, Question...can you direct me to the profiles/playlist that are more pop music? Or is there a way for me to search vs. going through each one? Thank you! My response was: Most of our 60 Audio Class PROfiles are an...
Is Sugar Giving Your Women Students PMS?
By Joan S. Kent Diet isn’t the only reason your students may suffer from PMS symptoms. But it could be a big one. If the women in your classes approach you for help with PMS (or even complain about it), you’re in a great position to offer good advice. Premenstrual...
How does the new Google Music All Access iPhone App compare with Spotify or Deezer?
I quit waiting for Google to launch an iPhone App, to go along with their Google Music All Access streaming music service, sometime ago. Two years ago, on November 16th 2011, I wrote Google Music — is it right for Spinning / Indoor Cycling Instructors? We were just...